My 1990-2000 gaming rig.

Posted on 2023-01-21, 16:08

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It's been a while but I've learned lots over the past 2.5 years and have since built multiple vintage PC's. It can be an expensive hobby if you don't have access to people's old computers My dream vintage PC finally completed earlier this year: CPU: Pentium III 900mhz/256k cache/100mhz fsb RAM: …

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Re: Pentium 4 performance

Posted on 2023-01-16, 22:56

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I had a P4 2.8 (Northwood, 800MHz effective FSB, HT ) on an Asus P4P800 with dual channel DDR SDRAM and that thing was, IMHO, quite fast for the time with a Radeon 9700 . I had upgraded from a 1.4GHz Tbird with SDRAM on a KT133A based board with a Radeon 8500. Yeah the 2.6ghz cpu and 9600xt helped …

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Re: Flashing 3dfx bios

Posted on 2022-12-25, 02:43

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I am having the same issue you had but even with booting with an ATI PCI card it still refused to flash until I used the modified 2.15.07 file from another post, can you share the 21512SD.rom post that worked for you please? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1DgPo2mrddr9RpEVYhtUdD-F-S1Mn2dZp/view?usp …

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Re: Random system errors with DDR5 mobo

Posted on 2022-11-14, 23:04

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The memory was not sold as overclocker type because of inexpensive price. Just typical memory rated for 1600, no where the wording says it is 1333 by default and requires XMP to use 1600 which is factually incorrect. I was trying to find DDR3 1600 memory locally and could not get good choices back …

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Re: Random system errors with DDR5 mobo

Posted on 2022-10-23, 22:59

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I thought that was recommended by Asus to be disabled in the mobo BIOS since it's an Asus BIOS bug and/or mobo hardware issue? Is it running the latest BIOS? Yes, I've updated each time they released one. I just updated to the latest today. I don't mind turning it off, I just think its weird and …

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Random system errors with DDR5 mobo

Posted on 2022-10-23, 22:29

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Hey guys, I don't know if anyone has had this experience but I own an ASUS Prime Z690 motherboard with DDR5 5600 RAM. With XMP set to II in the bios. I noticed that I would get random blue screens of death in Windows 11, however if I go into my system bios and disable PCI express native power …

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Re: Pentium 4 performance

Posted on 2022-10-18, 23:28

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Pentium 4 SDRAM (non DDR) setups were not great. They were a low cost solution. Thanks for the advice everyone. Looks like I was possibly correct then, the CPU plus the SD ram is limiting performance. Well I'll see what I can get out of it with the 2.6 Ghz CPU and 9600 XT. I do have an Athlon 64 at …

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Pentium 4 performance

Posted on 2022-10-18, 22:37

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Hey guys, My Neighbour is moving away, and he was emptying out his shed when he came across his old Pentium 4 Compaq Evo D300s. He asked me if I wanted it so I inherited this P4 system. Here are the Specs: CPU: Pentium 4 1.5Ghz Willamette FSB: 400mhz RAM: 384 mb SD RAM PC133 Motherboard: Compaq …

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Re: Early revision ASUS P2B and Coppermine Pentium 3

Posted on 2022-10-14, 23:23

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I own a P2B rev 1.10 with bios 1012. Yesterday I tried a slotket with a Coppermine 933mhz 133fsb chip. the board maintained 100fsb and ran the CPU at 700mhz. Ran quite well. With a voodoo 3 3000 it scored 4071 in 3d Mark 200 and showed noticeable fps improvement in some games. I now have a 900mhz …

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Re: Radeon 9800 Pro chip replacement.

Posted on 2022-09-29, 03:19

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Card repaired. Now to just buy a new fan to replace the noisy one.

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Re: Getting Ensoniq Audio Soundscape (1370) to work in Dos 6.22

Posted on 2022-09-22, 00:17

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Yeah the Drivers for the 1370 from Vogons DO NOT WORK IN DOS! I had to download them from the link above. Its frustrating though because in order to get the directory with DOS driver you have to install it from Windows 3.1. However if you have the folder as a backup somewhere you can just throw it …

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Re: Getting Ensoniq Audio Soundscape (1370) to work in Dos 6.22

Posted on 2022-09-15, 22:01

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I have 3 sound cards installed on my Pentium 3. The 1370 for Windows 98, Soundscape s2000 for DOS midi along with a CT 2800 for older DOS games and other compatility issues. If you disable the legacy settings for the Ensoniq cards in Device manager you can have all three installed and running …

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Re: Radeon 9800 Pro chip replacement.

Posted on 2022-08-16, 01:42

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I was able to separate the chip from the heatsink. Looks like the chip is a fds 6912 mosfet.

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Radeon 9800 Pro chip replacement.

Posted on 2022-08-13, 15:33

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Hey guys, So I was given this ATI 9800 PRO to test for someone, but I noticed upon inspection that a very tiny chip with a heatsink attached was falling off. Does anyone know what this chip is for? Is it a power regulator? Is there a resource I can use to find out which chip I need to replace it? I …

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Add ram to Voodoo 3 2000 sg variant?

Posted on 2022-08-07, 01:46

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I'm curious. You know how the voodoo 3 2000 has an sgram variant with 4 unused spaces for 16mb of additional ram? I wonder if someone has ever added 16 more Mb of sgram, and if it would work as a 32 mb card?

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Re: Flashing 3dfx bios

Posted on 2022-08-05, 21:49

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Success!!! So I ordered an ATI Rage 128 XL from ebay (Cheapest PCI card I could find). Its an original chip on a new PCB made in China. Unfortunately the card only works on 3.3v PCI slots and my ASUS P2B slots are 5V. I knew this was probably going to be an issue once I did some research and a guy …

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Re: What would cause this?

Posted on 2022-07-30, 10:35

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Sphere478 wrote on 2022-07-30, 05:36: So was it the slot screw? No there is plastic between the Screw and pcb.

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Re: What would cause this?

Posted on 2022-07-30, 00:26

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Trace repair complete! I used enamel coated magnetic wire. BNTECHGO 30 AWG Magnet Wire - Enameled Copper Wire - 0.0098" Diameter - Natural Temperature Rating 155℃ Southbridge is now getting power. Chassis fan port working again. Fan on AGP card working again but no picture. I think I will try this …

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Re: Flashing 3dfx bios

Posted on 2022-07-27, 03:23

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Did you backup the original BIOS ? What size is it ? What size is the image that you tried to flash ? Also, what is the EEPROM brand and part number ? See also https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=77153 EDIT: If you tried flashing a 64KB BIOS image into a 32KB EEPROM, it might explain what …

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Re: Replacing VRAM on Voodoo 3

Posted on 2022-07-27, 03:15

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My big recommendation: find a qualified person to do the job. If you are asking how to replace a chip, it means you have no skill to do it. do some training on dead/useless boards before... I know how to do it. There were some pads that were in bad shape and lifted so I had to repair those. Pads …

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