Re: NEC Proserva V Plus (dual socket 7 system) (have a lead on multiple of these)

Posted on 2019-11-09, 04:25

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by Horun

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cyclone3d wrote: Maybe there were multiple revisions of the board and they didn't all have the same clock gen. Would explain the missing IDE port connector but solder pads being there. Old lady is giving some static about buying another full computer even if the price is right 🙁

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Re: Install 98SE over 95 OSR2 ?

Posted on 2019-11-09, 02:22

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by Horun

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Warlord is correct, there is a Retail full 98SE upgrade edition that will upgrade from 95 or 98 to 98SE. The 98SE Update edition only upgrades from 98 to 98SE. The retail full 98SE upgrade may not work on some OEM Win95 installs but should on all retail Win95 installs. added: Even my retail Win98SE …

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Re: Fastest rig you have running winxp 32bit

Posted on 2019-11-09, 01:57

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by Horun

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My current fastest is a Q9650 on Asrock board with 8800GT. My friend had tricked it to running on a i7-3770 on a Q77 chipset with Radeon vid but cannot recall the specifics of the motherboard brand and vid card model.

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Re: 286 RAM parity error

Posted on 2019-11-09, 01:33

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by Horun

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Put the original ram back in and check the BIOS for a mem parity setting and disable then try the new ram again. In my experience have had bad luck with any 3 chip 30pin simm above 256k in size on any 286 or slower/older 386. The 9 chip 1Mb and 4Mb seem to always work fine though.

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Re: ASUS VL/I 486SV2G v2.0 problem (converted to X4) - Solved!

Posted on 2019-11-08, 03:39

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by Horun

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Great job ! Would not have thought the KB controller was the problem but it was

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Re: NEC Proserva V Plus (dual socket 7 system) (have a lead on multiple of these)

Posted on 2019-11-07, 15:05

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by Horun

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cyclone3d wrote: I think the power trends module is the voltage regulator for the CPUs? 😕 It should be a VRM for supplying the 2.8v core for cpu's, it might also supply the 3.3v cpu periph as I do not see any Vregs on the board itself.

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Re: NEC Proserva V Plus (dual socket 7 system) (have a lead on multiple of these)

Posted on 2019-11-07, 02:35

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by Horun

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feipoa wrote: I've never owned an EISA board. Can we use ISA cards in EISA slots? Yes you can ! EISA cards can be a PIA to configure sometimes but is somewhat precursor to PCI with 32bit bus versus ISA 16bit.

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Re: Recapping Voodoo 2

Posted on 2019-11-07, 02:30

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by Horun

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I think if you just run DOS version of Mojo from a DOS boot it should not hurt the card missing the caps and should give you a report if the card is detected proper. If so then proceed with fixing the caps. I would be very wary of booting into Windows and running any major tests that will actually …

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Re: Recapping Voodoo 2

Posted on 2019-11-06, 04:55

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by Horun

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yeah a good exacto knife would work or a small needle as you said SSTV2. As far as the missing caps: probably knocked off by same thing that bent the pins being they are SMT and not solder thru type.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-06, 03:55

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by Horun

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Got a Paradise vga/ega card as a backup incase the ega card or the ega monotor goes faulty. Nice find ! 8bit EGA/VGA are getting rare to find. "pics of lots of stuff" Wow, must be that time of year. I just got a box of mixed vid cards but only one Voodoo 1 and one Voodoo 2, two Matrox Mill 8mb pci …

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Re: NEC Proserva V Plus (dual socket 7 system) (have a lead on multiple of these)

Posted on 2019-11-06, 03:20

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by Horun

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I would be interested cyclone3d, please PM me with the contact info, thanks !

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Re: Windows 98 freezes with no explanation

Posted on 2019-11-04, 04:42

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by Horun

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Are you sure nusb36 isn't the issue ? Where did you get the motherboard ? Have you tried any other ram ? After reading thru this I cannot find any ref that you tried diff RAM, diff Video card or tried not using nusb32.

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Re: Anyone know where to source an Asrock 775I65G I/O Shield?

Posted on 2019-11-04, 03:54

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by Horun

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Is that board Rev 3 ? Does not look like rev 1 or 2, must be 3. Sorry I have a rev 1/2 backpanel but no rev 3 and they are not the same (mouse/KB on r1 and 2 are horizontal not vertical).

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Re: Source for 80-cond IDE headers?

Posted on 2019-11-04, 02:16

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by Horun

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I've got my stock of 34p, 40p, and 50p connectors, 50-conductor ribbon cable, and can find the 80-conductor cable with the right pitch. The right pitch ? All of the UDMA IDE cables I have (mostly were included in Asus, Asrock, GigaByte, etc) are all the same with ends being mostly in-line with …

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Re: [help plz] PSU fan wrong direction?

Posted on 2019-11-04, 01:19

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by Horun

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Have you guys ever seen (old) PSU with fan mounted outside ?. Yes have seen outside mounted fans. That looks like a Sparkle power psu, I had a PowMax that was similar but it did indeed blow outward not inward. I've seen plenty of older style ATX power supplies do this, mostly OEM iirc. Yes like …

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Re: Pro Audio Spectrum 16 problems

Posted on 2019-11-04, 00:53

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by Horun

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My PAS16 card has two jumpers labelled J3 and J4. They're in the middle of the card, right above the edge of the 16-bit slot. J4 has two pins and J3 has 6. J4 is set to 2-3 closed and J3 all are open. It's at port address 388h and DMA sharing is off. This gets intermittent digital operation and …

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Re: Please help me build an utimate 1999 AMD/ATi PC

Posted on 2019-11-03, 16:38

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by Horun

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you started your interest in computers when you were less than 1 year old? LOL like the girl that is 6 and said she had planned for 10 years to do a charity thing :lol: If referring to memories around 2006 and you think your parents had it for say 4-5 years then something from 2001-2002 would be …

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Re: Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum Build ?

Posted on 2019-11-03, 16:26

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by Horun

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ID1 as a start. You may have to experiment and try ID5 if not found. One thing: the old trantor scsi interface was not designed for much faster than a 4x cdrom. The list of supported drives as of Jan 1992 TSLCDR.SYS (v1.2?) is: Chinon CDS-431. Hitachi CDR-3650. NEC CDR-80, CDR-82, CDR-83. Sony CDU- …

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Re: Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum Build ?

Posted on 2019-11-03, 15:01

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by Horun

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Yes most any SCSI cdrom should work. The PAS16 uses passive termination and you should use a passive terminator on end of the scsi cable if you have issues reading with a cdrom that uses active term (and disable cd's term).

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Re: Pro Audio Spectrum 16 problems

Posted on 2019-11-03, 02:19

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by Horun

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I have used many MV PAS16 in 386 and 486 builds but not any 286 so my knowledge is limited here. They are not all EEprom, most have jumpers (J2) and jumpers behind the IN/OUT jacks plus (depending on the exact card) jumpers for the cdrom interface. J2 is typically down by the ISA slot connectors and …

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