Re: Build

Posted on 2021-11-08, 14:30

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https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/Socket_7 … therboard_Lists Look for VIA Apollo MVP3 or Ali Aladdin V boards. For example Asus P5A, Gigabyte GA-5AX and MSI MS-5169 are quite popular for ATX build. Late revision is usually better.

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Re: Moving PS2 mouse causes keyboard to stop functioning.

Posted on 2021-11-07, 07:38

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You can try swapping PS/2 mouse bracket data and clock wires. Usually keyboard locks up if those are connected in the wrong order. Also there seems to be PS/2 enable-jumper on the mobo, is it enabled? IRQ12 conflict is also possible...

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

Posted on 2021-11-06, 06:32

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davidrg wrote on 2021-11-06, 06:19: fool wrote on 2021-11-05, 18:34: Also tried out Celebris XL 590 ... I've never seen one of those before! Any pictures of the inside? Here's one. Maybe I'll take better ones.

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

Posted on 2021-11-05, 18:34

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Finally got some inspiration to mount this arduino controlled "character eating pac-man" display. It had no controller when I got this Silverstone case so something had to be done...luckily some code was easy to find. I connected it with USB cable so that it can be removed (or arduino reflashed) …

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Re: How many video cards / VGA cards or GPUs do you have?

Posted on 2021-10-29, 04:47

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I've got too many cards but still always one too few.

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

Posted on 2021-10-09, 13:34

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Printed this "fast and dirty" design of HDD bracket mounting HDD inside Commodore PC 10. This model originally had no HDD and I guess this one has been later installed somewhere around '80s. Design is not idiot-proof, but it works as long as I'm not shipping the PC. Both of floppy drives were stuck …

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

Posted on 2021-09-14, 16:56

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I've been working with a different i430HX build. The board is AMI Atlas PCI-III. Today I soldered a battery on the boards RTC. I've looked for a case that has enough space on under HDD drive bays because this board has VRM on a silly place (upper right corner). Then I found & bought this stupidly …

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Re: ASUS p55t2p4 repair

Posted on 2021-09-06, 09:02

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Somewhere around last January I replaced TX chip to Gigabyte GA-586T2. The only place I found it available was Aliexpress, https://www.aliexpress.com/item/4001085831705.html Chip was genuine and now the board is working fine. I'm sure I saw HX chips there also. At least I can find FW82439HX. Maybe …

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Re: Help with identifying a burnt resistor on Socket 7 motherboard

Posted on 2021-09-01, 11:55

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Is it resistor fuse, 2.2A ? Well, actually it looks more like a resistor.

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Re: Help with MSI KN72 DELTA 2 !

Posted on 2021-08-03, 19:20

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I've had lots of problems with my K7N2 MS-6570. Oh well, it runs sometimes OK, then suddenly it just won't post or beeps for memory fault. Can't remember LEDs state in bracket. I've learned that sometimes setting FSB mode jumper to 100MHz (safe mode) helps but not always. Your 6570E seems to be with …

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

Posted on 2021-07-30, 19:10

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I had some terrible time testing ATI Rage 128 PRO 32MB AGP (128-bit) that I got today. I tried install it to MSI MS-5169 (ALi M1541) running Win98SE. Everything looked fine without ATI drivers installed. There was 3 fail-scenarios on first startup after driver was installed. Tried it about a dozen …

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Re: OLED replacement for AT case 'speed display'?

Posted on 2021-06-22, 08:54

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I've seen digits been "burned" to OLED. Perhaps one should build a nice retro screensaver feature...

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Re: Matrox Millennium G200 "No Signal" Issues

Posted on 2021-06-12, 16:31

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I have recovered two G200 AGPs and one G200 PCI. One of those AGP versions had corrupted PINS. Just flashed it with dumped pins from a working one. The other ones AGP and PCI had no output on TFT and got those recovered with the recover utility. Just if anyone needs: Pins dump to file -> mxinfo.exe …

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Re: The worst motherboards you have had to work with

Posted on 2021-06-03, 18:04

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The worst board I've had is Gainward 5VPA, super socket 7 with VIA MVP3 chipset. I really can't understand it. - CPU & memory clock jumpering is just confusing. Even though everything should be right, sometimes the board just don't want to boot. Next day it might be fine again. Like it had volatile …

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Re: Any of these old monitors good? (Nokia 445ZA, SDIS ErgoView 210, NEC XP17)

Posted on 2021-05-25, 08:21

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Very good choice! I'm currently sitting in the place of origin, ex Nokia monitor factory.

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Re: EPOX EP 8RDA+ wont turn on

Posted on 2021-05-20, 18:28

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There are many options... Pictures can help as mentioned above. First I'd suspect either capacitor and/or MOSFET shortage problem. Motherboards from that era have very often bloated or dried capacitors. While ago I replaced caps to my EP-8RDA3+. Second, have you another CPU? Before trying with …

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

Posted on 2021-05-20, 18:12

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While ago I build K6-2+ @600 + Voodoo3 3000 rig to play Ultima IX Ascension after 20 years. I didn't remember how burdensome that game is. It's just about playable with 8-bit textures and 640x480. Everything higher is like a slide show and generally unplayable. In the past I remember completing the …

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Re: Sapphire Radeon HD 3850 AGP with artifacts

Posted on 2021-05-18, 17:45

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That card can have one or two poor quality capacitors (was it KZE or KZG?) Those cans usually dries out, although they were fine in my card. Maybe a good point to start from.

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Re: Changed refreshrate (advanced option) for matrox g200 and now i get only black screen

Posted on 2021-05-17, 14:35

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If you are using modern flat panel: Matrox Millennium G200 "No Signal" Issues BIOS flash fix disk can be found from the above thread. Atleast that recovered my G200 PCI

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

Posted on 2021-04-25, 18:16

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I started upgrading couple of my 8MB Voodoo2 to 12MB. Same time wondering would 16MB upgrade be possible without ruining everything. Of course it would not make sense other than being cool. I don't even know is there drivers/glide games supporting that memory size (some Obsidans maybe?). I looked my …

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