Recent content by Sir Foxx

I doubt that its a load issue. The video he posted, its making some sort of hissing sound that I've never heard before when I had it. 

I would also like to see why this failed. More than likely the power supply is going to have to get opened up to find the issue. I've had the computer fully loaded with nubus cards and it never missed a beat. Not sure what might have got jostled to cause this issue.  The package has insurance...

what do you have the motherboard sitting on?

Thats for the lock on the front of the machine. Try plugging it in and see what happens. The key should be in the vertical position.

The q950 normally doesnt have a rom card installed unlike other apple products. It does have a slot for one though, which is located by the ram banks.  The 4 dimms on the top side of the motherboad is the vram. Make sure the contacts are clean and leave them be. If all banks are occupied, it...

Also want to chime in. My q950 also makes weird squeak(?)ing noises when the computer is doing something. HDD activity, mouse inputs, etc. It reminds me more of the sound that the natural gas line made in my parents old house when anything was using the gas. Onboard video also has a fuzziness to...

So heres my question-- Since the video cards were designed with specific purpose in mind, do you need a monitor connected to it to take use of the additional features the card has?

It really depends what games you are trying to play. Will a graphics card help? Yes, to an extent. It probably wont be night and day difference though. I like playing descent on my q950, which requires the PPC card. To me, there is a noticeable difference between the onboard video and my...

Do you think the round plug is for a Microsoft bus mouse? I was watching a video about computer mice and saw this. Very close, but I'm not sure about that empty pin on top of the plug.

Hey, I do appreciate it.  Here are the sticks I have. I literally have no idea what size any of them are, except maybe the goldstar sticks. 6x Oki  msc23108-70ds2 (1MB each?) 4x T / TI 1x Viking Fuji(?)  4x goldstar (currently using) 2x Mitsubishi (what it came with) I also have 16mb...

Another update and another cry for any help-- Current situation. 4 matching (presumably) 1MB sims. With all 4 in, ram total is 3MB. I decided to take 2 sticks of ram out to see what the total was. The sims are in slot 1 and 2. Total comes out to 1MB. Swapped the 2 ram sticks for the other 2...

Any ideas as to what the plugs may be for? Also, any other ideas on how to maybe get into the bios? On a side note, got the 80387's today. I wish the logos went the same way. Grrr haha.

Unless AMD made audio chips, I don't think this card has native audio.. the chip with the schmoo on it is I believe the cmos chip. Goldstar is the 8bit isa serial and parallel controller. I doubt the xilinx chip would be audio either... Also, the ctrl-alt-esc does nothing on mine. After ram...

Do these cards have a sound chip on them..? Or would the sound out just replicate what comes out of the PC spearker? And, if thats what our cards have for the DB62, then that cable on ebay should work with my card 

I gotcha. I may ask the seller for a picture of the connector that plugs into the computer, see if it is the same pin count. What all connections does your 486 connector have? I'd hate to get this one and find out they changed the pinout of it and fry a peripheral... When the card boots and...