Re: Power Player Super Joy III not working well

Posted on 2018-10-02, 19:06

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The console also has an NES cartridge slot as well. ... IIRC it is a 60-pin Famicom cart slot; you would need to awkwardly hang a 60 to 72-pin adapter off the bottom for NES games and hope the whole thing doesn't slide off during play. These are cheap (like, really cheap) junk, but at the same time …

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Re: Mitsumi CRMC-FX001DE detected, device not ready

Posted on 2018-10-01, 01:59

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Indeed, there's your problem; the CD needs to be rotating for the drive to read it at all.

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Re: Can You Identify this Motherboard Based Only on the IO?

Posted on 2018-09-30, 18:20

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It looks rather like the EVGA 123-K8-NF47-AX , except with one RJ-45 jack on the back panel missing and the "RCA type connectors" (actually S/PDIF coaxial input & output) coloured differently. The graphics card being installed in the fourth expansion slot down also corresponds with the motherboard …

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Re: Mitsumi CRMC-FX001DE detected, device not ready

Posted on 2018-09-30, 18:02

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bjwil1991 wrote: (also, the light turns on briefly and the motor clicks for a split second): ... Could the laser assembly be stuck? (I don't know how big the PCB in these drives is but it may be possible to observe the drive in operation with the bottom cover off.)

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Re: MS-DOS goes MIT

Posted on 2018-09-30, 17:59

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Something to note is it's all written in assembly (ASM) low-level code. One wonders at what version of DOS they began to use higher-level compilers for things...

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Re: Building an old UNISYS 486SX machine

Posted on 2018-09-30, 05:58

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... I didn't take a deeper look but its onboard VGA. Time to take the deeper look... perhaps also post a photo of the motherboard so that we can identify things for you. 486SX-33 chips could certainly get by bare (I used to have a Dell with one that did just that, stock) but it wouldn't hurt to …

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

Posted on 2018-09-30, 05:13

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^Oh, well... socket 5 is nice, too. TIM was even less necessary for these as they run much cooler than the socket 4 P60/66 chips did. There is little information about that video card but there is likely a S3 Vision864 or Vision868 under that sticker, given the date and presence of SDAC. PCI IDE …

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Re: 1997-98 build (sorts of)

Posted on 2018-09-29, 20:45

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^That sounds a bit odd... storage shouldn't affect graphics redraw generally. I'd wager there's something wrong with the Maxtor (which indeed is a "legit" Maxtor, to reply to the previous discussion) or there is some sort of incompatibility between it and your MB, rather than it having anything to …

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Re: Dying graphic cards - how to prevent and are they worth repairing

Posted on 2018-09-29, 18:19

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Looking at your list and thinking: is it just me or do high-end graphics card really die more often than mid-range ones? GPUs in general run at significantly higher temperatures than CPUs and many other components do. Naturally the higher-end GPUs are going to be more complex internally, pull more …

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

Posted on 2018-09-29, 17:41

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derSammler wrote: That's not a Pentium 60 or 66. Those used Socket 4. ... treeman wrote: soyo SY-032 ...would imply it is indeed socket 4 and the typo "socket 5" being a typo in the original post. That is indeed a very nice find... treeman wrote: ... pci hdd controller! That's a bit unusual... …

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Re: EZ Win-NT 3.51 Build

Posted on 2018-09-28, 22:01

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Do we really need the several-posts-long slew of mostly stock photos (and sometimes images yanked from other sites ??) of every single component every time... As for the build, "EZ", sure, but period accurate it is hardly (not really a problem, though). Audio may be handled by built-in drivers but I …

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Re: MG 286/25MHz Harris Headland ht21 help needed

Posted on 2018-09-28, 17:56

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kokerich wrote: ... and about inserting FPU unit, I am not sure whether it uses onboard oscillator or I need to plug in one more. 25MHz 287s don't exist, so unless you're OK with overclocking the one that you have, you will need to plug in a suitable oscillator for your 287. Nice to see that it is …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-09-27, 20:17

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Does not ship to Canada, so it wasn't a Canuck.

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Re: K6-2 intermittent HD loss

Posted on 2018-09-27, 18:28

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The largest amount of current that any HDD will pull at any point during its operation is at spin-up. And, most MBs will not "tell" IDE drives to turn on during BIOS auto-detection; rather it's the usual with IDE for the HDDs to spin-up by themselves when the PSU turns on and then wait for the BIOS …

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Re: MG 286/25MHz Harris Headland ht21 help needed

Posted on 2018-09-27, 05:27

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AFAIK, the socket at Y4 will need to be populated with an oscillator that is rated 2x the clock frequency of your 287, but you may know this already.

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Re: DFI P5BV3+ Rev.B2

Posted on 2018-09-27, 01:34

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WileECoyote wrote: The board only support up to DMA33. Oh, I missed that... bah. Still worth a try anyway, and it's interesting indeed that the BIOS displays "ATA 100" despite not supporting it...

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Re: DFI P5BV3+ Rev.B2

Posted on 2018-09-27, 00:17

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Perhaps try an 80-wire IDE cable... technically the 40-wire ones are good only for up to ATA-33. (Some MBs/BIOSes will detect this at POST and recommend replacing the cable, but perhaps your board doesn't do this).

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Re: 1997-98 build (sorts of)

Posted on 2018-09-26, 21:19

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That's no Maxtor. :p Gotta find a suitable AT case for this, stat. 😎

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Re: Heatsink compound soft pak

Posted on 2018-09-26, 21:09

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I too have a container full of these "soft paks" from Ebay, that I've never used. Feels weird to just toss them, but I have two tubes of Arctic Silver 5 purchased ~6 years ago that never run out and surely work better.

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Re: Videocard with broken hdmi but works on vga

Posted on 2018-09-26, 04:35

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DVI-I to VGA working and DVI-D to VGA (and the other digital outputs) not working implies something wrong with the card's TMDS transmitter(s). Effectively, analog signals are being output properly (through the dedicated pins on the DVI-I connector, which enable a direct analog signal connection to a …

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