Re: AT psu wires

Posted on 2019-12-29, 18:55

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by Baoran

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I am still bit confused. I tested continuity. So the one I thought is blue doesn't connect to any of the 3 pins at the back. The one that I thought is white connects to right pin and one of the other 2 wires connects to left pin. So do I make the switch short between those blue and white and also …

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AT psu wires

Posted on 2019-12-29, 18:02

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by Baoran

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I am trying to figure out how to connect an AT psu to a case switch. I know something bad will happen if I connect it wrong, so I am in bit of a trouble. wires.jpg I am pretty sure rightmost one is blue because color is clear and leftmost one is white because others don't have anything that could be …

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386 Motherboard and batteries.

Posted on 2019-12-29, 12:19

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by Baoran

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I have a 386 motherboard that I would like to use. It doesn't have cmos battery on the motherboard at all and it only has a external battery connector with 4 pins. The battery connector seems to want to charge the battery that I would connect to it because there is 5V between pins 1 and 4 (4.84V to …

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Re: Delusional performance of a 486 DX33

Posted on 2019-12-16, 15:34

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by Baoran

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So strange to think i played all full Quake in 1996 from start to end with software rendering 320x200 and with a 486 DX-2/66 god, back in the day we were true masochists. :dead: I got a Pentium 133 in 1998... everything flied in there, but another sadistic period started, Half-Life with a Pentium …

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Re: Commodore PC keyboard.

Posted on 2019-12-16, 14:48

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by Baoran

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Someone who I know has the keyboard and he can't get it to work properly, so I am basically trying to find out if it is broken or if it is a compatibility issue. The sticker at the bottom is missing so he doesn't know the model number. It looks like a standard keyboard layout with function keys at …

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Commodore PC keyboard.

Posted on 2019-12-16, 13:21

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by Baoran

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Anyone knows if a keyboard that is from an old commodore pc is a standard keyboard that would work with any standard pc that has din connector for a keyboard? I don't know which commodore pc model it is from because the keyboard itself just says commodore and it seems to have din connector.

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Re: A 286 computer, is it totally useless?

Posted on 2019-12-14, 09:10

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by Baoran

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My first ever PC was 286 that I got in 1989. 12Mhz, trident vga card, 1Mb ram and 40Mb hard drive. I only got 3 games for it back then. Wasteland, Formula 1 GP and Leisure Suit Larry. Would love to build a pc like that and install those 3 games there if I could find the parts and imagine it is 1989 …

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Re: Fastest rig you have running winxp 32bit

Posted on 2019-11-18, 19:13

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by Baoran

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Mine is only Core 2 duo E8500 8 Gb ram and Geforce 780 TI. All the ram isn't detected in win xp 32bit but otherwise it works fine. It is one of my old PCs and the video card is my previous video card before I bought 1080ti that is currently in my main pc. 8Gb of ram isn't useful but it used to run …

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Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC

Posted on 2019-11-04, 12:53

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by Baoran

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I still have my fathers old PC from around that time if I remember correctly. It has Asus A7V motherboard and it is still working perfectly. I have not done anything with it since he gave it to me after he didn't need it anymore, but after since the pc is working fine after 20 years or so, it must …

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Re: Is the risk from static damage overblown?

Posted on 2019-11-03, 01:13

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by Baoran

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I usually wear wrist strap to protect things from static electricity, but I did once fry a 72 pin edo ram stick when I forgot to put it on.

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Re: 486 SX 16 & 20 MHz

Posted on 2019-10-29, 03:08

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by Baoran

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I bought my 286 in 1988 and I upgraded motherboard, cpu and ram in 1992 to 386dx 33Mhz. I kept all other parts of my 286 I skipped 486 completely and I built a new pentium 90Mhz pc in 1995 with windows 95. They were selling 286s, 386s and 486s pretty much at same time, so people could have skipped …

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Re: What case do you prefer?

Posted on 2019-10-23, 22:05

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by Baoran

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My first tower case was a pentium. Everything before that was desktop cases.

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Re: What case do you prefer?

Posted on 2019-10-23, 21:42

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by Baoran

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Well, I am most doing retro stuff to experience again what I experienced in 25-35 years ago. When it comes to retro it is the horizontal desktop cases that make me feel like I am going back in time. It doesn't matter that much they they are not very practical and take lots of space because they are …

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Re: Voodoo Card(s) in a fast Pentium 3 machine - Necessary/Worth it?

Posted on 2019-10-16, 12:50

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by Baoran

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I have a pentium 3 that has both GeForce 4 Ti 4600 and Voodoo 2 SLI in win98. Voodoos are slower of course but adding them brings compatibility with more older games. It all depends on what you want to play.

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Re: Help identify hardware.

Posted on 2019-10-15, 13:58

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by Baoran

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Looks like a delidded Socket 370 Tualatin (or Coppermine with heatspreader but those are rare). It looks like the handle of the CPU socket is up, and the CPU is just lying on top of the socket. EDIT: picture of a deliddeld Tualatin is here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=297167#p297167 It …

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Re: Help identify hardware.

Posted on 2019-10-15, 09:27

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by Baoran

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Perhaps it is a delidded cpu?

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Re: Help identify hardware.

Posted on 2019-10-14, 23:15

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by Baoran

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For me the motherboard seems to be Asus TX97-E.

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Re: Ideas for my best windows 98se build

Posted on 2019-10-14, 20:13

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by Baoran

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You only have to worry about irc, dma... etc when it comes to dos games. I would suggest GeForce 4 card and perhaps voodoo 2 card together with pentium 3 or pentium 4 cpu.

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Re: Serial & parallel port opening covers

Posted on 2019-10-12, 00:39

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by Baoran

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I just glued piece of gray plastic to cover it inside the case and it works quite well. It stays there well enough but it is also easy enough to remove if I need the hole for something later.

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Re: Choosing 1 retro platform for games that just don't run well on modern hardware?

Posted on 2019-10-11, 22:37

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by Baoran

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Apart from accelerated sound it's not a great choice for DOS games - it's too fast to run them natively, and too slow to run them in DOSBox (use your modern PC). I've a P2 300 for most of my DOS games, and will be constructing a 486DX40 'Ultima box' to run Ultima 7 natively (rather than through …

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