Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-08, 20:36

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by Swiego

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I run the largest FB Market place for my town, it has around 20k people in it and I've removed all the other PC and game collectors and anyone that tells other people these items are worth money. I rely on people buying the "recycling centers will charge you to get rid of these" line to sell me …

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Re: Matrox Millennium II 16MB - exists? If so, why?

Posted on 2020-06-06, 20:31

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BTW if you use this card for DOS gaming, I found a huge difference in Quake 640x480 on my Pentium 90 when using SciTech UniVBE 6.70 No VESA software - 5.7 fps UniVBE 6.70 - 16.2 fps Other cards I've been benchmarking have not shown this kind of improvement so I thought I'd mention it. All other …

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Re: Matrox Millennium II 16MB - exists? If so, why?

Posted on 2020-06-06, 19:27

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I’m not sure why I enjoy this so, but in my ongoing journey to know and love the Millennium, I have finally found the 12MB WRAM module! It’s Compaq branded, cool and largely useless. I love it! Incidentally in searching for it I found that there were Compaq and HP kits as well as the kit direct from …

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Re: Is this site archived?

Posted on 2020-06-06, 13:54

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by Swiego

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Unfortunately that’s not so once you dig deeper. What I've found in using Wayback Machine over the last few weeks in hopes of scraping useful content from archives of dead forums, is that the crawlers may only archive to a depth of 2 or 3. I just used your link and navigated to three random threads …

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Is this site archived?

Posted on 2020-06-06, 13:24

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by Swiego

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I was lamenting over the last few days the number of forums that went poof over the last 20+ years, often taking with them a deep body of knowledge about hardware that is now hard to come by. This had me wondering, in the same vein as people lately noting FTP sites disappearing and racing to archive …

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Re: Compaq Deskpro M and XL models.

Posted on 2020-06-06, 13:21

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by Swiego

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Not sure if anyone with better google-fu or internet archive-fu than myself can help w/the following. If you search Google for: "210982-001" peteweb https://www.google.com/search?client=safari&ei=u5fbXrnQDpSJ-gSbxIHgBw&q=%22210982-001%22+peteweb&oq=%22210982-001%22+peteweb&gs_lcp= …

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Re: Compaq Deskpro M and XL models.

Posted on 2020-06-06, 12:09

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by Swiego

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Unfortunately though I am making progress, I can't say I'm seeing results (yet). I received a Pentium Pro CPU (200MHz, 256kb) - it was cool to handle such a large processor. I have a TR3 system which when putting it together in ~December left quite an impression handling the CPU, yet the PPro almost …

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Re: EISA Graphics / Video Cards

Posted on 2020-06-04, 00:40

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by Swiego

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Is the QVision 1280/E a 2MB card? I notice there's no onboard expansion as there is on my 1280/p PCI card and 1280/I integrated controller in one of my old Deskpros.

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Re: EISA Graphics / Video Cards

Posted on 2020-06-04, 00:34

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Latest purchase - A Compaq QVision 1280/E https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=848430#p848430 Had a PM requesting some box / contents pics, so... QV1280E Box.zip QV1280E Pkg.zip QV1280E Card.zip Thank you for obliging! It's so rare to see these materials nowadays that it seems important to share …

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Re: Compaq Deskpro M and XL models.

Posted on 2020-06-03, 18:29

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by Swiego

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Good news, I finally received a pair of what I believe are the Pentium Pro boards for the XL. I have only unwrapped them and likely won't have time to try them for a few days but here is a picture: IMG_4226.jpg Edit: here's a picture of the rear which I didn't include originally: 210911-001 Rear …

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Re: Riva 128 PCI - Flashing tool + BIOS

Posted on 2020-06-02, 21:42

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by Swiego

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Sorry to revive an old thread but I figured it's better to keep things together. I have a V330 8MB running the 1.81 BIOS and would be happy to back it up and archive it here if anyone can tell me how 😀

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Re: Questions for an early 1995 Pentium config

Posted on 2020-06-02, 19:49

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I recently benchmarked my P-90 with a set of PCI video cards. Of them all, the Millennium was the fastest in the various Phil's benchmarks. It was faster than the Millennium II, a Diamond V330 (Riva128), a Tseng ET6000, and Compaq's own QVision 1280/p, QVision/2000 and QVision/2000+ plus cards. With …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-02, 11:54

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by Swiego

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A few days ago I bought this Compaq Deskpro XE 560 Compaq_Deskpro_XE_560.jpg It came in a pretty bad shape, the front plastic is very yellowed. It has a Pentium 60 MHz SX948, a Conner CP3421 540 Mb HDD and a Sony MPF420-4 FDD. Unfortunately it came with a non original heatsink, glued directly to …

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Re: Anyone have original compaq restore disks

Posted on 2020-05-30, 14:54

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by Swiego

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http://cwcyrix.duckdns.org/ftp-archives/ftp.c … aq/allfiles.txt It’s a large, slow download. Pull it down once then search it to find what you’re looking for.

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Re: Compaq Deskpro M and XL models.

Posted on 2020-05-30, 02:32

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by Swiego

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I’m happy to help with any advice on the Deskpro I. The 4/66i was the first computer I purchased new with my own money, at 15 with three years of lawn mowing money. I still have it today in top condition and fully upgraded, and even the original box has remained in pristine condition and over the …

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Re: Compaq Deskpro M and XL models.

Posted on 2020-05-29, 23:56

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by Swiego

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Thanks for sharing the photos. At this point I do not believe it is true that the Prosignia 300 and Deskpro XL boards are interchangeable; both of my Prosignia boards have six RAM slots and are quite different. Fortunately I was able to purchase them for the same cost the CPUs alone would have run, …

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Re: Last time ordering from electromyne :-(

Posted on 2020-05-25, 17:31

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by Swiego

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On a side note I stopped watching Phil's videos when I noticed he would delete negative feedback about electromyne. He even edited out part of an uploaded video in youtube when people started pointing out the card he'd received for free (in exchange for promotion) had visually damaged capacitors …

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Re: Compaq Deskpro M and XL models.

Posted on 2020-05-24, 23:01

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by Swiego

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I found the following quick ref guides if anyone is looking for links. Deskpro XL Quick Ref Guide: https://web.archive.org/web/19961226054406/http://www.compaq.com/support/techpubs/qrg/volume2/dpxl.html Memory Upgrade Chart: https://web.archive.org/web/19961226052123/http://www.compaq.com/support/ …

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Gold vs silver plated memory

Posted on 2020-05-24, 16:06

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by Swiego

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I often see advice when troubleshooting to make sure one is using simms or dimms that are gold plated. I understand the difference in conductivity but would have thought the difference to be small given the thickness of the plating. Is this “advice” given as a way to steer someone in the general …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-23, 00:28

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by Swiego

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Interestingly, I managed to find a couple of PPro processor boards for the XL today. They are unsocketed so I’ll need to find a PPro CPU in order to try them out.

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