Trashbytes wrote on 2025-01-25, 07:03:

Kahenraz wrote on 2025-01-25, 06:39:

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-01-25, 03:15:

What Xeon setup did you buy .. its a bit off topic but Im curious.

I opted for an ASUS WS C246 Pro with a Xeon E-2278G. It was in my budget and had a good balance of performance to e expandability. I prefer Intel at this time because of an of the regression errata that Ryzen has with 16-bit virtualization. It's a shame how broken it is. I used to have a Ryzen 1800X, but I got rid of it for this reason.

How does this error cause problems ?
I dont know a lot about Vm's so explain it like Im 5.

VME Broken on AMD Ryzen

I got a good deal on the Xeon. It arrived damaged and I was issued a refund. I was able to repair it, although soldering onto the underside of a CPU was a royal pita.

Repairing damaged capacitors on an Intel Xeon E-2278G

Oh, and the motherboard shipped without a cover on the LGA socket with various detritus floating around inside the box. Building this system was fun times, for sure.

Kahenraz wrote on 2025-01-25, 07:06:

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-01-25, 07:03:

Kahenraz wrote on 2025-01-25, 06:39:

I opted for an ASUS WS C246 Pro with a Xeon E-2278G. It was in my budget and had a good balance of performance to e expandability. I prefer Intel at this time because of an of the regression errata that Ryzen has with 16-bit virtualization. It's a shame how broken it is. I used to have a Ryzen 1800X, but I got rid of it for this reason.

How does this error cause problems ?
I dont know a lot about Vm's so explain it like Im 5.

VME Broken on AMD Ryzen

Yup . .AMD made an oopsie.

Surprised this hasnt been fixed yet.

Turns out is was fixed the same year it was reported. Seems each Revision of Ryzen would need this AGESA update to refix the issue.

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/vme-fixed-on-amd- … 0be%20available

Yeah soldering something that small is not for the faint of heart or unsteady of hand, Glad you got it fixed and working.

Got a few more boards today, untested. If anyone instantly recognizes what boards they are, let me know, as I haven't looked them up yet.
I thought the Slot1 board was a bit unusual, with SIMMs and no AGP. I immediately recognized the RIMM modules of the other one and knew it had to be S423. Got my own 423 board now, pretty excited for that.
Misc. items: ATI Rage XL, Adaptec 2930CU, and a box of 3M 3.5" floppies.

And a few floppy drives, also untested. The Toshiba is pretty cool. It's got a flapper-door like some of the 8" floppy drives.

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-01-25, 07:07:

Yup . .AMD made an oopsie. […]
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Kahenraz wrote on 2025-01-25, 07:06:

Trashbytes wrote on 2025-01-25, 07:03:

How does this error cause problems ?
I dont know a lot about Vm's so explain it like Im 5.

VME Broken on AMD Ryzen

Yup . .AMD made an oopsie.

Surprised this hasnt been fixed yet.

Turns out is was fixed the same year it was reported. Seems each Revision of Ryzen would need this AGESA update to refix the issue.

http://www.os2museum.com/wp/vme-fixed-on-amd- … 0be%20available

Yeah soldering something that small is not for the faint of heart or unsteady of hand, Glad you got it fixed and working.

My Windows 98 VM was still crashing before I upgraded to Intel, despite having an updated BIOS. Can anyone confirm?

Major Jackyl wrote on 2025-01-25, 19:17:

Got a few more boards today, untested. If anyone instantly recognizes what boards they are, let me know, as I haven't looked the […]
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Got a few more boards today, untested. If anyone instantly recognizes what boards they are, let me know, as I haven't looked them up yet.
I thought the Slot1 board was a bit unusual, with SIMMs and no AGP. I immediately recognized the RIMM modules of the other one and knew it had to be S423. Got my own 423 board now, pretty excited for that.
Misc. items: ATI Rage XL, Adaptec 2930CU, and a box of 3M 3.5" floppies.

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And a few floppy drives, also untested. The Toshiba is pretty cool. It's got a flapper-door like some of the 8" floppy drives.

