Re: Modern motherboard with ISA slot

Posted on 2011-01-03, 07:45

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Going back to the OP, I did some searches for modern ISA-slot p4 mainboards a few weeks ago. The one that looked best for me [partly cos I have a microATX case spare...] was an Intel D845GECL, micro-ATX, 1 ISA slot, 1 AGP 4x slot. But there were also boards by iBase, iTox, Zeiss, Kontron,QDI and …

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Re: MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

Posted on 2010-12-25, 21:16

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Happy Christmas everyone!

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Re: Testing a Terratec EWS64XL; includes Doom recording

Posted on 2010-12-20, 22:44

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elianda wrote: The SB Pro Mute bug was already solved awhile ago. Just run cs32mix afterwards and its fixed. Wow, many thanks for that - I obviously missed that thread when it was new, but I recently got an ews64xl to play with so that is great to know!

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Re: Testing a Terratec EWS64XL; includes Doom recording

Posted on 2010-12-20, 14:48

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ftp://ftp.terratec.de/Audio/EWS/64XL/ for terratec downloads, in cae you hadn't found that. I think this card cannot do dos sound together with a daughterboard for MDI music. I think silent loon posted about this, but I had my own nugatory experiences too. Edit: this contains the post I was …

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Re: Tech Music - For the moment when you're tinkering with your PC...

Posted on 2010-12-18, 11:52

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I used to put quake 1 on for background noise when painting [as in pictures, not woodwork]. There was a time I knew every grunt and machine gun in the demo off by heart. I never used the music on the cd. To be honest, I keep some of my old boxes operational just so I can fire up a game and leave it …

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Re: Post your list of (un)favorite motherboard manufacturers here!

Posted on 2010-12-17, 07:39

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My favourites: Asrock - I had a cheap-seeming 462 board [K7S8X] with a SiS chipset but it ran for years without problems. Since then I've had a couple of the hybrid boards - aliveDUAL-eSATA2 in my main "family" machine and a 4coreDUAL-SATA2 in a second box. They have the PCI-E and AGP [=why I bought …

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xonar with headphone amp

Posted on 2010-12-15, 07:21

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Been wondering about getting a newer soundcard as the most up to date thing I have is a Santa Cruz, and that's not installed anyway. My "reasonably up to date" PCs either use on board sound, or a vortex2 with scb-7 that's in there for reasons I forget. Anyway... I was wondering about a xonar, …

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Re: What PCI sound card sounds closest to an ISA Soundblaster 16?

Posted on 2010-12-09, 07:15

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I would certainly be interested to hear fm music played through it, compared to sb pro 2 and sb16.

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Re: Public brainstorm:future computer memory.

Posted on 2010-12-08, 23:41

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Reminded me of this: http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/920027 … greater_density

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Re: What PCI sound card sounds closest to an ISA Soundblaster 16?

Posted on 2010-12-07, 09:06

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Others have suggested Aureal Vortex 2 based sound cards. I suspect those who suggest a vortex card for fm synthesis probably have not heard fm on a sound blaster. Vortex 2 will play fm music and you might like tit, but it is nothing like you get with a sound blaster [maybe i just mean opl cards]. …

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Re: Hardware accidents

Posted on 2010-12-07, 07:40

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I once left some cheap powered speakers on overnight and when I got up next day, they had melted their cases - they stood there sagging forlornly and smelling of burnt plastic. The same model was still on sale years later at maplins... Also recall fumbling aroung trying to fit a molex onto a cd- …

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Re: Pentium IV based mobo and Windows 98?

Posted on 2010-12-04, 12:53

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Wow thanks tetrium, I'll have a browse of that, looks hopeful 😁 .

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Re: Pentium IV based mobo and Windows 98?

Posted on 2010-12-04, 12:38

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I've used windows 98 and me on three P4 motherboards. One is a socket 478 and two LGA 775 based boards. All boards were fitted with only 512MB DDR400 RAM . The processors were P4 3 GHz and 2.8 GHz. Worked well without any problems. And I didn't install any patches. Sorry for resurrecting an old …

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Re: Giant socket A/462 heatsink

Posted on 2010-11-17, 15:16

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I used one of those ones that looked like an air turbine. Had the pc standing as a tower. When I removed the heatsink, it was dented in where the corners of the cpu pressed. After that I went back to normal heatsinks, I didn't want to risk damaging the cpu die. Some of the heavier heatsinks bolt …

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Re: What's the difference between a green and a brown Palomino 2100+ ?

Posted on 2010-11-10, 19:13

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http://techreport.com/articles.x/3481/1 where it says: "Yep, it's minty green. AMD says it's changing its processors to match its company color. However, we all know AMD always has Intel on its mind, and I'm sure it didn't hurt that the new color makes this CPU look an awful lot like some Intel …

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MT32 power supply rating?

Posted on 2010-11-10, 18:28

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So, I bought an MT32 on ebay a while ago. It came with a PSU and the light came on when I plugged it it, but I had nothing to try it out on so I put it in a cupboard until now... Now I have got it all out to use, I notice that the MT32 says "use a Roland adapter" and that it requires 9V at 650mA. …

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Re: 56.6 flex / X2 / V.90 modems for sale.

Posted on 2010-11-05, 15:27

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I have an internal hardware modem somewhere, I think it's PCI. I remember hunting it down to use with linux, as getting winmodem drivers was a hassle with that OS.

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Re: Gigabyte GA-5AX SS7 overclock to 105 FSB using P55C?

Posted on 2010-11-04, 22:07

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: Sorry I forgot to mention that the config.sys tool is for DOS. For windows there are "on the fly" tools but I am unaware of such a tool for DOS... Yeah, it was ctu I was thinking of, a windows application.

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Re: Gigabyte GA-5AX SS7 overclock to 105 FSB using P55C?

Posted on 2010-11-04, 21:14

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Mau1wurf1977 wrote: There is even a config.sys driver where you can set the CPU multi when you boot the machine 😀 I recall having had a utility to change the cpu settings [multiplier, maybe others] on the fly with k6/2+ and k6/3+ chips.

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Re: 56.6 flex / X2 / V.90 modems for sale.

Posted on 2010-11-04, 16:15

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I've been looking at my old modems wondering whether I will ever need them again, I expect others are in the same boat. Are modems of any use in retro-gaming or is it really just if you are on dial-up for the internet?

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