This child, after CF-boot and battery related problems, seems to be good 😉 - I'll take it to my house, near 'main' PC, with that little cute 15" Compaq CRT - for 'fast' DOS gaming <3

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This child, after CF-boot and battery related problems, seems to be good ;) - I'll take it to my house, near 'main' PC, with tha […]
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This child, after CF-boot and battery related problems, seems to be good 😉 - I'll take it to my house, near 'main' PC, with that little cute 15" Compaq CRT - for 'fast' DOS gaming <3

It seems like a really nice system. 😀

Skyscraper wrote:

Indrid Cold wrote:

This child, after CF-boot and battery related problems, seems to be good ;) - I'll take it to my house, near 'main' PC, with tha […]
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This child, after CF-boot and battery related problems, seems to be good 😉 - I'll take it to my house, near 'main' PC, with that little cute 15" Compaq CRT - for 'fast' DOS gaming <3

It seems like a really nice system. 😀

Thanks 😉

Indrid Cold wrote:

This child, after CF-boot and battery related problems, seems to be good ;) - I'll take it to my house, near 'main' PC, with tha […]
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This child, after CF-boot and battery related problems, seems to be good 😉 - I'll take it to my house, near 'main' PC, with that little cute 15" Compaq CRT - for 'fast' DOS gaming <3

VL-Bus and stuff... Nice. 😜

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Indrid Cold wrote:

This child, after CF-boot and battery related problems, seems to be good ;) - I'll take it to my house, near 'main' PC, with tha […]
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This child, after CF-boot and battery related problems, seems to be good 😉 - I'll take it to my house, near 'main' PC, with that little cute 15" Compaq CRT - for 'fast' DOS gaming <3

VL-Bus and stuff... Nice. 😜

Thanks, I can say it is a clean machine, in wonderful shape, after all. Love that 'Intel Inside'sticker

Yesterday I removed Winxp off my Abit machine due to it being too sluggish, even with 1Gig Sdram installed and
put Win2000 on it. I'm a bit surprised that a 128MB 9800xt beats a 6800GT in 3dmark2001 but I did get higher
FPS in Doom 3, around 44fps.
The Video card and Cpu is being bottlenecked quite severely by 133mhz sdram and KT133 Chipset I think, unsurprising when I think
that this mobo started life with a Duron 650@800-900mhz and a TNT2 Pro and 192MB Ram.

The 6800GT is in there really only for benchmarking and to see how far it could be pushed, I'll shove the 9800xt
back in there once I'm finished mucking about with it.

After some trouble with drivers not working, I managed to test out my recently-acquired Banshee PCI. It seems to be fully working! Not bad for $12 off of eBay including shipping. I tested it using a K6-2 450MHz on a Mitac 5114VU super socket 7 mobo (VIA MVP4 chipset) out of a Compaq system:

HighTreason wrote:

At least some boards try to charge the batteries. You can sometimes get away with it and you'll probably be fine, but I like not to take the risk on the off-chance the battery decides to pop. As such, I would probably have added a diode, though that might require a different set of batteries if the voltage drops too far - the diode will have a marginal effect on the voltage.

I own two 486 motherboards and (1) 386 motherboard. I've measured all of them, and not a single one of them output any power on the cmos battery terminals at all when running. They don't charge anything.

Both of my 486's have been connected to a 4xAA NiMh bank for cmos for going on 5 years now. Haven't had to remove em for a charge yet.

Skyscraper wrote:

Im doing some benchmarking. 😀

I know the CPU I need is in this box...

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😲 Jeez at least put some newspaper inbetween 😉

I am doing inventory so I finally have a list of all my stuff (except for memory/cables etc). Today was CPU day 😀

> 😲 Jeez at least put some newspaper inbetween 😉

That would increase the risk of static electricity 😉

h-a-l-9000 wrote:

> 😲 Jeez at least put some newspaper inbetween 😉

That would increase the risk of static electricity 😉

I got this package today. The best ESD protection ever.

Skyscraper wrote:

I got this package today. The best ESD protection ever. […]
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h-a-l-9000 wrote:

> 😲 Jeez at least put some newspaper inbetween 😉

That would increase the risk of static electricity 😉

I got this package today. The best ESD protection ever.

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Oh, my Lord! Please, just shuffle your feet along the carpet really good before touching all the components, will you? That will put the poor board out of its misery.

Skyscraper wrote:

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It's an ASUS XP55T2P4, they are unkillable.

Cyrix200+ wrote:

I am doing inventory so I finally have a list of all my stuff (except for memory/cables etc). Today was CPU day 😀

Nice collection - IIT, Cyrix MII, PPro, Pentium Gold Tops, and a DEC Alpha next to the K6s?

vetz wrote:

Skyscraper wrote:

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It's an ASUS XP55T2P4, they are unkillable.

Yes they are! 😀

Azarien wrote:

Trying to fix a CRT.

Yay, it worked!

Skyscraper wrote:

I got this package today. The best ESD protection ever.

Ouch!!!!

kithylin wrote:

I own two 486 motherboards and (1) 386 motherboard. I've measured all of them, and not a single one of them output any power on the cmos battery terminals at all when running. They don't charge anything.

Both of my 486's have been connected to a 4xAA NiMh bank for cmos for going on 5 years now. Haven't had to remove em for a charge yet.

There is a difference in barrel batteries then? Intriguing... Hmmmm...
Someone know how to spot if a 386/486-mobo need chargeable or non-chargeable batteries

brostenen wrote:

kithylin wrote:

I own two 486 motherboards and (1) 386 motherboard. I've measured all of them, and not a single one of them output any power on the cmos battery terminals at all when running. They don't charge anything.

Both of my 486's have been connected to a 4xAA NiMh bank for cmos for going on 5 years now. Haven't had to remove em for a charge yet.

There is a difference in barrel batteries then? Intriguing... Hmmmm...
Someone know how to spot if a 386/486-mobo need chargeable or non-chargeable batteries

Probably do what I did, connect a digital volt meter to the terminals when it's on and see if it's outputting any voltage. If it does then it charges, if it doesn't then use whatever battery you have and just know you'll have to replace it some day.

Even though my 486's are on packs of nimh cells, they were specifically drained down to 3.3v (Before connecting to the machine) 5 years ago and one is down to 1.65v now the other down to 1.77v when I checked last week.

So they don't charge and they're just drain-only. I have their bios settings saved in pictures on my other machine so some day when they get low enough to lose settings I'll recharge em. So far it's going on 5 years now since this feb 2016 and haven't had to yet.