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The same board I ordered is that 423. Intel D850GB "Garibaldi".

Major Jackyl wrote on 2025-01-25, 19:17:

Got a few more boards today, untested. If anyone instantly recognizes what boards they are, let me know, as I haven't looked the […]
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Got a few more boards today, untested. If anyone instantly recognizes what boards they are, let me know, as I haven't looked them up yet.
I thought the Slot1 board was a bit unusual, with SIMMs and no AGP. I immediately recognized the RIMM modules of the other one and knew it had to be S423. Got my own 423 board now, pretty excited for that.
Misc. items: ATI Rage XL, Adaptec 2930CU, and a box of 3M 3.5" floppies.

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And a few floppy drives, also untested. The Toshiba is pretty cool. It's got a flapper-door like some of the 8" floppy drives.

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What that switch on the Toshiba floppy drive do?

dominusprog wrote on 2025-01-25, 20:30:

Major Jackyl wrote on 2025-01-25, 19:17:

Got a few more boards today, untested. If anyone instantly recognizes what boards they are, let me know, as I haven't looked the […]
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Got a few more boards today, untested. If anyone instantly recognizes what boards they are, let me know, as I haven't looked them up yet.
I thought the Slot1 board was a bit unusual, with SIMMs and no AGP. I immediately recognized the RIMM modules of the other one and knew it had to be S423. Got my own 423 board now, pretty excited for that.
Misc. items: ATI Rage XL, Adaptec 2930CU, and a box of 3M 3.5" floppies.

The attachment 20250125_125758.jpg is no longer available

And a few floppy drives, also untested. The Toshiba is pretty cool. It's got a flapper-door like some of the 8" floppy drives.

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What that switch on the Toshiba floppy drive do?

It locks the door closed.

debs3759 wrote on 2025-01-24, 18:25:

Minutemanqvs wrote on 2025-01-24, 18:03:

At the local second hand shop something showed up! A Creative labs fan, full-size PCB, and nVidia written on it. Without completely knowing what it was I took it home for around 5€. Apparently it's a GeForce 4 4800 (a 4600 with AGP 8x support)!

It was dusty as hell and at this point I have no idea if it works.
According to wikipedia, it0s supposed to have a max TDP of 43W and I'm a bit suspicious about the small heatsink/fan...

Wow, nice find! Not sure what it is about Creative, but I like their graphics cards 😀 And a 4800 at that price is great if it works (or you are able to fix it). Not sure how big a hsf they needed though - I think I have one in my large collection (probably not Creative branded though), but it's going to take me all year to convert my garage into a computer workshop (health and money being the limiting factors) so I can sort through, organise and test everything in my collection (that will take a few more years if I only test one or two CPUs and GPUs a day). Got to test and slim down my collection before my income is further reduced to pension levels 😀

Good news, it works perfectly after 1h of 3DMrk 2000, no graphical glitches and the cooler seems to do a decent job 😀 So it's my first GeForce 4 since the 4400 Ti I had back then 😀

PcBytes wrote on 2025-01-25, 20:23:

Major Jackyl wrote on 2025-01-25, 19:17:

Got a few more boards today, untested. If anyone instantly recognizes what boards they are, let me know, as I haven't looked the […]
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Got a few more boards today, untested. If anyone instantly recognizes what boards they are, let me know, as I haven't looked them up yet.
I thought the Slot1 board was a bit unusual, with SIMMs and no AGP. I immediately recognized the RIMM modules of the other one and knew it had to be S423. Got my own 423 board now, pretty excited for that.
Misc. items: ATI Rage XL, Adaptec 2930CU, and a box of 3M 3.5" floppies.

The attachment 20250125_125758.jpg is no longer available

And a few floppy drives, also untested. The Toshiba is pretty cool. It's got a flapper-door like some of the 8" floppy drives.

The attachment 20250125_130033.jpg is no longer available

The attachment 20250125_130059.jpg is no longer available

The same board I ordered is that 423. Intel D850GB "Garibaldi".

