Re: About video broadcasting...
Posted on 2022-03-31, 16:43
Jo22 wrote on 2022-03-31, 09:33: Videotext? 🙂 I also thought that it could be CC but I am unsure.
Re: Mystery "Aureal Vortex 3" Based Sound Card
Posted on 2022-03-31, 06:46
I think that it might be the real thing. Only way to tell is to install it with the older drivers and see if it gets picked up. It might be an old stock of chips that never made it into cards (Either QA, market dried up (because of Creative) it was stocked and forgotten until 2010 when a chinese …
Re: Identify removable chip from motherboard?
Posted on 2022-03-31, 06:39
That is a Flash memory. https://datasheetspdf.com/pdf-file/527378/MXIC/28F2000PPC/1 And unless it has some wonky hardware -dual bios, is a specialty board with some extra funcionality or something like that - that is your boards bios. Or where it should be stored.
About video broadcasting...
Posted on 2022-03-31, 06:35
So, I recently noticed -allright, I had noticed a long time ago but wasnt curious enough to ask - that some TV transmissions have what I can only distinguish as some data blocks on top of them. they are mostly visible when the horizontal sync is lost and the picture scrolls. So my question is... can …
Re: A graphics card I bought lasted only a few seconds before dying
Posted on 2022-03-30, 23:51
It's a FireGL 8700 (Radeon 8500). I removed the tantalum and it tests fine. There is still a low resistance between the pads but it's not a dead short and this may be normal for the circuit. I don't have another card to compare. Unless I can find a bad capacitor, there is nothing visibly wrong with …
Re: nVIDIA TNT2 M64 and Pentium III 866 - good combo?
Posted on 2022-03-30, 23:37
Depends a bit on the board, but 815 chipset is basically the higher end version of the i810 chipset. It's kinda hard to recommend i810 chipset btw, if only because of its limitations (and especially the no-AGP bit and PCI bus issues this chipset seemed to have). The 815ep is kind of "high end" if …
Re: nVIDIA TNT2 M64 and Pentium III 866 - good combo?
Posted on 2022-03-29, 19:20
Ah, I had to give away my TNT2 due to a mishap when fixing a friends computer. Brings back fond memories. And like almost everyone else said. There are a lot of games / apps from that era (and before it) that would benefit both from the greater bandwith than what a PCI card can provide and somewhat …
Re: Win95 drivers for Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit Ethernet
Posted on 2022-03-28, 01:32
Quick question(s). Are you running Windows 95B on that board, on bare metal? If so... why? I mean, seriously. This is extremely overpowered for a Windows 95 build. I am honestly curious...
Re: Computer locks up/freezes during file transfer
Posted on 2022-03-27, 23:45
I have a 486 PC I recently bought and I've been trying to back up the hard drive. I don't own any other PC's with IDE ports, or have any other IDE hard drives I could plug into it, which made it difficult. My first attempt was to hook up my laptop and use interlnk/intersvr to transfer the files …
Re: Dead DVI Port on FX5950
Posted on 2022-03-27, 14:43
Can you post pictures of your card, specifically the area between GPU and the ports? A picture looking into the port may be also helpful. Have you tried a different DVI cable btw? ... now would you believe that the cable on the back of the monitor wasn't screwed it and was just loose...? Haha... no …
Re: Geforce 2 mx 400 woes
Posted on 2022-03-27, 14:39
I can’t seem to get pci video to work on any of my agp mobos. So I’m kinda limited for that test, and it still won’t show anything on dvi in post screen… ugh, Is there a way to edit the video bios or something? Surely the problem is there? Hmmmm... I've gotten AGP Motherboards to post both with ISA …
Re: Geforce 2 mx 400 woes
Posted on 2022-03-26, 19:42
Man, I am envious from the mobo alone. That said, I think it may be something to do with the PCI version that you might be using. Something tells me the motherboard does not properly know how to speak to the card -so to speak - so you might want to try the card on another motherboard -something a …
Re: One of my computers caught fire today
Posted on 2022-03-26, 17:16
I have seen some issues with some "Epitaxial" mosfets that for some reason, after working perfectly for a long time even during extended periods of time, decide one day "Allright, I've had enough with this, this is the end for me" and boom, they bring down the rest of the equipment with them. I …
Re: Geforce 2 mx 400 woes
Posted on 2022-03-26, 16:46
Man, I am envious from the mobo alone. That said, I think it may be something to do with the PCI version that you might be using. Something tells me the motherboard does not properly know how to speak to the card -so to speak - so you might want to try the card on another motherboard -something a …
Re: Crazy Prices, im thinking about fixing some of my broken video cards.
Posted on 2022-03-26, 02:56
I know of a little program that tests memory but the thing is it cannot tell you which chip is the faulty one. Video Memory Stress Test. Pasting this link but do let me know if that's a no no. https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/video_memory_stress_test.html That said, the last time I had light …
Re: Display is garbled with DVI when running DOS games in Windows 98SE
Posted on 2022-03-25, 23:28
Hmmm... that sounds weird. I know the card you mention has a converter (takes the output of the card and converts it to DVI) but I think it may not be capable of handling the modes the game is putting the card into. I'd advise you if you have a DVI to HDMI cable maybe that may resolve the issue for …
Re: crappy old power supplies
Posted on 2022-03-25, 22:19
I have a few but I am ashamed to say that I have not melted them yet, let alone post a picture. I'll post a picture once I get on the melty melty side of things (warms flamethrower) :D You indiscriminately torch a fully assembled p/s? Something tells me you're at least partially joking ... No, I …
Re: nVIDIA TNT2 M64 and Pentium III 866 - good combo?
Posted on 2022-03-25, 21:53
Ah, I had to give away my TNT2 due to a mishap when fixing a friends computer. Brings back fond memories. And like almost everyone else said. There are a lot of games / apps from that era (and before it) that would benefit both from the greater bandwith than what a PCI card can provide and somewhat …
Re: crappy old power supplies
Posted on 2022-03-25, 21:42
Oh... Those PSU's are prone to sudden death. It may be the capacitors or sometimes the mosfets, in my experience, I've seen a couple blow up right as you plug in the powercord into the computer. And as was stated before, bad filtering with no protections means that unless the hardware you have is …
Re: Compaq Deskpro EX Mainboard 203966-001 showing Error Messages
Posted on 2022-03-25, 21:13
Hi, I am curious if you ever found a way to update the bios chip in yours to support the newer microcode. Reason being that I just built one with that exact motherboard and mine, for some weird reason did not let me update the bios. I wanted to use a Tualatin on that board -which I know from …
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