TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

stinger608 · Apr 23, 2017

alucasa said:
Is this considered as hardware? I mean I have the boxes...

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Well of course man!!!!! Cool ole Vista cases!!!

You could certainly send one of them my way for my collection............

alucasa · Apr 23, 2017

stinger608 said:
Well of course man!!!!! Cool ole Vista cases!!!

You could certainly send one of them my way for my collection............

Nah, I've been keeping it for a reason...

I also have Win 7 pro box retail version.

MaxiPro800 · Apr 23, 2017

alucasa said:
Nah, I've been keeping it for a reason...

I also have Win 7 pro box retail version.

I remember back when I had a Dell Optiplex 110 I used to borrow a 98SE CD. Much to my amazement it was the original disc, not a burnt CD-R.

Trekkie4 · Apr 23, 2017

Well, this turned out to be real bummer... Both nVidia 7600GT AND the 2 gig of DDR400 memory turned out to be defective, except none of them were showing "obvious" signs of malfunctioning hardware up until I tested 1st couple of games.

AGP card was working fine throughout the Vista installation & beyond, up to the 1st benchmark now that I think about it. Then it started having random "holes" in the models/textures & misaligned polygons. The same problem showed up in Half-Life 2, and was still there regardless of updating the drivers and/or tinkering with AGP fast-write feature in BIOS, so I'm pretty sure it's hardware issue and not a software one. Oh well, now I have to source a replacement AGP card for this thing!

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The RAM issue(s) were more harder to find & diagnose however. Everything worked perfectly fine up until I did a memory test, that's when MemTest86+ showed me tons of warnings

So I did the obvious thing, I removed the other module & tried to start up the machine with only just one module, but the system hanged upon boot & wasn't responding to keyboard or showing signs of disk activity. So I tried with 2nd module instead, and it worked up OK until the memory test when I (once again) ended up with error during the memory test. It was only just one error though, but still error nevertheless. So I gave up & ordered a matching pair of two DDR400 modules online, 1GB each & will advise here once they arrive. In the meantime, I'll see if there's anything I can do about the video card, maybe even swapping out the PSU.

biffzinker · Apr 23, 2017

It's possible the 7600GT might be fine but the flaky DDR sticks were responsible for the corrupt texture issue. Should give it another try with a new set of DDR sticks before declaring the 7600GT kaput.

Trekkie4 · Apr 23, 2017

True, except I already tried with another (random) RAM module, 256MB (which slowed down Vista to a crawl) and the problem was still there... Soooo *shrug* I was hoping it would be that simple, since replacing DDR is much easier than finding a decent AGP card

Norton · Apr 23, 2017

CAPSLOCKSTUCK said:
Did/does anyone here have one of these?

Had one a couple of years ago, got it from @Solaris17 ... went off to a Team members crunching farm

Really nice board- good luck with it! :toast:

natr0n · Apr 23, 2017

Found some old pics of my still working socket 939 system. msi nforce 4 ultra chipset, decapped x2 3800 2.9 ghz, 2gb ballistix ram, 9600gt, I had this special psu for gpus that was dvd drive form factor.

That bottle was crystal light apple. Not piss or beer fyi... :laugh:

I'm still using that keyboard as we speak.

Mr.Scott · Apr 23, 2017

natr0n said:
I had this special psu for gpus that was dvd drive form factor.

Juice Box ?

natr0n · Apr 23, 2017

Mr.Scott said:
Juice Box ?

this
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Thermaltake/PowerExpress/

Mr.Scott · Apr 23, 2017

Same thing basically. There were a bunch of different one's. Example:
Epower
FSP
Ultra
Corsair

stinger608 · Apr 24, 2017

natr0n said:
I had this special psu for gpus that was dvd drive form factor.

natr0n said:
this
https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Thermaltake/PowerExpress/

LOL, I actually have one of them puppies.

Robert B · Apr 24, 2017

Tommorrow I'll receive something special: Maxx & V2SLI - I'm so anxious OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY!!!

I'll post some pics when I'll get them!

biffzinker · Apr 24, 2017

Robert B said:
Maxx & V2SLI

Rage Fury MAXX, and two Voodoo2 in Scan Link Interleave?

Haven't seen or heard of the Rage Fury MAXX since 1999/2000.

Trekkie4 · Apr 24, 2017

Speaking of video cards, I'm facing yet another dilemma... Radeon 9600 PRO (256mb) or nVidia 6600GT (128mb)? I'm probably going to end up taking both, but only one of the two will end up inside that Asus unit as a replacement for 7600GT

biffzinker · Apr 24, 2017

Geforce 6600 GT would be the better pick between the two.

dorsetknob · Apr 24, 2017

i do have a 7600GT in my box of bits

Mr.Scott · Apr 24, 2017

biffzinker said:
Haven't seen or heard of the Rage Fury MAXX since 1999/2000.

I'll throw a pic up later. I'm benching one right now.

Trekkie4 · Apr 24, 2017

dorsetknob said:
i do have a 7600GT in my box of bits

Mine turned out to be corrupt. Either the VRAM (even though I tested it & checked out fine) or the actual GPU. One way or another it's showing "holes" in the models & textures & has misaligned polygons.

Very similar to this pic here, if not identical...

In fact, I uploaded couple of screenshots from Half-Life 2, in case you missed them?

Edit
Here it is:

Mr.Scott · Apr 25, 2017

Here's my Fury Maxx. Still pretty new. Still have the CD and literature

Trekkie4 · Apr 25, 2017

Mmmm! Gotta love that twin-turbo engine

biffzinker · Apr 25, 2017

Trekkie4 said:
Mmmm! Gotta love that twin-turbo engine

Actually isn't the Fury Maxx the earliest form of Crossfire? Thought I remember Alternate Frame Rendering was how the Furry Maxx got the speed up.

Mr.Scott said:
Here's my Fury Maxx. Still pretty new. Still have the CD and literature

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Are you hanging on to the Maxx as a collectors item?

Trekkie4 · Apr 25, 2017

Are you asking me or @Mr.Scott ? To be quite honest, I don't know, never had one of these before! But with that being said, I'll see if I can pick one up, some day

I might have just an ordinary Fury though, not sure. As I recall, it said "Fury" on the sticker, but the system recognized the card as "Rage128", which didn't quite head up. By the time I got it, I already had two of them (different revisions, apparently) and neither of them look similar to the one I'm talking about.

Edit
Nevermind, found what I was looking for. It didn't say Fury on the card itself, it was other way around - system detecting the card as ATI Fury, while the actual card claimed to be ATI Rage128. Still different than two of my other, regular R128 models, since this 3rd one is "Pro"

Mr.Scott · Apr 25, 2017

I have a 128 Pro Ultra right here too.

I guess I'm a collector, but I bench everything I own sub ambient at least once so........they're not just closet ornaments either.

Komshija · Apr 25, 2017

@Mr.Scott : Past times when small fans were so "fashionable" (Fury Maxx).

They are, what, 30 mm in diameter?

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TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

alucasa

MaxiPro800

Trekkie4

biffzinker

Trekkie4

Norton

Moderator - Returning from the Darkness

natr0n

Mr.Scott

natr0n

Mr.Scott

stinger608

Dedicated TPU Cruncher & Folder

Robert B

biffzinker

Trekkie4

biffzinker

dorsetknob

"YOUR RMA REQUEST IS CON-REFUSED"

Mr.Scott

Trekkie4

Mr.Scott

Trekkie4

biffzinker

Trekkie4

Mr.Scott

Komshija

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