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

Posted on 2021-09-19, 02:15

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Each to their own. I need one for the top end of each generation of CPU (and variants thereon). At least, from 386 and later (although I still need to get round to starting to test and sell some of my many superfluous CPUs and FPUs, as well as over 125 motherboards) Going to sell some of the 125 …

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Re: PCMCIA socket issues on Compaq Armada E500 ?

Posted on 2021-09-18, 22:15

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Maybe you're gonna have to trawl through an archive of softpaqs looking for card services updates. At the moment, I'm thinking that XP wasn't officially supported on this model, but not certain.

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Re: SeaBIOS booting progress on 86Box!

Posted on 2021-09-18, 20:43

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mr.cat wrote on 2021-09-18, 13:55: I don't see much sense in trying to approximate the "look and feel" of the old BIOSes, but that's also a possibility. Whaddaya mean you don't want lurid green and purple menus? 🤣

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Re: Case Orientation and heat pipes or have my heat pipe failing?

Posted on 2021-09-18, 20:38

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You can also find a solder sold as radiator repair solder at auto stores that claims to work on aluminum.

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

Posted on 2021-09-18, 19:10

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You only need a 1985 system, a 1990 system a 1995 system a best CPU/GPU system for every 3 months between 1995 and 2000, a noughties system...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-18, 17:38

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286 "CHIPS" mainboard from TULIP. Unfortunately dead :( IMG_1229.jpg A copiously socketed board is never dead Frodo Baggins, a copiously socketed board works precisely when it means to. lol Meaning a full weekend with a can/bottle of contact cleaner and those interdental brushes might get it …

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Re: Case Orientation and heat pipes or have my heat pipe failing?

Posted on 2021-09-18, 13:04

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Have you tried looking up a replacement for the brand&model of your mini pc? You didn't mention either and only shown us stock photos. Though there can be a difference in construction, some heatpipes have what looks like a porous layer on the inside of the pipe, which when cracked, just adding a …

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Re: Any advice on a new PSU for an ASUS P4S533

Posted on 2021-09-18, 12:16

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If you recap your motherboards with super low ESR capacitors to survive ripple currents and recap your PSUs to super high quality caps to avoid ripple currents, you're wasting money at one end or the other 🤣

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Re: Case Orientation and heat pipes or have my heat pipe failing?

Posted on 2021-09-18, 12:12

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Have you tried looking up a replacement for the brand&model of your mini pc? You didn't mention either and only shown us stock photos. Though there can be a difference in construction, some heatpipes have what looks like a porous layer on the inside of the pipe, which when cracked, just adding a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-18, 11:59

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Nice stuff Robert.. The cooler is stuck firmly and I'll power it up next week to see what's what. :D Also it need a few caps. From the look of the cooler, it's one that came with "pink goo" a thin rubberlike thermal pad that melts into the CPU in use. Best guess is to run it hot, then try to twist …

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Re: Found the real manual for Atrend ATC 6240M motherboard with 440BX chipset.

Posted on 2021-09-18, 04:11

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Good find ! Last year found a bunch of Atrend and other manuals in WPC and other old formats. Some were even BitFax raw files LOL Gah yeah, PC Chips is bad for that, find their old manuals and it's a .doc, but that could be a plain text file, a wordpad/rtf doc or a word for windows 5 or 6 document, …

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Re: How low can you go with modern, user-friendly Linux?

Posted on 2021-09-18, 03:01

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I always wondered if you could do that from the ROM software in a Tandy 1200 portable is it? Be worth buying one just for that, instant on terminal. Maybe I'll burn an EEPROM sometime with similar functionality and stuff it in a desktop board. I guess technically I've got that in a Win CE handheld, …

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Re: How low can you go with modern, user-friendly Linux?

Posted on 2021-09-18, 02:37

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Use lynx or links :P ... there are two of them and I always get them confused. I think last time I browsed on a 386 was using links or lynx. Some way into the noughties a local ISP had a free trial shell account still up. So I found this out off a well buried old page on their site, and next time …

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Re: Dosbox Linux serial port help

Posted on 2021-09-18, 02:18

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First we should check you're using an up to date version of DOSbox, best to use an apt get install off main site, the binaries in several of the distro repositories are some ancient and multiply broken version of 0.72 when 0.74 has been current for many years now.

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Re: ADD AN ISA SLOT TO A MOTHERBOARD ???? Gigabyte Ga-7ZX

Posted on 2021-09-18, 02:13

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That was my first thought but others seem to have convincing info that it's the audio controller and the chipset handles ISA native.

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Re: ADD AN ISA SLOT TO A MOTHERBOARD ???? Gigabyte Ga-7ZX

Posted on 2021-09-18, 01:45

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It's a gigabyte, talk him down... 🤣 just kidding, had my beefs with gigabyte stuff in the past.

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Re: Does the fanless Pentium II Overdrive require active cooling?

Posted on 2021-09-18, 00:24

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Well you wouldn't want it in completely dead air, and you don't need an 80cfm screamer, if you can waft about 20cfm past it that should be fine.

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Re: Dosbox Linux serial port help

Posted on 2021-09-17, 23:55

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Well firstly you're not gonna want 115k my first clue was when you said ancient, I'd have guessed to start at 9600 and this says it was a good guess https://forums.radioreference.com/threads/radio-shack-pro-2006-os456-optoscan-utility.364900/ Didya find this page? https://www.monitoringpost.com/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-09-17, 23:43

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You shoulda held out for a USB 3.1 version so it could wait for serial data at 10 gigabits per second. 😉 Yah I picked up similar piece a month or so ago, didn't need to hunt drivers. Windoze and ubuntu both found and configured it.

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Re: The best laptop for DOS gaming? Maybe I found it?

Posted on 2021-09-17, 21:44

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I have had compatibility issues with NeoMagic chips in the games I play, though, so it wouldn't be for me. That's why my Thinkpad 385XD ain'tn't perfect. Though I swear when we first had it, I had a DX5 driver on it that did a fair job of Monster Truck Madness, but trying things recently is a pile …

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