Skyscraper wrote:With the 1336A bus interface chip I guess it's better they did not install the sockets. […] Show full quote
Artex wrote:
Skyscraper wrote:
The TechnoPlus AudioSound 8 "Sound Machine".
Cool - the ole' Quickshot Sound Machine. Never seen one boxed. Got the 1336A chip and no sockets eh? Not that the CMS upgrade would work with that chip..
With the 1336A bus interface chip I guess it's better they did not install the sockets.
I need to check what bus interface chip my real Sound Blaster 2.0 has, it has sockets at least.
The seller was the one who broke the shrinkwrap to take pictures for Ebay but it's just as good, now I can use the card.
I taped the shrinkwrap back together for now though. 😁
So, apart from obtaining two Phillips SAA-1099 chips and a GAL16v8 chip, what else should one look out for on a Sound Blaster 2.0 sound card in order to achieve CMS compatibility?
Why wouldn't the CT1336A chip work?
This "little" guy arrived in the mail today (photo not mine). MSI PRO266TD Master-LR. Probably one of my luckiest deals ever, as the seller probably had 0 idea what the hell this board is. For 20 Euro in total, he even threw in a Celeron 1200 + Cooler as a bonus, I certainly can't complain. 🤣
Capacitors are TEAPO crap, although they all seem to be in great shape, where as all of the smaller, Lelon ones seem to be dead or in terrible condition. Gonna have a real field day recapping this board, but it is 100% worth it.
For those of you who don't know, this is one of the last Socket 370 boards. Based on the Apollo Pro 266T, tt has support for dual CPUs, all the way up to the Tualatin 1.4-S, DDR memory all the way up to 4GB ECC(!), 100MBit Ethernet and even RAID through a Promise ATA100 controller! And to top it all of, it's got an AGP Pro 4X slot, so it can properly run older cards.
Yes, this is a server board and I can't wait to recap this and install a couple of Tualatins and just go nuts.
That's nice! I have a similar board, the Tyan S2507T, and two Pentium III-S 1133. Sad thing is, the cooler attachment clips on the CPU sockets are broken 🙁
So, apart from obtaining two Phillips SAA-1099 chips and a GAL16v8 chip, what else should one look out for on a Sound Blaster 2.0 sound card in order to achieve CMS compatibility?
Why wouldn't the CT1336A chip work?
No cache, but as it's going on a 42MHz system the BUS speed should make up for it a bit. It's not going to matter too much anyway.
Caching boards are so hard to find anyway. Good luck with this - the presence of the >33MHz jumper is always a welcome sign on a VLB board! Would be interesting to see how it compares with PCI 😀
Thing is, there were three when I had looked two hours previously and when I came back, they were all gone. I wasn't that bothered, the only reason I even noticed was because one of them was only $5 more than the one I got.
This babe finally arrived today,if i correct it's PCCHIPS M216 comes together with 20 mhz Harris cpu and 10 mhz Amd fpu,cant wait till obtain ide controller and give it a try.
Posts well btw and seems some leaking battery was removed just before selling.
I took out an ad to look for Socket A hardware. Not much success with that, but somebody did offer an Socket A system with an Asus A7V motherboard. Which is also nice, that's a real classic! I got it today, it's in a nice bigtower, and also with an ATI Radeon 8500 😀 That's a card I have owned myself for quite some time!
Also included: a Soundblaster Live!; memory; Philips 48x CDROM; FDD and network adapter (Realtek I think). The CPU is a 'pin modded' Duron (the previous owner was proud his system and wanted to tell a lot about it 😀 with a Spire cooler).
the previous owner was proud his system and wanted to tell a lot about it
Yeah.... That's understandable with that load of dust inside. Must be really proud, yeah!!! 🤣
Joking aside.
Yeah. It is a nice system, and the case can hold a lot of stuff, wich is nice.
Good catch. Just that it really need some cleaning and some cablemanagement love.
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
I bought this motherboard some time ago and got it yesterday, I think HighTreason recognizes the model. 😀
The board was declared to be in perfect shape with the lastest BIOS, 3x 128MB memory and a single P2 400 were included. As often things are not as perfect as the seller believes, if Ebay sellers only could take better pictures then ones taken by 10 old phones much grief could be avoided. The board is equipped with 6 "NRSY green" capacitors, a known bad series. 3 caps are bulged, two are dodgy and one looks ok but is probably also in need of replacement.
I fully understand that the seller missed the bad caps, if your are not awere about the cap issue they are not always that easy to spot when they are not leaking. The motherboard also seem to work fine with one P3 Katmai 600 but it freezes (or just gets stuck without freezing) after post at the moment it finds a bootable drive and wont even load DOS with two P3 Katmai 600 installed. Im not fully convinced it's because the 6 bad NRSY green caps, I need to do more testing. I have also not yet decided if I will try to ask the seller for partial refund or not, in any case I want to keep the board. The price for the board was £40 + £14 shipping which is very reasonable if it would have been flawless.
The board is fully 3D stable in Windows XP with a single P3 Katmai 600 and a Quadro 4 980 XGL.
Supermicro Super P6DGU i440GX dual Slot-1. Notice the bad "NRSY green" caps around the AGP slot, there is also one by the 6 pin secondary power connector (behind the memory) and one by the BIOS chip.
First you steal my processors and then to add insult to injury you buy the board I was going to plug them into. 😠😜
I've never actually seen another "GU" out there. A few "GE" and "BU" models but never another "GU" like mine, it is a good board. Oddly, the caps are still good on mine. Try the P2 again, because if it's a really old version of the BIOS it might not start if it lacks the CPU microcode, SuperMicro did some strange things to the way it handles that. Probably isn't it if you're actually seeing a POST but worth a try. Also don''t forget the AUX power next to the RAM, it won't like you if you don't have that connected.
The board can be stubborn about starting if you do something it isn't comfortable with, but in those cases it generally doesn't POST, so the caps would definitely be top suspect to me unless someone has overclocked the chipset with inadequate cooling.
I win anyway, because when I bought mine I got free stuff. The guy who sold me it (many years ago now) forgot to sent the SCSI cables and driver disk along with other things, I told him I didn't care but he mailed it anyway along with a load of chocolate bars and stuff... I checked them thoroughly for poison, but they were fine.
rein_ein wrote:This babe finally arrived today,if i correct it's PCCHIPS M216 comes together with 20 mhz Harris cpu and 10 mhz Amd fpu,cant wai […] Show full quote
This babe finally arrived today,if i correct it's PCCHIPS M216 comes together with 20 mhz Harris cpu and 10 mhz Amd fpu,cant wait till obtain ide controller and give it a try.
Posts well btw and seems some leaking battery was removed just before selling.
I have a feeling that despite it being 20MHz the whole system might be slow, in fact slower than fast 16MHz 286 boards.
