TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

[Valantar]

Is the CP Card holder to near the soundcard? I originally put the Soundcard underneath the CF Card holder ,but had to change it it over because it did not give me a lot of space to put the IDE Cabal in.

It's in the adjacent slot and nothing is touching, so everything looks like it should to me.

 

[MachineLearning]

Intel D975XBX2/KR (Bad Axe 2) - Warp9 Edition
BIOS is finished for now!

It does in fact seem that this is unmoddable outside of Intel Integrator Toolkit. However according to users in that Xtremesystems thread I linked in post #1, BIOS 2809 contains microcodes which they deleted in later revisions. I validated this:

CBROM refuses to work with this BIOS though, it just holds up (no output).
10676 = Xeon E5440, Harpertown. Board did NOT boot with this BIOS and:
- C0 E8400
- E0 E8500
- R0 Q8400
- E0 Q9550
- G0 E6750(!)

It surprises me that the board didn't boot with the E6750, I think I'm going to chip away again at this another day. Have some other CPUs to test compatibility with.

One interesting thing is that even though I flashed to unmodded BIOS 2809 via Recovery Mode (FDD), my splash screen & custom Optimal Defaults both remained.
Anyway, after testing that flashed back to 2838 to validate that my new splash screen, etc. were working properly, and fortunately they were.

Full changelog below:

Spoiler: Full Changelog 10-30-2022

***NOTE*** Please use the recovery mode & 2809 .ISO for Penryn compatibility!! Later BIOSes removed microcode. ***NOTE***
Full documentation may be found at: www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/boardsandkits/desktop-boards/975/D975XBX2/D975XBX2_ProductGuide05.pdf
GDrive backup: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1llKX0t3zQ1YYSWFOXz0ByhU6a8bcZ9rV?usp=share_link
~
CHANGELOG 2838P W9 Edition
DATE: 10-30-2022 | October 30th, 2022
Modified:
- New Warp9 & Intel splash screen
- Load Optimal Defaults new settings:
- C1E = DISABLE
- Failsafe Watchdog = DISABLE
- CPU Fan Control = DISABLE
- System Fan Control = DISABLE
- Serial Port = DISABLE
- Parallel Port = DISABLE
- Audio = DISABLE
- On-Board LAN = DISABLE
- Secondary SATA Controller = DISABLE
- Onboard 1394 = DISABLE
- Primary Channel IDE = DISABLE
- Floppy Diskette Controller = DISABLE
- Clear Event Log = ENABLE
- ASF Support = DISABLE
- Enhanced Power Slope = ENABLED
- MCH Voltage Override = 1.525V -> 1.550V
- Current Processor Voltage = 1.325V -> 1.35V
- Memory Frequency = 533MHz -> 400MHz
- tCL = 4 -> 5
- tRCD = 4 -> 5
- tRP = 4 -> 5
- tRAS = 13 -> 18
- Memory Voltage = 1.84V -> 2.00V
- [Security settings ONLY] User Access Level = View Only -> Full Access
- EIST = DISABLED
- Boot to Network = DISABLED
Added:
- German language support
- Spanish language support
- System Manufacturer "Tristan K | MachineLearning"
- System Product Name "Intel(c) Bad Axe 2"
- System Serial Number "Build: Oct30th2022"

 

[Greenslade]

It's in the adjacent slot and nothing is touching, so everything looks like it should to me.

Thanks very much for your answer.

Yesterday I was told there is a guy over in Victoria Australia that makes these:

View attachment 267758

I can get further details if anyone wants them.

I have seen videos making IDE cabals on you tube ,but not the other thing you are showing. which i suppose you are talking about.

 

[lexluthermiester]

Is the CP Card holder to near the soundcard?

You can put it on bottom, but it's fine where it's at too.

Intel D975XBX2/KR (Bad Axe 2) - Warp9 Edition
BIOS is finished for now!

It does in fact seem that this is unmoddable outside of Intel Integrator Toolkit. However according to users in that Xtremesystems thread I linked in post #1, BIOS 2809 contains microcodes which they deleted in later revisions. I validated this:

CBROM refuses to work with this BIOS though, it just holds up (no output).
10676 = Xeon E5440, Harpertown. Board did NOT boot with this BIOS and:
- C0 E8400
- E0 E8500
- R0 Q8400
- E0 Q9550
- G0 E6750(!)

It surprises me that the board didn't boot with the E6750, I think I'm going to chip away again at this another day. Have some other CPUs to test compatibility with.

