Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-16, 20:35

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Aaaargh, temptation not resisted, wife was no help, she said I may as well lol ordered a bunch from cablesalescanada.com .. they had some IBM keyboards I know I like, they call them multimedia, but it's the kb-9930 rapid access II type, which while being rubber dome, I know type really nice because …

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Re: Dual 7-pin VGA on a modern system

Posted on 2023-03-16, 17:43

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The monitors take 31khz VGA 640x480 so what are you trying to achieve with the RCA scaler?

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Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware

Posted on 2023-03-16, 15:25

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2 or 3 years back there seemed to be a ton of QFP Cyrix 5x86 around.. then they all dissappeared, so I thought someone was sticking them on interposers somewhere, but the counter-flood of mounted QFP hasn't come back yet. Same with Intel DX4, the QFP isn't showing up so much now, when there were …

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Re: Flying Dutchmen, White Whales, the ghost HW that eludes you, lost & found.

Posted on 2023-03-16, 15:00

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Funny, I lost a "Dacia" in a way from the family also. It was what the Dacias were based on, a Renault 12. We had it as the family car for several years. When my parents got another car an Estate/Break/Wagon type, because of needing to transport things, I got given the Renault 12 to fix up for when …

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Re: Build to play mid 90s-mid 2000s possible?

Posted on 2023-03-16, 04:12

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Top end mobile Barton XP and a Ti4200 clockable to 4600 speeds will just about do it, brake it down to 300mhz on multi and FSB and spin it up to 2.5Ghz with the 4200 on overclock settings and you'll play stuff to mid noughts, but not at highest res or fullest detail, or with dx9 hardware support. …

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Re: Socket 7: CPU Speed/jumpers, "CPU Plug and Play" boards?

Posted on 2023-03-16, 04:03

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Abit was a big fan of SoftMenu BIOSes the SM5A had one as did the AX6L and probably others. They did become somewhat more common for early socket A, but those boards you had a master jumper on board or a "all multi selection switches off" setting where it went my the softmenu instead of jumper …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-03-16, 03:57

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That's the blessing and the curse of improving motherboard info archival, eventually you can get your board set right.... but less boards sold for $5 "dead" that just need the jumpers set right lol [hr] Another day poking around HDDs trying to find ones to use, looking up stuff incessantly, this …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-16, 03:48

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The inside is very dusty and it looks like it spent some time ingesting some pinkish material, not sure what that's about. I had one like that some years ago, got to figuring it was makeup, some lady foofing all over her face with a brush or puff on the daily, getting it airborne. I'd guess some …

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Re: Looking for cpu pinout maps

Posted on 2023-03-15, 21:49

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Probably the datasheets for most of them are at places like x86.org bitsavers.org ,some here https://www.ardent-tool.com/CPU/Docs.html Then if you just want the bits like voltage, frequency and multiplier pins ocinside.de has interactive guides like... https://www.ocinside.de/workshop_en/amd_pinmod/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-15, 21:06

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Todays pocket change pickup, Evercool Magic Cooler, blue fan purplish anodising, goes on 370 thru 939, though on looking up reviews it's a bit weak for above 60W I think. So will probably keep it to Tualatin or Northwood. It's kinda garish, so maybe should use it with that purple Soyo board and a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-15, 20:34

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Brawndo wrote on 2023-03-15, 19:32: The inside is very dusty and it looks like it spent some time ingesting some pinkish material, not sure what that's about. I had one like that some years ago, got to figuring it was makeup, some lady foofing all over her face with a brush or puff on the daily, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-15, 15:09

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What was it the 7500 has that other DX7 Radeons didn't?

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Re: Help me finish a Win98 PC

Posted on 2023-03-15, 15:06

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Yeah I'd say get #2 to pick up where your 486 leaves off. It won't be good for everything after ~1999 (Some stuff to about 2003 will still be acceptable) but you won't be able to fill this gap for $35 too much longer, whereas a 2000 up system might be available for cheaper longer.

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Re: Dual 7-pin VGA on a modern system

Posted on 2023-03-15, 14:56

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I think you have something of a double problem, newer cards not liking monitors that don't either had DDC or are able to detect with old school presence detect coding, or don't have 75ohm loads detected on R G and B, with only G in this case presenting a load... AND... Not doing the old standard …

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Re: Using an FX 5200 for old games

Posted on 2023-03-15, 14:44

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AT boards get no 3.3V from the PSU and may supply none at all to the PCI or have a regulator and have a "token" amount of power available, like 1A that's enough for a modem or something but not enough for a GPU. (A rare few modems might actually improve the situation by having their own onboard 3.3V …

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Re: Faulty TMC PCI54PV (VER. 1.2A) motherboard - need help

Posted on 2023-03-15, 14:39

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Hope that fixes it for you. I have had suspicions of BIOS getting corrupted by Xray scanning when boards have crossed borders in the past. (Or maybe high altitude radiation if they went on a plane)

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Re: M321 386 external battery questions

Posted on 2023-03-15, 03:17

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If you want one in a hurry, you can try a dollar store, look for small LED light strings with a battery box.

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Re: Upgrade Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428-80QC-A to 2mb

Posted on 2023-03-14, 17:11

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I'll go as far as a "probably" good, in that if I had them in the parts box I'd try them. But I don't know if I'd like paying 5 quid a chip.

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Re: Old netbook as a DOS gaming powerhouse

Posted on 2023-03-13, 21:54

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I always used to use this one, but haven't tested it for timing issues on much faster CPUs https://awe.com/mark/dev/modplay.html addendum to previous comment. Via Epia etc netbooks are more likely in the Pentium III chipset realm.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-03-13, 18:42

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Bitwrangler , what kind of PC Chips board? 950 sk478? - mine is driving me up the wazooo , keeps beeping to me, and I don't know what to do. Mine would be a PIII/Celeron one, don't know much about P4 PCChips, you might find more about the ECS equivalent. Beeping but won't post is commonly mem or …

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