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Re: Has anyone replaced the 72pin SIMM socket ?

Posted on 2019-04-04, 17:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i cant spend that much. i know its a kickass equipment yesterday i used hot air from my soldeing station and a cheap china solder sucker. air speed ar half.. and temperature was set at maximum 450degreesC it was quite easy job. once hot air started to flow solder sucker worked perfectly and fast. …

ABIT PB4 (REV.1.3) Fast or Slow?

Posted on 2019-04-03, 03:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

today i got one of these boards and im a fan of ABIT so i was very happy ABIT PB4 (REV.1.3) #One of the simm slots needs to be completely removed and replaced. #The other sim slot works but some plastic is broken and slot might need to be replaced sooner or later. #It has an AMD 100mhz CPU installed …

Re: Has anyone replaced the 72pin SIMM socket ?

Posted on 2019-04-02, 20:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Don't use braid, period. This can be done with a powerful soldering station and vacuum only if you do not want to do damage. I recommend Soldapullt for this. that is good also, my concern is that for a good use of Soldapullt you need to heat it up really high. and those pins are touching the …

Has anyone replaced the 72pin SIMM socket ?

Posted on 2019-04-02, 19:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a very nice ABIT 486 motherboard that has 2 72pin simm slots, one of them is ruined with many metal pins broken and tabs missing the other one looks like the retention tab is cracked but the metal pins look kind of ok. I wanted to know if someone on the forum managed to remove and replace the …

Re: Retro Gaming Laptops Win9x and XP

Posted on 2019-03-31, 23:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I owned a Dell Inspiron 5000e for a number of years. Combined with the port replicator it was my main PC for a while. The whole flippin thing is modular. Mine came with 700MHz P3, however the processor sits on a swappable module, and there were models available up to 1GHz. It was really like a …

Re: Soyo 6BA+ IV

Posted on 2019-03-25, 11:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

there is a problem with agp overclocked? can cause issues with some videocards? does anyone have the soyo CD for this specific model?

Soyo 6BA+ IV

Posted on 2019-03-25, 00:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

does anyone have this motherboard? SOYO 6BA+IV is it one of the best intel chipset slot 1 motherboards? i am missing the original soyo drivers CD, perhaps someone can create an iso and share with us the manual states that it only supports 66mhz and 100mhz fsb CPUs. therefore there are many …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-03-24, 01:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

today i bought this monitor i like it a lot. an LG 19inch 720p led and view angles are awesome. i always wanted a square lcd monitor since my first lcd gave me the best years of gaming with counterstrike 1.6, it was an Acer with really poor vertical view angles. 19inch monitors will be rare someday, …

Re: Trying desperately to buy a NEC usb-card, but failing miserably

Posted on 2019-03-03, 07:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

whats wrong with VIA? those should work fine with win98

Re: Game pads for DOS ?

Posted on 2019-03-03, 07:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i have built a snes controller mod to lpt1 with a tsr loaded on DOS and works better than any gamepad of that era

Re: Capacitor with exotic rating

Posted on 2019-02-14, 23:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

but by doing that there is no harm to the video card because we are breaking the rule of.only replace with same UF and same or higher voltage

Capacitor with exotic rating

Posted on 2019-02-14, 22:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i just got a lot of hardware with a nice MSI fx 5900xt agp video card but is missing one capacitor near the agp bracket. there should be two 180uf 16v caps, but the card only has one 180uf 16v cap. in my country is impossible to find 180uf caps. can something else be done? 150uf is too low and 220uf …

Would you Retrobright?

Posted on 2019-02-02, 15:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i did some retrobright in the last 2 years on Some PC cases that were yellow, buttons, and SB livedrive, floppy drives, keyboards, mouses I have used salon cream 40%, also used hydrogen peroxide liquid 50% And while it worked and looked great, in all cases after 10 months or so the plastic yellowed …

Re: TEPPRO VIDEOCARD BRAND

Posted on 2019-02-01, 13:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

wow these companies from the 2000s they all died , gecube, winfast, leadtek, and many others can you belive that TEPPRO produced a voodoo2 and also a Geforce 256,and since the Gegorce256 are so rare i might be able to find a geforce 256 made by Teppro, which i will be more than happy to take.

TEPPRO VIDEOCARD BRAND

Posted on 2019-01-31, 20:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I found some videocards from the 2000s they are all yellow/light brown color and all got a sticker TEPPRO was that a known brand back in the day? i was able to find on google images cards from all models, like voodoo2 TEPPRO and geforce2 teppro. Does anyone know what kind of brand was it? is it …

Re: Expanded memory managers and DOS

Posted on 2019-01-27, 15:59

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

oh man i remember those tough days trying to run all those sierra games like LARRY1 VGA. and you just could not run them because of the memory they asked for. And QEMM saved the day are you guys using the QEMM 7.5 GAME EDITION for pure DOS? what version are you all using for Win3.1 and what version …

Re: Great Accessories for building Retro PCs

Posted on 2019-01-26, 01:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

how do you setup the driver for DOS? Sorry, I forgot that it only works in ZSNES DOS version - turns out direct support for this project has to be implemented in DOS applications in order for it to work. It was probably the only thing I used it for on that system, so this detail has eluded me %( i …

Re: Great Accessories for building Retro PCs

Posted on 2019-01-25, 20:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

. Some kind of mod to a SNES controller to make it connect to a 486 DOS PC. They have existed for quite some time :) I had made one for a PSX controller back in the day, and it worked great. Regarding your list - how about a PicoPSU and its derivatives as a power supply alternative? hey i never saw …

Great Accessories for building Retro PCs

Posted on 2019-01-25, 18:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I want to make a list of great accessories that are quite handy for building retro computers. Maybe you can help and provide more ideas so we can have a full list. These are really nice accessories that you can buy to use on new or retro pcs. 1) Gotek floppy drive emulator for USB flashdrives (no …

Re: Show us your retro computer cases

Posted on 2019-01-24, 02:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

are you guys from alaska or what i see too much white all old cases i see are yellow like a simpson

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