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I don't have the full overview, but would there be a benefit from rotating one of the sockets in terms of routing it all? Some orientations are better than others but not by much. Its almost like they flipped the die inside the package and made this mess. I’m trying to make this orientation work …

Re: Cyrix/ST/IBM Aiming for the stars!

Posted on 2022-09-22, 03:12

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Those radeons aught to do well. I ran a radeon 9800 pro on my cyrix 350 build. It could play halo :p https://youtu.be/jx-KE-xlNS0 Such cards don’t always work on ss7 mobos though. With my freeway mobos I got lucky

Re: Flash storage for 286 computers? Preferred approach?

Posted on 2022-09-22, 03:11

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh btw, there are 44 pin ssd drives also. You could use one of them with an adapter cable. They are internally ide to sata

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

Posted on 2022-09-22, 03:09

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got another idea on the drawing board. Since with this clocking of the socket there is a lot of tracks going lower left to upper right I am trying to run a bunch of evenly spaced tracks with ground planes stitched between. And will use the lower layer (blue) for lower right to upper left.

Re: Board has L2 Cache Slots but no Option in Bios and Jumpers not there

Posted on 2022-09-22, 02:31

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It is possible. There were quite a few boards with fake cache around that time

Re: Flash storage for 286 computers? Preferred approach?

Posted on 2022-09-22, 02:27

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I’ve been pretty happy with my scsi on my pod build also. A xt-ide would be a good way to add flash storage to a old system. Does your system have 8 bit or 16 bit isa? A 8 bit xt-ide would be slower but i believe you can use that 8 bit xt-ide to boot a 16 bit ide card which would solve that. Your …

Re: Cyrix/ST/IBM Aiming for the stars!

Posted on 2022-09-22, 01:05

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No prob 😀 glad to see you are having fun with it! Try double sided 64 mb and 128 mb see if that boosts scores. 😀 What other video cards do you have?

Re: ATX to AT pico Adapter! + Fan Headers, -5v, and 3.3v (Released)

Posted on 2022-09-21, 20:29

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think I know what happened, reverse the location of the caps. Top to bottom bottom to top. Edit: went back and added notes that cap position is reversed. Sorry about that.

Re: ATX to AT pico Adapter! + Fan Headers, -5v, and 3.3v (Released)

Posted on 2022-09-21, 20:10

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I’d wait for the cap any chance you had it in backwards? Did I mark it as backwards on the silk? Edit: no silk and your install looks right.. defective cap I guess? So you will glue the plugs down?

Re: Looking for storage advice for a 98SE build.

Posted on 2022-09-21, 04:14

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi everyone, I’m building a PC based on an ABIT bx6 rev2 board, and I expect to run Win98se (and DOS7 when I don’t stay in Windows). I have an old IDE hard drive that should work, but I would rather go SSD if possible. Research seems to show that I have a variety of options (IDE-CF adapters, IDE- …

Re: Backing up a laptop without USB or Ethernet - Any cheaper options than pcmcia card?

Posted on 2022-09-21, 03:06

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh, yeah. I can confirm that there are issues with really small drives and those adapters Modern computer plus ide add in card?

Re: Desoldering a dallas battery and multi layer PCB.

Posted on 2022-09-21, 03:00

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Uhoh. Time to fix it. Maybe have someone who does this professionally fix it? Doesn't seem like it would be too hard after I put a socket there to solder small piece of wire between the pin the socket and where the trace goes to on backside of the motherboard. I probably used too much heat when …

Re: Desoldering a dallas battery and multi layer PCB.

Posted on 2022-09-21, 01:59

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Uhoh. Time to fix it. Maybe have someone who does this professionally fix it?

Re: Board has L2 Cache Slots but no Option in Bios and Jumpers not there

Posted on 2022-09-21, 01:56

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bodge wire seems to be something related to ide or sound? Compare the datasheets of your two chips, see if they have different pinouts. Tupically different timings alone isn’t enough to be an issue if mobo is set for highest timings 15/20 is pretty high for pentium bus. 🤔

Re: ASK ATX55C Rev B3 Socket 7 - looking for manuals and jumper settings

Posted on 2022-09-21, 01:51

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Details of mem, pic of installed in what banks and pic of mem both sides? Partial booting is classic memory problem symptom. Could be other things also though.