Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-08-24, 15:55

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With the lazy temp of 35°C I'm absolutely not doing any soldering. I'm doing all the "cold" work I can on my machines. The 35 degrees might otoh give you ac boost for the soldering temperature :lol: It's 35, not 350... :) Btw, it's easy to speak when you have a max of 22°C........ Only writing it …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-08-24, 13:03

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No, it's alone on the second channel, set to MASTER. Same as the CF-IDE was. Only thing I can see is to put a new SS14 (I don't think it is that) and solder the power plug (two pins look week on solder). Probably a more sophisticated design could help, with more components... Many times people …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-08-24, 11:01

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Do you have an IDE CD-ROM on the same chain? Moving the CD-ROM to the IDE controller on the sound card helped tremendously with IDE flakiness on my PS/1. For SOME reason it was not behaving well with IDE CD-ROMs, being less tolerant of some than others but ultimately not being stable with any.. No, …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-08-23, 21:54

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Tried a CF-IDE adapter on the good old Aptiva 2168 (P75), couldn't get it to work reliably, nor could the system boot using it. Will probably try again with another adapter and/or card later. Could you post a pic? Today I was handling one of mine and a component wasn't soldered well and it came …

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Re: Running TL866+ Xgecu software on Linux Mint 21 doesn't work

Posted on 2023-08-22, 18:36

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I followed every step on 2 new machines and it worked. My guess is some corrupted files not working. Go figure... I have to admit I upgraded from version 18 to 21... maybe it was time for a fresh install. I can call it - The End -

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-08-21, 23:51

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Reinstalled Mint on a NVMe. Already done on another machine. It's hot but it flies... My inner child screaming savagely at the slow as a snail Conner is happy 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-08-20, 21:23

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Only real issue so far is the 512MB limit on up to 386 PCs. If there's a MR BIOS for your 386, then this (504MB) limit is not the case. ;) (XT-IDE, EzDrive, OnTrack can help with existing bioses) I have M321 board with MR BIOS and it works great with 4GB CF card. (Because i use FAT16, it has …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2023-08-20, 08:33

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Well, I just finished sorting trough it(scavangeing) at the comp. Was not quite what I expected, the one pc , the net..switch... Fridges(don't care) ,crt tv's(I didn't bother with), vacuum cleaner?a few printers that I don't know if worth fixing/takeing... Fax- left it there , analog phone, lan …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-08-19, 15:14

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With CF cards, when I don't setup them correctly in BIOS, I get "no boot device" or "not valid boot device" in different languages. Only formatted. They were in different thin clients, thus paid next to nothing. Only real issue so far is the 512MB limit on up to 386 PCs. One thing I do is to clone …

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Re: [ASUS P4T] Someone who has this board please help me with a photo (need to identify component)

Posted on 2023-08-19, 09:39

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:) I'm happy it now works 100%. Glad I could help. Gonna bench it? Already did :) Here is SpeedSys running on it with a Pentium 4 1,60GHz CPU and 128Mb Ram: https://i.imgur.com/07eTnfs.jpg I always wanted to do a 1.3 to 2.0GHz tests and benchmarks. Looking at the picture we can all see the 1.6 …

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Re: [ASUS P4T] Someone who has this board please help me with a photo (need to identify component)

Posted on 2023-08-18, 22:10

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😀 I'm happy it now works 100%. Glad I could help. Gonna bench it?

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Re: [ASUS P4T] Someone who has this board please help me with a photo (need to identify component)

Posted on 2023-08-18, 15:06

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aaronkatrini wrote on 2023-08-18, 08:27: Nexxen wrote on 2023-08-17, 21:41: 750 Marked as such. Thank you so much!! Let us know.

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Re: [ASUS P4T] Someone who has this board please help me with a photo (need to identify component)

Posted on 2023-08-17, 21:41

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750 Marked as such.

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Re: Pentium II and !!! Slot1 and K7 SlotA schematics. Do they exist? (boardview and/or pdf)

Posted on 2023-08-16, 14:38

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if schematics for P2/3 and K7 Athlon are available. https://elektrotanya.com/intel_440bx_rev_1.0_sch.pdf/download.html And generally speaking, grab the elektrotanya.com I'm looking for the schematics of the cpu board, as pic posted by ediflorianUS. E.g. caps C6/7/8, value? I store many Pentium II …

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Re: Pentium II and !!! Slot1 and K7 SlotA schematics. Do they exist? (boardview and/or pdf)

Posted on 2023-08-16, 14:32

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I will dig some more , I know I seen some layouts somewhere. https://www.anandtech.com/show/355/4 Tunable caps, you probably gave me an idea for another project. Nothing was wasted from your links :) you can easly check the caps if you buy a SMD meter (bosch is cheap around 28$) A few CPU's I have …

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Re: Pentium II and !!! Slot1 and K7 SlotA schematics. Do they exist? (boardview and/or pdf)

Posted on 2023-08-16, 14:15

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ediflorianUS wrote on 2023-08-16, 14:12: I will dig some more , I know I seen some layouts somewhere. https://www.anandtech.com/show/355/4 Tunable caps, you probably gave me an idea for another project. Nothing was wasted from your links 😀

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Re: Pentium II and !!! Slot1 and K7 SlotA schematics. Do they exist?

Posted on 2023-08-16, 14:01

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will this help ? : https://web.archive.org/web/20060622200013/http://developer.intel.com/design/pentiumiii/datashts/24445209.pdf https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=482324&seqNum=6 https://www.anandtech.com/show/405/2 (most of them are on the wikipedia you know...) 1. No, as it's not …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-08-15, 21:28

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doublebuffer wrote on 2023-08-15, 18:06: The beauty pageant of the expansion cards continues as the number #2 contestant, Hercules 3D Prophet II GTS poses in always so fashionable teal blue. Copper or anodized aluminium are the best. I have this card, blue is cool 😀

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Re: Old AT case issues - PSU repair and other AT related stuff

Posted on 2023-08-14, 14:00

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There's plenty of different standoff styles other than screw-in (sprung base, push-thru, self-adhesive etc) which should be more than adequate - have a look at Richco brand at RS-Online... https://it.rs-online.com/web/b/richco/controllo-esd-camera-bianca-e-prototipazione-pcb/distanziali-colonnine …

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Re: Old AT case issues - PSU repair and other AT related stuff

Posted on 2023-08-14, 13:06

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I need to buy double-sided plastic standoffs (or spacers) as the holes are too large to accomodate brass ones. I looked for header on the bottom and threaded on top, but I could only find double-headed. In the pics of the post above you can see 2 still installed, but I need quite a few more to …

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