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Reply 30280 of 56012, by Deksor

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There is also nearby the CPU a spot for a voltage regulator. If you manage to find which should go there and install it, you'll be able to use DX4s.

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Reply 30282 of 56012, by tannerstevo

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Deksor wrote:

There is also nearby the CPU a spot for a voltage regulator. If you manage to find which should go there and install it, you'll be able to use DX4s.

I have one of these boards rev 8b, and it has the voltage regulator.
I could not get a good photo, but the regulator is marked LT1086CT if that helps.

Reply 30283 of 56012, by Intel486dx33

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Bancho wrote:

Received a nice Gigabyte GA-486VS motherboard today. Battery had been removed and the appears to be minimal to non corrosion. Board looks to be in great condition. It came with a DX2 66 and 8mb Ram.

I have one of these. Probably one of the best VLB motherboards of there time.
I really like the very descriptive and intuitive manual.
I have mine setup with an Intel-dx4-100 CPU.

Reply 30284 of 56012, by xjas

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Bancho wrote:

Received a nice Gigabyte GA-486VS motherboard today. Battery had been removed and the appears to be minimal to non corrosion. Board looks to be in great condition. It came with a DX2 66 and 8mb Ram.

Nice, I have one of those too. I need to burn a BIOS for it but it's otherwise in great shape.

Do these have "large" disk support? If so, how large? Can they take an 8GB drive?

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Reply 30285 of 56012, by dionb

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Bloody snipebots on eBay. Was highest bidder for a 3DLabs OxygenVX1-1600SW PCI until 1 sec before end 🙁

Did not buy that one. Did buy an xGecu TL866II Plus universal programmer though. Look forward to painless (E)EPROM flashing. Have a bit of a backlog too, so should be in for a fun afternoon 😀

Reply 30286 of 56012, by FuzzyLogic

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Bloody snipebots on eBay. Was highest bidder for a 3DLabs OxygenVX1-1600SW PCI until 1 sec before end 🙁

It don't win 99% of the stuff I bid on nowadays. They have saved me a lot of money, so it's a mixed blessing.

Reply 30287 of 56012, by LewisRaz

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2x Voodoo 2 12mb with SLI cable.
Socket 7 motherboard with pentium 100
4 sticks of unknown ram.
And the users manual for the mobo which will no doubt be a lifesaver!

Paid £20 and was assured that it all works. Now these are my first ever voodoo cards but I believe I can test them in my p3 pc as I have a male-female vga lead spare for the passthrough. The rest however will have to wait until I can source an AT power supply or see if ATX-AT adapters exist.

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Anyone with any info on this motherboard (PCI54IT) would be appreciated as although this very similar to my first pc (a 486dx4) I have never built a machine pre pentium 3 so it could turn into an adventure.

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Reply 30288 of 56012, by Artex

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Prometheus Aria 16 ISA (NOS) (1994)

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Reply 30289 of 56012, by liqmat

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LewisRaz wrote:
2x Voodoo 2 12mb with SLI cable. Socket 7 motherboard with pentium 100 4 sticks of unknown ram. And the users manual for the mob […]
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2x Voodoo 2 12mb with SLI cable.
Socket 7 motherboard with pentium 100
4 sticks of unknown ram.
And the users manual for the mobo which will no doubt be a lifesaver!

Paid £20 and was assured that it all works.

Good gracious man. Great score for the price.

Reply 30291 of 56012, by jheronimus

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dragonkn wrote:
I bought ISA ESS ES1868F filled with nice wavetable chip ES689F […]
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I bought ISA ESS ES1868F filled with nice wavetable chip ES689F

Is this card rare or expensive? I got it very cheap, 8$

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The wavetable version is uncommon, but not too rare. Still, a very nice card!

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Reply 30292 of 56012, by dionb

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dragonkn wrote:

I bought ISA ESS ES1868F filled with nice wavetable chip ES689F

Is this card rare or expensive? I got it very cheap, 8$

That would be a good price for an ES1868F board without wavetable. With wavetable you got yourself a great deal - although it's not exactly the most sought-after wavetable card/chipset.

Reply 30293 of 56012, by BaconPizza

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Hello folks, 😁

for my first post of the forum, I've picked up a computer on eBay, a 166MMX Pentium with an AN430TX motherboard:

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I'll add that's not my picture and it has a fan and not a heatsink. Not even sure you could have a heatsink with no fan on a 166MMX. If you can, I'll probably end up doing that. The quieter the better really!

Reply 30294 of 56012, by cyclone3d

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Artex wrote:
Prometheus Aria 16 ISA (NOS) (1994) https://imagizer.imageshack.com/v2/1024x768q90/922/ZaCPoB.jpg https://imagizer.imageshack.co […]
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Nice. You get that off of eBay I am guessing?

