Re: anyone gaming with NT 4.0?

Posted on 2022-01-17, 21:28

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by Meatball

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Windows NT 4.0 is my favorite operating system of all time. There's enough OpenGL (and Glide) games to run to justify its existence in one's retro collection. It's stable and indeed, light. Looking back...when I first used NT 4.0, it was clunky slow, and a tremendous pain to get working properly; I …

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Sound Blaster AWE32 Supports 30-pin EDO RAM (up to 16MB x2)

Posted on 2022-01-17, 18:52

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This post is for the individuals looking to find out if EDO RAM installed on a Sound Blaster AWE32 will work in lieu of FPM 30-pin modules. I had been through the forums, and I had seen all-but-confirmation the modules would work, but I hadn’t read any follow-up for 100% confirmation. You need to do …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-17, 18:04

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by Meatball

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Sound Blaster AWE32 CT2760. I’ve only had this for a week or so, but it is my new favorite sound card, replacing my ES1688. The search for old-time sounds cards is over. It’s missing the User and Getting Started Guides, but I picked those up elsewhere.

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

Posted on 2022-01-17, 16:51

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I gave up on this NEC SCSI drive. I tried 3 different HBAs (one DTC, one Media Vision Pro Audio Spectrum, and finally the Adaptec AHA-2940UW). The former 2 ignore the drive completely, and the latter hangs up during scan. I tried reversing the cable (only had 2 ends), changing SCSI IDs (1 and 3). …

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Re: Fan headers not operational on Amptron PIII-3700T motherboard. Can someone help me out?

Posted on 2022-01-17, 11:44

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Problem solved! It occurred to me this morning I should try plugging in the fan “backwards.” I had nothing to lose, so why not give it a shot. I snapped off the guides cleanly and plugged in. It worked! And the fan onboard hardware monitoring shows the RPM. Both headers are working. Amazing! I …

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

Posted on 2022-01-16, 23:59

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Lots of “work” to do today testing recent hardware pickups and validating a few problems (such as fan headers and a SCSI CD Drive) on existing hardware. There was a time when my kitchen looked like that. Now it's all been relegated to the basement, where I reconstituted a Gateway 2000 486/33 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-16, 23:08

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pentiumspeed wrote on 2022-01-16, 23:02: Paid lot for the pair of voodoo2 cards? What I see out there is selling over priced. Cheers, Paid through the nose, but that’s OK. I can always get more money.

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Re: Fan headers not operational on Amptron PIII-3700T motherboard. Can someone help me out?

Posted on 2022-01-16, 22:37

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by Meatball

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Problem solved! It occurred to me this morning I should try plugging in the fan “backwards.” I had nothing to lose, so why not give it a shot. I snapped off the guides cleanly and plugged in. It worked! And the fan onboard hardware monitoring shows the RPM. Both headers are working. Amazing! I …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-16, 22:34

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Picked up a couple of 12MB Voodoo2 cards.

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

Posted on 2022-01-16, 21:40

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by Meatball

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“Fixed” non operational fans on my Amptron PIII-3700T motherboard by installing them backward.

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Re: Windows 95/98 games you never get tired of?

Posted on 2022-01-16, 21:36

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wirerogue wrote on 2020-10-23, 00:05: turok the dinosaur hunter tomb raider You stole my thunder!

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Re: Fan headers not operational on Amptron PIII-3700T motherboard. Can someone help me out?

Posted on 2022-01-16, 21:22

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by Meatball

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Problem solved! It occurred to me this morning I should try plugging in the fan “backwards.” I had nothing to lose, so why not give it a shot. I snapped off the guides cleanly and plugged in. It worked! And the fan onboard hardware monitoring shows the RPM. Both headers are working. Amazing! I could …

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

Posted on 2022-01-16, 21:14

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by Meatball

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ECS P5VX-A motherboard verification complete. I couldn’t get this board to do anything. Replacing Dallas RTC’s was before my time. The included Dallas was reportedly brand new. I was supplied with a few others, but they were all different model numbers. The DS14287 is the one which ultimately worked …

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

Posted on 2022-01-16, 20:43

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by Meatball

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Lots of “work” to do today testing recent hardware pickups and validating a few problems (such as fan headers and a SCSI CD Drive) on existing hardware.

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Re: Fan headers not operational on Amptron PIII-3700T motherboard. Can someone help me out?

Posted on 2022-01-16, 13:05

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By looking it over, pretty much only 3 things need to be considered to have working fans on this board (or a lot of other boards that work similarly): 1. 12V is making it to the fan header 2. Working low side switching FETs, the little 3-pin SOT-23 components next to the headers with DGS labels on …

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Re: Fan headers not operational on Amptron PIII-3700T motherboard. Can someone help me out?

Posted on 2022-01-16, 12:58

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by Meatball

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rmay635703 wrote on 2022-01-16, 02:34: I’ve found fan headers to be unreliable at best, just wire the fan directly into one of the hd power connectors straight off the supply This is what I was doing. Another vote to not worry about it?

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Re: Fan headers not operational on Amptron PIII-3700T motherboard. Can someone help me out?

Posted on 2022-01-16, 12:57

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by Meatball

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I had an Intel 44LX board that had a fan header that wouldnt work and it turns out it was a transistor that was hooked to that header, I replaced it and the header is working again...... I'm guessing a former owner hooked up a fan that drew to much power and blew out that transistor but then again …

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Re: Fan headers not operational on Amptron PIII-3700T motherboard. Can someone help me out?

Posted on 2022-01-16, 12:54

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I never heard of TX3 compatible fans. What is this and what this adapter look like? Please provide photos of these two items. Lecture: The correct terms for using fans for this vintage is 3 wire fans which is power, ground and tach signal for rpm information. The correct adapter to provide power …

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[SOLVED] Fan headers not operational on Amptron PIII-3700T motherboard. Can someone help me out?

Posted on 2022-01-16, 01:04

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by Meatball

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I’ve plugged in numerous TX3 compatible fans into both headers and nothing happens. The board works great, otherwise. Both SDR and DDR slots (x2 each) work fine. I was able to fully install Windows, and I could play a variety of games with a variety of CPUs from Coppermine 533MHz Celerons@66mhz FSB …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-01-15, 22:28

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I got these today from a guy nearby who is going through old boxes. Gonna keep in touch with him for sure as i need some parts for a coup[le 486 machines im working on . I was happy to grab these super, super cheap. First is this 5.25 inch floppy which I want for my IBM PS/1 486 SX 25 im fixing. It …

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