Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, P3V133, CUBX, CUBX-E/L and P3C-E

Posted on 2024-05-14, 15:25

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Hi, its me again) Its possible to add AGP sideband disable|enable option for 440BX boards? Not all video cards reach driver loading at 89 MHz AGP

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Re: Windows XP system spec recommendations.

Posted on 2023-11-04, 10:18

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by shevalier

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Maybe I'm being a little harsh, but it's hard to communicate with people who haven't even read the theories about spatial sound. No. You're just anal about everything starting from the first comment in this thread. I don't know if you are intentionally try flaming or just want to wow everyone with …

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Re: Windows XP system spec recommendations.

Posted on 2023-11-04, 09:26

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Audiophile are not for gaming. Maybe I'm being a little harsh, but it's hard to communicate with people who haven't even read the theories about spatial sound. https://recordingsofnature.wordpress.com/2015/12/25/simplified-microphone-design-to-mimic-binaural-forward-elevation-cues/ A person …

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Re: Which Athlon 64 X2 should I chose? (solved)

Posted on 2023-11-04, 08:38

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Someone here wrote that these Brisbane core CPUs are with thermalpaste under the IHS instead of low-temperature solderpaste. Should I "delid" this CPU (if it works) to put some fresh thermalpaste under its IHS or this intervention will not worth such an effort? I'd say it's worth it. I came across …

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Re: Windows XP system spec recommendations.

Posted on 2023-11-04, 07:17

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What makes any of them better than a Titanium X-Fi by Creative? Sound? If you are not one of those: - who thinks that the very fact of having X-Fi in the system gives an awesome sound. At the same time played in bluetooth headphones - who played in headphones for $1.5 and claimed that he heard …

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Re: Which Athlon 64 X2 should I chose? (solved)

Posted on 2023-11-04, 06:47

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analog_programmer wrote on 2023-11-03, 18:19: I had some feeling that this chinese seller actually sells something different than offtop/ God, is anyone else surprised? My colleague recently bought a 2TB SSD. No, well, a normal cheap 120GB SSD, after you return the factory firmware from the …

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Re: Windows XP system spec recommendations.

Posted on 2023-11-04, 06:27

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Soundblaster X-Fi titanium PCIe A piece of trash, I apologize for saying this about your dream. The only normal X-Fi on the PСI-e bus from Creative is Titanium HD. The rest, regardless of the epithets Extra/Music/Gamer, are variations of the cheapest and most unsuccessful SB0880 Look towards X-Fi …

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Re: Windows XP system spec recommendations.

Posted on 2023-11-03, 10:21

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My point was shevalier taking an issue with someone else interested in building an XP rig because he personally is not interested in it as if implying you don't do retro right if you don't do it his way. To be honest, I don’t understand the option "let’s install Win98 on Ryzen Threadripper". It …

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Re: GPU upgrade...or not... Legacy Nvidia G80 8800 GTX topic fix or not.... repair data in topic

Posted on 2023-11-02, 16:32

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by shevalier

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How do I check if it's a ram module? or the GPU ? https://github.com/ihaque/memtestCL Works great on Radeons. At nVidia - it should be too, besides there is a CUDA version. Test iteration 5 on 1500 MiB of memory on device 0 (Pitcairn): 0 errors so far Moving Inversions (ones and zeros): 0 errors ( …

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Re: Sporadic boot problems on GA-5AA

Posted on 2023-11-02, 15:41

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by shevalier

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This is a combo AT/ATX motherboard, on which the 3.3V bus is made locally from +5V. For proper repairs, you need to change the capacitors after the CPU converter and before it. And also after the 5->3.3V converter(or linear regulator) and before it.

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Re: Sporadic boot problems on GA-5AA

Posted on 2023-11-02, 15:30

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I didn’t know that I couldn’t use polymer ones, so my Aopen S370 now looks like this. :-( But the S754 is still nicer under Windows 2000, so the P3-S Tualatin went on the shelf. I see. I didn't use polymers yet, even though I have read about it. So, the original ones are GSC 1000 uF 10 V 105 C and …

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Re: Sporadic boot problems on GA-5AA

Posted on 2023-11-02, 15:14

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Now there will be many opinions that no. The rest simply change the capacitors.

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Re: Sporadic boot problems on GA-5AA

Posted on 2023-11-02, 15:06

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technokater wrote on 2023-11-02, 14:50: source of problems... Any tips for finding replacement caps? If I lived in Germany, this would be a very big problem..... https://www.we-online.com/de/components/products/WCAP-PTG5

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Re: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 SB0240 driver Windows 7 64 bit needed

Posted on 2023-11-02, 14:49

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If someone (like me) uses Audigy 2 as a sound card, and not as some kind of fetish of those times. The drivers from Daniel_K add CMSS2 virtualization for headphones. And I like its better. Although some say that its is not a true.

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Re: Sporadic boot problems on GA-5AA

Posted on 2023-11-02, 14:40

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by shevalier

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technokater wrote on 2023-11-02, 12:24: I can give this a shot before recapping, sure. After. Repair practice and common sense say that you first need to get rid of problem areas. Only after then you must out diagnostics. Most often the problem goes away.

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Re: Windows XP system spec recommendations.

Posted on 2023-11-02, 04:42

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This time for windows xp to play games like Far Cry, Doom 3, Call of Duty, Mdel of Honor Allied Assault, Medal of Honor Pacific Assault, F.E.A.R, Half Life 2, Halo and many more. It’s one thing when an application categorically refuses to launch and you need to collect the original rig of that time …

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Re: Adding an ATX connector to a motherboard?

Posted on 2023-10-30, 04:28

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by shevalier

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Adding the missing parts of the power management system is not a problem. There will obviously be a couple of resistors and transistors. The question is if there is code in the BIOS that is responsible for power management.

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Re: VIA C3 compatibility and slotket/mainboard question

Posted on 2023-10-26, 15:50

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Performance on the other hand... if the board does not directly support the chip, performance will be horrible. I got 400MB/sec read speeds in a MSI 694T master, witch does not support the C3 Nemiah, and over 1000MB/s in an Epox EP-3VSA2. Experimenting with the i440bx + C3 combination can be fun, …

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Re: VIA C3 compatibility and slotket/mainboard question

Posted on 2023-10-25, 16:54

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Also note that you might have to patch the BIOS with microcode for C3 to get it working. This is in the case if the BIOS fundamentally understands which processor it works with. Does anyone know of compatibility of this chip with this board? I think it's near zero. For VIA CPUs, it is better to use …

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Re: Does anyone recognise these old PC speakers (trying to fix)

Posted on 2023-10-23, 16:59

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If it is completely impossible to determine the polarity of the coupling capacitors, then WIMA produces MKS02 film capacitors with a distance between leads of 2.5 mm. Capacitance up to 1 µF is available. https://www.wima.de/wp-content/uploads/media/e_WIMA_MKS_02.pdf If you need a capacitance of up …

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