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Bought these (retro) hardware today

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Reply 40420 of 52811, by H3nrik V!

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bearking wrote on 2021-09-09, 09:12:
Munx wrote on 2021-09-09, 08:14:
bearking wrote on 2021-09-09, 07:08:

It doesn't have the auxiliary AT style power connector.

I have a few boards with one and none of them require it. A socket 423 board among them too. Works with current ATX PSUs just fine.

Thanks for the info, that's how I remembered...

Pretty sure, I have seen P4 (478, though) not starting up if it doesn't have the AUX12V connected ..

Please use the "quote" option if asking questions to what I write - it will really up the chances of me noticing 😀

Reply 40421 of 52811, by 386SX

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I already posted this adapter on the other thread but isn't that good? 😁
It might be for the old Atom mini-itx but who knows maybe also for some older systems too considering it doesn't requires drivers.

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Reply 40422 of 52811, by bearking

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H3nrik V! wrote on 2021-09-09, 11:10:
bearking wrote on 2021-09-09, 09:12:
Munx wrote on 2021-09-09, 08:14:

I have a few boards with one and none of them require it. A socket 423 board among them too. Works with current ATX PSUs just fine.

Thanks for the info, that's how I remembered...

Pretty sure, I have seen P4 (478, though) not starting up if it doesn't have the AUX12V connected ..

I'm talking about this 6 pin AT style connector for 3.3V and 5V, not the 4 pin "modern" 12V connector...

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Reply 40423 of 52811, by misi77

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Found another 8088 XT clone.
Label: TURBO-COLLEGE
Only 3 ROM sockets.
Does anyone know this board?

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Reply 40424 of 52811, by BitWrangler

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The name of it makes me think of those kits that were sold as correspondence courses "Learn computers in your own home by building one!" type thing.

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Reply 40425 of 52811, by cyclone3d

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BitWrangler wrote on 2021-09-09, 17:44:

The name of it makes me think of those kits that were sold as correspondence courses "Learn computers in your own home by building one!" type thing.

Hah.. maybe so. Back in the day... 1997-1998, I took a correspondence course to prep for my Comptia A+ cert.

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Reply 40426 of 52811, by Predator99

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misi77 wrote on 2021-09-09, 17:08:
Found another 8088 XT clone. Label: TURBO-COLLEGE Only 3 ROM sockets. Does anyone know this board? […]
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Found another 8088 XT clone.
Label: TURBO-COLLEGE
Only 3 ROM sockets.
Does anyone know this board?

Nice Board. There is a ROM labeled "Supersoft" on it. Can you provide a dump please? Maybe its another version than the one that is around.

Reply 40427 of 52811, by Intel486dx33

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I bought one of these last month. The guy had about 15 of them for sale on eBay for $30ea.
I just purchased one for my IBM PS/1 which requires a 169-pin socket CPU for upgrade.
The package reads it supports a 486dx4-100 or AMD 5x86-133
They are all sold out.

I have not tried it yet.

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Reply 40428 of 52811, by misi77

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Predator99 wrote on 2021-09-09, 18:35:
misi77 wrote on 2021-09-09, 17:08:
Found another 8088 XT clone. Label: TURBO-COLLEGE Only 3 ROM sockets. Does anyone know this board? […]
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Found another 8088 XT clone.
Label: TURBO-COLLEGE
Only 3 ROM sockets.
Does anyone know this board?

Nice Board. There is a ROM labeled "Supersoft" on it. Can you provide a dump please? Maybe its another version than the one that is around.

Thanks!

I made the supersoft eprom myself from here: http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/supersoft_lan … /64KB-256KB.htm
Unfortunately it didn't start, power capacitor replacement didn't help, IRDY signal is missing.
I would need documentation, but I can't find it.

Reply 40429 of 52811, by misi77

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misi77 wrote on 2021-09-09, 17:08:
Found another 8088 XT clone. Label: TURBO-COLLEGE Only 3 ROM sockets. Does anyone know this board? […]
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Found another 8088 XT clone.
Label: TURBO-COLLEGE
Only 3 ROM sockets.
Does anyone know this board?

