Re: VL/EISA SMP Pentium (turbocharged)
Posted on Today, 11:33
Can you recommend a brand?
Re: NEC Powermate 386/33i running slow
Posted on Yesterday, 16:16
Well, if the cache is non-functional, then I could see it benchmarking about the same as a 386-25 with cache. Maybe one of the chips went bad, or needs to be re-seated.
Re: VL/EISA SMP Pentium (turbocharged)
Posted on Yesterday, 15:15
I agree, I should stop being lazy and get this thing its own case so that I can spend more time on it. Every now and then I poke around to see if I can find an ATX case that could pass for something from the early 90s. The best I can dig up is an industrial rack mount enclosure. It's a shame I don't …
Re: An AdLib-Compatible Card (1986) Older than AdLib (1987)
Posted on 2020-10-24, 23:47
Did the founder of Adlib have any connection to the University of Delaware?
Re: VL/EISA SMP Pentium (turbocharged)
Posted on 2020-10-24, 23:35
Although what you say about the multiplier being reduced when the fan is not connected is true for many overdrive CPUs, it actually does not apply to these. They will run at full speed regardless.
Re: # Transistors in the DRx2 & Ti-486SXL ?
Posted on 2020-10-24, 10:34
The DRx2 is almost identical to the DLC internally. The only real differences being clock doubling and integrated flush cicuit.
Re: 386 with VLB, suggestions?
Posted on 2020-10-21, 08:11
Got this board (a pair of them, actually) and the VLB slot doesn't work even with a 486 installed (haven't tried a 386 as it requires soldering a PQFP one which I don't have). As a matter of fact, in the elhvb description it is stated that the VLB doesn't function. Strange board. Looking at the …
Re: 386 with VLB, suggestions?
Posted on 2020-10-20, 12:31
I can't speak for the 495XLC, but I had a hybrid 495SX that definitely worked with VLB graphics cards when 386DX/486DLC was installed. I remember the boost being much more noticeable with the DLC. Support for 16-bit operation should be built into the VLB spec. I'm not sure which cards don't work, …
Re: Upgrading an old Phoenix BIOS
Posted on 2020-10-15, 07:07
How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository? I think there are two files for micronics asic boards here.
Re: Upgrading an old Phoenix BIOS
Posted on 2020-10-14, 17:00
The Micronics chipset boards almost exclusively used Phoenix BIOS as far as I can tell. I believe Microid Research made replacement BIOSes for some of them, but I don't recall if we have those in the archive or not. You can check.
Re: Hardest adventure game you've ever played (DOS/Early WIndows)
Posted on 2020-10-14, 15:23
It's been over 30 years, and I still can't get through the submarine battle in Code Name: ICEMAN.
Re: Iconic Sound Blaster CT numbers
Posted on 2020-10-12, 01:38
CT1770. That was the top of the line among the early SB16s.
Re: ASUS 386/33-64K - cache upgrade?
Posted on 2020-10-02, 00:57
The MR-BIOS for SiS Rabbit chipset was found. I tried it on my CTI 386 board, but it didn't POST at all. You might want to give it a shot in your Asus board though.
Re: Troubleshooting Hercules Dynamite VLB card (Tseng ET4000)
Posted on 2020-09-27, 21:48
I have two Hercules VLB cards. One exactly like yours, and the other is a Terminator 64 with Trio64 chip. They both developed the same problem with age, cold solder joints on the DRAM chips. It's possible you have a bad joint on the RAMDAC. Try pressing down on it while the system is running to see …
Re: Help me identify a 286 board
Posted on 2020-09-23, 23:13
Perhaps they wanted to be unknown.
Re: Any Socket 3 VLB SiS AMI CR2032 mainboards other than AOpen VI15G?
Posted on 2020-09-22, 03:50
alfer wrote on 2020-09-21, 16:32: Yep. 486 without WinBios is not a 486 to me. Childhood impressions and all that sentimental nonsense 😀. ...and I thought I'd heard everything.
Re: S3 Vision 968 VLB replica
Posted on 2020-09-21, 14:22
Please make VLB Virge! I second this. The only Trio64V+ card for VLB that I am aware of is the STB PowerGraph 64 Video. At least one member on VOGONS has one, but like you said it's possible that it's just a regular Trio64 card with an IC swap. I think one other company made a VLB card with 64V+, …
Re: Tillamook 266MHz and working L2 cache?
Posted on 2020-09-20, 10:18
Working L2 cache. Very nice. Did you have to bridge traces on your CPU to get it working?
Re: Until when PC used 10 function keys, instead of 12?
Posted on 2020-09-18, 15:52
I always hated the windows keys, and I still do. I held out a *really* long time. I think I finally got one in 2010 or so when I bought my first PC laptop. I had a friend who was really into the 84-key AT keyboard. He originally had one on an 5170 AT, and he carried it over to a 10MHz Everex 286, …
Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?
Posted on 2020-09-17, 14:00
Has anyone had issues getting into the MR BIOS menu?? Mine says to press ESC.... But nothing happnes. Tryed a diffrent keyboard.. no change. The leds blink on the keyboards when there pluged in etc.... Have to see if i can find an old DIN type plug just in case... I had similiar problems with asus …
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