Question for MPU-401 users and Roland owners

Posted on 2019-07-23, 01:16

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by SETBLASTER

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here is the thing a fellow is selling a Music Quest MQX-16(s) for $200 dollars (i think these isa cards can be used to replace a roland mpu-401) for me its like a crazy price for such a card, a tiny isa card with 12 chips and some capacitors. Hell it looks like can be cloned with off the shelf parts …

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Re: Can anyone explain what these are?

Posted on 2019-07-14, 00:51

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by SETBLASTER

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

those are slockets to use socket370 cpus on slot1 motherboards

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Re: Radeon 9800 XXL. anyone got one?

Posted on 2019-07-08, 12:51

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by SETBLASTER

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i like to see coolers and heatsinks from that era because i think they had no idea of what they were doing back then in terms of airflow and pressure to be honest, its incredible that a 9800 pro with stock cooler survived after so many years. Not only because of cooler and heatsink, also they used …

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Any electronics technician on the forum?: corroded pcb

Posted on 2019-06-30, 01:40

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by SETBLASTER

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i have a quick question about electronics i have a pcb that suffered corroded traces /components mixed with dust i used isoprophil alcohol many times with a toothbrush and the corrosion is still there acumulated on the small soldering of the small components then used rice vinegar for some minutes …

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Re: Good Low profile card with windowsXP support?

Posted on 2019-05-16, 16:52

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by SETBLASTER

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You have a lot more options if you drop the low profile requirement. The GT 740 or 730 are the best you can do. According to the UserBase benchmarks, the GT 730 is roughly 30% faster than a 8800gt, with a GT 740 being about twice as fast. For AMD, the 6450 is about the same speed as an 8800gt. If …

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Good Low profile card with windowsXP support?

Posted on 2019-05-13, 01:47

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by SETBLASTER

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i have a machine that is Small form factor and i want to put in it a Low profile PCI-express videocard . #1 The card needs to be low profile #2 the card should not use external power cable. #3 the card should have windows XP drivers. is there a low profile videocard that has XP drivers and is …

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Can anyone share HD images of Diamond Monster Fusion PCI?

Posted on 2019-04-27, 19:52

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by SETBLASTER

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Got this card today, it works on DOS so far (i tried it for a little bit without windows) but looking closely at the card on the back it is missing some components. I was not able to find HD images of the PCI version, if anyone has it and can take a picture i really appreciate. model is DIAMOND …

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Media vision Pro audio spectrum 16 compatibility List

Posted on 2019-04-26, 20:45

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by SETBLASTER

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Is there a list of games that supported media vision pro audio spectrum in their menu? What games released for DOS contained an option in its menu for media vision pro audio spectrum? If the game was setup as SB16, did the pro audio spectrum work perfectly? or sometimes it crashed? What benefits do …

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Re: Any experience on SMD capacitor reading?

Posted on 2019-04-26, 01:00

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by SETBLASTER

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those are weird, normally they come with the voltage rating

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Re: Slowish VGA performance with 5x86 + Matrox Mystique

Posted on 2019-04-25, 16:28

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by SETBLASTER

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Hey all, DX4 specs (gets 67 fps): M Technologies VLB motherboard, SiS 471 chipset Intel DX4/100 (3x33) 16 MB FPM RAM 256K L2 cache S3 805 2MB VLB You know what, i found one of these SY-030H2 boards for 3 dollars that included an amd 100mhz cpu. it looks nice, PCI; ISA, not vLB tho. And no support …

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Green Battery leak repair advice.

Posted on 2019-04-24, 00:42

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by SETBLASTER

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i got a very strange motherboard socket3 soyo 030H2 it kept the green battery so i see just a littlebit of a mess below the battery i used cotton and vinegar. it did not do any chemical reaction right away so i started to rub over and over with cotton till some of the green came off, and looks like …

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Re: PCI slot cooler idea.

Posted on 2019-04-14, 21:20

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by SETBLASTER

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i just built one with a 120mm fan , pieces of plastic and metal bracket, and some epoxy for my lianli itx. but not pci powered a nicer solution would be 3d printer

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Re: Question regarding TURBO button

Posted on 2019-04-14, 21:10

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by SETBLASTER

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ha! i never understood some motherboard either for example i have one abit that has pin 1 turbo signal pin 2 turbo signal pin 3 ground 1+2 is turbo mode 2+3 is slow mode but i never understood what happens if no jumper is set.

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Re: Making a removable heatsink for PGA-132 TI 486SXL2-66

Posted on 2019-04-09, 12:12

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by SETBLASTER

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there is a socket3 holder in thingiverse if you happen to have a 3dprinter it fits peefectly on the bottom borders of the cpu. the clips attach to a heatsink, was made for thin heatsinks but the clips can be modified if you know hot to edit the .stl its way better tp do it that way you just need to …

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Did you Overclock back in the day? Pencil Mods etc?

Posted on 2019-04-09, 00:45

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by SETBLASTER

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I wonder how many of you overclocked their PCs back in the day. from 486 to pentiums and athlons. Do you rember the AMD Palomino (i think it was palomino or duron) era where you did the pencil mod to overclock the cpu? crazy days huh? Yesterday i was buying a really nice ati videocard very cheap, i …

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Re: Has anyone replaced the 72pin SIMM socket ?

Posted on 2019-04-05, 03:13

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by SETBLASTER

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Where are you located? I have a very nice Pace PRC-2000 board rework station. I'd be willing to repair it for you if you covered shipping. I have some extra 72 pin simm sockets as well. I am in Argentina, shipping would be too expensive. I managed to get all 4 simm slots out of a broken socket3 …

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Re: Best way to fix legs on videocard?

Posted on 2019-04-05, 03:05

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by SETBLASTER

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no soldering, too much work i ended up taking out the outside shield of one broken graphics card , and the male outside shield of a vga cable. the original shield was full of rust, i wonder how so much rust ended up in there, even on the blue plastic was full of rust. card now looks brand new

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Re: Best way to fix legs on videocard?

Posted on 2019-04-05, 01:39

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by SETBLASTER

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this is the most fucked voodoo2 i had look at the vga metal connector. full of brown rust. i tried to remove with sandpaper and vinegar for short time and there is still rust. i wonder if i can remove the metal shield and just use anotherone from a broken card . but the shield is kind of soldered in …

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Re: Best way to fix legs on videocard?

Posted on 2019-04-05, 00:48

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by SETBLASTER

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

forget about the needle, is too thick and can damage and break i followed the Razorblade tip from tiido and it worked perfectly, i thought Razorblades were extint but i found one on my sister house. , Razorblade are very thin and entered perfectly on the gaps.

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Best way to fix legs on videocard?

Posted on 2019-04-04, 21:48

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by SETBLASTER

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

trying to save this.... but i cant find anything at hand that fits on the spaces. and needle is bad as you can do more harm

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