Re: (Solved) simms as rare as a green dog

Posted on 2023-07-27, 19:27

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Hello ! I cannot find the information about this SMM (72 contacts) and also no info about the chips. Could you please help me. Thanks Can't help you with the chips but the diodes would suggest the chips are 3V3 instead of 5V. Not sure how well these would work in a standard PC (depending on the …

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Re: ISA card with LEDs on it (inside) some kind of test board?

Posted on 2019-05-27, 09:34

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Deksor wrote: Maybe an antique form of POST card ? That exactly what it is

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Re: AWE64 Platinum deluxe

Posted on 2019-05-27, 08:42

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Found two of the 4560 ones (AWE 2) up for sale on this taobao listing... Anyone wanna pony up 18k for a rare card? :blush: https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?ft=t&spm=a21m2.8958473.0.0.20a234c1TOQnuN&id=561024817638 More like 1260 in US dollar That sale has been for well over a year now I don't any …

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Re: AWE64 Platinum deluxe

Posted on 2019-05-27, 00:13

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Found two of the 4560 ones (AWE 2) up for sale on this taobao listing... Anyone wanna pony up 18k for a rare card? :blush: https://item.taobao.com/item.htm?ft=t&spm=a21m2.8958473.0.0.20a234c1TOQnuN&id=561024817638 More like 1260 in US dollar That sale has been for well over a year now I don't think …

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2017-11-01, 00:06

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LoL

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Re: Best video card with Dos / Win 3.11 / Win 98 support

Posted on 2017-10-02, 13:49

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by shspvr

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I did some research too and found a lot of AGP-LP Cards. Matrox: - G45 / G550 Ati: - Rage 128 - Radeon 7000 - Radeon 7500 - Radeon 9200se Nvidia: - GF2MX MX400/420/440/460? - GF2MX MX4000 - TNT2 - FX5200 - 6200 Would be very insteresting which card has Win3x support and the differences in DirectX/ …

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Re: Best video card with Dos / Win 3.11 / Win 98 support

Posted on 2017-10-02, 13:05

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by shspvr

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dr.zeissler wrote: - Is there any low-profile agp-card known, that has native win3x-drivers? afaik none. The ATI Rage 128 low profile may be your best beat but you need agp 2.0 slot I don't there where any in a agp 1.0 cards

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Re: -5v in layman's terms?

Posted on 2017-07-07, 17:11

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lvader wrote: Wasn't -5V still a requirement in ATX 2.1? No it was remove right ATX 2.0 so any motherboard spec as 2.01 will have that removed

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Re: What are the notable video cards of Geforce FX and later era?

Posted on 2017-07-07, 14:59

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Nope that was GeForce 4 Ti the Radeon 9700 Pro was 5 months later. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ATi_Radeon_R300_Series https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeForce_4_series Was that a GTX 7800 GS an AGP? I used a 7800 GTX PCIe under Windows 98SE. The reason it shows the right name of the card is because …

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Re: What are the notable video cards of Geforce FX and later era?

Posted on 2017-07-07, 13:46

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Nope that was GeForce 4 Ti the Radeon 9700 Pro was 5 months later. Was that a GTX 7800 GS an AGP?

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Re: What are the notable video cards of Geforce FX and later era?

Posted on 2017-07-07, 13:32

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As far I know of RTL8110SC, nForce 3, Audigy 2 ZS, CMI8738, Audiophile 24/96 and YMF744 are last with Win9x support as for last who was the last to come out with driver that is Realtek ending in 2008

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Re: XT-IDE IRQ

Posted on 2017-07-07, 11:38

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If I recall right on most XT is was IRQ 2 or 5 depend the setup 8 bit bus computers (8086/8088 based XT type) IRQ Used for 0 Ram Refresh & Clock Tick 1 Keyboard Interface 2 EGA / VGA Video (some other interface controller cards have the option of using this IRQ) 3 COM2 / COM4 4 COM1 / COM3 5 Hard …

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Re: About Original Tandy 1000 BIOS (01.00.00)

Posted on 2013-03-14, 16:27

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It depend on Tandy 1000 model number this should help http://www.oldskool.org/guides/tvdog/1kfaq.html#III.E.2

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-12-10, 01:43

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The LAPC-I also requires -5V which modern power supplies don't provide. That because of the older machines used to consume most of their power from the 3.3/5 volt rail but since the Athlon 64 and Pentium 4, computers they now consumed most of their power from the 12 volt rail. So there for you have …

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Re: Anyone know something about this 486 motherboard?

Posted on 2012-12-08, 14:18

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by shspvr

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The Motherboard is a BEK-4801/486WB This motherboard has no CPU type configuration jumper meaning you have used what on it. AMD 486DX4 supported motherboard had a carp load of jumper use lee there only in VLB and PCI forum

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Re: How to use a yamaha db50xg daughtercard on a sound blaster...

Posted on 2012-09-29, 16:44

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See this it may help http://www.megatrade.ru/English/db50faq.html

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Re: os/2 warp 4 dos support

Posted on 2012-09-29, 15:06

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If can use MS-Dos then you have no problem with PC-Dos

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Re: How to use a yamaha db50xg daughtercard on a sound blaster...

Posted on 2012-09-29, 15:03

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by shspvr

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It the same as Dos but it under Sounds and Audio Devices Properties you see it

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Re: Bad juju from my SLI Voodoos

Posted on 2012-08-21, 14:32

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Try run the DirectX Diagnostic Tool by typing in run box "dxdiag" enter Try one of the old Voodoo 2 Tweaker

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2012-08-12, 23:23

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on the motherboard with teh G2 chipset, the open socket is for the 287. the 40-pin dip chip with the white sticker is your keyboard bios. The suntaq, the 287 socket is still near the cpu, and it is close to the power socket in that case. You know there are PLCC version of the co-processor which …

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