Re: New old build

Posted on 2021-02-08, 11:41

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by dionb

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P3-600EB is a Coppermine CPU with 133MHz FSB. BX boards can usually manage that, but no guarantees. In terms of your requirements, pretty much any Slot 1 board will give you a single PCI slot, most also offer AGP. The challenge is combining 133MHz FSB and Coppermine voltage support ('late' features) …

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

Posted on 2021-02-08, 00:36

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by dionb

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Played around with cache on my Spring Circle SF586 board last night. There's just about no documentation out there on the board. Through trial an error I managed to figure out how to set cache jumpers for 256kB and 512kB (with 16x 256k chips). Now I tried the same with a pile of 512kb (64kx8) chips …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-07, 18:30

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by dionb

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Some sellers... Very clear pictures of little stacks of CPUs. Upside-down stacks of CPUs. And no, no pics of top available. So no idea exactly what is in there, but did a lowball offer. After a week, nobody had topped it (apart from one person who insisted picking it up, but then concluding it was …

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Re: Spring Circle SF586 Socket 5 VLB motherboard

Posted on 2021-02-07, 16:59

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by dionb

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Bump. Have figured out cache settings for 1024kB (16x 64k x 8 chips with single 32k x 8 tag). For now I'm finished with messing around with this board - time to put it into a case and enjoy it, which means no more tinkering for now as my AT cases are awful inaccessible little minitowers... Feel free …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-06, 01:34

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[...] Congratulations! I see we have similar list :-D The only card I want more than this one is Guillemot Maxi Sound Home Studio Pro 64 ISA, because I am ESS lover ;-) Thanks. Not exactly the same list as I'm not a huge ESS-lover so wouldn't go out of my way for that one. Certainly wouldn't say no …

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Re: Best pci 2.1 non sse video card?

Posted on 2021-02-05, 18:30

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by dionb

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[...] what cards have you seen work on boards like mine? (higher end cards, not all lol) As I said, not at all up to speed on this one. Probably nothing newer than TNT2-M64 or Gf2MX. Don't currently have anything faster than that, had a PCI FX5200 but gave/swapped that away. Have enough PCI 486 ( …

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

Posted on 2021-02-05, 15:16

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by dionb

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Played around with cache on my Spring Circle SF586 board last night. There's just about no documentation out there on the board. Through trial an error I managed to figure out how to set cache jumpers for 256kB and 512kB (with 16x 256k chips). Now I tried the same with a pile of 512kb (64kx8) chips …

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Re: IBM port 80 POST codes (Netfinity 3500 M10)?

Posted on 2021-02-05, 15:01

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by dionb

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I looked thru Bigelow's PC Tech Trouble shoot ref from 1999 and it had nothing good you did not already find. Looked thru my IBM NetVista docs but no real POST cards codes found that would help. Will look around tomorrow but have doubts will find anything. Thanks. Given market segment this board …

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Re: Making new tillamook golden tigers

Posted on 2021-02-05, 14:38

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by dionb

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"some clever chinese people got together and made a socket 7 300 pentium 1 using genuine intel silicon" I have seen this video some weeks ago and according to the guy they just took genuine Intel Cpus put that golden cover on it and wrote some fake BS on top of it. Regardless that they look cool I …

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Re: Best pci 2.1 non sse video card?

Posted on 2021-02-05, 14:33

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by dionb

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PCI 2.1 vs 2.2. compatibility is basically about whether the card assumes 3.3V to be present and needs it. or not. So it's determined by card design, not chipset. That's why it's possible that your newer 6200 does work where the 5500 doesn't. So looking for a specific chipset isn't going to help you …

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Re: Restoring a Packard Bell Retro machine to original condition

Posted on 2021-02-05, 14:01

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[...] Good point. Well, I have an Audigy 2 on the way that I bought because of the on-card FW connection so I guess I'll use that for the time being. Since I haven't sourced an MSI MS 6309 mainboard yet there is no point in making a fuss about the audio card right this moment. And without the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-05, 02:07

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Yeah, he had old computer parts. Now you do - lots 😜

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Re: 486 SX 16 & 20 MHz

Posted on 2021-02-05, 00:46

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by dionb

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There are quite a few motherboards out there with 16 and 20MHz options (hell, I even have two So5 Pentium boards with those bus speeds...), but it's not that common. You might have better luck with old ISA-only 486 boards replacing the oscillator with a slower one.

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IBM port 80 POST codes (Netfinity 3500 M10)?

Posted on 2021-02-04, 22:55

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by dionb

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My muddy, rained-upon dual Sl1 i440LX board lives again! Or at least, after that abuse, then getting dishwasher treatment here and two weeks to be completely dry, it's doing something. Just not everything.... Board is an IBM Netfinity 3500 planar, part number 93H7269 Board has one jumper (CMOS clear …

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Re: Restoring a Packard Bell Retro machine to original condition

Posted on 2021-02-04, 22:22

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I did find and purchase a Western Digital Caviar Enhanced IDE 200gb drive. Bought it mainly because it's 7200rpm, which is what these systems had, though it's much larger then needed. I've also found (still in shipping) a Hercules GF2MX card with 32megs and I've tracked down a CT4830 card nearby …

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Re: Restoring a Packard Bell Retro machine to original condition

Posted on 2021-02-04, 16:58

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I did find and purchase a Western Digital Caviar Enhanced IDE 200gb drive. Bought it mainly because it's 7200rpm, which is what these systems had, though it's much larger then needed. I've also found (still in shipping) a Hercules GF2MX card with 32megs and I've tracked down a CT4830 card nearby …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-04, 15:48

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[...] Not many well-known brands used this chipset. After 20 minutes of googling all i could find were couple of motherboards: ASUS SP98AGP-X ECS Elitegroup P5SD-B (AT) ECS Elitegroup P5SD-AS (built-in SiS 6326 video, no AGP, ATX) Gigabyte GA-586SG (AT) Those two ECS boards are identical to the PC …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-02-04, 12:02

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My last post about retro hardware pickups was... long time ago (it was jsomewhere in the end of june 2020). And i was doing mothly reports, so this one will be... slighly different. Let's go. :D Motherboards: ASUS CUBX-E https://i.imgur.com/cIeGK1Lm.jpg Interesting and somewhat rare S370 mobo. …

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Re: CHiLL II : high current waveblaster interface board - development thread

Posted on 2021-02-04, 00:22

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by dionb

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dreamblaster wrote on 2021-02-02, 17:08: next iteration of CHiLL XL enclosure (still not final) Ooh yes, that looks perfect. Will probably be ordering two when they're ready 😀

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

Posted on 2021-02-03, 22:34

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Donated two AHA-2940AU cards to a local artist who was still using some SCSI scanner for his projects, when his AHA-2940AU died on him. He was only looking for one, but I have at least three of those (as well as a mix of other PCI (not to mention ISA, VLB and EISA) SCSI adapters, so deceided to …

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