liqmat wrote on 2020-04-24, 20:19:

Predator99 wrote on 2020-04-24, 19:54:

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Would you look at the underside of that board. Now that's something. Interesting.

There is nothing hidden. Its simply soldered under the ISA-slot.

nice... SpeedSTAR24 get! 😁

I think I'm going to get the same Spea card from my next pile... you know the one :p

Received my first Super Socket 7 mainboard a few days ago, an EPOX EP58-MVP3C-M, which I decided to test today. It came with RAM, Pentium MMX 233MHz CPU and CL5446 PCI VGA. I fired it up and it worked just fine. Booted from a floppy disk. I had already downloaded the manual and the latest BIOS for it, so I flashed the BIOS, which seemed to go just fine. But apparently that was a bad idea.... the board won't boot anymore. 🙁
Now I'll have to find a way program another BIOS chip, which is tricky without an EPROM programmer.
I had planned to test all the Pentium, Cyrix and AMD K6/K6-2 CPUs I have kept in box for years....

The Spea Mirage P64V Turbo with S3 868 and 40ns chips is amazing PCI VGA. It is clocked higher than my other S3 cards. Very fast in DOS. Good compatibility. Handles overclocked 50 MHz PCI like nothing. I really love mine.

I don't need more Socket 7 stuff but when I saw an AT board with an ATX connetors, for 7 bucks I said OK, why not. I aldo got a Pentium 200 on for 7 bucks too so the whole lot cost me just about 15, not bad. All are tested to work. I know the board is an Atrend ATC-5030, not a bad board?

Another GeForce256 DDR AGP (ASUS V6800DDR/32M (TVR)) and an Amptron DX-6900 manual

liqmat wrote on 2020-04-24, 20:19:

Predator99 wrote on 2020-04-24, 19:54:

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Would you look at the underside of that board. Now that's something. Interesting.

Yes and I love the looks of that.

CHiLL72 wrote on 2020-04-24, 20:47:

Received my first Super Socket 7 mainboard a few days ago, an EPOX EP58-MVP3C-M, which I decided to test today. It came with RAM, Pentium MMX 233MHz CPU and CL5446 PCI VGA. I fired it up and it worked just fine. Booted from a floppy disk. I had already downloaded the manual and the latest BIOS for it, so I flashed the BIOS, which seemed to go just fine. But apparently that was a bad idea.... the board won't boot anymore. 🙁
Now I'll have to find a way program another BIOS chip, which is tricky without an EPROM programmer.
I had planned to test all the Pentium, Cyrix and AMD K6/K6-2 CPUs I have kept in box for years....

If the BIOS chip is socketed, you can buy a replacement EPROM (maybe the EEPROM) with the BIOS file burned already from (at least) these guys: http://www.buyicnow.com/

Bought 10 issues of 1994 edition of the Byte magazine.My by far the most favourite magazine of the era.

Can't wait to read the 14.4k modems group test during my afternoon tea this weekend!

aha2940 wrote on 2020-04-25, 04:49:

CHiLL72 wrote on 2020-04-24, 20:47:

Received my first Super Socket 7 mainboard a few days ago, an EPOX EP58-MVP3C-M, which I decided to test today. It came with RAM, Pentium MMX 233MHz CPU and CL5446 PCI VGA. I fired it up and it worked just fine. Booted from a floppy disk. I had already downloaded the manual and the latest BIOS for it, so I flashed the BIOS, which seemed to go just fine. But apparently that was a bad idea.... the board won't boot anymore. 🙁
Now I'll have to find a way program another BIOS chip, which is tricky without an EPROM programmer.
I had planned to test all the Pentium, Cyrix and AMD K6/K6-2 CPUs I have kept in box for years....

If the BIOS chip is socketed, you can buy a replacement EPROM (maybe the EEPROM) with the BIOS file burned already from (at least) these guys: http://www.buyicnow.com/

Thanks for the tip, but two fellow VOGONS members have already reached out to me and offered to help out with flashing a new EEPROM!

CHiLL72 wrote on 2020-04-25, 11:26:

aha2940 wrote on 2020-04-25, 04:49:

CHiLL72 wrote on 2020-04-24, 20:47:

Received my first Super Socket 7 mainboard a few days ago, an EPOX EP58-MVP3C-M, which I decided to test today. It came with RAM, Pentium MMX 233MHz CPU and CL5446 PCI VGA. I fired it up and it worked just fine. Booted from a floppy disk. I had already downloaded the manual and the latest BIOS for it, so I flashed the BIOS, which seemed to go just fine. But apparently that was a bad idea.... the board won't boot anymore. 🙁
Now I'll have to find a way program another BIOS chip, which is tricky without an EPROM programmer.
I had planned to test all the Pentium, Cyrix and AMD K6/K6-2 CPUs I have kept in box for years....

If the BIOS chip is socketed, you can buy a replacement EPROM (maybe the EEPROM) with the BIOS file burned already from (at least) these guys: http://www.buyicnow.com/

Thanks for the tip, but two fellow VOGONS members have already reached out to me and offered to help out with flashing a new EEPROM!

Hey, so cool, glad you found a solution. Regarding the damaged BIOS chip, I also have a socket 7 motherboard, and when I flashed it with an update, it would also fail to boot. Later I found the original EEPROM has a broken single byte, no matter what you write to the chip, that byte always stays at FF, so the BIOS always gets corrupted. I replaced it with an EPROM and all is well.

