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Re: Need help identifiying old CPU

Posted on 2016-02-06, 16:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

EDIT: (removed duplicated picture) In imgur you can just add an "m" to the file name to get a medium thumbnail ("s" for a smaller one and "l" for a larger one). Use the "img" tag to put the thumbnail and make it a link with the "url" tag, like this: [url=http://i.imgur.com/cPYa7Ek.jpg][img]http://i. …

Re: New retro-PC

Posted on 2016-02-06, 16:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey! Nice looking AT case there =) You could try this: Get the FreeDOS 1.0 bootable floppy and boot from it Partition the HD with FDISK, set the first primary partition as active and reboot Run "FDISK /MBR" for good measure Then format the partition with "FORMAT C: /S" (assuming the boot CD sees the …

Re: Taking screenshots of DOS programs on a real PC

Posted on 2016-02-06, 16:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Try this: http://www.phatcode.net/downloads.php?id=194

Re: ASUS P3C-D boards not starting

Posted on 2016-02-06, 16:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You could try the following: Leave those boards without a battery for a few hours Leave the boards on for a while (lets say an hour or two) to recondition some capacitors Try booting with a single processor (do those boards support that?) Try an old PCI graphics card EDIT: if the BIOS chip is …

Re: Hello! And building a PC advice...

Posted on 2016-02-06, 15:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BIOS update: https://web.archive.org/web/20000620121102/ht … ww.soyousa.com/ It claims to support Via CIII, so I doubt it won't work with Katmai Pentium 3.

Re: Socket-775 Clock Signals

Posted on 2016-02-06, 15:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

/\ In what version of Windows? AFAIK Vista uses HPET for the performance timers. And don't Core2 processors have constant TSC anyway, or else SpeedStep would mess it up?

Re: Hello! And building a PC advice...

Posted on 2016-02-06, 13:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Since that motherboard has ISA slots, you could probably just add a cheap AWE64 Value or an Audician 32 (Yamaha) and use both the SBLive! (great for Windows games) and the ISA card in pure DOS. Then just route the Live!'s line out to the ISA card's Line In, the speakers/headphones to the ISA card's …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-02-06, 01:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks! I'll look at them carefully tomorrow. I'll see what replacements I can source in Brazil, but I just might have to order them from the US through Digikey.

Re: Hello! And building a PC advice...

Posted on 2016-02-06, 01:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just a quick note - it is useless for a case to have a turbo button if there is nowhere to connect it to the motherboard. Turbo buttons stopped being a thing since the Pentium Classics (few Socket 5/7 motherboards support it), but common on 486 and below. If you REALLY want a single PC to cover the …

Re: Need help identifiying old CPU

Posted on 2016-02-05, 22:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'd say this is an Intel or AMD 486 processor.

Re: My SiS 730S Duron system!

Posted on 2016-02-05, 19:01

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I'd personally go for option #3: Put the socketed system in another case that has the PSU mounted at the top and use the current case for a Slot 1 build, since that's kinda the only way you'll get kinda optimal airflow that way. I would if I had a good (and beige) spare miniATX case - that would've …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-02-05, 18:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes CEC = CEC Coils. Owned by CEC International Holdings. I think they stopped making caps to focus on their inductor and transformer business. No more caps datasheets online. There were 9 varieties (series) of PCE-Txx that I know of. I have the datasheets archived if you need info. Are CEC …

Re: What is memory interleaving?

Posted on 2016-02-05, 18:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You're welcome. I also plan on testing it on my Tually Celeron =)

Re: My SiS 730S Duron system!

Posted on 2016-02-05, 16:38

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I think it is around a centimeter. The PSU currently in does not have a second exhausting from the case, so that doesn't worry me as much, but it is a cheap gutless wonder with a bulging cap that I have to replace ASAP. This Enermax is filled with PCE-TUR/TUL caps that aren't great, but they look …

Re: My SiS 730S Duron system!

Posted on 2016-02-05, 15:11

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Well, since the topic resurfaced anyway, I might as well ask it here (as it is about the same system). I have a new PSU with two fans - one on the back and one on the bottom. If I installed it in this case the bottom PSU fan and the CPU fan would compete for air and neither would do their job well …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-02-05, 11:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

New 5V-heavy PSU! http://i.imgur.com/ujZq7G9m.jpg?1 Was very dirty so I had to clean thoroughly... here are the innards: http://i.imgur.com/fOxTm7Pm.jpg?1 Aaaand its full for "PCE-Tur" and "PCE-Tul" capacitors (appears to be from a brand called CEC from what I could find). Crap cap map: http://i. …

Re: What is memory interleaving?

Posted on 2016-02-05, 10:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

According to this even SS7 chipsets supported interleaving.

Re: My SiS 730S Duron system!

Posted on 2016-02-05, 10:11

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I had done so already (but forgot to mention here - I believe that system is set to use GM60MB.SAM or GM24KMB.SAM). Too bad SNDTSR is useless when it comes to using anything other than GM10MB.SAM

Re: PSU - bust the myth

Posted on 2016-02-04, 15:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Could it be that it is powering each VSA chip from a different rail? Kind of what some dual-Athlon motherboards do.

Re: Will you ever build a Win7 retro PC?

Posted on 2016-02-04, 15:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh, yeah. I missed the link for whatever reason, did not know you could do that.

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