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TPU's Nostalgic Hardware Club

Jacky_BEL said:
Looking at the image on the tray tab i would suggest to pinch the tabs together and slide the tray in the direction of the arrow.
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All very easy when you know how ,out first time thanks. :)
It comes down to don,t force it like if you were to put something in the wrong way. in a PCo_ONot sure if i will get round to doing anything with it.Bearing in mind it needs caps changing.At least i can get rid of the old case and PSU that has packed up. :)
Best answer from you Jacky thanks again. :)
 

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Greenslade said:
All very easy when you know how ,out first time thanks. :)
It comes down to don,t force it like if you were to put something in the wrong way. in a PCo_O
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Looks like a Pentium 4 (or Celeron). Do you have an AGP card for that?
 
Kissamies said:
Looks like a Pentium 4 (or Celeron). Do you have an AGP card for that?
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Yes i do. i have two one was the one that came with my Athlon 2400 i took that out and put the 9600 in there..The one i took out was 5200 basic one.Yes it is 4 2.8 one
 
Greenslade said:
Yes i do. i have two one was the one that came with my Athlon 2400 i took that out and put the 9600 in there..The one i took out was 5200 basic one.Yes it is 4 2.8 one
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9600 is a good basic level card. Beats the crap out of FX 5200. :)
 
Kissamies said:
Unlockable to full 16 pipes? Nice!
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Some X800 GTO's will unlock too - Mine did. :cool:

It depends on the chip in the card and when it was made, later ones having the traces to the extra pipes laser-cut instead of just being disabled in the card's BIOS.
 
Bones said:
Some X800 GTO's will unlock too - Mine did. :cool:

It depends on the chip in the card and when it was made, later ones having the traces to the extra pipes laser-cut instead of just being disabled in the card's BIOS.
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Yeah, I remember. Wasn't Sapphire GTO2 pretty sure to unlock to X850 XT PE?
 
Was GTO2 PCIe or AGP card?
Anyway, unlocking was only possible with VIVO cards (Rage Theater) if I remember correctly. FireGL does not have Rage Theater chip :). It may just be that they all have uncut GPUs?
 
stef said:
Was GTO2 PCIe or AGP card?
Anyway, unlocking was only possible with VIVO cards (Rage Theater) if I remember correctly. FireGL does not have Rage Theater chip :). It may just be that they all have uncut GPUs?
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GTO2 was PCIe. My bet goes to uncut GPU for the FireGL.
 
Kissamies said:
9600 is a good basic level card. Beats the crap out of FX 5200. :)
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So it seems from the you tube videos.Someone on here pointed out that some caps have gone the two near the ram slots.I will have to learn how to soldier before i attempt that task. o_O See if you can see any more caps that going dead.I also got the floppy drive out weather or not that works is another thing.o_OI also took out the
CD drive and the IDE cabals.:)The person who mentioned about the caps said the ram slots need cleaning.Noticed that the cooker has been cleaned .
 

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Greenslade said:
So it seems from the you tube videos.Someone on here pointed out that some caps have gone the two near the ram slots.I will have to learn how to soldier before i attempt that task. o_O See if you can see any more caps that going dead.I also got the floppy drive out weather or not that works is another thing.o_OI also took out the
CD drive and the IDE cabals.:)
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Yeah, they are bulging by the looks. That's probably pre-ROHS era so it should be with leaded solder, which is a good thing when it comes for repairing.
 
Kissamies said:
Yeah, they are bulging by the looks. That's probably pre-ROHS era so it should be with leaded solder, which is a good thing when it comes for repairing.
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I have done very little soldering in my time just basic stuff.So will have to watch some videos on it and get a decent Soldering iron. :)I have more than enough IDE cabals now. :)
 
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Greenslade said:
I have done very little soldering in my time just basic stuff.So will have to watch some videos on it and get a decent Soldering iron. :)
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Replacing caps is something even a novice can do. Just make sure that the polarity is correct, otherwise the magic smoke will appear. :D
 
Kissamies said:
Yeah. Just make sure that the polarity is correct.
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Yes i will when i get round to doing it. :) I like this guys videos on preparing old PC,s and other electronic gear.:)
. :)His got loads of stuff there for repair. o_OGood deal for five PC,s £70. :)His putting caps in the third one and said what you said about putting them in the wrong way. o_OLooks like he hit the jackpot with this one.
After finding out how to get into the case open.o_O
 
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general question: what are you using to overclock NVIDIA cards (GeForce FX+) with Forceware driver version (>100) that are not working anymore with RivaTuner?
 
framebuffer said:
general question: what are you using to overclock NVIDIA cards (GeForce FX+) with Forceware driver version (>100) that are not working anymore with RivaTuner?
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Riva should still work all the way to 200 drivers.
Can you be more specific?
 
I seem to remember using CoolBits 2.0 on my Gf6 6800 Ultra.
 
Mr.Scott said:
Riva should still work all the way to 200 drivers.
Can you be more specific?
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I'm testing a FX5700 but RT is unable to detect frequencies both with 169.21 and 175.19, but works fine with 71.84, so I thought that ForceWare 1xx broke something with RT
If it's not the case, what could be the issue? I'm using RT 2.24c, clean WinXP SP3 install (OS + intel INF + ForceWare + RT)

CoolBits 2.0 regedit did nothing if applied on 169.21, not tested with the others
 
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Now here's something that's cool yet also just short of useless - If that really.
These didn't even come close to it's performance expectations and that's why not too many were ever sold - Cool as a collector's piece but that's about it.
Got it cheap sometime ago and it's never been used - Still BNIB aside from opening it just to see what was in there.
I may do something with it one day, maybe not.

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My friend had a similar Thermaltake heatsink to the TEC unit. One weekend, my brother, friend and I got together for some primitive LAN gaming (over 10base2). In the midst of a Red Alert skirmish his computer froze. He was pissed. On trying to figure out what went wrong I felt his thermaltake heatsink and it was scorching hot. It turned out the thermally controlled fan on the Thermalfake heatsink had failed
 
80251 said:
My friend had a similar Thermaltake heatsink to the TEC unit. One weekend, my brother, friend and I got together for some primitive LAN gaming (over 10base2). In the midst of a Red Alert skirmish his computer froze. He was pissed. On trying to figure out what went wrong I felt his thermaltake heatsink and it was scorching hot. It turned out the thermally controlled fan on the Thermalfake heatsink had failed
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Well, it no wonder why it went to "Red Alert"......
I think I'd be on it too under that circumstance.

Yeah, these aren't great and even basic watercooling is better overall.
One of Tt's cooling innovations that didn't quite work out.
 
Bones said:
Well, it no wonder why it went to "Red Alert"......
I think I'd be on it too under that circumstance.

Yeah, these aren't great and even basic watercooling is better overall.
One of Tt's cooling innovations that didn't quite work out.
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At least back in the day manufacturers were innovative. Today everyone just copies what others do.
 
A good video from Phil if you are working with AGP.

The ATI FireGL X3-256 (Radeon X800 Pro AGP equivalent).​

 
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