Reply 3301 of 27788, by Skyscraper
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 […]
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. 😀
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.
Reply 3302 of 27788, by Indrid Cold
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wrote: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 […]
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 😉
Reply 3303 of 27788, by brostenen
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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 […]
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. 😜
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
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Reply 3304 of 27788, by Indrid Cold
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wrote: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 […]
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
Reply 3305 of 27788, by Imperious
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.
Atari 2600, TI994a, Vic20, c64, ZX Spectrum 128, Amstrad CPC464, Atari 65XE, Commodore Plus/4, Amiga 500
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Reply 3306 of 27788, by Sutekh94
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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:
That one vintage computer enthusiast brony.
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Reply 3307 of 27788, by kithylin
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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.
Reply 3308 of 27788, by Cyrix200+
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wrote:Im doing some benchmarking. 😀
I know the CPU I need is in this box...
😲 Jeez at least put some newspaper inbetween 😉
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Reply 3309 of 27788, by Cyrix200+
Reply 3310 of 27788, by h-a-l-9000
> 😲 Jeez at least put some newspaper inbetween 😉
That would increase the risk of static electricity 😉
1+1=10
Reply 3311 of 27788, by Skyscraper
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.
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.
Reply 3312 of 27788, by clueless1
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wrote:I got this package today. The best ESD protection ever. […]
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.
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.
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Reply 3313 of 27788, by vetz
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wrote:snip
It's an ASUS XP55T2P4, they are unkillable.
Reply 3314 of 27788, by brassicGamer
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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?
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Reply 3315 of 27788, by Skyscraper
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It's an ASUS XP55T2P4, they are unkillable.
Yes they are! 😀
New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.
Reply 3316 of 27788, by Azarien
wrote:Trying to fix a CRT.
Yay, it worked!
Reply 3317 of 27788, by brostenen
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wrote:I got this package today. The best ESD protection ever.
Ouch!!!!
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
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Reply 3318 of 27788, by brostenen
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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
Don't eat stuff off a 15 year old never cleaned cpu cooler.
Those cakes make you sick....
My blog: http://to9xct.blogspot.dk
My YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/brostenen
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Reply 3319 of 27788, by kithylin
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wrote: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.