Re: Repair shops hate me. I fixed defective memory on my video card with this one neat trick.

Posted on 2022-03-23, 01:37

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Is that the base clock or the DDR speed? I was casting around to try to find some vmod info in case a minor bump would get you stable, for which all convenient links seem to be dead and unarchived so far. However, came across talk that the mem on "great" MX440s crapped out not far past 550 DDR, …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-23, 00:18

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Well the joke was that a rotary buffer will just throw crap everywhere...

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Re: VIAFSB - DOS FSB utility for VIA chipsets

Posted on 2022-03-22, 22:17

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Looking good so far, nice work, hope to use it when I get to my next via mobo thing... I can give it a try but it will be a bit of time before I get around to it, I'm pretty glacial when it comes to getting anything done with my retro stuff. So pretty much this, but slow down ya crazy speed freak …

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Re: Is there any Tualatin-compatible Socket 370 board that doesn't cost a million dollars?

Posted on 2022-03-22, 16:57

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If you wanna do something cheap, Biostar M6VLQ v2.3 .. you get an ISA slot but no AGP, then whack a PCI 6200 (Avail NIB on eBay recently) in it and an 8MB Voodoo2 alongside that plus your favorite ISA soundcard. Has Via chipset so those ACPI throttle progs should work great, and you get to avoid all …

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

Posted on 2022-03-22, 15:51

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I vaguely remember getting one that blew inward, 2 decades or so ago, probably thought "Well that's stupid" and flipped it around... ... don't know if I could ID it even if I still had it... kinda unlikely since that was in a major "catch and release" period, putting together systems to give to …

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Re: A brief comparison of 386 FPUs

Posted on 2022-03-22, 15:45

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Next time I find/boot my U5S CPU, I should try it out on DN3D with one of the 387 emulators see if there's a speed boost.

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Re: Media Vision Pro movie spectrum isa

Posted on 2022-03-22, 04:01

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Sounds familiar to me but I'm not catching the significance right now, might remember something else if I let it rattle around a while. However, I think MediaVision was "one of those" that shovelled all their drivers for everything on one CD in the mid-late 90s, so maybe a Mediavision driver CD even …

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Re: leaky laptop RTC batteries. what brands/models are guilty?

Posted on 2022-03-22, 01:42

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Compaqs I've been into have had sealed long life lithium, haven't dug into my Toshibas much.

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Re: Hello darkness my old friend…

Posted on 2022-03-21, 20:47

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Some boards with onboard vid and sound had only 5 or 6 slots. Maybe intended for one of those.

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Re: 386 on a 486 motherboard?

Posted on 2022-03-21, 19:55

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Why not track down one of those hybrid 3/486 motherboards that supports both CPU's? You can then swop out the CPU's as you desire. I have two of these type of motherboards and most of these were based around the OPTI495 chipset. One that I have got is SiS and Contaq, center board in this pic …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2022-03-21, 19:31

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I got one like that as a Pentium II system by Seanix some years ago. That was when it was all junk though so it's parts are scattered now. Think I'm gonna be building the GA-5AX, K6-2/3+ and Voodoo3 into it at some future point in time.

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

Posted on 2022-03-21, 16:41

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Yeah, 386sx16 on a 286 chipset or $300 upgrade board you're about to trash? 🤣

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2022-03-21, 14:19

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Suddenly, a wild jerk appears... search.php?author_id=48563&sr=posts

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Re: Possible to run K6-3 with vcore of 2.8v?

Posted on 2022-03-21, 05:28

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All jumpers off might give you 2.5V, it's a known trick from other motherboards. Measure though.

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Re: Reliable way to force 2x multi on P2 P3 class, mendocino particularly?

Posted on 2022-03-21, 03:00

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This here's a desktop chip, dunno what chipset onboard until I get in there. I am fairly sure it was a 400Mhz mendocino I had in the M717 when that was booting at 2x. Maybe I'll have to play with that and see if any conclusions form. Floating BF pins maybe? (Neither tied to GND or VCC)

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-21, 02:52

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You know we're just gonna want you to test about 5 versions of 3DMark and 20 games on it now. 😜

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Reliable way to force 2x multi on P2 P3 class, mendocino particularly?

Posted on 2022-03-20, 19:02

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Hi Vogons, As many are aware, in some circumstances, misconfiguration mostly, PII and PIII class CPUs will boot on a 2x multiplier. Now I've done this accidentally or incidentally a few times on different boards, but other settings on those boards may result in no-post, which is of course, not …

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Re: Multiple Partitions don't show up?

Posted on 2022-03-20, 18:17

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Yeah windows is like "ThErE cAn OnLy Be OnE pRiMaRy pArTiTiOn!"

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

Posted on 2022-03-20, 17:29

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Nice box. I got one of those cases years ago in the era where I was desperate to find any kind of case cheap. Forgot what it had in it, or if it's still got what it came with, it's near the bottom of a stack. Might have had a 486 ISA board installed with a DX or SX 33.

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Re: Very compact retro PCs?

Posted on 2022-03-20, 15:12

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I am kinda stumbling forward on what I call my "Compact Stack" endeavor, meaning to have a small footprint pile of retro machines that covers most generations. Most of them are gonna end up being LPX or NLX type machines I think. Though there's a modern-ish ITX box and "biscuit tin" PC projects …

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