Thanks! That is totally it. The manual doesn't have the pinout for the "AUX" power connecter. Most of the PSUs I have with that connector have 3 GND, 2 +3.3V, and a +5V. I've heard this can be different. (weird dell connectors, etc)

Minutemanqvs wrote on 2025-01-25, 20:55:

debs3759 wrote on 2025-01-24, 18:25:

Minutemanqvs wrote on 2025-01-24, 18:03:

At the local second hand shop something showed up! A Creative labs fan, full-size PCB, and nVidia written on it. Without completely knowing what it was I took it home for around 5€. Apparently it's a GeForce 4 4800 (a 4600 with AGP 8x support)!

It was dusty as hell and at this point I have no idea if it works.
According to wikipedia, it0s supposed to have a max TDP of 43W and I'm a bit suspicious about the small heatsink/fan...

Wow, nice find! Not sure what it is about Creative, but I like their graphics cards 😀 And a 4800 at that price is great if it works (or you are able to fix it). Not sure how big a hsf they needed though - I think I have one in my large collection (probably not Creative branded though), but it's going to take me all year to convert my garage into a computer workshop (health and money being the limiting factors) so I can sort through, organise and test everything in my collection (that will take a few more years if I only test one or two CPUs and GPUs a day). Got to test and slim down my collection before my income is further reduced to pension levels 😀

Good news, it works perfectly after 1h of 3DMrk 2000, no graphical glitches and the cooler seems to do a decent job 😀 So it's my first GeForce 4 since the 4400 Ti I had back then 😀

Nice! Make sure you keep it cool. If you haven't already, it is probably worth reapplying thermal paste (unless it uses a thermal epoxy, then I would leave it alone). The Geforce 4 Ti series are awesome cards but they tend to run a bit toasty, so anything you can do to keep it cool will add to its lifespan.

Ozzuneoj wrote on 2025-01-25, 21:59:

Minutemanqvs wrote on 2025-01-25, 20:55:

debs3759 wrote on 2025-01-24, 18:25:

Wow, nice find! Not sure what it is about Creative, but I like their graphics cards 😀 And a 4800 at that price is great if it works (or you are able to fix it). Not sure how big a hsf they needed though - I think I have one in my large collection (probably not Creative branded though), but it's going to take me all year to convert my garage into a computer workshop (health and money being the limiting factors) so I can sort through, organise and test everything in my collection (that will take a few more years if I only test one or two CPUs and GPUs a day). Got to test and slim down my collection before my income is further reduced to pension levels 😀

Good news, it works perfectly after 1h of 3DMrk 2000, no graphical glitches and the cooler seems to do a decent job 😀 So it's my first GeForce 4 since the 4400 Ti I had back then 😀

Nice! Make sure you keep it cool. If you haven't already, it is probably worth reapplying thermal paste (unless it uses a thermal epoxy, then I would leave it alone). The Geforce 4 Ti series are awesome cards but they tend to run a bit toasty, so anything you can do to keep it cool will add to its lifespan.

I still have an original Zalman "Flower" cooler for GPUs, it seems like a good time to use it 😀 Looks like some actual chinese knockoffs exist on aliexpress; I'll also have a look at those to upgrade some other old/toasty GPUs I have. Too bad the 3dfx card have this epoxy 🙁

Major Jackyl wrote on 2025-01-25, 19:17:

Got a few more boards today, untested. If anyone instantly recognizes what boards they are, let me know, as I haven't looked them up yet.
I thought the Slot1 board was a bit unusual, with SIMMs and no AGP.

Intel Portland PD440FX

The very first Slot 1 board, based on old 1996-era i440FX Pentium Pro chipset as i440LX wasn't ready on time for the first P2 CPUs in mid 1997. No AGP or SDRAM in 1996, hence SIMM slots and no AGP.

I immediately recognized the RIMM modules of the other one and knew it had to be S423. Got my own 423 board now, pretty excited for that.

