TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[JunkBear]

Indeed. You roll a fag here and you go to jail for a hate crime.

Unless the fag enjoy that you wet the tip of his cigar and Roll it in your mouth. Just saying

 

[Trekkie4]

@hckngrtfakt Is it just me, or one of the AGP caps is bulging pretty badly? If so, you'd be better with another board, it would be a shame to damage 3dfx over something like that

 

[stinger608]

Thanks for linking those to the 1st post, but you made a mistake. That "Mass Storage" USB fix wasn't meant for Windows 98, it is strictly for Windows 95, and therefore won't work on W98.

If you want a W98 version, here it is - LINK Feel free to include this one in the 1st post as well

Fixed and included the win 98 link as well.

 

[DR4G00N]

Got the same board here, and it never gave me any hard time with the hard drive(s)... Just make sure you got your jumpers set correctly & that BIOS is set to either "auto" or "auto-detect"

It's just that the bios is too old, the newest versions add support for 40GB and larger HDD's.

Update the bios. That board is as full featured as they come. It's an excellent clocker.

Will do as soon as I can.

It should be possible to make a dos bootable HDD and flash it using that right?

 

[Disparia]

At one point BeOS was a possible replacement for MacOS but Apple opted for NeXT and Steve Jobs Part 2 instead. That was arguably the better choice for Apple, even if BeOS was technically superior.

BeOS 3 and 4. I also have 5 Pro, but it's somewhere else at the moment.

The availability of Mac clones started to dry up after Jobs returned. Release 3 was available for PPC and x86 as a way to hopefully transition fans of BeOS to PC hardware. When I heard intriguing rumors of a modern multi-threaded OS coming to x86 I started to research. Remember, we're years away from Windows 2000, so I'm still dual-booting Windows 9x and Windows NT at this point.

One of the best philosophies that Be developers had was simply to design for N.

Ex: Sound devices. Anyone else here with multiple sound devices? It was 100 times easier to manage applications and sound devices in BeOS. No surprise that BeOS or parts of it were used in some digital sound mixers and other professional audio products.

Ex: CPUs. Well, the overwhelming majority of people had a single CPU (core/thread) at that time -- but that doesn't matter -- they designed for N numbers of cores. If BeOS could be installed on Ryzen today, it would see all 16 of the 1800X!

 

[Trekkie4]

@DR4G00N The way I usually update BIOS... Just make a bootable floppy disk & boot into DOS. Then simply run the flashing utility & backup (if possible) the old BIOS to a floppy disk before upgrading to a new one.

 

[DR4G00N]

@DR4G00N The way I usually update BIOS... Just make a bootable floppy disk & boot into DOS. Then simply run the flashing utility & backup (if possible) the old BIOS to a floppy disk before upgrading to a new one.

I would do that but I don't have a good floppy cable atm, just one I made from a 40 wire ide cable which is not very good so I don't trust it. I can borrow a 10-20GB HDD if it's even possible to flash it using one.

 

[hckngrtfakt]

@hckngrtfakt Is it just me, or one of the AGP caps is bulging pretty badly? If so, you'd be better with another board, it would be a shame to damage 3dfx over something like that

You know what, you're absolutely right. I just noticed that one.
This board has been incredibly reliable too, I may just order a replacement cap and bring out the soldering iron.
I bought this 3dfx brand new and has been my little treasure ever since (wish I would've kept the box tho)
Thank you so very much for the heads up.

 

[Trekkie4]

No prob, glad I could help! These things are becoming extremely rare nowdays, so having one damaged over voltage spike would be a real nightmare.

 

[Mr.Scott]

I would do that but I don't have a good floppy cable atm, just one I made from a 40 wire ide cable which is not very good so I don't trust it. I can borrow a 10-20GB HDD if it's even possible to flash it using one.

You can use a floppy, a CD, or a HDD. Any one of them will work as long as you can boot from it.

 

[stinger608]

It should be possible to make a dos bootable HDD and flash it using that right?

Just make a bootable DOS CDRW with the BIOS on the disk. Then you can just erase the BIOS once you're done and keep the DOS boot sector in place. That will allow you to use a bootable DOS disk again if you need it.

 

[dorsetknob]

Nice one @dorsetknob is it 16 or 32mb model? Judging by the heatsink, it seems to be newer model, so I'm leaning towards 32. I tried to email you with this particular issue, but kept getting "undeliverable mailer daemon" instead

The Card is a 32m/b vram version just tested it working " STILL" and i still got the origional Drivers /software install Disk

 

[Trekkie4]

Speaking of optical drives, I finally got around to test that Teac CD-524E from way back, post #4912. And of course, it works perfectly! This here is the old school, has a very fast & reliable tray mechanism along with pretty decent speed (24X)

@dorsetknob Right, call me insane but I started to recognize these things just by looking at the heatsink. If it has a small logo in the middle, it's most likely newer model, 32mb where on the other hand older ones didn't have anything & came with 16mb of VRAM

 

[DR4G00N]

Okay, I'll see if I can get it flashed tomorrow, borrowed a 2.1GB Maxtor drive for it.

In other news, I ended up grabbing that PC-DL DELUXE. Board is in good shape and came with dual Xeon 2.4GHz 533 fsb chips with the very beefy stock heatsinks. Came with a few pci cards, an aOpen 32x CD drive and a Panasonic floppy drive. All for $20 Cad.

Board is a rev. 1.05 too which is great because it has an Agp/pci lock.

 

[Trekkie4]

Oh man!! Got one of those TX2000 FastTrak controllers here with me, might even have S3 card, but wish I could say the same for that Asus board

 

[DR4G00N]

Have you checked the PLL yet to see if it's supported by any software?

Yes, it's an ICS952618BF, the ICS952607EF pll in setfsb works fine for increasing fsb. Have both cpu's at 3GHz atm. http://valid.x86.fr/x8703s

 

[Mr.Scott]

This thread will help you out.
http://forums.2cpu.com/showthread.php?t=40755

 

[Fouquin]

Saved yet another P5A from the scrap bin today. Mid production board, so it's a later revision than my other two.




In the same bin I found a fun little card that you don't see all too often, little SiS Xabre 200.

 

[Mr.Scott]

You don't see any Xabre cards anymore at all. Very rarely. Nice.
I have a couple, but would really like to trip over a 600.

 

[Trekkie4]

Saved yet another P5A from the scrap bin today. Mid production board, so it's a later revision than my other two.

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In the same bin I found a fun little card that you don't see all too often, little SiS Xabre 200.

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Being ALi chipset (and Asus board), for a moment I thought that was A7A266, but the layout didn't seem right...

 

[xkm1948]

AthlonXP 2500+ overclocked on Abit NF7 2.0. CPU cooler was Volcano12. GPU was a Radeon 9700. This computer made my high school years less stressful.

 

[uuuaaaaaa]

AthlonXP 2500+ overclocked on Abit NF7 2.0. CPU cooler was Volcano12. GPU was a Radeon 9700. This computer made my high school years less stressful.

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Oh boy... I miss Abit boards. I rebuilt (and upgraded, check the purple haze build in system specs) my high school build, the base of that build is an Abit IC7-MAX3.

 

[Disparia]

That's for sure! All the way up to the AW9D-MAX, which was a decent board but had it quirks. More quirks than anyone had come to expect from an Abit board. Of course, it's not too long after that Abit ceases to exist (as a motherboard manufacturer).

 

[Bungz]

Just finished cleaning off that grotty rig I posted a few pages back.

Abit

 

[Robert B]

WICKED!!!!!!