One interesting thing is that even though I flashed to unmodded BIOS 2809 via Recovery Mode (FDD), my splash screen & custom Optimal Defaults both remained.
Anyway, after testing that flashed back to 2838 to validate that my new splash screen, etc. were working properly, and fortunately they were.

Full changelog below:

Spoiler: Full Changelog 10-30-2022

***NOTE*** Please use the recovery mode & 2809 .ISO for Penryn compatibility!! Later BIOSes removed microcode. ***NOTE***
Full documentation may be found at: www.intel.com/content/dam/support/us/en/documents/boardsandkits/desktop-boards/975/D975XBX2/D975XBX2_ProductGuide05.pdf
GDrive backup: drive.google.com/drive/folders/1llKX0t3zQ1YYSWFOXz0ByhU6a8bcZ9rV?usp=share_link
~
CHANGELOG 2838P W9 Edition
DATE: 10-30-2022 | October 30th, 2022
Modified:
- New Warp9 & Intel splash screen
- Load Optimal Defaults new settings:
- C1E = DISABLE
- Failsafe Watchdog = DISABLE
- CPU Fan Control = DISABLE
- System Fan Control = DISABLE
- Serial Port = DISABLE
- Parallel Port = DISABLE
- Audio = DISABLE
- On-Board LAN = DISABLE
- Secondary SATA Controller = DISABLE
- Onboard 1394 = DISABLE
- Primary Channel IDE = DISABLE
- Floppy Diskette Controller = DISABLE
- Clear Event Log = ENABLE
- ASF Support = DISABLE
- Enhanced Power Slope = ENABLED
- MCH Voltage Override = 1.525V -> 1.550V
- Current Processor Voltage = 1.325V -> 1.35V
- Memory Frequency = 533MHz -> 400MHz
- tCL = 4 -> 5
- tRCD = 4 -> 5
- tRP = 4 -> 5
- tRAS = 13 -> 18
- Memory Voltage = 1.84V -> 2.00V
- [Security settings ONLY] User Access Level = View Only -> Full Access
- EIST = DISABLED
- Boot to Network = DISABLED
Added:
- German language support
- Spanish language support
- System Manufacturer "Tristan K | MachineLearning"
- System Product Name "Intel(c) Bad Axe 2"
- System Serial Number "Build: Oct30th2022"

This deserves it's own thread!

 

[Trekkie4]

Yesterday I was told there is a guy over in Victoria Australia that makes these:

View attachment 267758

I can get further details if anyone wants them.

You mean the SLI bridge "card" or the cable? Because the actual cable is quite easy to make, I even have the original pinout diagram from 3dfx.

 

[hckngrtfakt]

I know I recently posted about my strix 3090 but I have a sweet spot for old hardware ....
(if you can tell from my 5500 voodoo post)

Ecs, athlon xp 2000+ ati 7500. and the rest,... if you know.... you know ....
so here it is ... 9800xt

Windows 98se ftw

 

[Greenslade]

I bought some PS1 and PC games from the local brick brack and one of the games was this one
and one of a few that I can make money on selling to CEX they have it on there for £8 and £1.20 for cash £2 exchange the PS1 games and the three PC games cost 50p each oh I forgot I got a PS3 game GTA IV the disk has a few marks on it the booklet is all stuck together so are the PS1 booklets but the disks are in good shape. I have put them in a bowl of hot water the pages are unstuck. As a bonus, I found some DVD.s that got chucked out of the stuff the sellers put in the rubbish and some CD,s/This was one of them

PIies good band.
I am just looking up the ones that were thrown out and seen another one for CEX £10. £2 cash £5 exchange i have some others to exchange.

 

[Audioave10]

AWE64 Legacy: A Premium New ISA Sound Card in 2022​

 

[lexluthermiester]

AWE64 Legacy: A Premium New ISA Sound Card in 2022​

Watched that last night, it's a great thing. To bad it's sold out..

 

[Greenslade]

i am trying to change the time on my pi4 Flamemonkabuntu see photos As you can see ii want let me unlock.The other way to do it is
*sudo raspi-config*but it says command not found? It works on other PI OS,s

.I tried it on Raspion xp and it worked but not on here?

 

[Greenslade]

Another two for CEX the first one Total War. £8 at Cex £1.20 for cash ,£2 exchange
Fast & Furious Showdown ps3 £4 at CEX £1 for cash £1.60 exchange .I also got two Cd,s. Stevie wonder *Talking Book* and *Innervisions* i don,t usually buy CD,s any more but they are classic albums.
One PS1 Game Medal of Honor one PC Broken sword Trilogy unopened not worth anything on CEX All these cost 50p each.I looked thru over 12 boxes mixed with DVD,s Cds.a hand full of PS1,s PS2,s and one of two PS4,s. quite a few XBOX a lot more PS2 shame i can.t play them on my PS3 Slim.

