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Re: Back at business with a 462 project

Posted on 2020-12-29, 12:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Multimeter... Ok... This is getting professional... 😬 I have to test how much ??? what? I know right! multimeter's are cheap and plenty of info on the internet about how to determine what a cap's value should be and how to test so no excuses really. yet here I am still coming up with why I'm not …

Re: Back at business with a 462 project

Posted on 2020-12-29, 11:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not really needed now but you could have got a external USB optical drive and installed that way. re the capacitor, your only real option is to check with a a multimeter. If you don't have one then yeh just keep an eye on it, plenty of people run systems just fine even with swollen caps (me …

Re: Back at business with a 462 project

Posted on 2020-12-29, 08:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Good morning... So I managed to build and run everything as I planned it. This is so great... I really like it. BTW due to an idea of phil I exchanged the 9800xt for a FireGL X3. But there is something I would like to improve (if possible): With easy2boot i managed to install XP from a USB Stick. I …

Re: Back at business with a 462 project

Posted on 2020-12-28, 15:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

pentiumspeed wrote on 2020-12-28, 15:21: I meant name of this program called "plop". Cheers, I tried plop... It looks like it does what it should... But now that I can take the direct way it doesn't matter. Thx.

Re: Back at business with a 462 project

Posted on 2020-12-28, 12:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello again... Looks like i found a way... After frustrating experiments with cf cards I went back to my flash drive ... I made a bootable with easy2boot ... After that I switched to usb hdd as first boot device and then activated keyboard/mouse USB support. This brought the solution... I will see …

Re: Back at business with a 462 project

Posted on 2020-12-27, 20:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well... I can report a first success... I assembled everything as I wished. Everything seems working good. I was a little bit angry when I opened the package of one of the two ordered copper silent 3 coolers. They were sold as new. You can imagine my puzzlement when I saw old rests of compound on …

Re: Back at business with a 462 project

Posted on 2020-12-26, 12:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have you even breadboard booted the motherboard with bare items to make sure it works ? Read Post #12 A new, never used old motherboard from 1997 does not mean it still works proper. Just curious as have seen many assemble a good list of parts only to find out the board has issues when they finally …

Re: Back at business with a 462 project

Posted on 2020-12-24, 22:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No that was an option I was thinking of too... But in case of a new installation is needed... I don't want to open the housing and connect the optical drive every time just to install XP... I hope I find the time to check everything out within the next few days... Parts are all here.

Re: Back at business with a 462 project

Posted on 2020-12-24, 10:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mmmmh... For I have not the time to assemble things at the moment I am limited to thinking... So let's assume usb boot doesn't work... That would compromise my plans to build without an external drive. Any ideas for workaround (except another MB)? My first guess is to use a second "HDD".. therefore …

Re: Back at business with a 462 project

Posted on 2020-12-23, 12:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have another question concerning the Mainboard... Is it able to boot from usb stick?

Re: How to get music in Rollcage Stage 2 without CD

Posted on 2020-12-22, 21:49

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Haaaa! Woohoo .. just minutes later I got it. Just have to rename the virtual drive to D: and lift off. 😀

How to get music in Rollcage Stage 2 without CD

Posted on 2020-12-22, 21:36

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Hello, I am trying to get RCS2 running "without" CD. I made an image (bin file) it contains the game data and the audio tracks. Installation runs perfect. I patched it with the 1.0c patch. It starts - but it doesn't access the mounted image - therefore no music. I try this in Windows 98 SE. My …

Re: ThinkPad a22p with broken whateva

Posted on 2020-12-13, 16:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You won't believe it.. just for fun I wanted to test the notebook again... I put it on another desk, so I have to rearrange the cable of the ac adapter... And: it boots!

Re: ThinkPad a22p with broken whateva

Posted on 2020-12-13, 09:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can a bad (for instance chinese) ac adapter cause serious hardware damage?... https://ibb.co/0tKZx3R

ThinkPad a22p with broken whateva

Posted on 2020-12-12, 19:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello , I have a dead notebook here. Really annoying because I just bought it. It's a ThinkPad a22p. Yesterday everything was fine. But today it won't start. There is something to hear ... Sounds like the HDD tries to spin up all the time and the HDD LED is on permanently. Now I wanted to exchange …

Re: Voodoo 5 with K6-III+ or PIII

Posted on 2020-12-11, 20:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I tend to use the K6 with whateva. (At this point I realize that I have to edit the title a bit)... Done 😌 I really love the P3 in cooperation with my ti 4600. How can I detect a bottleneck?

Re: Voodoo 5 with K6-III+ or PIII

Posted on 2020-12-11, 18:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Interesting reply... I will think about... Would a voodoo 2 sli combo be a better choice? In cooperation with the K6 of course... I have a brand new geforce 2 gts also lying around here.

Voodoo card(s) with K6-III+ or PIII

Posted on 2020-12-11, 18:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello again, I am thinking of something new ... Assuming I get a voodoo 5 someday - which system would be more suitable to work with it. K6-III+ vs PIII ... Don't know. The PIII (signature) works perfectly with the Ti 4600. The K6 does well with a voodoo 3 3000. But I really would like to build with …

Re: Back at business with a 462 project

Posted on 2020-12-09, 12:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Your motherboard (ECS N2U400-A) has the auxiliary 4-pin 12V connector for the CPU, which means it should be using the 12V rail to power the CPU. The 3200+ may have been power hungry for its day, but its 60-ish W of power usage are low by modern standards. That goes double for the 9800 XT, which …

Re: Back at business with a 462 project

Posted on 2020-12-08, 21:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was thinking about the PSU. Having a corsair vs350 lying around here... Do I need something more powerful?

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