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

Posted on 2020-02-11, 11:30

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by dionb

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Owning a SPARCstation 5 myself, this is only partly correct. The system is made of very thick metal and heavy as a tank. The plastic parts around that do indeed disintegrate with age are decoration only, they don't serve any purpose. No purpose, but your 5 and my 20 look flakier than say that Blade …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-11, 09:58

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Or a Pentium III 1GHz, Slot 1 with 100MHz FSB Good luck finding one of these. They are pretty rare. Also, it existed as the 1000B as well with 133 x 7.5, so you may even end up buying the wrong one. Slotket + P3 1333 is much simpler and cheaper. On the other hand, why aim for 1 GHz at all? There's …

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Re: PII 300, 266 or 233 on Dell SE440BX-2 or -3? (these are all 66MHz fsb CPUs, any 100MHz fsb works fine).

Posted on 2020-02-11, 09:53

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by dionb

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Have you tried a CMOS clear after installing the 66MHz CPU? If the board keeps running at 100MHz, no Klamath would manage to boot. 66MHz FSB incompatibility sounds odd to me, you could test with a P2-333 Deschutes - which also conveniently will frequently manage to run at 100MHz FSB (at least, if …

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

Posted on 2020-02-11, 09:44

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by dionb

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Premium brand workstations and servers have always been built better then commodity hardware of the same period. Beg to disagree with that. Certainly, on average they are better built, but 'always' is far from the mark. Take Sun stuff - very premium and a deserved reputation for overengineering. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-11, 09:04

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Bought these components yesterday for 20 EUR. Nothing tested, but should work. Had to drive "up in the hills" to get them, where previous owner is living. EUR 20 well spent, just the Voodoo or Tseng would be worth a multiple of that. Like the Intel TC430HX, particularly as it has the Yamaha audio …

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Re: Question about FIC486 PIO2 BIOS

Posted on 2020-02-10, 22:49

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by dionb

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This is referring to the sticker on your motherboard's BIOS chip. At the image in the link, at the bottom right of the image (upside-down) to the right of the CMOS battery, the sticker has an 7-digit code (103C701 in the picture). http://www.amoretro.de/wp-content/uploads/fic_486-pio2_486_pci_ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-10, 14:17

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The Precision 420 motherboard is not just any RDRAM board, it's one of the few with the Intel i840 dual-channel chipset, which makes it one of the fastest P3 boards out there. Cool! Wonder if it would boot with only 2 sticks or it needs terminators, then .. No terminators (CT-RIMMs) but will …

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Re: Asus P5A motherboard does not POST with VIA VT6212L USB 2.0 card

Posted on 2020-02-10, 12:51

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This is a simple PCI version compatibility issue. The VT6212L is designed for PCI 2.2 and doesn't work with older PCI versions ALi Aladdin V (and i440BX and most other contemporary chipsets) only offer PCI 2.1. PCI 2.2 stuff won't work, which is an issue with a lot of USB 2.0, SATA and NIC chipsets. …

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Re: Question about FIC486 PIO2 BIOS

Posted on 2020-02-10, 10:07

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by dionb

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This is referring to the sticker on your motherboard's BIOS chip. At the image in the link, at the bottom right of the image (upside-down) to the right of the CMOS battery, the sticker has an 7-digit code (103C701 in the picture). http://www.amoretro.de/wp-content/uploads/fic_486-pio2_486_pci_ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-10, 10:03

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[...] Yes! FOR SCIENCE! :D Unfortunately I now have the Queen song 'All Dead, All Dead' in my head. PCI/I-P54SP4 dead, P3C-E dead - and the TNT PCI sometimes works, sometimes not (might just be bad PCI contacts) :( Working on the P54SP4, but no science to be done until medicine (or rather: …

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Re: Do newer PCI cards offer 320x support and compatibility ?

Posted on 2020-02-10, 09:04

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Matrox G400 and G450 "2D" analog picture quality is simply the benchmark for everyone else. As close to perfect filtering as you are going to find. Of course, most other cards were good enough up to about 1280x960, but if you want to go to 1600x1200 and above using VGA, Matrox is the way to go, and …

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Re: Troubleshooting Asus PCI/I-P54SP4 no boot

Posted on 2020-02-09, 22:34

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Everything is certainly possible, but it would be a first for a DS128(8)7 not to boot at all. From PS/2 model 30 to Asus P55T2P4, boards with those beasts just get offended at lack of settings. It's the DS1387 RealtimeRAMified boards that sometimes utterly refuse to do anything if the battery is …

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Re: Matching / Selecting sound cards for different builds

Posted on 2020-02-09, 22:30

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[...] I’m probably missing something but never heard of this at all.. Like I know most SB16s have the hanging note bugs, but besides that they are not shittier or have any other issues of difference in regards to any of the other sound cards with a midi port, none of which have intelligent mode …

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Re: Troubleshooting Asus PCI/I-P54SP4 no boot

Posted on 2020-02-09, 19:18

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This board still has some tantalums on it. Check them, they like to fail/short without being visible or they go out with a loud bang. No really loud bangs and did a visual check too... Good idea though, I'll check for resistance over their points (not perfect when in situ, but should show …

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Re: Matching / Selecting sound cards for different builds

Posted on 2020-02-09, 19:17

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MIDI support is another thing. You don't get MPU-401 capability until the SB16, which, if you're wanting to run MT-32 games, could be a reason to put a later card in an earlier system. Or, any of the clones -- since they'll also usually support at least SB -- if not SB Pro -- PCM. I would rather …

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Re: Troubleshooting Asus PCI/I-P54SP4 no boot

Posted on 2020-02-09, 18:57

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by dionb

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Horun wrote on 2020-02-09, 17:32: How about bad a BIOS chip or flashed with wrong bios image ? Flashed a second EEPROM with the latest image from the Asus site. No change.

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Re: Troubleshooting Asus PCI/I-P54SP4 no boot

Posted on 2020-02-09, 16:51

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Did the KB led's flash briefly when first powered ? Have you tried a speaker to see if it beeps or screams, just in case the POST card has a compatibility issue with that board ? other than those I got nothing. Not a peep from the speaker. The LEDs flash very briefly immediately at power-on. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-09, 16:00

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Did some "cherry picking" here :-p :-p :-p I selected 4 cards and paid a rather fair price...didnt want to handle 25 kg. Which ones? ;-) Sorry Imi.... :-) :-) :-) The GUS, obviously. Otherwise... AWE64 Gold? 286 CPU board? That memory board next to it? The big board with both memory and PGA sockets …

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Troubleshooting Asus PCI/I-P54SP4 no boot

Posted on 2020-02-09, 15:44

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Today I picked up a board hoping to test P66 vs P75 head-to-head in as near identical hardware as possible (So4 and So5 Asus boards with SiS501 chipset). Of course, that is only going to work if the boards actually work. The So5 Asus PCI/I-P54SP4 is pretty DOA :'( Here's the board: https://www. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-09, 13:22

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Well, couldn't not buy this lot - got involved in discussion on P75 Vs P66. Problem is that they're rarely compared with the same chipset, let alone similar BIOS and settings. Now, I already have an Asus PCI/I-P5SP4 So4 board. What turned up last week: 15812533095762.jpg Yep, an Asus PCI/I-P5 4 SP4, …

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