Total War - Attila

Our friend Clint and his first Thrifts for some time

 

[MachineLearning]

CrossFire Xpress 3200: RD580 for AM2

www.anandtech.com

ATI had the most beautiful reference motherboards. I love this color scheme

 

[Greenslade]

I bet you guys would like to have a shop like this in your area;

with everything from vinyl .books and VHS video tapes who still has any let alone buying them? plus all types of retro games. Wish I had one like it here. You could spend hours in there. Not that I would buy much in there , as you guys know I don,t like paying much for them. I got this one the other day it was £1.50. I did not go to the market today because it has been raining.

 

[Bones]

I bet you guys would like to have a shop like this in your area;

with everything from vinyl .books and VHS video tapes who still has any let alone buying them? plus all types of retro games. Wish I had one like it here. You could spend hours in there. Not that I would buy much in there , as you guys know I don,t like paying much for them. I got this one the other day it was £1.50. I did not go to the market today because it has been raining. View attachment 268648

We've got three that I know of, possibly a fourth.

Individually they aren't as large as the shop in this vid but together, they have alot more stuff in total BUT at the same time there is a real difference in inventory seen too.

No face huggers in a bag for example (We do have alot of faces around here that belongs IN a Hefty heavy duty sinch-sack garbage bag sinched up TIGHT ) but alot of other things seen are there, including some stuff as multiples of the same thing.

One shop had gotten to the point they had stopped buying Gameboy carts because they had so many and no one was buying them either - The manager showed me what he had and said he literally coudn't even give them away, so he stopped taking them in on trades or deals to buy them.

These places are cool though and after going through the ones here, you begin to see what games are popular and what games aren't because of how many copies of a game title you'll see on the shelf - Obviously if there are alot of them available all the time it's probrably a crap game.
If it's a title you can't ever seem to find it or if you do and it's expensive, then you already know the deal with it.

Unless you're wanting to sell things to these stores to.... Let's say clean out the closet, you're better off selling it yourself because they won't give you much for what you've got, even if it's a rare(er) title that has some worth to it.
I have one such game (SNES Secret of Evermore) which is a very hard to get title and mine is almost in mint condition - And they didn't want to give me even a 1/3 of it's real worth so I kept it instead.
Even though it's a rare, highly sought-after game by collectors these days I never really liked it so I never played it.
That's why it's in the condition it's in now and I know it's worth some money to say the least of it.

 

[Greenslade]

We've got three that I know of, possibly a fourth.

Individually they aren't as large as the shop in this vid but together, they have a-lot more stuff in total BUT at the same time there is a real difference in inventory seen too.

No face huggers in a bag for example (We do have a-lot of faces around here that belongs IN a Hefty heavy duty sinch-sack garbage bag sinched up TIGHT ) but a-lot of other things seen are there, including some stuff as multiples of the same thing.

One shop had gotten to the point they had stopped buying Gameboy carts because they had so many and no one was buying them either - The manager showed me what he had and said he literally couldn't even give them away, so he stopped taking them in on trades or deals to buy them.

These places are cool though and after going through the ones here, you begin to see what games are popular and what games aren't because of how many copies of a game title you'll see on the shelf - Obviously if there are a-lot of them available all the time it's probably a crap game.
If it's a title you can't ever seem to find it or if you do and it's expensive, then you already know the deal with it.

Unless you're wanting to sell things to these stores to.... Let's say clean out the closet, you're better off selling it yourself because they won't give you much for what you've got, even if it's a rare(er) title that has some worth to it.
I have one such game (SNES Secret of Evermore) which is a very hard to get title and mine is almost in mint condition - And they didn't want to give me even a 1/3 of it's real worth so I kept it instead.
Even though it's a rare, highly sought-after game by collectors these days I never really liked it so I never played it.
That's why it's in the condition it's in now and I know it's worth some money to say the least of it.

In your area or the whole of the US?. I get you there.So Gameboy not collectable these days, not that i have ever played a gameboy game. I don,t blame them if they can,t sell them.I get your point about the ones they have got multeball copy,s of the same game. Yes like CEX and other such shops that sell second hand stuff, they give you very little for them.Best to sell on ebay or somewhere like that.The cheapest i see for that game on eBay is £30 including shipping they say it is good and German.Top price was over £300 No ones going to own up saying they own.let alone collect VHS Video tapes,Or even BetamaxWhich i understand were better than VHS ,i would not know as i have never owned either of the systems.

