Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-08, 17:38

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by TrashPanda

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a SiS 635t based P3 machine so I have ignored ATX based socket 7 and PII boards simply because the P3 machine covers that area nicely, socket 7 in AT format is more interesting to me and I bought a Rev 2 FIC VA 503+ today simply so I can overclock the snot out of a K6 III+. Super Socket 7 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-08, 15:50

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dang, can we take a foot off the crazy prices pedal for a bit, or I'll be getting too nervous to screw around with stuff and I don't wanna have to have two AH-64 Apaches circling my house 24/7 as an insurance requirement. But yeah, you know you've been into retrocomputing too long when, #4 .... …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-08, 15:35

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by TrashPanda

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There is a P5A Rev 1.06 up on eBay right now @60ish AUD auction and a Rev 1.04 too for a whopping 250 USD .. The 1.06 looks like it might have some fierce competition tho with 16 bidders and 1 day left. (Loads sniper rifle ...looks like it needs a last second crazy bid) I would have gone with an …

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Re: Ndis.vxd and Ndis2sup.vxd

Posted on 2022-01-08, 11:11

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in Marvin \ Software

Everytime these two drivers loads in the step by step confirmation of Windows 98, the computer cannot Restart in MS-DOS mode, how to disable them, every time I boot up the computer? They are part of networking drivers for windows, not sure you can disable them without losing all networking in …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-08, 04:31

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by TrashPanda

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There is a P5A Rev 1.06 up on eBay right now @60ish AUD auction and a Rev 1.04 too for a whopping 250 USD .. The 1.06 looks like it might have some fierce competition tho with 16 bidders and 1 day left. (Loads sniper rifle ...looks like it needs a last second crazy bid) I would have gone with an ATX …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-08, 03:11

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by TrashPanda

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Bought a FIC VA 503+ (Rev 1.2) with K6 III 400, 256mb of ram + all port cables from the US, board looks to be in good shape but will be checking all the caps when it arrives. IIRC this was one of the best Super 7 boards of its time, I didnt need another Super 7 board :D but it was a great price …

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

Posted on 2022-01-07, 15:14

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I ran into a rather odd thing to day . .a working no bad blocks Quantum Bigfoot, had to play with it a little just to prove to myself this old dinosaur was indeed still alive and kicking and well fuck me it was very alive and working perfectly, not even any odd noises from it. I never thought I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-07, 04:28

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by TrashPanda

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Snagged a K6-2+ 450 and Tseng ET4000/WP32 for 50 bucks along with a ACER Mechanical AT keyboard and serial Microsoft mouse for another $40. (Mouse has the special MS dongle to convert it to PS2 or to a larger serial DB port) Keyboard has a metal backplate and looks like its built like a tank, model …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-01-06, 11:19

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Hardspace: Ship Breaker Still haven’t pinpointed what keeps me playing this game but it’s a great way to zone out for a few hours. I hope the devs plan on creating a way for players to design their own ships to break, would love some huge complex multi reactor vessels with tied in systems. Puzzling …

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Re: Overclocking a Voodoo 3 2000 AGP.

Posted on 2022-01-06, 04:41

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by TrashPanda

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Well you have the GPU so finding out the size of the ram chips should be pretty easy, just buy heat sinks that will fit, also buy a sheet of thermal pad to put under the heat sinks, as for the back unless there are ram chips there I wouldn't bother putting anything there, if it has ram on the back …

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

Posted on 2022-01-06, 02:07

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got to play with the rather notorious Diamond Viper II Z200 based on the Savage 2000 GPU and I can indeed confirm that it is as terrible as it was reported to be, I spent more time working around driver issues than actually testing the card. (I secretly enjoy hardware like this, its frustrating but …

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Re: sb awe64 ct4520 silent

Posted on 2022-01-05, 10:59

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truemaster wrote on 2022-01-05, 09:32: the square chip in the red square. correct people expect to see circle I would be checking the capacitors and resistors that connect to the sound out ports before I suspect a dead IC. To me it sounds like a bad capacitor.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-05, 10:26

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by TrashPanda

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Had a chat with the seller since I had doubts about the wavetable. Turns out it was listed as a K6 but it’s a PII 450 Dell system, so board model will be some Dell integrated number. It’s a Yamaha DS XG sound system so that would be PCI bus, seller didn’t answer my question about the wavetable on …

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Re: sb awe64 ct4520 silent

Posted on 2022-01-05, 09:20

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by TrashPanda

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truemaster wrote on 2022-01-05, 09:16: could be the chip in the red cyrcle be the issue? I think you may have uploaded the wrong image, no red circle.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-05, 09:12

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Found a complete system that looked like a nice K6 build, till I got to the motherboard which has both built inYamaha Opl3 + wave table and ATI rage pro gpu. I’ve seen ati built in before but never a full Olp3 and wave table, doesn’t have agp but I have a x1300 pci that woul fit well. Can’t wait to …

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

Posted on 2022-01-05, 03:14

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by TrashPanda

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got to play with the rather notorious Diamond Viper II Z200 based on the Savage 2000 GPU and I can indeed confirm that it is as terrible as it was reported to be, I spent more time working around driver issues than actually testing the card. (I secretly enjoy hardware like this, its frustrating but …

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

Posted on 2022-01-05, 01:25

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by TrashPanda

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have had a go at the AG coating and it appears to be some kind of film, its flaking off but is going to take more than cleaning wipes and microfibre cloth. Might try some Mr Muscle magic erasers and if that fails .. toothpaste.

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

Posted on 2022-01-03, 12:10

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

stef80 wrote on 2022-01-03, 12:08: Zalman VF700, or Zalman VF900. Cheers for that mate !

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

Posted on 2022-01-03, 12:02

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by TrashPanda

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

stef80 wrote on 2022-01-03, 12:00: They appear on eBay from time to time in bulk quantites, new old stock. I bought few for Dutch seller. I think he had like 30 of them, 15€/piece. Got a name for the cooler that I can lookup on eBay ?

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

Posted on 2022-01-03, 11:54

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by TrashPanda

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

where did you get the replacement coolers from? All I can find that are similar are no name coolers from china for 10 dollars each, I guess a tenner isnt bad for a cooler that looks similar to the Zalman ones but I want some better quality ones for the rarer cards I have.

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