I bought one on August 22nd. Then I see the sale reposted so I contacted the seller and asked about it. He said he found 5 in a warehouse and sold 4 of them within 10 minutes.

Yours actually looks like it may still be factory sealed. Mine was apparently resealed by Fry's Electronics on December 4, 1993. Mine also does not have any price stickers on it.

The Aria 16 cards I have boxed now are:
Aria 16 SE (not sealed)
Aria 16 (sealed, but store return or display model)
Viva Multimedia Maestro 16VR (sealed - should have the voice recognition chip(s) installed)

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Reply 30295 of 56012, by dionb

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BaconPizza wrote:

Hello folks, 😁

for my first post of the forum,

Welcome 😀

I've picked up a computer on eBay, a 166MMX Pentium with an AN430TX motherboard: […]
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I've picked up a computer on eBay, a 166MMX Pentium with an AN430TX motherboard:

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That site doesn't let you deeplink, so pic doesn't work here.

I'll add that's not my picture and it has a fan and not a heatsink. Not even sure you could have a heatsink with no fan on a 166MMX. If you can, I'll probably end up doing that. The quieter the better really!

Nice board for a P1, particularly if it has the Yamaha DS-XG onboard audio.

You can definitely run a P166MMX with a fanless heatsink, in fact they were regularly shipped with them back in the day. The small heatsinks common then got too hot for my liking, but you could get a bigger So7 or So370 heatsink designed to use a fan, and just leave off the fan. It would be overkill for a CPU like this but work fine with big safety margin.

Reply 30296 of 56012, by Thermalwrong

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LewisRaz wrote:
2x Voodoo 2 12mb with SLI cable. Socket 7 motherboard with pentium 100 4 sticks of unknown ram. And the users manual for the mob […]
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2x Voodoo 2 12mb with SLI cable.
Socket 7 motherboard with pentium 100
4 sticks of unknown ram.
And the users manual for the mobo which will no doubt be a lifesaver!

Paid £20 and was assured that it all works. Now these are my first ever voodoo cards but I believe I can test them in my p3 pc as I have a male-female vga lead spare for the passthrough. The rest however will have to wait until I can source an AT power supply or see if ATX-AT adapters exist.

Anyone with any info on this motherboard (PCI54IT) would be appreciated as although this very similar to my first pc (a 486dx4) I have never built a machine pre pentium 3 so it could turn into an adventure.

Wow, congratulations, that is somewhat better than current ebay prices for a Voodoo II sli setup, did you buy locally or something?
ATX to AT adapters can be had for a couple of pounds, the only hassle is wiring up the power switch, because you'll need a toggle switch rather than a momentary one. You can bypass that by connecting the green and black wire together though.

On Friday, I received the *rather tanned* Roland SC-7 sound module, it looks EXACTLY like the picture, which is to say, rather brown, it works excellently though. Now I'll need to choose whether I want to keep the Roland SC-155 I got hold of, this one is a lot smaller and sounds exactly the same for what I'm doing with it.

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This time, I'll post what I did to it in the "What retro activity did you get up to today?" thread 😀

Reply 30297 of 56012, by bjwil1991

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That's a cute device.

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Reply 30298 of 56012, by appiah4

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You wouldn't guess it by just the looks but it's one of the fastest ISA VGAs 😀

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I'll replace the TVGA9000 in my 386SX build with this. It did not POST with a 5401 before though, so this may not work either. That board seems to have issues with VGAs that don't have onboard oscillators, for whatever reason. Has anyone ever had this issue? Apparently OS2 Museum also had it happen with a Cirrus Logic card, which is very strange.

Reply 30299 of 56012, by respect2759

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Hi guys, these I got in last few weeks:
Medion notebook i3 2330m upgraded to 8gig of ram from 6, will put in an SSD. It has GT 555M graphics so nice upgrade from my Intel HD 3000 Medion notebook. I got it for a Gigabyte AM3+ board and 3x2Gb DDR3. Now its my main notebook.
Thinkpad 600E with Pentium II and 160Mb of ram (32 on board + 128) 30Gb HDD. Needs more cleaning. Much more 😊
Mozart soundcard - needs recap. Will put in my 386 build. It has an IDE a Sony a Mitsumi and a Panasonic CD connection
Cirrus Logic GD 5422 Eval board This is my first Eval. board graphics, i think it will go on my wall I have no heart to use it 😵
I got the Thinkpad and two cards for a MacBook A1181 and an Ati Rage Pro Turbo AGP card which has small bracket and weird design so it can fit in desktop IBM.
Some ram and cache - the only thing I got for money now, so nice ending of summer for me.

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