4 hours of fighting and now working fine 😀

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Reply 40430 of 52811, by bjwil1991

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bearking wrote on 2021-09-09, 12:43:

I'm talking about this 6 pin AT style connector for 3.3V and 5V, not the 4 pin "modern" 12V connector...
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I have an Intel 423 RDRAM board that has the same connector. That's used for video cards, like the Quadro FX or FireGL AGP Pro cards.

For the RAM, it requires either all 4 slots filled with RAM (2 slots with the same size, timing, and FSB, including ECC/non-ECC per bank) or 2 filled with terminator RAM installed and the other 2 with RAM of the same size, timing, and FSB, including ECC/non-ECC).

Also, 478 to 423 CPU interposers might work with the board as well, but I digress as I never tested that before.

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Reply 40431 of 52811, by BitWrangler

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misi77 wrote on 2021-09-09, 22:48:
misi77 wrote on 2021-09-09, 17:08:
Found another 8088 XT clone. Label: TURBO-COLLEGE Only 3 ROM sockets. Does anyone know this board? […]
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Found another 8088 XT clone.
Label: TURBO-COLLEGE
Only 3 ROM sockets.
Does anyone know this board?

4 hours of fighting and now working fine 😀

Well "that guy" failed the course 🤣

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Reply 40432 of 52811, by AppleSauce

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This came in yesterday , really looking forward to seeing if it lives up to the hype.
Also very much looking forward to enjoying some demo scene tunes 😁

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Reply 40433 of 52811, by pixelatedscraps

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Let’s see how quickly these items get tagged…:)

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My ultimate dual 440LX / Voodoo2 SLI build

Reply 40434 of 52811, by Caluser2000

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pixelatedscraps wrote on 2021-09-10, 06:28:

Let’s see how quickly these items get tagged…:)

TAG!

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A founding member of the 286 appreciation society.
Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉

Reply 40435 of 52811, by bearking

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bjwil1991 wrote on 2021-09-10, 02:03:

For the RAM, it requires either all 4 slots filled with RAM (2 slots with the same size, timing, and FSB, including ECC/non-ECC per bank) or 2 filled with terminator RAM installed and the other 2 with RAM of the same size, timing, and FSB, including ECC/non-ECC).

I think that's the problem. I have only two identical RIMMs and only one terminator.
So I guess I need to find some identical RIMMs. Thanks!

Reply 40436 of 52811, by Pierre32

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AppleSauce wrote on 2021-09-10, 06:12:
This came in yesterday , really looking forward to seeing if it lives up to the hype. Also very much looking forward to enjoying […]
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This came in yesterday , really looking forward to seeing if it lives up to the hype.
Also very much looking forward to enjoying some demo scene tunes 😁
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Bloody lovely! Impossible to find loose let alone like this.

Reply 40437 of 52811, by pixelatedscraps

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Caluser2000 wrote on 2021-09-10, 06:42:
pixelatedscraps wrote on 2021-09-10, 06:28:

Let’s see how quickly these items get tagged…:)

TAG!

Yup, you got them 😉

My ultimate dual 440LX / Voodoo2 SLI build

Reply 40438 of 52811, by PD2JK

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Not very retro, but I needed more Amps on the +5V rail because of instabilities. So I decided to buy a Zalman ZM400B-APS power supply with 40A on the +5V.

20A from the Antec EarthWatts 380W just wouldn't cut it. Perfect example of too new of a PSU.
(System: 1GHz Athlon Classic 'Orion', GF4 Ti4600, 2x Voodoo2 12MB, etc...)

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Reply 40439 of 52811, by psychofox

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This weeks old HW picks arrived:

1. Voodoo Banshee I cant find any information about manufacturer or icc code. It works perfectly on text mode but there are these horisontal lines when windows boots up. Is it repairable?
2. This interesting Yamaha 751b-s sound card with radio decoder. Cant find any info or drivers for radio for this baby. Anyone has seen before such card?
3. NEC D5146h MFM hard drive. Powers up, i can hear heads moving, led flashes but BIos gives hdd error.
Great finds at first look but not so lucky at the end 🙁

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