Re: No output from DVI ports on any ELSA Erazor III 32MB TNT2 Pro

Posted on Today, 01:19

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Thanks for the input everyone! I appreciate it. I have several cards with that SIL chip. For DVI digital output if it gets EDID that it doesn't like there won't be an image. I solved this by using DVI EDID emulator between card and display (StarTech VSEDIDDVI). When connecting to capture card ( …

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Re: Help needed in fixing a graphics card

Posted on Yesterday, 06:08

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I'm all for fixing things, and I know it has been a few weeks since your original post, but I would recommend returning it if you still can, then getting something else. Problems like these can take many hours to diagnose and in the end may not be fixable (bad GPU for example), so think about how …

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No output from DVI ports on any ELSA Erazor III 32MB TNT2 Pro

Posted on 2024-05-04, 20:27

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I recently purchased more than one of these and I'm sad to say that I can't get them to output to DVI at all. I have tried using single-link and dual-link DVI cables going to my old Dell 2001FP and I get no display at all when the DVI cable is connected. I also tried connecting it via a DVI to HDMI …

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Re: Why do the voodoo 4 and 5 not have hardware support for T&L?

Posted on 2024-05-04, 06:13

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In the same year of pixel shading there'd been geometry tesselation which didn't gain steam beyond the cards of that year. Ah, yes... that was interesting. If I remember correctly, there were screen shots of the tesselation on Radeon 8500 cards turning guns in popular (but not tesselation optimized …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-03, 23:33

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I have found all sorts of cool PC hardware lately (will post more at some point), but this one caught me off guard. I bought a Sound Blaster 2.0 box with most of the disks and other stuff in it, and the seller included this as a surprise freebie: 20240503_153406 (Custom).jpg Anyone ever seen one of …

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Re: Old hardware giveaway thread.

Posted on 2024-05-03, 19:02

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This is a shot in the dark, but is anyone close enough to western New York state or NW PA who would be interested in a broken Sony CPD-1302 "multisync" monitor from the late 80s? This would be a VGA, EGA, CGA, 15khz, etc. multi-function type deal... if it worked. I got it a few years ago but the …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-23, 05:50

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This is more retro hardware adjacent than actual hardware related, but it's something I've been wanting to do for a long time. I have a workbench I had previously built for model and miniature painting. I've decided to re-purpose it for papercraft and attempt restoration of old hardware and game …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-21, 03:07

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If I remember right, those Evercool fans had chrome-colored plastic blades. I don't remember fans with metal blades. Papst (not to be confused with Pabst Blue Ribbon) has some metal fans, but they aren't shiny PC fans with home-friendly noise levels. Even the overclockers used the plastic Papst …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2024-04-21, 00:09

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Recapped my recently acquired MSI Tualatin MS-6368 v5 MB . Currently running on 1.1G Tualatin Celeron. Goal is to set up DOS machine with VIA C3 CPU. First test weekend ended up successful. After I reserved Legacy IRQ/DMA from bios PiocoGus is running just fine. It looks like VIA PLE133T sports …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-20, 00:20

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Doh... so... the continuity test gives a solid beep. However, when I measure resistance across the two points it is 9.9 ohms in both directions and doesn't change. It's just relatively low resistance I guess... not a short to ground. ... so this was probably all a waste of time, right? Other than …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-19, 23:39

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Okay, I think this was a wild goose chase. I have a Thunderboard here, and it has the same LM351 and pin4 is connected to ground with effectively zero resistance (0.1 ohm). Maybe in the case of the Thunder and Lighting they didn't want the video and sound portions of the card to interfere with one …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-19, 23:12

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That is strange, I would think in a case like this, the tantalum wouldn't be doing anything... it would help to know exactly what the circuit is (little bit of schematic). Is it a dead short or just low resistance (that doesn't change with time) ? And does it measure same in both directions ? That …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-19, 21:28

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so is there ever a normal (not failure) situation where both legs of a tantalum, in circuit, would appear shorted? Not that I know of, I certainly cannot think of any situations. Only way resistance that low would read is if there's another parallel component that would exhibit such a resistance, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-19, 16:51

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Great Haul. What chipset does that Orchid VLB card have I wonder? I have no Trident VLB specimens and am pretty envious to see, what, like 5 of them in there lol! Enjoy man. I believe the Orchid Fahrenheit 1280 Plus is an S3 805. Some day I would love to find one with the sound card components …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-19, 06:34

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Yeah, it was definitely a good lot. As mentioned though, there's going to be a lot of work here. They were wrapped a bit but were boxed with some pretty hefty stuff (junk) so pretty much everything is scuffed and has bent things. I imagine there will be a LOT of pin reflowing in my near future. The …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2024-04-19, 04:44

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Mandrew wrote on 2024-04-18, 16:32: I have a roadside find instead, a standard slot1 IBM 300PL with lots of dirt and a Deschutes 400. Man... those take me back. Very common machines when I was in middle and high school. 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-19, 04:28

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I want someone to figure it out though. The detective work was actually a lot of fun. :D Media Vision Thunder and Lightning. A video and sound card in one. I couldn't find the ad that you mentioned, just a schematic of the card on VCFED and it matches your photo. Heavy Metal VGA ad https://books. …

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Re: Is the core 2 extreme qx 6700 considered a collectable/rare cpu?

Posted on 2024-04-18, 05:03

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Hard to believe Core 2 Quads are already so old. For me it was just a few upgrades ago that I was using one... I had an E6750, then a Q9550, sold that and bought a 2500K in 2011, used that for 8 years and bought a Ryzen 5 3600, then a few years later got a 5800X3D. I wonder how far the Q9550 would …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-18, 04:43

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About every 3 or 4 years I come across a Ti-99 and every time I go through the motions of counting the reasons I should have one, and it's only more or less the one of "TI is kinda cool I guess", so I never bite ... though it's weird I seem to come across them way more often than other computers …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-04-18, 02:02

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Media Vision Thunderboard? The sticker and I/O placement look similar to it. That's what I thought too. Took me a while, but what I found out was very very frightening. Mamma mia let me go? Media Vision Thunderboard? The sticker and I/O placement look similar to it. That's what I thought too. Took …

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