Re: Need help identifying a PSU.

Posted on 2019-01-09, 22:12

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by athlon-power

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Mitac are BIG and actually owned Tyan for a while (although they were producing well-built motherboards even prior to the merger). Not sure about Mitac PSUs, though, but that one certainly looks high-quality... That does bode well for the PSU. I'm just nervous about what might happen if it messes …

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Re: Need help identifying a PSU.

Posted on 2019-01-09, 21:41

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At least I now know the specs of this thing. This is probably a really dumb question, but is Mitac any good? I think I've heard that name before, and usually with the no-name brands, you'll see the label and have no idea about the company beforehand, period. A good example is from a PSU I got out of …

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Re: Need help identifying a PSU.

Posted on 2019-01-09, 20:50

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by athlon-power

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It's hard to tell for sure without testing, but solid construction is always a good sign. Self contained filter modules are a high quality, slick solution. Any OEM using one is doing that part of their job right. The problem is, I don't have a multimeter. I can't test if the voltages coming from …

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Re: Need help identifying a PSU.

Posted on 2019-01-09, 19:39

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That's an impressive input filter. I took apart an In-Win (aka Power Man) PSU and it had one of those film boxes soldered right to the power input, and from what I can tell those are decent quality PSUs. Does this mean that it's safe to use the unnamed one? I'm just worried, because if I use it, …

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Re: Need help identifying a PSU.

Posted on 2019-01-09, 10:56

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Definitely looks like a Dell OEM to me. Any reason, aside from curiosity, that you care about the branding? Most likely it's OEM'd by one of those operations that cranks out PSUs by the gazillions. Might be something on the PCBs that would implicate a manufacturer, if its lineage is more relevant …

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Need help identifying a PSU.

Posted on 2019-01-08, 23:00

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by athlon-power

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I have a PSU that had the main information sticker ripped off at some point, and so far I have found zero ways to identify it. I took it apart, cleaned it to the best of my ability, and put it back together. All of the capacitors are fine, so if it does happen to be a good-quality PSU, it seems to …

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Re: I am getting a new ATX case, but I'm unsure of what kind of build to put in it.

Posted on 2019-01-07, 12:03

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by athlon-power

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But at the end of the day, it's your hardware and you are welcome to cook it as hard as you like. :-) Obviously, I don't want to damage the retro hardware that I manage to get ahold of. My budget is low, and as such this makes even cheaper, more available hardware difficult for me to get. It took …

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Re: APS External SCSI Tape Backup Drive

Posted on 2019-01-07, 10:50

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Windows 98 actually does have an integrated tape backup program, and it apparently supports a large majority of tape drives without requiring the use of drivers. Kugee recently made a video on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H7LlqUE-Jl0&t=51s In case this doesn't work, I do own an original …

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Re: I am getting a new ATX case, but I'm unsure of what kind of build to put in it.

Posted on 2019-01-07, 10:44

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by athlon-power

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Aggghhhhh. Look at how insufficient the cooling is on this case. This system will either need a heap of modding to improve airflow, or OP should keep the build you do in here low powered and cool. Athlon XP motherboards are already really susceptible to failure due to bad capacitors, no point …

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Re: I am getting a new ATX case, but I'm unsure of what kind of build to put in it.

Posted on 2019-01-06, 16:53

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I have two of these cases. One is slightly better built than the other, but they both have their fair share of annoyances. Make sure that the power supply you put in it isn't too heavy, as there is ZERO support for it inside the case. If you use one that's too heavy, the back of the case bends …

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"New" USB mouse vs. Every 90's PS/2 mouse I have ever owned.

Posted on 2019-01-06, 14:49

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by athlon-power

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I have just come to a very weird, but helpful realization; my other PS/2 mice are terrible compared to this USB mouse I got yesterday at my local flea market. I decided to get it at the same time as I got that external SCSI backup drive, and when I decided to try it today, I realized that for some …

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Re: APS External SCSI Tape Backup Drive

Posted on 2019-01-06, 06:59

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It actually shows the device as a "Sony SDT-9000," so this is most likely one of those situations where I'll need to just get the drivers for the tape drive itself, rather than the whole unit. I'll grab some DDS3 tapes for it, and see if I can backup something. Not sure what I'd be backing up- I …

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Re: Acer 1120SX

Posted on 2019-01-05, 20:58

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My knowledge of sound cards is fairly limited, so I couldn't really give you any information that you probably don't know already. As far as a 387 goes, I know that the 386 was the last generation to really use a genuine co-processor; later on, with the 486, it was just a 486DX instead of the …

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Re: I am getting a new ATX case, but I'm unsure of what kind of build to put in it.

Posted on 2019-01-05, 20:37

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I happen to have a couple of cases that use the exact same interior design, with only the front and side panels being different. It's most definitely as cheap and flimsy as dionb says. One of those cases I got included a power supply from 2000 that made a suspicious squealing noise when I tested it …

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APS External SCSI Tape Backup Drive

Posted on 2019-01-05, 20:30

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I recently bought an external tape backup drive made by APS at a flea market for $20. It's an old SCSI drive, I'm going to assume that it uses 80-pin SCSI, because the cables that it uses are quite large and robust, in both the connectors and the gauge of the cables. I got lucky enough to also …

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Re: Voodoo 3 1000 (AGP), is it any good?

Posted on 2019-01-05, 14:41

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Specs are: regular (2 TMU) Voodoo3 AGP at 125 MHz with 16 MB SGRAM. Also these carsd usually (always?) lack any kind of cooling... it is just a bare chip on the PCB. Here is photo of the front side http://hw-museum.cz/vga/51/compaq-voodoo3-1000--velocity-200-pcb- Unless you are very unlucky, it …

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Re: I am getting a new ATX case, but I'm unsure of what kind of build to put in it.

Posted on 2019-01-05, 14:23

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Nobody made cases like this until the iMac was a success, and the first iMac was from late 1998. The first style copies started to appear about a year later, but didn't go mainstream until 2000. Then in 2002 Apple changed the styling of the iMac from colourful to mono white, and cases like this …

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I am getting a new ATX case, but I'm unsure of what kind of build to put in it.

Posted on 2019-01-05, 10:31

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I am getting a new case in the mail today, and it's in pretty good shape. It's a beige and teal case, of all things, but it's somewhat an oddball. I can't immediately tell you if it's from the late 90's or early 2000's, or if it's from even the late mid-90's. Because of this, I'm conflicted as to …

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Voodoo 3 1000 (AGP), is it any good?

Posted on 2019-01-05, 09:16

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I've found a listing for a Voodoo 3 1000 AGP card for pretty cheap, and I'm wondering if it's any good for use gaming-wise. I know of the Voodoo 3 3000, and that's an alright card, but this seems like it might be a budget variant of that, and I'm not sure if it'll do all that well. Here's the only …

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Re: Mouse not working in Win95's MS-DOS mode

Posted on 2018-12-18, 22:28

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by athlon-power

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I figured it was a DOS mouse driver issue. Sometimes it doesn't work fully, or it can be buggy, so be aware of that. It might have something to do with your laptop having an inbuilt trackpad/trackball/eraserhead mouse, and it may be seeing that one instead of a second mouse. This is DOS, after all. …

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