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Tech help: MAME machine I bought off of e-bay 9 years ago is dead...
Havok:
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Must... resist...
HaRuMaN:
--- Quote from: Havok on February 23, 2010, 01:35:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: Kman-Sweden on February 23, 2010, 04:57:34 am ---I had to put it in and pull it out and wiggle it a couple of times
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Must... resist...
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Rofl... you beat me to it
Gatt:
It's unlikely you're going to be able to do a straight motherboard/processor swap.
The video card in that computer is going to be PCI or AGP, motherboards don't ship with AGP ports anymore, and most only ship with a single PCI slot at best. The memory definitely won't fit, as it should be SDram or maybe even EDORam, and I doubt you'll find a board that'll accept anything less than DDR, probably nothing less than DDR2.
In honesty, you're building or buying a new computer. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, given how old that system is, it'll open up the possibility of alot of new games...
DefJam:
Ok, you guys convinced me, time to build/buy a new computer. Not sure if I should start a new thread here or not.....
Any recommendations ?
Ideally, I can get this done fast quick and cheap (still want to build my dream mame machine, but the control panel on this one isn't going to let me do that)..... I'm ok totally ok if it doesn't run the latest games, really interested more in the older stuff.
So, I need to be able to connect to arcade monitor, so I'm assuming I will need arcadevga, I'd like to run a front-end...... Hyperspin looks very cool, but I'm open to other options if that is a resource hog (not sure as I've been out of this scened for awhile, and now have twins... so time is.... well, I don't have much :) ) Probably don't need a case as I could just mount this to the board inside the machine....
Not sure what type of CPU would be best here.
Open to any help. Thanks.
HaRuMaN:
What's your budget for a new PC build? That would be helpful in telling you what you could get...
FWIW... you can build a dual core AMD system with 2 gigs of ram for a pretty reasonable price.