Re: Only IDE ports work but the other ports don't?

Posted on 2019-08-28, 08:26

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by dionb

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Could you be a bit clearer about which "ports" you are referring to? Normally a CUV4X-C has two IDE ports, primary and secondary. So if you say "working on IDE port" but "primary doesn't see anything", you are contradicting yourself because primary is an IDE port :o Also, are you connecting both HDD …

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Re: Should I build a "one rig to rule them all"?

Posted on 2019-08-28, 06:08

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by dionb

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Tbh I'd ditch the 'can run modern Linux/Windows acceptably' requirement. The demands a modern browser places on your system are so massive you really can't get that to work satisfactorily within the possibilities of hardware that will run retro stuff. Even 4GB of RAM isn't enough to run Chromium or …

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Re: what is so special in this machine

Posted on 2019-08-27, 23:16

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by dionb

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Asus motherboard with PLB and a TagRAM socket - probably a late revision P55T2P4, which is pretty much the ultimate Intel chipset So7 board. Add the tag and it can cache 512MB RAM, if it's as late revision as it looks, it can run K6-2 or 3 without modification. Probably can do 83MHz FSB too, so you …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-08-27, 13:35

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by dionb

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imi wrote: found a scrap box locally for once... […] Show full quote found a scrap box locally for once... warning: graphic content. whyyyy 😢 hardware27.jpg 😵 I think I spotted that one for sale. Despite really wanting a V4, I decided against it... looks like a good call. Make sure the seller knows …

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Re: Asus P2B vs P3B-F etc. - what hardware to keep

Posted on 2019-08-27, 13:10

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by dionb

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I got P2B rev. 1.04 and P3B-F rev 1.04 and 1.03 - so P2B does not support Coppermines oppposite to P3B which handles them all (both revisions). Currently I see no possibility to assemble old hardware for other reason than gaming - even for games I can hardly find time so probably will never try to …

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Re: Asus P2B vs P3B-F etc. - what hardware to keep

Posted on 2019-08-27, 10:28

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by dionb

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1. which revisions? If the P2B can handle coppermine, I'd keep that for extra ISA slots over the P3B-F. But if you have an AX6B+ that sort of beats both, once again if it can do CuMine. If no CuMine, there's a use case for P3B-F and the AX6B+, less so for the P2B. 2. only if you want to run an SMP …

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Re: Weames PA-9050-B (AD Echo) ROM (?) sockets

Posted on 2019-08-27, 07:58

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by dionb

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Managed to read the last few files from the floppy disks that it wouldn't read last time. I've no way of testing this as I don't have a Windows 3.1 setup any more (the original floppies for those are in bad shape and anyway I don't have hardware that old). B_ADSP16.ZIP Thanks! I've put this one on …

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Re: Need to ID motherboard, Quaestions on CPU Config

Posted on 2019-08-26, 21:07

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by dionb

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That's a SiS 5591 chipset, which is pretty unique, even PC Chips only had two boards with it, the M590, with SiS 6326 onboard and no AGP slot, and the M570, which this almost certainly is. As for the 150MHz, that's either 2.5x 60MHz or 2x 75MHz. Either way you know your P200MMX isn't multiplier- …

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Re: another LCD died, RIP Dell 1901FP

Posted on 2019-08-26, 14:39

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by dionb

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One of the big reasons why LCDs suffer capacitor problems, whereas CRT capacitors seem more durable, is that LCDs use a switching power supply. These stress capacitors out a lot more than a CRT. It doesn't help that most LCD PSUs are stuffed into a small monitor case with minimal ventilation. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-08-25, 23:51

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but what you suspect? Gravis Ultrasound? Unless there is another sound card with the same layout I'm unaware of. They exist. I remember once being rather disappointed that a case I opened contained some OPTi 924-based card and not the GUS I'd been hoping for... Edit: Got myself a unicorn too, …

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

Posted on 2019-08-25, 17:51

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by dionb

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bjwil1991 wrote: SCART? SCART's just a connector, if you have audio, composite and (S-Video or RGB), you can route it over SCART in both directions.

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Re: PCI SATA cards in 430TX based systems

Posted on 2019-08-25, 17:49

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by dionb

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Promise TX2Plus PATA+SATA controller works fine in Win98SE, also works on PCI 2.1 motherboards (i.e. i440BX, i430TX etc).

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-08-23, 21:55

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by dionb

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^^^Wow, that sucks! Hopefully you can fix it! An Apple II that looks like a old PC? O.O [...] I got these things a couple of days ago for frrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee. :D -IBM Model F AT keyboard - ~i~ AHHHHhhhhHhHhHHHhhhhHHHHHH! JEALOUS!!!! 8-O [...] The 43p boots into AIX. I …

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

Posted on 2019-08-23, 21:10

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by dionb

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Grr, old boards and new drives... Last week I got my hands on arguably the fastest So370 board, the ECS P6S5AT. I fitted it out with P3-1400S, 512MB PC2700 DDR (overspecced for the 133MHz RAM clock, so able to run at CAS2) Voodoo3 and Turtle Beach Montego II (Aureal 2) - and I had a spare 120GB SSD, …

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Re: dead socket 4 board, help needed

Posted on 2019-08-23, 19:27

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by dionb

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I've come across boards that do absolutely nothing with dead RTC, but that's pretty abnormal behaviour. More common is that everything (except saving settings) works with dead RTC, but if you remove the RTC, the board completely refuses to boot. You haven't removed it, so that doesn't sound likely. …

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Re: Socket5 Motherboards with Intel Mercury chipsets

Posted on 2019-08-22, 16:37

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by dionb

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Never heard of it... out of interest, why does it really suck? Apart from the 5V vs 3.3V thing, and the max RAM of 192MB vs 256MB (both insane for 1993/1994 standards) I thought they were pretty similar in their ancient sluggishness.

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Re: Pentium Pro build

Posted on 2019-08-22, 14:19

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by dionb

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n0m4d wrote: i have this motherboard with 2x Pentium 233 MMX Then that's pretty ultimate for So7 Pentium. Question remains which OS and applications you intend to run - as SMP needs WinNT or better, and no games from this period use the second CPU.

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Re: Pentium Pro build

Posted on 2019-08-22, 13:43

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I want to build ultimate pentium machine, i have dilema betwen single pentium pro 200 vs dual pentium 200 Define "ultimate"... P200 and PPro200 are completely different beasts. In 32b OS and/or FPU intensive tasks the PPro blows the old Pentium away, but in 16b OS (i.e. DOS and to lesser degree …

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Re: 479 Motherboards

Posted on 2019-08-22, 00:41

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by dionb

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I had that board years ago, used it as a media PC until HD content became the rule and I needed to upgrade to something beefier. These days the main attraction of these systems is no longer relevant - even a fat Core i7 clocks down to much lower power consumption than a CoreDuo could manage, and the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-08-21, 21:27

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[...] well I did pay a good amount for the keyboard (think all the three in-wins combined), at least to my standards for a single piece of hardware, it's green alps, I honestly can't say if that's the same our original keyboard had, since I didn't really care that much about keyswitches back then …

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