Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-23, 10:02

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by Ydee

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Oh, that looks like the connector has been desoldered. The through holes are a little damaged and one via on the left took a bit of a beating from what looks like someone leveraging the connector with a flat head screw driver but it doesn't look like anything is too damaged to just solder a new …

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Re: Best Slot 1 Chipsets/Motherboards?

Posted on 2023-01-21, 09:35

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by Ydee

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Hm, never hear about that and sadly I have none board with i440BX and AGP to test it out personally, but I think it is only some incompatibilty between board and concrete graphics/drivers.

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Re: (HELP) ASUS DRW-1608P optical drive repair - Drive receives power but didn't read or burn CD & DVD

Posted on 2023-01-21, 09:28

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by Ydee

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Sometimes it´s caused by loose belt, if is here.

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Re: Best Slot 1 Chipsets/Motherboards?

Posted on 2023-01-21, 09:20

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by Ydee

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Why do you think, that i440BX does not support graphics card with more than 64MB memory? You mean AGP aperture size in BIOS setup?

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Re: Identify motherboard thread

Posted on 2023-01-20, 09:40

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by Ydee

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Yes, it´s PCCHIPS, branded as Matsonic (look at the rest of sticker).

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Re: GPU temperature on Windows 98SE?

Posted on 2023-01-16, 09:33

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by Ydee

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Hello there. I've Gigabyte - Nvidia GeForce FX 5700 running on Windows 98SE. How to see the gpu's temperature on this OS? Is there any tool to check the temperature of those cards on Win98SE? CPU-Z didn't report it. GPU-Z doesn't work on Windows 98SE. Thanks. Are you sure, that your FX 5700 have …

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Re: Retro parts power usage

Posted on 2023-01-14, 09:00

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by Ydee

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Compaq Deskpro EN SFF with PIII Katmai 550 MHz, 256MB SDRAM, TNT2 M64 32MB and ESS AudioDrive 1869, 80GB WD Caviar, FDD and slim CD ROM work with 90W proprietary Compaq PSU, no probs.

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Re: Need help setting up AMD K6 cpu with Newtech VX3-2b motherboard for Socket 7 build

Posted on 2023-01-14, 08:46

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by Ydee

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Maybe J6 could be used for voltage selection between 5V for EDO DIMM or 3,3V for SDRAM DIMM, like on some other mainboards? Using SDRAM memory is faster in any case, if you have the option.

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Re: Compaq Deskpro SFF P3 500Mhz - Restoration (and loud "thinking noise" issues - would a PCI card improve?)

Posted on 2023-01-10, 16:02

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by Ydee

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One other thing is I've noticed the CD-ROM cable is quite damaged. Where it's been folded over as part of the velcro cable management it's worn through enough to see bare metal, and the drive end cable clip is snapped on one side. I was expecting it to be 44-pin, but it actually seems to be 50-pin! …

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Re: Compaq Deskpro SFF P3 500Mhz - Restoration (and loud "thinking noise" issues - would a PCI card improve?)

Posted on 2023-01-09, 11:52

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by Ydee

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Mine came with a 550 CPU and no fan, I think the cooler above must have been modified. I doubt that, because the two boards differ apart from the minor details just in the presence of the CPU fan connector. Also, fan screws are typical "compaq" with grooves for a flat screwdriver or TORX wrench. …

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Re: Compaq Deskpro SFF P3 500Mhz - Restoration (and loud "thinking noise" issues - would a PCI card improve?)

Posted on 2023-01-09, 09:43

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by Ydee

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It's interesting that although you have a PIII 500 Katmai, it's only fitted with a passive cooler. I only have a 50 MHz faster CPU (550) and it was fitted with a small noisy fan powered from the mainboard. Passive-cooled I have a PII 350 Deschutes, where the mainboard does not have a connector for …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-01-08, 09:48

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by Ydee

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vellu wrote on 2023-01-07, 18:06: got myself Olivetti PCS 33 (386SX) in good condition. I'll transfer the files from the harddrive before it dies and then reinstall dos and add a soundcard. I could go with SB16 (CT2800) from '95 or ESS1868 AudioDrive from '97. Very nice set, congrats!

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Re: System freezes since Sound Blaster Live

Posted on 2022-12-29, 14:00

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by Ydee

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IIRC, some troubles with Creative audio cards like Live! and Audigy on VIA chipsets could be solved with PCI latency patch from G.Breese: https://www.georgebreese.com/net/software/

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-16, 11:59

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by Ydee

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So I got the power adapter today (PA-9) and the laptop works! It's a P4 1.6 Ghz, 1 GB + 128 MB RAM, GeForce2 Go GPU (for which I did find a Win9x driver), no HDD unfortunately, but that can obviously be replaced. The biggest issue is the battery, as there appears to be no new replacements available …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-11, 09:39

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by Ydee

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Thrift store find yesterday, a Dell Inspiron 8200 (model PP01X) laptop for $10.... It won't be that simple: the same hw was sold as Inspiron and Latitude (which I have, see pic). The P4-M (mine at 1.8GHz) heats terribly, so I recommend replacing the original aluminium foil between the CPU and the …

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Re: compaq P166 boot error 162 system setup access

Posted on 2022-11-27, 11:00

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by Ydee

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If your PC has FDD and model is Deskpro 2000 5166, then exist Softpaq SP15674 (downloadable on HP/Compaq support websites) - this allow you to create three floppy with diagnostics and setup utilities, build new diagnostics partition on HDD and store setup parameters. Instructions are in .txt file.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-11-27, 10:30

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by Ydee

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Yesterday was a beautiful sunny day so I took a ride to the recycling center. This is what I got: Unidentified AGP card - judging by the heatsink I'd say riva 128zx, but the 6ns memory seems a bit fast for a ZX, it's got an agp 4x connector and it seems to have the option for dual VGA outputs. …

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Re: POST code C1, no boot

Posted on 2022-11-23, 08:36

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by Ydee

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Thanks for help, friends. I'll have more time this weekend, so I'll try to look at it again, but I don't hold out much hope. I'll flash the BIOS again if there's a problem with it, but personally, I don't think so. Unfortunately, I don't have the equipment or knowledge for more detailed testing ( …

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Re: Pentium 2/3 slot 1 CPU retention mechanism screw size/pitch

Posted on 2022-11-22, 08:40

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by Ydee

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There are not necessarily screws, sometimes it was solved with plastic push pins.

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Re: POST code C1, no boot

Posted on 2022-11-22, 08:22

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by Ydee

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Thank you for the valuable advice, I measured the coil in phase and the voltage behind it is really 1.69V. So Vcore's voltage is probably fine, too. Then I'm running out of ideas. I don't know the history of the board and if the damage is somewhere between the PCB layers or under BGA, I have no way …

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