Re: What is your age?
Posted on 2013-02-25, 14:00
gerwin wrote: I was born a few weeks before sprcorreia. Me too (February 7th)...
Re: VOGONS Wiki (retro hardware reference)
Posted on 2013-02-18, 18:50
I'm no native English speaker either, but it's (= it is) "its own advantages", "its competitors", "its good 2D performance"... 😀
Re: Help id this VLB I/O controller
Posted on 2013-02-16, 21:07
The card has no BIOS...
Seeking owner of a 495SX 486 board
Posted on 2013-02-15, 21:16
If anyone here has the board in the attached photo (is says "VER-1.1 495SX" between the last two ISA slots), please reply. I have a couple of questions, the most important being about a few resistors that seem to have been desoldered from this board I got today... Many thanks in advance.
Re: Help needed: identify an ISA sound card
Posted on 2013-02-15, 21:07
I just got a similar card today (~800KB 1600x1200 photo attached) - hopefully I'll find the time to test it within a couple of days.
Help id this VLB I/O controller
Posted on 2013-02-13, 19:01
I got four of these cards recently, and now I'm looking for information about how to set the (surprisingly low amount of) jumpers. There are four 2-pin jumpers on the left side, labelled SPSEL0-to-2 and WPSEL (with SPSEL2 and WPSEL closed), and nine 3-pin jumpers in the center, which I assume are …
Re: Intel-built 486/Pentium/PPro/PII motherboard guide
Posted on 2013-02-01, 09:04
Another LPX board ( manual here: http://ftp4.de.freesbie.org/pub/misc/x86.org/ … bd/28167102.pdf ), 1.8MB photo. Not mine, but if I decide to buy it I'll give it a proper cleaning and post a better photo.
Re: What to do with an ASUS P2B-DS
Posted on 2013-01-28, 12:10
I admit I'm running Avira (Personal/Free Edition) on it, and I probably should try to disable automatic searching for updates at start-up - I think those two take most of the (too) long booting time... which is what actually annoys me - once the system has started, antivirus initialized/updated and …
Re: What to do with an ASUS P2B-DS
Posted on 2013-01-28, 08:21
I have a system built around a P2B-D board (rev. 1.06 PCBA D03) and two 1GHz Coppermines underclocked from FSB 133 to 112 (FSB 133 would overclock the PCI bus to 44 unless a hardware mod is made - http://tipperlinne.com/p2b-ds150.htm ). I ran it for a few weeks as my day-to-day system with WinXP, …
Pentium Pro VRM compatibility
Posted on 2013-01-23, 15:20
I have this IBM PC Server 325 that I purchased with one PPro/200 CPU and one VRM, and I thought I'd use it as a test-bed for trying two VRMs that I got from some defective socket8 boards - one came with an HP Kayak dual-PPro workstation board, and the other apparently originated from a Compaq …
Re: HP Vectra XU 90C
Posted on 2013-01-13, 11:01
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Matrox … s_%28PCI%29.jpg
Re: The All-amazing super-de-douper SuperPi thread!
Posted on 2012-12-31, 23:30
Celeron E1200 on Asus IPIBL-LB (HP/Compaq Benicia-GL8E, G33), 2*512MB DDR2-667 CL5 - 41.496s
Different Diamond Monster 3D II revisions
Posted on 2012-12-30, 19:44
I have a rev. B Diamond V2 card (8MB) and a 12MB CMC Orbit card and I'm looking for an identical card to either of them for a "clean" SLI setup. I've recently found an 8MB Diamond card, but it's rev. C - now, I'm pretty sure it wouldn't have any issue working in SLI with mine, but I'm still curious …
Re: BIOS for a SCSI controller
Posted on 2012-12-23, 08:59
Apparently free downloads are only available using DrigerGuide's Installer, which my antivirus (Avira) rejects after downloading...
BIOS for a SCSI controller
Posted on 2012-12-22, 21:48
Anyone here got a DriverGuide account? I'm looking for a file named 9100uw_114.zip (BIOS version 1.14 for an Initio INI-9100UW SCSI controller), and Wayback Machine only has "page not found" archives for the www.initio.com link to this file...
Re: Anyone use a 430TX motherboard at 75 or 83 MHz FSB?
Posted on 2012-12-13, 11:13
A couple of months ago I ran a system based on the Fordlian/RedFox TX-5IB2 mainboard for a few weeks (actually it was the first and only system I've ever finished Quake2 on :)). I tried 75MHz with an AMD K6-2/450 CPU (multiplier set to 2x) - everything was fine under Win98SE except when I tried to …
Re: Problems with a Voodoo Rush card
Posted on 2012-12-06, 09:03
Well, yesterday I had to reinstall Windows on the system (due to some filesystem corruption), and I took the opportunity to try the previous version of the Voodoo Rush drivers (3.00.01 instead of 3.01.00, with GLIDE2X.DLL version 2.46 instead of 2.48 ). Screen corruption is gone now - the only thing …
Problems with a Voodoo Rush card
Posted on 2012-12-05, 11:58
I have a Voodoo Rush card almost identical to this one (RAM chips are of a different brand, but otherwise it's the same): http://svga.ks8.ru/Cards/3dfx/Rush%20%20-%20Acorp%20A.jpg First I tried it on a 430TX-based board with a K6-2/400 on it - it would always make my LCD monitor enter stand-by mode, …
Re: Multiple VLB video cards in one system - possible?
Posted on 2012-12-01, 08:51
Well, they are not so special (mostly Cirrus Logic) - I have photos for four of them here: https://sites.google.com/site/iulianvshw/ The five I got recently are four Cirrus Logics (3*5429, 1*5426) and one Trident - after testing them I'll take phots of the ones worth keeping (the ones that work, …
Re: Multiple VLB video cards in one system - possible?
Posted on 2012-11-30, 16:11
No, nothing in particular, just as an experiment... for example, if I remember correctly, old releases of AutoCAD (11, 12) allowed for text on one monitor and graphics on another.
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