Re: What video card should I pair with a Pentium MMX?

Posted on 2021-02-04, 10:11

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by charliegolf

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About 15 months ago I decided I wanted a Voodoo 1 Keeping and eye on prices over the year the average 4MB Voodoo 1 will sell for around £30-£45 Not cheap but far better then the BIN prices. In teh end I won a bid for a pair of Diamond Multimedia V1's so a desirable brand for £78 or £39 each which …

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Re: Socket 7 and mmx

Posted on 2021-01-31, 12:43

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by charliegolf

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They seem crazy expensive. The reason I wanted to go faster was because I have a pci voodoo banshee and nowhere to put it, it's my only 3dfx card and wanted a glide machine. I'll use this olivetti for an early 3d machine and stick with a 200 and dos/win 95. I can probably build a pII or similar for …

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Re: Socket 7 and mmx

Posted on 2021-01-31, 12:08

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by charliegolf

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OK cool thanks, I'll just stick a standard pentium 200 in

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Re: Socket 7 and mmx

Posted on 2021-01-31, 11:13

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by charliegolf

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Thanks. A diffinitive answer seems to be measuring the voltage, and it may be simple if you know how to use a multimeter (I don't), but can learn😁. That post measures between the chassis and the further most fet? presumably in my case that you'd be measuring between the chassis and a pin on the vrm, …

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Re: Socket 7 and mmx

Posted on 2021-01-30, 20:33

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by charliegolf

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Olivetti motherboard https://imgur.com/gallery/hLL4G8h Olivetti BA2306 is the model number https://imgur.com/gallery/vj9OmuA There is a voltage regulator with a big heat sink at the bottom right, might that have something to do with it?

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Socket 7 and mmx

Posted on 2021-01-30, 18:09

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by charliegolf

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Hi I've recently acquired an Olivetti xana 53-120 which is a pentium 120 in a socket 7 mobo. The mobo is visually identical in every way to a socket 5 mobo found in a different model (Olivetti m24) apart from the cpu sockets being different. Jumpers etc all seem identical. There isn't an AGP port. …

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Re: Olivetti M24 New P133

Posted on 2021-01-30, 12:49

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by charliegolf

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I know that this is an old post but I just got an olivetti p120 with the same mono, did you ever find out anything about the jumper settings? Hallo, download this from my mega: https://mega.nz/file/9Z5hiKrY#cv9-D5_8kyMk9-dDbDpHBbhdYPTV3Xg8r0z4X9uke3w Are guides for your computer if it has the same …

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Re: Olivetti M24 New P133

Posted on 2021-01-29, 18:47

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by charliegolf

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I know that this is an old post but I just got an olivetti p120 with the same mono, did you ever find out anything about the jumper settings?

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Re: Jumper in 3DFX Banshee

Posted on 2021-01-27, 14:46

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by charliegolf

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I've just ordered one of these as it was the card I has back in the day. I was scouring the net for info (including here). I found a copy of the manual at falconfly.3dfx.pl, it's in Russian so a bit of pasting into a translator is required, just scanning the diagrams etc. not sure if the jumpers …

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Re: Can I use a joystick and roland sc-55 at the same time by using SB16Vibra?

Posted on 2020-10-29, 14:46

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by charliegolf

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I know this is quite an old post now. I have just gone through this. I was using a Vibra 16 and a splitter cable for my SC-7 and the joystick didn't work whenever the SC-7 was connected. I also tried with a Media vision Jazz 16 and that didn't work either. In the end I looked for a soundcard that …

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Re: Advice on a smashed gateway 2000 PC?

Posted on 2020-10-21, 13:49

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by charliegolf

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I've got that case! I know my front doesn't pop off (never taken it off) and looking at that it's screwed on from the inside. Maybe fill the broken screw posts with a hot glue gun and re-drill them then the screws might bite and pull it back flush.

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ATX power supply wiring

Posted on 2020-07-17, 11:04

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by charliegolf

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Hi My Gateway 486 AT power supply recently died so I got an ATX replacement and an adaptor cable for the mobo. The adaptor came with a power switch already wired in on pins 15/16. The switch doesn't work however and I'm currently powering on with the rocker switch on the PSU itself. I was wondering …

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C64 1541 drive with PC?

Posted on 2018-10-08, 11:33

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by charliegolf

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Hi I was wondering if anyone had used a 5.25 floppy drive (1541) from a C64 with a PC? Getting an old PC internal 5.25 drive looks pretty expensive from a quick scan on ebay. I noticed when shopping for old games there are a few 5.25 versions kicking around so would give me more options if I could …

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Re: No voices in game from aztec mm pro 1611A fP-6L(00)

Posted on 2018-09-03, 07:13

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by charliegolf

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Reset the game (Dune II) to use soundblaster pro but that made no difference, still get music but no digitized speech 🙁

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Re: No voices in game from aztec mm pro 1611A fP-6L(00)

Posted on 2018-09-02, 20:51

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by charliegolf

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Damn forgot about that, yes its set to SB16, thanks! Will reset the soundcard in game.

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No voices in game from aztec mm pro 1611A fP-6L(00)

Posted on 2018-09-02, 19:59

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by charliegolf

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Hi I recently got hold of the above card and replaced a soundblaster vibra c with it on my 486. I got the correct driver from the aztec ftp site. It worked fine for music but I don't get the speech that I had in games with the vibra. I'm not too clued up on soundcards and wondered if this is just a …

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Re: Only one drive showing on IDE cable

Posted on 2018-08-15, 07:43

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by charliegolf

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Thanks for the replies. I have the OAKCDROM driver on there, I've tried it with the entries in the congig.sys and auto exec.bat and without. I don't have the driver loading at the minute, would that stop the PC booting with a CD drive on the cable? Last night I reversed the cable, it's a 40, and I …

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Re: Only one drive showing on IDE cable

Posted on 2018-08-14, 13:13

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by charliegolf

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It feels like its not detecting the slave on the cd and replacing the HDD with the CD as master when it goes on the end of the cable giving the no OS found error. I didn't change the jumpers from when it was working but I did pull the hard drive out to check and it is set to master, the CD is …

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Only one drive showing on IDE cable

Posted on 2018-08-14, 12:02

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by charliegolf

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Hi I recently got hold of an old Gateway 2000 486DX. It came with what looked like windows 98 installed set to boot into freeDOS. It has an IDE controller card (no onboard IDE), with a hard drive set to master and a CD drive set to slave and it all worked. I wanted windows 3.11 so had to wipe the …

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