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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: 8232DB AAlchemy systems Reply #30 - 08.09.07 at 12:33:57 Quote: Such picky hardware! Well it is designed for different applications then what we run
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: 8232DB AAlchemy systems Reply #31 - 08.09.07 at 23:58:16 Like...NOT games! OMG LOL!
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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: 8232DB AAlchemy systems Reply #32 - 09.09.07 at 04:40:34 Quote: Did some back to back testing with the single board setup, the single board runs everything, the dual board just GLQuake with the Wicked driver. No problem. Just make sure QLQuake is loaded and functioning with both boards before you ship me the extra unit 8) I'll help you pay those pesky credid cards off
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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: 8232DB AAlchemy systems Reply #33 - 12.09.07 at 04:20:19 Sheeze I was only kiddin' I hate to be responsible for killin' a thread How is are they working? Have you been able to link them together on a SwapLock ring?
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BFG3dfx Ex Member	Re: 8232DB AAlchemy systems Reply #34 - 12.09.07 at 06:19:38 lol Gamma I hope to see an update on your site soon Gary, man i loved going there and finding new things to read every couple weeks, i feel so greedy
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: 8232DB AAlchemy systems Reply #35 - 12.09.07 at 12:19:16 Quote: How is are they working? Court was this week, little time at the moment for tinkering I'm afraid. I need to get a page up for the new merc system and add some other items that were picked up here and there before working on a 8232 page too.
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NitroX infinity YaBB Moderator Offline Posts: 1936 The Netherlands Gender:	Re: 8232DB AAlchemy systems Reply #36 - 12.09.07 at 13:19:37 I have a question on the naming of AAlchemy. First number (4 with V3 and 8 with VSA) indicates the number of chips? Second number indicates the number of boards in the machine? (1 - 4) Third + Fourth number indicate the amount of memory. But is this per chip or in total?
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exxe God Member Offline ^^ Posts: 1316 germany	Re: 8232DB AAlchemy systems Reply #37 - 12.09.07 at 14:01:21 jip number of chip how many cards memory per chip 8232 8Chips x 2board with 32MB per chip 8164 8 Chips one baord with 64MB per chip like Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo2 8440 for a SBi (first nuber is Framebuffer OF ALL CHIPSETS) next 3 is MB per TMU
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gamma742 God Member Offline 3Dfx Gamer Posts: 1668 San Diego, CA USA Gender:	Re: 8232DB AAlchemy systems Reply #38 - 12.09.07 at 16:18:18 Quote: like Voodoo Graphics and Voodoo2 8440 for a SBi (first nuber is Framebuffer OF ALL CHIPSETS) next 3 is MB per TMU I guess that would make the Mercury System a 32440
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: 8232DB AAlchemy systems Reply #39 - 12.09.07 at 18:51:32 One 8232DB system is up and running, passed 3 hour ram testing, Win2k updating now =)
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: 8232DB AAlchemy systems Reply #40 - 13.09.07 at 02:29:47 Both systems up and functioning- One had some bad ram, the other would not boot of the cd-rom till I flashed the bios to the latest build. Good news is both systems work, the bad news is one of the power supplies seems fussy and will not power up the AA5 board till it has been running for a while.
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paulpsomiadis God Member Offline -=3Dfx still rox!=- Posts: 2011 Newcastle U.K. Gender:	Re: 8232DB AAlchemy systems Reply #41 - 13.09.07 at 16:32:58 UGH! I hope it's not a case of... "Send away PSU for repair" ...yet again! I remember you said that getting the last PSU repaired for one of those things cost a fortune! ...if you can, check the capacitors in the PSU...could be bad caps... ...if not then it's the transformer...and it'll be send away time! GROAN!
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gdonovan YaBB Administrator Offline Infernal Collector Posts: 2361	Re: 8232DB AAlchemy systems Reply #42 - 13.09.07 at 23:44:56 Not overly worried about it, the second unit will be for sale as it sits and the new owner can work on tuning up the power supply. Might be something simple, I may even pop the cover off and take a look about.
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Reply #43 - 16.09.07 at 01:34:11

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Re: 8232DB AAlchemy systems
Reply #44 - 16.09.07 at 07:02:51

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Good news is both systems work, the bad news is one of the power supplies seems fussy and will not power up the AA5 board till it has been running for a while.

sounds only like some capacitors Wink

nothing spectacular

normally if someone has this problem with power supplies that won't power up till they are warm, you can use a hair dryer Wink

(i'm not joking !) but in case of this hardware masterpiece it's a bit too Tim Taylor like Grin

oh man i need a computer with these broken capacitors, just to heat it up like some old tubes before running Cheesy

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