So thia never sold at £80 and is now relisted at £60, still no bids and a best offer available. I wonder how low he’ll go?
What retro things have you done today?
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In a similar case to the other board I sent you the board looks undamaged except for the bloated caps. I might try and hotflash it then. I tried to remove the caps but as expected my little soldering iron cant heat up the solder on those big rails.
Yeah, I’m certain that the board you sent me was a dead chipset, that thing heated up like the surface of the sun in seconds of being powered on! Perhaps I should send it you back to use as a pre-soldering board heater
Sounds like it’s time to invest in a new soldering iron (or a desoldering gun, that was my latest purchase tool-wise and it’s been amazing!), and possibly a minipro!
Without removing the stickers and confirming that both chips are the same type (or at least pin-compatible variants) you can’t know for certain.
So, the StarTech PATA2SATA3 is an absolute abomination (or at least it is on this ASUS P3B-F). Installing Windows 98SE results in repeated failures to write to disk (retrying eventually succeeds, but it makes a 10 minute installation take HOURS), and general performance is terrible.
Threw in an ALi M5283 PCI SATA card I had lying around and it was night and day, Windows installed in 8 minutes flat. Shame really as I didn't want to run a SCSI/RAID/Storage card.
Threw in an ALi M5283 PCI SATA card I had lying around and it was night and day, Windows installed in 8 minutes flat. Shame really as I didn't want to run a SCSI/RAID/Storage card.
Strange. I have the same adapter and it works fine for me, and that's on a Intel 440 chipset like yours is. Are the tiny jumper switches set correctly on the adapter itself?
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I'm glad the seller of this soundcard uploaded this picture, it's really helped my buying decision
Looks like I am still on the hunt for PCI soundcards!
Looks like I am still on the hunt for PCI soundcards!
Yep, set to Master/Single or Cable Select makes no difference, loads of corruption.
Tried two different SATA SSDs on it, both do the same thing so it's not the drive(s).
Been playing Rugby 08. Infuriated with the terrible controller suppor and maddened by the fact that I get pinged for feeding at every single scrum....shame, would have been a great game but for these annoying features. Why has no developer ever got rugby right. Hell, all EA would need to do is tweak their madden engines to rugby rules and they'd be fine.
I'm late to the party but my SNES Mini arrived today. I'm playing Mario Kart, SFII Turbo and DKC with my my 8 year old and he’s like - how do you play multiplayer online and where do you plug in the headset?
I’m like - there was no internet back then so you could only play with your fiends in your house.
He gets bored after 20mins - I spent 4 years playing these games
Anyway - this is a great little device and I can't believe it's 28 years since the SNES launch in the UK.
I’m like - there was no internet back then so you could only play with your fiends in your house.
He gets bored after 20mins - I spent 4 years playing these games
Anyway - this is a great little device and I can't believe it's 28 years since the SNES launch in the UK.
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My heatsinks that I forgot about arrived. No idea what I was going to do with them (put onto my 386/486 maybe) but they're also a good size to go on my voodoo. I've got some double sided thermal tape which has a surprisingly strong stick.
My 3DLabs Wildcat VP880 Pro arrived today, not disappointed with the build quality or image quality at all, both are superb. The heatsink, whilst a similar size to era specific cards, it’s very weighty, I’m guessing it’s nickel plated copper.
It’s nice that drivers are still available direct from 3DLabs website without having to delve into the wayback archive!
I know it’s going to somewhat suck with gaming performance, but I’m not expecting it to be atrocious. Certainly a nice oddity to add to the collection, a bit like my Kyro II and Parhelia, both not the best performers, but interesting and decent quality parts!
It’s nice that drivers are still available direct from 3DLabs website without having to delve into the wayback archive!
I know it’s going to somewhat suck with gaming performance, but I’m not expecting it to be atrocious. Certainly a nice oddity to add to the collection, a bit like my Kyro II and Parhelia, both not the best performers, but interesting and decent quality parts!
I thought they were those tiny graphics card memory heatsinks until I saw the second picture. Now it looks like you have the worlds tiniest graphics card
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There is a couple of interesting looking boards and maybe a sound card in this listing if anyone is near Plymouth
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154051708957
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/154051708957
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well it was about time I got burned from buying "untested" parts. My FM2+ motherboard just bootloops showing the "Gigabyte Dual UEFI Boot" screen. I've tried shorting pins on the bios which is what a cursory google suggested I should do but no joy.
Further to my previous post in April regarding my old and now framed Abit NF-7 motherboard (I found the install CD!). I decided to finally use all those Windows installation disks from 3.11 that I have kept. I have some gaps so if someone would like to donate an original Windows 2000 Pro or Windows 8.0 disk that would be great...
Also I plan to mount my father's (recently found) old floppy disks on the wall with glue dots at some point once cleaned up!
Also I plan to mount my father's (recently found) old floppy disks on the wall with glue dots at some point once cleaned up!
Relisted again at £40 now. Almost worth it for the BP6 alone!