Re: Asus CUBX-E Pentium III-S 1400 MHz 3Dmak 2001SE

Posted on 2018-07-04, 02:00

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tomoa wrote: I don't know the cooler name, i bought the card used. A thread necro I know, but it looks very much like a NorthQ NQ-3860, but with a replacement fan Filename NorthQ NQ-3860.png File size 692.26 KiB Views 2231 views File comment NorthQ NQ-3860 (pics from TWEAK.DK)

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Re: What would you stick in this dual socket board?

Posted on 2018-07-03, 19:23

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Not sure if it applies to you, but some of the links from here https://web.archive.org/web/19980128144503/http://support.intel.com:80/support/motherboards/server/ also refer to a 1.00.18.BI0 and 1.00.19.BI0 with SCU v3.40 & overlay 1.30A, though unsurprisingly all the actual file links are dead. I …

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Re: EISA Mainboard Suggestions

Posted on 2018-06-27, 03:43

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Thanks for the pointers on these boards though they're all a bit steep for my limited budget and some don't ship to my locale (wish I'd held on to the Mylex now as well as the cards, but it was sold along with its original Viglen case - pic attached, though not mine). I'll keep looking for something …

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Re: BUILD LOG - AM386SX PC

Posted on 2018-06-27, 02:28

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Almoststew1990 wrote: Here is a nice easy question for everyone. Rather than bend or snip the pin, I normally just add the extra hole to the cable connector either using a fine point scalpel / craft blade, a fine Dremel drill bit or a hot needle.

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EISA Mainboard Suggestions

Posted on 2018-06-25, 01:29

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Not sure how far I'll take this, but I'd welcome any initial comments or suggestions. The other day I came across a storage box with all my old EISA cards from an old Viglen 486DX/33 desktop system I had in the early 90's and am having thoughts of a retro rebuild. Sadly I no longer have the original …

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Re: anyone have warped or bowed boards with issues?

Posted on 2018-06-25, 00:49

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I've an old dual socket 771 board that, despite the bracing support of the CEK spring and backplate, has warped around the CPU1 socket to such an extent that the board only recognises a processor in this socket when a heatsink is installed and fully loaded (probably overloaded TBH). Could've caused …

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Re: 3-Pin Fan Adapter for 4-Pin Motherboard Header?

Posted on 2018-06-23, 17:58

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On your first pic of the HP motherboard 4-pin fan header the assignments, from left to right are: 1.Sense (yellow) 2.+12V (red) 3. GND (black) 4. Control (green) This link shows it in more detail and how to mod for standard 4-pin PWM fans- for standard 3-pin fans you want to connect to header pins …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-06-16, 14:39

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luckybob wrote: So it appears to be a 16-port Harris 9116 Nice...have you seen this link? http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/datapro/alphanum … _C25_Harris.pdf which contains a number of references to it, including Filename Harris 9116.png File size 43.19 KiB Views 5867 views

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Re: What's the Chance That an IDE Port Mysteriously Gets Damaged?

Posted on 2018-06-16, 14:13

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Suppose it could be trace or controller failure (connected to the storm or not?) though it'd be harder to diagnose. My only other random suggestion would be to try testing without the SATA drive & adapter in the chain, using any old native IDE you have to hand on master and the optical on slave. …

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Re: What's the Chance That an IDE Port Mysteriously Gets Damaged?

Posted on 2018-06-16, 03:53

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I figured as much but it's always worth checking just in case (and if I'd looked at your Flickr album first I'd have seen that for myself, Doh!). So in summary it looks as if we may be back to the (suspect) primary IDE header, as: - you can set up any suitable IDE cable with the sata HDD / SSD as …

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Re: What's the Chance That an IDE Port Mysteriously Gets Damaged?

Posted on 2018-06-15, 03:48

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Not sure I'm clear, when you say "...hooked up to either end of the IDE cable..." Do the cables you're using look anything like this, and are you now connecting them only as marked. Can you post an image of any cables you've tried. Filename IDE Cable.png File size 268 KiB Views 1862 views

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Re: I'm Looking for a List of Software That Can Make a Full Disk Backup of Windows 98 SE and XP that Runs on Modern OSes

Posted on 2018-06-09, 15:33

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Macrium Reflect (currently at v7) is a popular choice - there are licenced versions available but you can get a free basic version here: https://www.macrium.com/reflectfree

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Re: What's the Chance That an IDE Port Mysteriously Gets Damaged?

Posted on 2018-06-08, 14:01

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How did you get on testing with only the primary slave? Suppose it could be a short somewhere to the primary IDE header, being triggered by the presence of the slave drive (your almost instant on/off cycle & power on when plugging the slave into a 'live' setup). Otherwise master / slave conflicts …

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

Posted on 2018-06-07, 12:49

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Thanks to @Deksor ( 😀 😀 ), made a placard 🤣 Filename Keep-politics-out-of-retro-support-vogons.jpg File size 31.95 KiB Views 2006 views

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

Posted on 2018-06-07, 00:55

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A routine check on the caps in my oldest PSU; an original Macron MPT-400P from October 2001 - all good 😀

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Re: What do build with this Lian Li case ?

Posted on 2018-06-01, 02:59

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Whilst I'm a fan of Lian Li cases, you do have to wonder sometimes what they're smoking in the design concepts department (apart from the snail does anyone remember the spider, the train or the yacht). There was a later matx version of this full tower snail case which had better proportions, but …

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Re: NCR System 3450: The Dual 486 110 Pound Monster.

Posted on 2018-05-24, 02:51

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Re: Dell Optiplex G1 Restro

Posted on 2018-05-24, 02:16

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The Seagate SeaShield... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seagate_SeaShield ...was little more than a gimmick. I still have a few of the 20 / 30GB Barracuda ATA II drives with the same v1 as on your Medalist, plus some of the later U series drives with the v2 rubber one. Neither was really necessary ( …

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Re: Bootable backup program compatible with Socket 7 and USB?

Posted on 2018-05-21, 02:01

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Have you tried LSoft Technologies Active@ Disk Image 2.1 for DOS which is free http://www.disk-image.net/downloads/disk_img.zip - AT compatible CPU with 386 or greater processor - BootDiskCreator.exe - Boot Disk Creator utility. Use it to make a floppy or USB flash bootable disk containing free Disk …

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Re: Gateway 2000 486dx-33 Restoration

Posted on 2018-05-17, 12:53

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I have a similar problem with my TEAC floppy combo (FD-505-000), with the 3.5" not working even after head cleaning (may be a head alignment problem but that's much harder to solve). It seems you can replace the floppy drive separately IF you can track down the correct TEAC model number. Problem for …

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