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Re: Most reliable 2.5 inch IDE hard drives?

Posted on 2020-08-15, 10:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

mSATA is simply SATA on a different connector. Same with m.2 SATA. There's no speed differece. By now m.2 SATA drives are simply easier to come by imho so that's the form factor I suggested. m.2 also allows for PCIe SSDs but those don't work in IDE-m.2 adaptors since those only feature a PATA-SATA …

Re: Most reliable 2.5 inch IDE hard drives?

Posted on 2020-08-15, 10:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Personally I'd try my luck with an m.2-IDE adaptor in 2.5 inch form factor plus an m.2 SATA SSD instead of using old laptop HDDs that may have been knocked around a fair bit. I know this doesn't answer your original question but since you mentioned only prices kept you away from 2.5 inch SSDs I hope …

Re: questions about intel se440bx motherboard and pentium II 450Mhz

Posted on 2020-08-14, 15:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For late DOS and basically all of Win9x gaming the GeForce MX 440/460 is really a decent card. Riva TNT2 (Pro/Ultra) too, especially with your system, but again in my experience they're a bit more expensive, probably a bit slower on your system though slightly more compatible. Both are great and …

Re: questions about intel se440bx motherboard and pentium II 450Mhz

Posted on 2020-08-14, 08:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For late DOS and basically all of Win9x gaming the GeForce MX 440/460 is really a decent card. Riva TNT2 (Pro/Ultra) too, especially with your system, but again in my experience they're a bit more expensive, probably a bit slower on your system though slightly more compatible. Both are great and …

Re: questions about intel se440bx motherboard and pentium II 450Mhz

Posted on 2020-08-13, 20:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for the assistance! As for what else will be attached, I am looking for a good AGP video card, ISA sound card maybe SB 16. For storage IDE to SD or CF. 3 ram cards 256Mb total, CD drive and 3.5 floppy drive. As of right now that is all. If ya'll have any suggestions I am open for them 🤙 …

Re: Most Need for Speed games lock my system in menus on Voodoo 4500

Posted on 2020-08-13, 16:52

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

If you're using a 440bx board try reducing the fsb to 100MHz.

Re: Pentium MMX with refurbished MB will only turn on sometimes?

Posted on 2020-08-13, 07:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I agree, this sounds like the board is bad.🙁

Re: questions about intel se440bx motherboard and pentium II 450Mhz

Posted on 2020-08-13, 07:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Doornkaat wrote on 2020-08-13, 06:44: the 450W Pentium II processors aren't that power hungry. That was supposed to MHz, not Watts. 😅 450W PIIs are very power hungry.😉

Re: questions about intel se440bx motherboard and pentium II 450Mhz

Posted on 2020-08-13, 06:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Depending on what other hardware you're planning to put in there you'll probably need a PSU that'll output a continuous 12-20A on +5V. Don't fall for people's panic of needing 20 gigawatts of +5V power on all their retro systems; the 450W Pentium II processors aren't that power hungry. All modern …

Re: Pentium MMX with refurbished MB will only turn on sometimes?

Posted on 2020-08-12, 11:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BTW have you tried putting a new CR2032 in that socket? Maybe the battery the seller included wasn't new but NOS and has run out of juice by now. Some boards need at least some battery.

Re: Pentium MMX with refurbished MB will only turn on sometimes?

Posted on 2020-08-12, 11:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Did you try reflashing the BIOS EEPROM of the new board?

Re: Video Corruption Issue (AGP Voodoo 5 5500)

Posted on 2020-08-12, 11:40

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

So some really weird developments. I dipped a new toothbrush in isopropyl and scrubbed down the contacts of all the ram chips incase there was any debris or contaminates causing partial shorts or full shorts, and now the card boots normally to windows, and 5 minutes of quake 2 didnt have any issues …

Re: Pentium MMX with refurbished MB will only turn on sometimes?

Posted on 2020-08-11, 19:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Meoseko wrote on 2020-08-11, 17:40: I'm from Berlin! Will get back after checking the 200MHz. Too bad, I would have offered my help but I'm in the Ruhrgebiet and that's a bit of a long way. 😉

Re: Video Corruption Issue (AGP Voodoo 5 5500)

Posted on 2020-08-11, 19:57

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

[Update] So an odd development, I was getting so many errors I decided to swap in my voodoo 3 3000 to see if it was some sort of main board issue, the Voodoo 3 3000 worked fine and completed multiple passes without error, but as I went to reach for the 5500 to reinstall it my cat got spooked and …

Re: Video Corruption Issue (AGP Voodoo 5 5500)

Posted on 2020-08-11, 17:12

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

This looks a lot like bad RAM on the primary VSA100. You can run Video Memory Stress Test to further investigate. The archive also contains a .iso file you can burn to CD to use the test without Windows. Best of luck! :-) Edit: I think I found a picure of your card on twitter. What's all that white …

Re: Pentium MMX with refurbished MB will only turn on sometimes?

Posted on 2020-08-11, 15:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh, right - I simply missed that jumper. Have you tested with the 200MHz CPU as well (configured for 200MHz of course)? Maybe one is bad? Otherwise I'm afraid there are failing parts in this setup, and without a set of known good parts (or better equipment) troubleshooting is a pain in the ass. You …

Re: Switched CPU's, no display - "weak" power - front panel lights won't switch on

Posted on 2020-08-11, 15:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for the pics. Sadly there's no explaination of the jumpers printed on the PCB apart from (useless) FSB jumpers. I couldn't find a manual either and it seems like there's only the original BIOS for this board avaliable. I'm more and more convinced this motherboard actually has trouble …

Re: Pentium MMX with refurbished MB will only turn on sometimes?

Posted on 2020-08-11, 14:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here are the jumpers: https://i.imgur.com/QoeM74f.jpg And without markings in case I obscured something important: https://i.imgur.com/5IKzVA3.jpg The CPU is currently configured for 2.5x multiplier / 66MHz FSB. Some P1MMX CPUs will not operate when configured for certain multipliers. Please set …

Re: Pentium MMX with refurbished MB will only turn on sometimes?

Posted on 2020-08-11, 11:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

EDIT: I'm still not certain I understand your current jumper settings. Can you please post a picture of the board with all jumpers visible? Further troubleshooting ideas: Do you have a multimeter to check voltages on the PSU(s)? ->If so, reduce the setup to PSU, motherboard and CPU (no RAM) and test …

Re: IDE to Compact Flash not working

Posted on 2020-08-11, 03:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have another IDE cable on order now. Should be here next week. Dramatic sigh and all that. I actually have a nice new one I bought for this project, but it has a missing pin that is part of the keying, I guess, and neither of my I/O boards are missing that pin, so I can't use it. Didn't notice …

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