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

Posted on 2022-07-27, 07:49

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by sirotkaslo

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Started working on my Compaq Proliant 1500, also have the scsi disk tower, but that will have to wait, because it seems the PSU died after I dusted it with the air compressor. Didn't die, I just didn't put the side panel on which has a metal thingy that pushes into the PSU, without this, you can't …

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

Posted on 2022-07-25, 05:59

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by sirotkaslo

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Started working on my Compaq Proliant 1500, also have the scsi disk tower, but that will have to wait, because it seems the PSU died after I dusted it with the air compressor.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-25, 05:53

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by sirotkaslo

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Finally got the MSI BX Master again, had this back in 2000 running the celeron 633@950 and the Abit BH-6, both nice bx motherboards. MSI is in bad need for new caps, most seem bulged.

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Re: VLB video card POST behavior

Posted on 2022-07-13, 07:53

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by sirotkaslo

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I have a 486 with the pc chips m912 and it does something similar with the GD5434 vlb card. Every time it powers up (turn on or reset, doesn't matter) I get three bios beeps and then normal post. I'm using the Am486DX2-80 cpu so in my case it could be 40mhz fsb that's giving me issues since I also …

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Re: Voodoo 1 Cooling

Posted on 2022-07-08, 08:12

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by sirotkaslo

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rasz_pl wrote on 2022-07-07, 22:03: No throttling on Voodoo so heat wont affect fps. They dont get hot enough to hang/crash so all the cooling mods are waste of time imo. I don't want them getting anywhere near hot enough to crash. These things are getting rare.

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Re: Voodoo 1 Cooling

Posted on 2022-07-05, 06:53

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by sirotkaslo

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I just put a heatsink on it and it's more than enough. You can get them on aliexpress for a few € a piece.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-04, 11:56

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by sirotkaslo

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Got a lot of free stuff, need to go back for some 10 flat CRT monitors. At the site there must be some 20 celeron 2 machine, but I didn't take those as I currently lack space. I did find some nice cards, took out some cpus, lots of old HDD. I love the memory upgrade on that S3 card. Separately I …

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Re: EpoX EP-M762A

Posted on 2022-05-24, 11:47

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by sirotkaslo

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Going to "revive" my own thread, I replaced all of the caps, got a duron 1200 which should work, but nothing, no beeps, nothing. Could this be a corrupt bios or is this board toast?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-20, 11:58

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by sirotkaslo

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Not sure my wife to be agrees with you 😁

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-20, 09:12

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by sirotkaslo

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Probably use it for a while, if there will be issues with it, it's going on the wall.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-05-20, 07:49

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by sirotkaslo

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Got this yesterday, a nice hardly used Rage fury maxx. I only found i think two versions of drivers for this card, were there so few updates for this card?

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Re: The Changeling 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500

Posted on 2022-05-05, 09:08

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by sirotkaslo

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Awesome work dude!

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Re: The Changeling 3dfx Voodoo 5 5500

Posted on 2022-05-03, 07:39

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by sirotkaslo

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Love the switch, awesome idea!

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Re: Thermaltake volcano cpu cooler - Potentiometer missing

Posted on 2022-04-11, 09:25

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by sirotkaslo

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I have the volcano 12, will send you the specs after I get home from work.

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Re: Pentium 3 / Ati Rage Fury / Xpert 2000 Graphics Issues

Posted on 2022-04-08, 10:01

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by sirotkaslo

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Before i'd buy the 5600xt i would make sure it's 128bit, otherwise this gf4 mx is a faster GPU. GF4 mx is great with a 1ghz p3, it will play most games from that era just fine.

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Re: Pentium 3 / Ati Rage Fury / Xpert 2000 Graphics Issues

Posted on 2022-04-07, 08:32

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by sirotkaslo

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Do you have a model and manufacturer?

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Re: 3Dfx Voodoo II "Tribute" Driver - Dx7 Win9x

Posted on 2022-04-06, 05:33

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by sirotkaslo

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Thank you, will test it next weekend!

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Re: Pentium 3 / Ati Rage Fury / Xpert 2000 Graphics Issues

Posted on 2022-04-06, 05:28

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by sirotkaslo

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Fully compatible with 98SE. I use the fx5900xt with V2 sli in my dual boo win98se/xp machine. Make sure it's not the 64bit version - that one SUCKS! 128bit is comparable with the radeon 9600se. If possible, i'd go for a GF4 ti 4200, those are usually found for cheap (around 20€ or less) and it will …

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Re: Fast VLB graphics card for a nice socket 3-system

Posted on 2022-04-01, 06:47

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by sirotkaslo

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I am using the Diamond Stealth 64 DRAM VLB in my 486 system with upgraded memory, runs without issues and has a pretty good output.

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Re: Pentium 3 / Ati Rage Fury / Xpert 2000 Graphics Issues

Posted on 2022-04-01, 06:44

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by sirotkaslo

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This is a good board, i had the same, it has Tualatin support, rock solid. As for the gpu, i think ati has driver issues back then. If you do some searching you'll find a lot of people with half life issues.

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