3DFX Voodoo - PowerColor MultiMedia 3Dfx Voodoo 4MB PCI (NIB) (1997)
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3DFX Voodoo3 - PowerColor Evilking 3 Pro 3Dfx Voodoo3 3000 16MB AGP (NOS) (2001)
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Ensoniq SoundScape S-2000 (S2016) without CD Interfaces (2MB) ISA #3 (1994) - MOAR Ensoniq - 2MB ROM version for sweet GM sounds.
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Evergreen Spectra 400Mhz Processor Upgrade -90-S400-AA0 (Upgrades Socket 5, 7 & SS7 to AMD K6-2 400) (NOS) (2000)
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Gravis GamePad Pro (Boxed) (1998) (needed a spare, unsealed for some classic gaming!)
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Intel Core 2 Extreme Mobile X9000 SLAZ3 (Penryn) Socket P 2.8GHz (2008) - Upgraded my good old Lenovo T61 !
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Microsoft DOS 6.22 Upgrade (NOS)
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NVIDIA Geforce256 DDR - Creative CT6970 - 3D Blaster Geforce 256 Annihilator PRO 32MB AGP (NV10) (1999)
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S3 Trio64V+ 2MB PCI (NOS) (1997)
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TSENG ET4000 W32P - JDF-W32PVLB-001 2MB VLB (NOS) (1993) 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
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TSENG ET6000 - FCC DXLDP90A with BIOS 1.5 2MB PCI (1996)
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TSENG ET6000 - Hercules Dynamite 128 Video GB7015P Rev. 2.1 4MB PCI (1996)
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TSENG ET6000 - STB LightSpeed 128 v1.2 2MB PCI (1996)
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Artex wrote on 2020-04-25, 16:08:

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3DFX Voodoo3 - PowerColor Evilking 3 Pro 3Dfx Voodoo3 3000 16MB AGP (NOS) (2001)
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Ensoniq SoundScape S-2000 (S2016) without CD Interfaces (2MB) ISA #3 (1994) - MOAR Ensoniq - 2MB ROM version for sweet GM sounds.
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Evergreen Spectra 400Mhz Processor Upgrade -90-S400-AA0 (Upgrades Socket 5, 7 & SS7 to AMD K6-2 400) (NOS) (2000)
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Gravis GamePad Pro (Boxed) (1998) (needed a spare, unsealed for some classic gaming!)
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Intel Core 2 Extreme Mobile X9000 SLAZ3 (Penryn) Socket P 2.8GHz (2008) - Upgraded my good old Lenovo T61 !
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Microsoft DOS 6.22 Upgrade (NOS)
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NVIDIA Geforce256 DDR - Creative CT6970 - 3D Blaster Geforce 256 Annihilator PRO 32MB AGP (NV10) (1999)
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S3 Trio64V+ 2MB PCI (NOS) (1997)
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TSENG ET4000 W32P - JDF-W32PVLB-001 2MB VLB (NOS) (1993) 😀 😀 😀 😀 😀
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TSENG ET6000 - FCC DXLDP90A with BIOS 1.5 2MB PCI (1996)
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Congratulations on all your new stuff!. Seeing all that NOS stuff always puts me in a Joker mood like "Where does he get those wonderful toys":

Edit: oops! I missed that reaction images are not allowed here.

What a weird and wacky name for a 3Dfx card. EVILKING 3! Sounds like a B movie. Definitely a good grab. Glad to see you nabbed yourself a NOS Spectra 400. I know he has sold most of them off.

"Accidentally" bought a lot of Playstation 2 consoles. Already have 3, now I get 4 more. All for repair, however, and I'm most likely not keeping them.

Another Artex post.. FML..

Artex wrote on 2020-04-25, 16:08:

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where'd you get that from?

I've been looking all over the place and I can only find chinese sellers.

The links and images aren't working for me somehow. The ET4000/w32p VLB card is the best card for both Windows and DOS. I get pretty good framerates in DOS games with a 133MHz CPU (using that CPU in my Packard Bell and will set the cache to WT on it now since the turbo shortcut keys don't work, except for cache controlling software).

appiah4 wrote on 2020-04-25, 19:45:

Another Artex post.. FML..

🤣. Thanks for the kudos all and I hope everyone is staying healthy during these crazy times by sheltering in place with your retro gear! 😀

imi wrote on 2020-04-25, 19:50:

Artex wrote on 2020-04-25, 16:08:

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where'd you get that from?

I've been looking all over the place and I can only find chinese sellers.

I took a gamble on a Chinese seller and purchased one from there. Seems to be in good shape physically and stable thus far. The real measure of success will be time - but I don't plan to go to crazy with overclocking it. I just wanted a COVID project so I performed this and some other upgrades on my T61 laptop. I wrote up a whole Word doc on the experience and I'll post it on VOGONS next week sometime. A fun, and sometimes challenging project but the laptop has been running cool and quiet, humming along with a (now) undervolted NVIDIA GPU and 1.0875v Core 2 Extreme running at 2.8Ghz in the high 30's to mid 40's at idle and with TPFanControl it really never gots hotter than 55C at load. Pretty impressive and a nice boost from the 65nm T7300.

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