BitWrangler wrote on 2025-08-05, 19:00:

If my brain is working right, B is just fixed A and 133 works right.

A is 66 and B is 100, 133 works also at ide 100. I try to flash it with latest bios and try to use bios patcher also.

http://www.rom.by/articles/BP/index_english.htm
https://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/bios_patcher.html

Bios string will be wrong if i flash it with this bios. 🙁
10/31/2003-8363-686A-JA6LMC2CC-00
i need
10/31/2003-8363-686B-JA6LMC2CC-00
https://www.wimsbios.com/forum/hard-drive-isn … c2cc-t4692.html

I’ve recently bought a few pieces for my retro build, which I will probably put together around October:

- Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650
- ASUS Striker II Extreme
- MSI GTX 280 OC
- X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion
- Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600Mhz CL9

AndreaColombo86 wrote on 2025-08-06, 13:35:

I’ve recently bought a few pieces for my retro build, which I will probably put together around October: […]
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I’ve recently bought a few pieces for my retro build, which I will probably put together around October:

- Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650
- ASUS Striker II Extreme
- MSI GTX 280 OC
- X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion
- Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600Mhz CL9

I think a lot of people would not consider this retro, however I'm personally a big fan of Socket 775 so would 😀

Picked up some processors this week...

nfraser01 wrote on 2025-08-06, 14:58:

I think a lot of people would not consider this retro, however I'm personally a big fan of Socket 775 so would 😀

Well, 2008 was 17 years ago, that’s firmly in retro territory for me 😅 I’ll be running WinXP SP3 on it and play games spanning 1998-2007.

Its been a very long time since I logged in. However, I was bored one day and looked on ebay. Found an inexpensive 386 tower with free shipping a few days ago, so bought it. It came today. It had a CD-ROM ISA controller, a GD5420 VGA ISA card, a respectable M321 board with a TLC486-40 cpu in it, 4mb of ram, and.......holy shiz, this baby (no, I'm not selling it. I've been wanting a Roland SCC-1 FOREVER):

dogchainx wrote on 2025-08-06, 18:20:

Its been a very long time since I logged in. However, I was bored one day and looked on ebay. Found an inexpensive 386 tower with free shipping a few days ago, so bought it. It came today. It had a CD-ROM ISA controller, a GD5420 VGA ISA card, a respectable M321 board with a TLC486-40 cpu in it, 4mb of ram, and.......holy shiz, this baby (no, I'm not selling it. I've been wanting a Roland SCC-1 FOREVER):

Awesome find! I suppose the listing had a photo of the back of the case and when you saw those midi+audio ports your instincts kicked in and hit "Buy It Now" immediately?

Did not buy, because I already have one, but was interested to see that Walmart is claiming to have a Dell Ultrascan 15FS in stock (SVGA CRT monitor from 1993)

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Dell-ultrascan-15FS/13850823861

dogchainx wrote on 2025-08-06, 18:20:

this baby (no, I'm not selling it. I've been wanting a Roland SCC-1 FOREVER):

This is what is called "the golden standard"! Congrats)

TheMobRules wrote on 2025-08-06, 19:32:

dogchainx wrote on 2025-08-06, 18:20:

Its been a very long time since I logged in. However, I was bored one day and looked on ebay. Found an inexpensive 386 tower with free shipping a few days ago, so bought it. It came today. It had a CD-ROM ISA controller, a GD5420 VGA ISA card, a respectable M321 board with a TLC486-40 cpu in it, 4mb of ram, and.......holy shiz, this baby (no, I'm not selling it. I've been wanting a Roland SCC-1 FOREVER):

Awesome find! I suppose the listing had a photo of the back of the case and when you saw those midi+audio ports your instincts kicked in and hit "Buy It Now" immediately?

Yes, there was a photo, but I have been out of the vintage computing space for a while due to life changes, I didn't even think it was THE Roland. I thought it was some stupid audio converter for the CD-ROM drive, and wondered at the time why there was two of them. I figured if it had a TLC486-40 in it, the motherboard might be worthwhile. I ended up with the awesome Roland SCC-1, and a good vintage system. I'm happy!

Bought this Abit VL6 socket 370 motherboard super cheap from an eBay auction, described as "Not working". The seller noted it immediately powering off, suggesting a short.

