Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-03-08, 17:10

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by varrol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought this Dell OptiPlex GX150 Motherboard 2H240 - for parts (sdram latches, AGP latch, P3 CPU - was unknown - turned out to be 1GHz 133FSB looking brand new). 3$ + shipping (4$ :D ). Motherboard appears to be working fine (put some ram, different CPU and cooler) - I wonder if its worth anything - …

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Re: Best Drivers for GeForce4 MX-440

Posted on 2020-02-04, 17:24

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by varrol

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in Marvin \ Video

I recently got GF4 MX440 by Gainward and all benchmarks fail to run with newest drivers + directx 8.1 - I had to go back to ~40 version. Anyone got similar experience? Weird as my GF2 MX (as I remember) works fine with latest drivers and it is older.

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Re: Asus CUBX-E Promise BIOS update / modded BIOS

Posted on 2020-02-02, 18:43

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by varrol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think I'm going to give it a try. But later - I'll use latest official for now.

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Asus CUBX-E Promise BIOS update / modded BIOS

Posted on 2020-01-29, 22:09

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by varrol

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I've found this site: http://www.geocities.ws/tuacubx/ - where you can find modified BIOS for Tualatin with included "latest Promise ATA100 controller BIOS(v 2.20.14)". This wonders me - weird that Promise BIOS is located along with MB BIOS - I have two Promise PSI ATA controllers and I remember …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-23, 12:04

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Set of brand new cpu coolers (besides Titan Golden orb which I already had) + also brand new Socket 423 Titan cooler which I got by accident (not sure what I'm going to do with it). All of them ~12$ - wonder if its a good or not so good deal... I cannot recognise this weird Golden Orb which is like …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-17, 12:23

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Bought a retro computer - only known was motherboard - ASUS CUBX-E - additionally found: - USB Panel for this motherboard + wiring - InsideTNC Riva TNT2 Pro - Pentium III 800MHz + Titan Golden Orb? - Crystal CS4281-CM - PCI sound card - I don't expect much, but PCB has very nice green colour - 192MB …

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Good mouse for DOS - PS/2 or BIOS USB->PS/2

Posted on 2019-11-01, 21:21

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by varrol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In general all USB mice I got, work under windows 98SE so no problem there. In DOS however it needs to be connected to PS/2 port or be compatible with BIOS USB->PS/2 emulation (then DOS mouse driver works fine). I've been testing some old mice and found out that: - PS/2 (as well as USB with included …

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Re: Asus P2B vs P3B-F etc. - what hardware to keep

Posted on 2019-09-06, 20:48

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by varrol

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I'm starting to think about getting a S370 motherboard - with at least one ISA slot - but looking at offers and offer history they are more rare than slot1 - especially Tualatin compatible ones.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-04, 11:03

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Vynix wrote: Ooh the second one... It's a Chieftec Dragon, isn't it? But the first one, I have no idea 😦 You are correct - always wanted to have it, but when I was finally able to afford one, there were much better Chieftec cases. First one is also Chieftec, but I know only code name.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-02, 06:48

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Filename 20190902_083802.jpg File size 1.48 MiB Views 1156 views Filename 20190902_083832.jpg File size 1.38 MiB Views 1156 views Sorry for picture quality - but you know what it is 😀 Very cheap, were looking not very promising from pictures, but after cleaning up, and fixing a broken front on the …

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Re: Asus P2B vs P3B-F etc. - what hardware to keep

Posted on 2019-08-27, 18:58

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by varrol

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Also, looks like the AX6B Plus supports CuMine, so just go for that one and offload the Asus boards - it gives you the ISA slots of the P2B and the CuMine support of the P3B. Oh, and a free SCSI controller I wouldn't recommend using ;) Thanks, I think I'll sell P2B then. Will see if I keep one of …

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Re: Asus P2B vs P3B-F etc. - what hardware to keep

Posted on 2019-08-27, 11:54

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I got P2B rev. 1.04 and P3B-F rev 1.04 and 1.03 - so P2B does not support Coppermines oppposite to P3B which handles them all (both revisions). Currently I see no possibility to assemble old hardware for other reason than gaming - even for games I can hardly find time so probably will never try to …

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Asus P2B vs P3B-F etc. - what hardware to keep

Posted on 2019-08-27, 10:05

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by varrol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some time ago I got sucked into the world of retro computers. Now it's time for some reflections. Basically I'd like to distinguish between the joy of "having" a hardware and actually using it. I'm aware that strong P3 with ISA sound card should cover most of the DOS and early windows gaming, but …

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Re: AOpen AX6B damaged - looking for MOSFET FDB6030L and FDB6035AL

Posted on 2019-08-23, 23:15

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by varrol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally replaced those mofsets - bought exactly the same I've got originally - and all is working fine - stable, all features work 😀 I was not able to solder them as pretty as originally as I did not want to overheat them.

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Re: ASUS P2B 1.04 BIOS update always fails on verification

Posted on 2019-07-16, 14:40

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by varrol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought WINBOND W29C020C, flashed with the latest BIOS (1014.003) - working fine.

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Re: Can I use faster BIOS chip to replace damaged one?

Posted on 2019-07-16, 14:40

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by varrol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Took a while - chip WINBOND W29C020C arrived - I flashed it and motherboard is working fine.

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Re: AOpen AX6B damaged - looking for MOSFET FDB6030L and FDB6035AL

Posted on 2019-05-24, 14:55

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Roman555 wrote: But you didn't mention what package you need (D2PAK or TO220 or something). I think it's easy to find replacement in the model r […] Show full quote But you didn't mention what package you need (D2PAK or TO220 or something). I think it's easy to find replacement in the model range …

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AOpen AX6B damaged - looking for MOSFET FDB6030L and FDB6035AL

Posted on 2019-05-23, 21:58

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by varrol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've damaged my AOpen AX6B motherboard by putting bad CPU with slot-to-socket adapter. Ehh, those MOSFETS got so hot that solder came off in small balls. I wonder what else could have died and if it is worth to try to repair. Unfortunately those are (especially plus version) very rare on sale. …

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Re: I killed my Asus P3B-F. Can it be saved?

Posted on 2019-05-17, 14:00

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by varrol

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

LOL! I'm the third one who did this same stupid thing on my P3B-F! I remember that after touching the two wrong pins, a small chip on the board flashed and gone away with a nice column of smoke... :) But the board didn't die! it continued to work perfectly, with the only drawback that the only way …

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Re: Retro System Not Powering On

Posted on 2019-05-17, 13:36

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by varrol

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I have AOpen AX6B and sometimes have problem booting it up - same effect - will not boot at all. The solution is to replug power supply - then it starts without a problem. But before plugging it back again, just short ground with start pin to check is PSU actually starts. I'd also remove battery for …

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