Reply 54260 of 55555, by Thermalwrong
Wes1262 wrote on 2024-09-11, 02:16:Creative/Msi TI4600. 30 eur. Artifacting most of the times. Sometimes starts without artifacts, then crashes and reboots. Can lo […]
Creative/Msi TI4600. 30 eur. Artifacting most of the times.
Sometimes starts without artifacts, then crashes and reboots.
Can load windows despite the artifacts, but crashes pretty quickly.
Has an Abit Siluro bios for some reason, but it's clearly a MSI. Could be the reason it doesn't work.
I have no idea what fix I should attempt if flashing the original bios wont work!
That's something I'm also fighting! I now have an FX5600 and a Ti4200 that are both artifacting and give errors in MATS. There's a link for that in this thread: Re: GeForce3 - mixing memory modules
In my case it's a bad data line on the corner of both BGA chips so a reflow should help, haven't worked up the courage to that yet to either of them...
I reconstituted the whitebunny nvidia ROM archive here if you want to see if the original BIOS helps: https://archive.org/details/whitebunny-video-bios-roms
Thermalwrong wrote on 2024-09-03, 01:16:Omg what are the odds, I just 'bought' a Honeywell thing too - except it's yet another pizza box computer that I don't really so […]
Locutus wrote on 2024-09-02, 23:03:Finally, found the "weirdo" mouse 😉
Omg what are the odds, I just 'bought' a Honeywell thing too - except it's yet another pizza box computer that I don't really so much need but...
retroweb is such an amazing resource at this point, there's no info for this 'honeywell bull' computer online but the seller posted inside pictures so I can see it looks like a Pentium MMX, LPX motherboard with a via chipset and I was able to determine it's a FIC PA-2003:
I'm not sure why they're calling it a honeywell actually, it's only got a bull logo on it but maybe there's a label on it somewhere that wasn't pictured. It's an interesting and pretty small LPX system but why buy another pizza box? It wasn't exactly cheap but I was the only bidder and there's something special hiding inside 😁
I recognised it straight away from the double position memory pads, really hoping this goes through and doesn't get damaged in the post...
BTW, doesn't that mouse need a special mousepad to work?
Today I got the computer and it got here in great shape 😀 this thing is a real mid 90s time capsule and the powervr card is the Videologic Apocalypse 3Dx or PCX2 which is awesome! I need to plug it into a suitable machine, I don't think this Pentium 166 MMX is the right fit. Also I was right and it is the FIC PAC-2003 motherboard - how do I sign up on the retroweb? I have hi res pictures of this board and the BIOS image (which I think is the same as the latest version) that I'd like to share
From the same seller I got a Gigabyte GA-7IXE4 which imo is a board worth saving since it's got AGP/PCI/ISA but all the capacitors are bad. They're weird G-Luxon 6.3v 1200uF caps on the main VRM, then these really wtf 25v 330uf capacitors on *all* the smaller caps, those surely can't have more than 5v on them so why are they 25v??? I want to put 16v or less caps in their place because 330uF seems low for some of those rails and some old posts on badcaps suggest putting 16v 1000uF caps there instead
I pulled all the 6.3v 1200uF caps on the VRM area and some are bad which are visibly raised but some are testing as 4000uF? That's not right is it?
I was trying these 16v 1000uF caps that I got cheap a while back but there's a reason they were so cheap, they are *huge* and don't fit anything, so I'll probably put some caps to match the original spec on there.
IDK if it's technique, the newer TS101 iron or thermal reliefs on this Gigabyte mainboard but desoldering the caps and clearing the holes was a breeze, my abit boards were hell to prep for recapping in comparison.
Need to put this PowerVR PCX2 into something, I never thought I'd find one. It looks like it has some cool unique games.