I checked the ATX header for shorts, but couldn't find any with a multimeter. There were 5 capacitors absolutely blown, and a few more of the same values bulging. I replaced all of these types (2200uf 6.3v and 1500uf) with odd spares I had from a mix of Rubycon, Nichicon and Panasonic. Seems to boot fine now!

There are a lot of 1000uf 10v capacitors of the same green type as the bad ones. Worth replacing those?

The cooler I have on the P3 733 (also cheap from eBay) is a random one I think was left from a Socket 7 board. It's really noisy! Should I get a bigger/better cooler for this relatively fast P3? (Is the Startech one any good? The heatsink part looks a lot like this one) I've left the soft configuration on 300Mhz for now to keep the temp down.

I gather the VIA Apollo Pro 133A chipset isn't the best, but it finally gives me a Socket 370 board with ISA - that seems really hard to find now!

I noticed the audio chip is a Yamaha YMF-752. Is that just a generic AC97 chip that happened to be made by Yamaha?

Todays thrift pickups, two boxed Startech PCI sound cards "starsound" have CMI8738 chip, making PCI DOS sound possible with DDMA support. (Depending on motherboard) and also an Asus PCIe 1x wifi card. Whole lot was a big mac meal worth.

Nice that they have lo-pro brackets. Initial thought is to be using them on some duron/low athlon systems.

Heard y'all luv some duallies.

PcBytes wrote on 2025-08-11, 13:05:

Heard y'all luv some duallies.

Yes we do.

Well technically not a dual yet. 😏
Work in progress on the C440GX+, two 550 Xeons with 2MB are on its way.

Here's a question. Is there any list of 66MHz 32-bit graphics cards or known GPUs who support a 66 MHz PCI bus?

PcBytes wrote on 2025-08-11, 13:05:

Heard y'all luv some duallies.

These Hercules cards are genuinely beautiful. I remember seeing the ad for these Hercules cards in magazines back in the early 2000s and drool over them, but I couldn't afford them at the time 😅.

I can touch it, so it's hardware right?

Office Data Take 5 storage for 3.5" diskettes. Never seen these.

nfraser01 wrote on 2025-08-06, 14:58:

AndreaColombo86 wrote on 2025-08-06, 13:35:

I’ve recently bought a few pieces for my retro build, which I will probably put together around October: […]
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I’ve recently bought a few pieces for my retro build, which I will probably put together around October:

- Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650
- ASUS Striker II Extreme
- MSI GTX 280 OC
- X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty Champion
- Kingston HyperX DDR3 1600Mhz CL9

I think a lot of people would not consider this retro, however I'm personally a big fan of Socket 775 so would 😀

Dont worry my friend !... it is getting there 😀
A nice pentium 4 is already obsolete and from obsolete to retro is just a little jump 😀

PD2JK wrote on 2025-08-11, 19:37:

Yes we do. […]
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PcBytes wrote on 2025-08-11, 13:05:

Heard y'all luv some duallies.

Yes we do.

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Well technically not a dual yet. 😏
Work in progress on the C440GX+, two 550 Xeons with 2MB are on its way.

Here's a question. Is there any list of 66MHz 32-bit graphics cards or known GPUs who support a 66 MHz PCI bus?

Matrox Parhelia PCI 256MB PH-P256

Re: A useless short analysis on PCIX to PCIe bridge performance on Tualatin

Grem Five wrote on 2025-08-12, 15:27:

PD2JK wrote on 2025-08-11, 19:37:

Yes we do. […]
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PcBytes wrote on 2025-08-11, 13:05:

Heard y'all luv some duallies.

Yes we do.

The attachment DSC_5689.JPG is no longer available

Well technically not a dual yet. 😏
Work in progress on the C440GX+, two 550 Xeons with 2MB are on its way.

Here's a question. Is there any list of 66MHz 32-bit graphics cards or known GPUs who support a 66 MHz PCI bus?

Matrox Parhelia PCI 256MB PH-P256

Re: A useless short analysis on PCIX to PCIe bridge performance on Tualatin

Hmm, now I'm curious if it will operate at 32 bit / 66 MHz.

I wanted a serial mouse to replace the somewhat broken Microsoft one I have, ended up buying 3 with ps/2 adapters, one ADB for old macs, a vintage mousepad and a PPC601 cpu.