Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-02, 01:44

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With the third CPU I accidentally ripped out one pin including the pad while trying to fix them even if I didn't use much force and was pretty careful :( I was hoping the processor would still work since that pin is only 'ground' according to what I found, but unfortunately it won't post. …

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Re: Strange problem with Windows 9x "gray colors"

Posted on 2022-02-02, 01:36

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Graphics card low on toner... Just kidding, I've seen it before, and "messed around" until it went away but don't know specific cause and fix, messing around probably entailed reinstalling graphics drivers and directX and booting to safe mode and back.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-01, 23:34

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Player 3 entered the arena, i5-8400 machine with 16Gb, 128GB M2, 1TB SATA, $340 CDN pre-dicker, no GPU, but I could go with an already owned R9 390 and power/noise optimise it... CPU wins, by a lot, motherboard looks sucktastic though, barely anything on the back panel, mATX so expansion options …

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Re: FF7 FFVII + AMD K62 + Voodoo 2 = CRASH after every battle

Posted on 2022-02-01, 21:31

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If it's crashing where it would bring up stats or a menu, maybe it's the 2D half of the combo barfing.

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-02-01, 21:13

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What was it though? Fermi is just out of bounds for still being useful, if it was a Quadro 7000 or something.

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Re: How far back do you have to go for a graphics card not selling for an inflated price?

Posted on 2022-02-01, 19:16

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By the way, I'll drop a note that google lens is becoming disturbingly* good at recognising (clear) pictures of random GPUs, which means you can use that to snipe bargains, but this will not last long when everyone has caught on. * Disturbingly because the mirror test, an animal recognising itself …

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Re: Methods to enhance retro-flexibility on Pentium 4 class hardware...

Posted on 2022-02-01, 18:19

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More caulk... another gap filling option for a P4 Win98 machine... https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=86068 ______________________________________________________________ Solved my MS-7005 heatsink retention problem maybe, found a sink with it's own retention mechanism... otherwise it was …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-01, 15:15

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Yah, I'd have everything from the R9 390s down to HD5850s hashing if I was on electric heat. In theory, I'd displace CO2 production by doing that anyway, since electricity should be coming from the local mix of hydro and wind, and heat is natural gas fired, but it would cost me 3x as much... well …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-01, 04:24

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Well then you need to figure out how to split out left and right channels so you can SLI two old boxes together 🤣

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Re: RetroNAS - open source server software for your retro machines

Posted on 2022-02-01, 04:23

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Frigid legumes... whoops, ahem, Cool Beans.... I could probably figure out something myself but appreciate a no-brainer solution, even if I already got something going, sometimes you want an insta-deploy to try some crap out on the side or something. Sometimes your main hardware goes south and you …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-01, 04:12

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Wow, enjoy! But I think you're gonna need to double up the clocks on the video card, my back of the envelope reckonings say it's only earning you half the minimum payment 🤣

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Re: Micro8088 instability

Posted on 2022-02-01, 03:56

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Hmmm, now the original 8088s had a rise time requirement on the timing pulses which meant you effectively needed a higher rated chip to run at 4.77 on a square edged clock pulse at 50:50 mark space ratio... Orrr.... have a clock pulse massaged into something it would accept better which is like …

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Re: How to run an Windows application through Wine with compatibility mode?

Posted on 2022-02-01, 02:45

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At an early stage of getting your head round WINE it helps to remember that it doesn't really launch an environment to run your old crap in so much as kinda work as a kludge, patch or wrapper to run your old crap in current environment.

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Re: Can any PC with ISA slots work with a TTL (MDA/CGA/EGA) graphics card, or are there other BIOS/driver requirements?

Posted on 2022-02-01, 02:37

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By late pentium or so, certainly by when AGP became common, the BIOS stopped checking first for any thing other than VGA on the ISA bus, then later, not even that.. meaning you might still require a VGA on a PCI or AGP primary port to see POST and OS boot, because the mono won't auto detect at boot. …

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Re: Micro8088 instability

Posted on 2022-02-01, 02:29

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What are the markings on your CPU? The speed grades of 8088s can be a bit non-intuitive.

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Re: Do you recognize this 386 Mainboard produced by Interlink Business Network?

Posted on 2022-02-01, 02:23

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IBM ATs were only ever 286, so to be IBM compatible to their 286 AT, you'd want to say that at the time.

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Re: Which platform for "aio" pc

Posted on 2022-01-31, 23:23

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Ought to name vanilla, SP1, SP2 and SP3 as four different OSes, XP, XQ, XR, XT or something with RAM CPU requirements of 256MB/600Mhz, 512/1000 1024/1500 2024/2000.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-31, 22:56

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I thought the hipsters were those who were "into" things before they were cool... uh, that's us 🤣

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-31, 22:53

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Talking of buying skeevy Ali-flimflam stuff that LTT has looked at, I keep thinking about those SODIMM to DIMM adapters, getting a buildup of laptop RAM that I wish I could stick in desktops.

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Re: 462 + 423 socket systems, could this solve the PSU dilemma?

Posted on 2022-01-31, 20:18

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One thing that occurs to me is whether the startup time is fast enough such that the board doesn't go "nope" before it's delivering 5V.

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