RIMMs could have been So478 too (or P3, but not with that heatsink mouting); Intel's D850EMV2 looked very similar to this - but this is Garibaldi, D850GB, the first P4 motherboard.

dionb wrote on 2025-01-25, 23:34:

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Major Jackyl wrote on 2025-01-25, 19:17:

Got a few more boards today, untested. If anyone instantly recognizes what boards they are, let me know, as I haven't looked them up yet.
I thought the Slot1 board was a bit unusual, with SIMMs and no AGP.

Intel Portland PD440FX

The very first Slot 1 board, based on old 1996-era i440FX Pentium Pro chipset as i440LX wasn't ready on time for the first P2 CPUs in mid 1997. No AGP or SDRAM in 1996, hence SIMM slots and no AGP.

I immediately recognized the RIMM modules of the other one and knew it had to be S423. Got my own 423 board now, pretty excited for that.

RIMMs could have been So478 too (or P3, but not with that heatsink mouting); Intel's D850EMV2 looked very similar to this - but this is Garibaldi, D850GB, the first P4 motherboard.

Thanks! I knew it seemed older than ANY of my Slot boards. I got it booted and it was from a Packard Bell of some kind.

I would've been SOOO surprised if I got home and it wasn't 423. That would've actually been a pretty awesome surprise.

Picked up a nice "Boxed" BFG 7800GS OC. I mean the box is pretty beat up but hey, still a box. 78$ on the bay, which is pretty good at least for eBay prices.
Its in great condition its'self though, almost like new. replaced the thermal paste on the core and bridge chip and she sings! Idles at 33*C

Its a G71 Core, which is pretty cool. that should mean the OC room is pretty high. It does have the extra shaders, seemingly cut, though riva tuner shows them existing and off. They don't initiate, when selected.

All in all pretty cool! Very Fast.

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2025-01-26, 03:15:

Picked up a nice "Boxed" BFG 7800GS OC. I mean the box is pretty beat up but hey, still a box. 78$ on the bay, which is pretty good at least for eBay prices.

The box shows some wear, but from what I see in that photo, I wouldn't call it beat up! Nice find either way 😀 If BFG still existed, it would still be covered by the lifetime warranty 😀

Major Jackyl wrote on 2025-01-25, 19:17:

Got a few more boards today, untested. If anyone instantly recognizes what boards they are, let me know, as I haven't looked them up yet.

As @dionb says Intel Portland PD440FX, but the Gateway OEM version. As Gateway never issued a BIOS update for their board ( should be 1.00.01.DT0T if it hasn't been overwritten with an Intel version) might be worth dumping the Gateway BIOS as it's not available on The Retro Web - https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/intel- … x-portland#bios

AGP4LIfe? wrote on 2025-01-26, 03:15:

Picked up a nice "Boxed" BFG 7800GS OC. I mean the box is pretty beat up but hey, still a box. 78$ on the bay, which is pretty g […]
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Picked up a nice "Boxed" BFG 7800GS OC. I mean the box is pretty beat up but hey, still a box. 78$ on the bay, which is pretty good at least for eBay prices.
Its in great condition its'self though, almost like new. replaced the thermal paste on the core and bridge chip and she sings! Idles at 33*C

Its a G71 Core, which is pretty cool. that should mean the OC room is pretty high. It does have the extra shaders, seemingly cut, though riva tuner shows them existing and off. They don't initiate, when selected.

All in all pretty cool! Very Fast.

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Given the era, with k6 cache enable via smd caps/resistors on the die, and your pics, they mount be enabled by populating the empty spaces in your chip.
Find photos of the fully enabled die.

dionb wrote on 2025-01-25, 02:01:

Kahenraz wrote on 2025-01-25, 01:01:

More expansion slots there on your 8088 than most modern PC motherboards.

More need for them too. ...Of course you could find combined mem/RTC/IO cards, freeing up slots...

Or a PicoMEM 😀
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt3rdaLXsjc

Didn't expect to find... an Advent 5480DVD, of all things. Might have to fiddle with it a bit as the LCD case is kinda cracked at hinges and it won't see a 60GB HDD tho I wouldn't put it past the drive I used to be dead.

I also have the Tualatin-capable Gericom counterpart, the Geritec 1230i.

Came back home 11,2kg heavier today.... 😉