Caporegime
Nah, it's just the silver marking on the cap indicating the -ve leg. Same as you can see on C8.
The card has been sat brand-new in box in the loft for almost 30 years, I've got all of the driver diskettes (5 1/4").
Nah, it's just the silver marking on the cap indicating the -ve leg. Same as you can see on C8.
The card has been sat brand-new in box in the loft for almost 30 years, I've got all of the driver diskettes (5 1/4").
Caporegime
Better late than never, my PLCC32 to DIP32 adapter arrived for my minipro 
I'm going to keep using my homebrew one, it looks more janky
I'm going to keep using my homebrew one, it looks more janky
Soldato
Ah that is really nice to have the original media.
Isnt that 4000 the best tseng to have on an ISA bus too?
Isnt that 4000 the best tseng to have on an ISA bus too?
Caporegime
It's certainly not a bad ISA video card. I wouldn't mind an ISA Mach32 or Mach64 to compare to, but I guess if you are going to spend the money on a Mach64 it might as well be a VLB.
Soldato
It's not going to be bad if it's got "2 the Max" written on it!
Caporegime
So the Fujitsu case turned up yesterday afternoon, it needs a bit of work, the front door latch is broken so the door slides down on it’s own rather than wait for me to want it to. The reset button is missing a lid (just a bare button at present) so I’ll need to work out a solution to that, and one of the standoffs/mounts for the front panel where it meets the chassis of the case is broken so that’ll need epoxying or plastic welding.
So today will be a deep clean of the case and fixing the bits I can fix. I’ve also ordered some bits and bobs so I can try and retrobrite the incredibly yellowed front panels.
Hopefully tomorrow I can actually attempt a retrobrite (my first ever).
So today will be a deep clean of the case and fixing the bits I can fix. I’ve also ordered some bits and bobs so I can try and retrobrite the incredibly yellowed front panels.
Hopefully tomorrow I can actually attempt a retrobrite (my first ever).
Soldato
Be interested to see your retrobrite results. Not sure if I will ever try it as I am scared for it to be uneven
Caporegime
It can't be any more uneven than it currently is. Given the case's inherent sliding design part of it nice bright and light beige and part of it is an almost nicotine yellow.
Caporegime
Here's some before shots that I can hopefully compare with.
And the missing reset button cap:
And the missing reset button cap:
Soldato
I have ZX Spectrum Next board, and a fully cased one. I got a second pi0 to go into the cased one, so soldered the connector onto that - but then also trimmed the PCB standoffs that it needs as one of them is a bit too close to the audio jack.
Whilst it fits fine there, the standoffs are actually 1mm too high. The 40 pin connector makes contact but isn't fully engaged. In the cased Next, the ports won't line up properly with the back panel - so I'm going to either get some M2.5 11mm standoffs (correct size!), file down the 12mm ones a bit, or use the 10mm ones and some 1mm washers.
It's trickier than I expected finding M2.5 11mm in nylon - but I think just filing 1mm off the 12mm standoffs is fine.
Whilst it fits fine there, the standoffs are actually 1mm too high. The 40 pin connector makes contact but isn't fully engaged. In the cased Next, the ports won't line up properly with the back panel - so I'm going to either get some M2.5 11mm standoffs (correct size!), file down the 12mm ones a bit, or use the 10mm ones and some 1mm washers.
It's trickier than I expected finding M2.5 11mm in nylon - but I think just filing 1mm off the 12mm standoffs is fine.
Soldato
Thank you fellas. Time to get tinkering.
Caporegime
Wow that's a long time! I'd forgotten that I'd sent it
Soldato
I was starting to think they lost it!Wow that's a long time! I'd forgotten that I'd sent it
Ive stuck the TNT2 into the socket 7 system and it behaves exactly as the tnt2 I had found in my scrap pile! So now I am thinking the other one may work afterall and its this pc...
Grabbed a different CF card and currently doing a clean 98se install to see if that helps. The other install has had quite a few drivers on it.
Basically the card works fine in safe mode and even in normal windows but only in 16colour, as soon as you increase it windows fails to boot.
What chipset is on the motherboard? some of the socket 7 chipsets are a little picky with graphics cards and PCI/AGP bridge / bus drivers and the graphics drivers under windows.(latest 98se drivers from nvidia are also terrible and buggy)
Soldato
Its an ALI chipset, alladin iv I believe. Tried all 4 pci ports. some drivers from nvidia and also detonator drivers from vogons
Good to hear it turned up!
What driver version are you using Lewis? Personally I only use 8.05 or earlier with a TNT2-based card, which has no setup executable so you install via the .inf file. The Nvidia setup installer on a lot of the later drivers under Win9x seems to be buggy in some circumstances, in that it will install the card for you and then you'll be stuck with a flashing cursor when rebooting. A second reboot then gets you to the desktop, albeit stuck with 16 colours only.
Link to Phil's 9x Nvidia page: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/nvidia-9x-graphics-drivers.html
What driver version are you using Lewis? Personally I only use 8.05 or earlier with a TNT2-based card, which has no setup executable so you install via the .inf file. The Nvidia setup installer on a lot of the later drivers under Win9x seems to be buggy in some circumstances, in that it will install the card for you and then you'll be stuck with a flashing cursor when rebooting. A second reboot then gets you to the desktop, albeit stuck with 16 colours only.
Link to Phil's 9x Nvidia page: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/nvidia-9x-graphics-drivers.html
Soldato
Currently on 3.68 which was a .inf only. Still the same. It has to be this board!
As soon as it tries to load into windows with any drivers the screen goes black and a ctrl alt del restarts it.
As soon as it tries to load into windows with any drivers the screen goes black and a ctrl alt del restarts it.
Caporegime
You aren’t overclocking the PCI bus are you?