Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-02-21, 16:00

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by ChrisK

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Another thing I remember is that it depends on the revision of the northbridge (aka the AMD part of the chipset as the southbridge is from VIA) if it supports that SuperBypass thingi. I'm not that much into AMD tech from that time but this was something with relatively large impact on memory/overall …

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

Posted on 2023-02-21, 15:28

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by ChrisK

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Not really. The AiW9600Pro uses a separate box for inputs (which mine is also missing). But I'd be glad to have a usable output at first. The second picture in my post before shows only the cable with the outputs. Besides that I had a Rage Pro 128 back then which also had video inputs and that …

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

Posted on 2023-02-21, 12:04

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Made a display out cable for a AiW 9600Pro that came without that super special all-in-one-with-non-standard-connector-cable. It's not finished yet (still needs a case), but I'm finally able to connect up to two monitors to get at least any picture out of that card. Not sure if it's worth the effort …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-02-21, 11:30

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Anyone have much experience with the ASUS K7M ? Looking at grabbing one for my Athlon 850, the board its on cant do much int he way of overclocking but it seems the K7M can tweak some settings to OC Slot A processors, namely its got a huge range of bus speeds and voltage settings. I wonder if the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-02-16, 12:33

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There was this POST here only some days ago with a very similar if not even the same approach: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1140682#p1140682 Same story with dedicated VRAM plus DRAM for graphics processing onboard without having too much bus load. Searching on the net brings you to e.g. …

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

Posted on 2023-02-13, 16:55

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Replaced some capacitors on this SOYO SY-5EMA+ V1.0 motherboard. In initial testing I couldn't get it to POST. One of the 1000 uF caps was budging so decided to de-solder and replace all the 1000uF caps. After testing them it turns out only the one cap was bad. Oh well, no harm in replacing all …

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Re: Tulip TC40 and FDD problem

Posted on 2023-02-10, 07:16

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by ChrisK

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The D359T5 has soldered "jumpers" by using 0 ohm resistors and should be locked on DS1 (for drive B, DS0 is for drive A on this model). Look at the circuit board near the floppy cable connector like in the picture below. Can you tell us what the DS# is jumped on the D359T3 ? You may need to use a …

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Re: Tulip TC40 and FDD problem

Posted on 2023-02-09, 12:04

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Do you have the original floppy drive installed (should be a Mitsumi D359T5)? There is some obscure coding in the original floppy drive that can cause very much confusion. If I recall it correctly the drive is coded as drive B in hardware and connected with a single connector cable. If you connect …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-02-02, 10:06

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Nice little board. I love mATX. But So754 is a somewhat limited platform imho. I had one when they came out but it didn't last very long performance-wise. So939 would have been the better choice. For retro activitites that doesn't play any important role, though.

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Re: An EPIC Socket-8 Build

Posted on 2023-01-27, 15:07

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I gave up on Overdrive P-II as it only offers minimal increase in performance. By my tests around 10-20% in best case over PPRO 1MB @233Mhz. And I kinda don't like P-II that much. Might also do a test on a Dual PPRO board. 110% For years now, the ePay prices for over drives has been firmly in the …

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Re: An EPIC Socket-8 Build

Posted on 2023-01-27, 13:54

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Surely memory-related. 66MHz FSB + EDO-RAM = no burner. At least it should take less power than a 1M PPro@233.

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Re: An EPIC Socket-8 Build

Posted on 2023-01-27, 12:19

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That would be great! No hurry! I was especially interested in if this board will support an PII Overdrive but couldn't find any official statement. Your manual, however, clearly states this and your build also confirms it. So this can be a future project for me since it happens that I own both …

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Re: Socket-8 Gaming Build

Posted on 2023-01-27, 11:49

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This is probably the way I'm going to go: https://i.imgur.com/vMHCoGD.jpg https://i.imgur.com/XLJee1J.jpg Hi Irinikus, Yery nice system you are building here! I have one question: Since it doesn't seem to be mentioned explicitly within this thread could you please clarify which board you are using …

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Re: Custom interposer module for TI486SXL2-66 PGA168 to PGA132 - HELP!

Posted on 2023-01-27, 10:13

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Yes the scanned images are really hard to interprete if you don't know. What appears to be solid pads where holes are supposed to be must be light reflected within the holes while the scanning was going on. Had to have several looks on it, too, until I recognized what was what (even the vias seem to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-23, 16:39

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CREATIVE! Sound BLASTER! 16!!! SCSI!!!!!!!!!!!! CT1770. Delivering EARTH shattering sound quality! Prepare to have your socks blown off! (not). :D Damn animals ... though, belive it or not I still have a plan to rescue this basket case. Some time down the line an episode will pop up on my thread. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-20, 09:08

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Bought this batch of CPUs recently as untested. About half of it Celerons, the other half Pentium III, two Pentium 4 and two Via Cyrix III. Not sure if it was worth the money yet. The main reason was beeing some QS and ES parts amongst (all Celerons, though). Additionally got two LGA2011 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-18, 08:37

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by ChrisK

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Thought that, too, in the first place. But after looking up some datasheets it looks more like AHOLD which is kind of necessary for function afaik.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-17, 16:08

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Two more CRTs for my 'collection'. A 17" Samsung SyncMaster 795DF and a 19" Hyundai ImageQuest Q910. Both have great specs: the 17" with 85kHz, the 19" with 110kHz. And both are relatively small and light compared to other 17"/19" monitors. (The 17" is smaller than a Sony 15" that I have) I still …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-17, 15:58

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Whatever you do, don't try to put it into an Nforce 3 Ultra board and expect to install anything newer than Windows XP. I can't remember the details, but there is some kind of issue with the AGP drivers for that chipset. I believe none were officially released and any workarounds to force AGP to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-17, 08:38

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IMG_0332.jpeg Managed to get this for $20. Feeling very lucky. Unfortunately I don't have a CPU/Motherboard powerful enough to take full advantage of it. :) Whatever you do, don't try to put it into an Nforce 3 Ultra board and expect to install anything newer than Windows XP. I can't remember the …

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