 

[jlewis02]

Found these in a drawer no idea what they were for. Haven’t looked them up yet

 

[lexluthermiester]

Both are 72pin SIMMs. The first is 60ns, maybe 2MB, the other is 70ns and likely 1MB.

 

[Audioave10]

Some of my favorite Hardware...hard to find these days.

 

[Bones]

In your area or the whole of the US?. I get you there.So Gameboy not collectable these days, not that i have ever played a gameboy game. I don,t blame them if they can,t sell them.I get your point about the ones they have got multeball copy,s of the same game. Yes like CEX and other such shops that sell second hand stuff, they give you very little for them.Best to sell on ebay or somewhere like that.The cheapest i see for that game on eBay is £30 including shipping they say it is good and German.Top price was over £300 No ones going to own up saying they own.let alone collect VHS Video tapes,Or even BetamaxWhich i understand were better than VHS ,i would not know as i have never owned either of the systems.

Locally to me, there are three that's within a 20-30 minute drive from my door to their door.
I want to say there is a fourth I've heard of but can't confirm it, I know if I were to go up to Birmingham and look I'd find a few more but the thing I've noted is between these stores is the inventory is all hit or miss and yet at the same time it's all the same too if that makes any sense to you.
You never know what you'll find at a given store/ location if you've never been there before yet at the same time, you know you'll find a TON of things like sports games for example.
You also know Dreamcast games are hard to find and the selection is poor at best for those, normally I see about one or two each time I go in and that's really about it.
There is one here that has more Dreamcast stuff than the others do with a nice assortment of games and consoles too - Great to deal with and the prices aren't insane.

 

[Greenslade]

Why does my new HP Envy printer 6000 take so long to get the print job loaded? See the bar keeps going back and forth?

 

[stinger608]

Why does my new HP Envy printer 6000 take so long to get the print job loaded? See the bar keeps going back and forth?

That could be due to the computer being slow to process the print job or the actual printer is really slow.

Is it running directly to the computer or is it running through a switch or router? If running through a switch, router, or wirelessly, it can take a bit for the print process to complete.

 

[Ruru]

Guess the card

 

[Audioave10]

Guess the card

No serious experience with AGP cards for me and the Zalman cooler is messing with my guesses. Cool!

 

[Ruru]

No serious experience with AGP cards for me and the Zalman cooler is messing with my guesses. Cool!

6800 Ultra. Easy to distinguish from other 6800 series' cards as Ultra is the only with 2 molex connectors. 6800 GT uses the same PCB but it has only one power connector.

 

[Bones]

I have one such game (SNES Secret of Evermore) which is a very hard to get title and mine is almost in mint condition - And they didn't want to give me even a 1/3 of it's real worth so I kept it instead.
Even though it's a rare, highly sought-after game by collectors these days I never really liked it so I never played it.
That's why it's in the condition it's in now and I know it's worth some money to say the least of it.

Quoting myself to maintain context for this last post about console stuff, then I'm moving on.
I do have the title as stated above and it's a rare one so I decided to digout the "Core" of my SNES collection of games to show off here.

All of these except for "Secret of Mana" was purchased brandnew by yours truly back in the day so yes, I'm the original owner of them and all shown are 100% genuine originals from back in the day, no modern remakes or whatnot here.
There are others here with collector appeal and value too but these are the best and rarest ones I've got that I'm aware of.

If one of the others I've got (Not shown or mentioned) is even more collectible/valueable, then I'm personally not aware of it.
Note that the majority are all Squaresoft games, the ones that helped to make Square the company we know today and there is no need to introduce these to you guys.

There are a couple by Koei, these being of lower production by the numbers (Volume) of games made but the game quality itself is rather high and that's what makes these titles sought after and valueable as well. Both are strategy games in that you try to outsmart the AI to beat the game within a setting/situation presented to you.

"PTO II" lets you play either as Japan or America's side of the Pacific conflict during WWII and you get to decide and control the strategies and tactics used for victory along with production of wartime materials, supplies, equipment and so on - Plus control over fleet movements, objectives and deployments too. It's a simple yet very deep game to play once you get into it all.

"Gemfire" isn't as realistic or extensive but it still lets you do all the basic things in a fantasy/medival setting.
Unlike "PTO II" it's a less serious/more fun side of things Koei made back in the day.

Enjoy.