Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-03, 17:05

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Saw a beat up beige box that looked like it was a boring office machine with some boring socket A or S478 board in it. Was going to pass , but then I spotted the outputs on the back: P_20211002_124527.jpg P_20211002_125907.jpg Besides a S370 that's needs a recapping, Radeon 7000VE, SB Live SB0220, …

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Re: Anyone recommend a good slot 1 mobo for a Pentium 2 cpu?

Posted on 2021-10-03, 16:58

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If you search for a specific board, it's going to be expensive. Just buy any 440BX slot 1 board if you want 100Mhz FSB or 440LX if you're happy with 66-83. I would second this and would add boards with later VIA chipsets...the very most oft them are sufficient for your project. If needed, there's …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-03, 02:11

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So the IBM PC 330 is a bit of a weird config. No internal shots yet, it's dustier than a dust farm in a dust bowl in harvest season. It contains a CT2740 and a CR-562-B, two non-identical IBM 4MB SIMMs, one IBM HDD mounted under everything, couldn't tell capacity, one mounted beside CDROM that is a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-02, 15:43

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Bit of a drive by teaser because I'm flying out of the house again in a few mins... I am bad at sticking to resolutions I guess, was not supposed to be buying more retro machines, but when crap like this falls in my lap for pocket change it's hard to say no... An IBM system dx2 66, riser motherboard …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-02, 03:02

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Thanks. I'd have guessed later than 05ish though because of provision for larger than an 80mm fan, which was rare on anything but high end cases until later noughties. I had some notion that it looked Acer Aspire-ish, and despite the metalwork on a few of their case backs seeming very similar I …

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Re: Does this card exist? Interesting Conundrum....

Posted on 2021-10-02, 02:00

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And the x850 on the ATI side. There's also the lamer but not all that lame x300, x600, x800... the x300 does okay I think on stuff near 2000, but that's based on memories of integrated x300 in a laptop playing NFS3 and similar on XP. It's 9600ish so plenty fast for about pre2002 then runs out of …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-01, 22:39

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It's a longshot and to me it looks like one of hundreds, but does anyone recognise this particular i/o layout, and can make a guess at what type of board is in there. It's a woman selling it "practically brand new" (doubtface) but there's nothing to get a clue from whether it's anything useable …

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Re: CT1750 : PC_SPK connector not working ?

Posted on 2021-10-01, 22:03

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See if a 1k resistor is enough to cut out the onboard... if not try ~500 I think 470 is what you'll find easiest. You could keep going lower until it works, but it might be really weak signal by the time you have it across the hookup cable. edit: by the time you drop below 50 ohms though you might …

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Re: Anyone recommend a good slot 1 mobo for a Pentium 2 cpu?

Posted on 2021-10-01, 18:37

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True, in some circumstances that favour fast cache but don't need a whole lot of it, they will pace low end PIIIs, especially the early ones, but run out of breath if SSE is required of course.

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

Posted on 2021-10-01, 17:26

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I'd look through the boards for badcaps with 20% higher to 50% lower values of the caps that are on the K7N2 and swap them over

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Re: Voodoo 3 bought second hand - dead or not?

Posted on 2021-10-01, 16:54

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The method recommended on overclockers.com back in the day for removing epoxied sinks was to bag the card, put it in the bottom of the deep freeze for several hours, then try twisting it off. The low temps are intended to shrink the metal more than the epoxy and start the bonds breaking, and also to …

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Re: The "Tweener"

Posted on 2021-10-01, 16:47

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You should worry, I'm having trouble reducing myself to at least 10% clockspeed differences lol ... well here's my ramblings on that subject in general.... https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=82570&p=986295 in that scheme I'm figuring on 3 per generation, which is still a lot, and tops and …

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Re: Time to ask before I do some damage Gigabyte GA-486VF rev7

Posted on 2021-10-01, 16:27

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Though that means that setting "Fast gate A20" in setup should hand that duty to the chipset rather than KBC, so if it is that problem with the KBC and that setting works, it confirms it, if it doesn't do anything different then you're probably looking for a different problem.

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-01, 16:14

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I heard it was built for man paws not kiddie hands, so I also would like to try one sometime.

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Re: Gopher..

Posted on 2021-10-01, 14:43

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Yeah gopher was still at it's peak then, the likes of Infoseek, Excite, Hotbot etc were only just getting good enough to really compete, they were only superficially good before 97ish. Gopher remained best for academic stuff for another couple of years. However, the mass market consumer ISPs at the …

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Re: Printer Drivers Hard to Find?

Posted on 2021-10-01, 14:08

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Ribbons can get reinked and cartridges refilled, though you've really gotta keep an inkjet printing every few days in order that you don't get nozzle blockage, especially with refill ink in a cart that's seen a dozen refills already. Very popular cartridges like Canon and HP models that lasted more …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-10-01, 13:46

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More goodies arrived today. A brand new shrink wrapped Maxtor 120 GB external hard drive, which of course I'm going to open up and remove the drive itself for installation in a Windows 98 desktop. It seems like these external drives often get overlooked by people looking for a 3.5" IDE hard drive. …

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Re: Is it possible to get an OPL-LPT adapter working through USB?

Posted on 2021-10-01, 13:27

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In theory those USB port expanders should support full function of the parallel ports (and serial ports) thereon. edit: Hmmm google is being "helpful" when you look for usb port expander and telling you that you mean a hub, no google, I didn't I mean one of these https://www.serialgear.com/product/ …

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Re: Project "TualGOD": Pentium III-S 1,4 GHz @ 166 FSB = 1750 MHz - 5 chipsets comparison

Posted on 2021-10-01, 13:00

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That's "more or less similar" at the same clock speeds, result #2 is atypically low IMO.

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Re: Best or Favorite Anime Music Videos (AMV/MAD) thread, what's yours?

Posted on 2021-10-01, 02:35

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The track is a bit thrashier than my ear tends to enjoy, but it does go together very well, thanks.

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