Re: Are these battery leakage still recoverable ?

Posted on 2017-01-15, 20:30

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by elod

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sad to see these boards go. I recently got an all-ISA 486 that is at least this bad. It was still worth for the cpu, ram and cache but the mainboard seems unrecoverable. I'll attempt it nonetheless. My old Compaq 386 is also showing signs of damage but it's nowhere near this level. I'll see to it …

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Re: A little trouble with my seagate NAS

Posted on 2017-01-14, 19:05

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by elod

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Even if it was a simple volume the NAS setup would deploy it as "linux raid" for later migration. Try mounting it directly but in read only mode (with the ro,noload options) and see what happens. There are competent undelete tools for ext2/3/4. If it does not mount directly it may need to be …

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Re: A little trouble with my seagate NAS

Posted on 2017-01-14, 09:30

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by elod

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Boot a Linux live CD. Ubuntu for starters. It can be any combination of (md) RAID, LVM and ext3/4 partitions. Newer Synology units are also using btrfs.

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Re: What do you NOT have enough of?

Posted on 2017-01-10, 20:53

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by elod

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Spare power supplies...... Let me tell you, I probably have the oldest cases of any retro rigs here (one XT, one full-size AT, one Tandy 1000 - I'm a part of the right rear paddle switch brigade!). Desktop cases whose top opened up without screwing around and they also had those big power supplies …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-10, 20:27

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by elod

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A second Santa Cruz arrived today.

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Re: Looking for some kind of DOS diskmag engine / creator...

Posted on 2017-01-10, 03:52

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by elod

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There are full browsers for DOS. NG should also be fine for your purposes: http://www.whitetown.com/misc/ng/

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Re: AMD Athlon WinXP Upgrade Advice

Posted on 2017-01-09, 20:02

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by elod

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Barton also has twice the cache.

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Re: Old disk vs ssd

Posted on 2017-01-09, 19:53

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by elod

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Old drives here because my cf-ide adapter does not work, I'm not willing to fork out the cash for sd-ide and have lots of nice Seagate Barracudas (IV, V, 7200.7,9). These are all whisper quiet and I've got good experience with them. WD and Hitachi of the Barracuda IV period are noisy (whine mainly). …

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Re: What do you NOT have enough of?

Posted on 2017-01-07, 20:23

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by elod

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I hope books (linear read literature especially) never come back. They are a waste of resources. We do need cheaper ebooks though, or resell rights. I need drive and time. Oh, and money. Space would be nice but money solves that problem nicely. And a new hobby. Actually this would be the second …

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Re: Is that PSU Ok for this system?

Posted on 2017-01-07, 18:25

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by elod

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Strange. It probably expects a higher load on the 12V rail. Power supplies that bypass this issue for sure are the ones with DC-DC converters like Seasonic's G series. 20+4pins is also rarer, pick up an adapter to avoid cutting into the PSUs leads.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-06, 11:36

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by elod

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Also as part of the bundle got this 1993 Cirrus Logic 5428 1mb VLB Graphics card. Have absolutely nothing to use this in :lol: Cool.... VLB's are nice stuff. Those mem chips are giant ones. Exactly like those on my CL isa card. Nice find indeed. I've not yet managed to pull together a working VLB …

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Re: Lowest system you tried for everyday main PC

Posted on 2017-01-05, 20:48

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by elod

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Well...I pulled the trigger and bought this: This will be my new daily driver. Office, some light photoshop/premiere type work, maybe minecraft. Everything else heavy duty (Gaming, transcoding, heavy rendering) will be done on my "gaming" rig since it's more powerful. Very good laptops. I did not …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-05, 12:45

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by elod

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As it does not have interfaces it does some kind of processing partially implemented in the FPGA. Maybe the chip under the heatsink/fan would give us a clue?

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Re: AMD Athlon WinXP Upgrade Advice

Posted on 2017-01-05, 05:39

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by elod

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I see no use in using Morrowind as a reference for this config. You'll never be able to run it properly. Crank up the view distance, install a texture mod but do that on a 2005+ PC. I'd even try running it on my hd6850 if it had an older Windows. Back in the day I ran it on a Palomino 1700+ and …

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Re: What's a Cirrus Logic CL-GD5440 able to do?

Posted on 2017-01-04, 21:36

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by elod

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Phil has a video with it. Even called it his favorite for DOS I think. It's 2d only and I have a couple of them with 2MB of RAM. I remember using these at 1024 under NT4.

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Re: AMD Athlon WinXP Upgrade Advice

Posted on 2017-01-04, 21:18

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by elod

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I see no use in using Morrowind as a reference for this config. You'll never be able to run it properly. Crank up the view distance, install a texture mod but do that on a 2005+ PC. I'd even try running it on my hd6850 if it had an older Windows. Back in the day I ran it on a Palomino 1700+ and …

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Re: My Wavetable Sample Thread

Posted on 2017-01-04, 08:36

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by elod

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gdjacobs wrote: Yes, I understand the CS4235 was extra special awful where the Crystal Semi FM clone is ordinarily awful. It's classic. You need to hear it. I have 3 4235 cards already. Had a good laugh at how Keen4 sounds when I tested the first one.

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-01-02, 19:47

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by elod

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Just to be clear, I have seen worse. At least it has filters on the output! Still, anemic input filtering, individual diodes instead of a FWR bridge, small primary transformer. These are all bad signs. +1. Input is crappy but the board is quite well populated. Secondary filtering is quite ok and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-02, 19:35

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by elod

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I'll pick this up tomorrow. Looks like an interesting board, but it's pretty basic (isa only, needs controllers). Seems identical to this http://www.amoretro.de/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/unknown_ASI_486_ISA_motherboard.jpg board, there's some additional silkscreened info on mine. http://elod.online …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-01-02, 14:57

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by elod

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Err... middle ground be quiet!? Not at all, most of their power supplies are made by Seasonic and are usually of very good quality Yes. I'm aware that they shop around at FSP and Seasonic. Usually they take a platform and reduce it to their pricepoint. From their mid tier onward you are guaranteed …

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