Problems regarding ANOVO AIMB-865

Posted on 2017-05-29, 08:48

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UPDATE (2024-01-31): I'm rearranging the OP to reflect some recent discoveries with a second AIMB-865 (1.0s1.3), that I'm currently using now. With my tests first on a v1.0s1.2 then on a v1.0s1.3 board of AIMB-865, there are some known problems with these boards, with some having possible …

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Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2016-08-07, 14:54

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YAMAHA YMF7xx The one I had was a YMF744. It has a genuine OPL3 FM chip on board. However, it doesn't seem to have a known chipset-independent workaround, and the settings were locked to "Port=220, IRQ=INTA#(5), DMA=1 using DDMA at 8000" for most motherboards. It was said such settings can be …

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Re: via c3 nehemiah motherboard compatability

Posted on 2016-03-16, 13:07

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It seems some boards have issues with cache initialization for Nehemiah CPUs. I was able to boot a C3 Nehemiah 1.2AGHz on my ASUS CUV4X out of box, but the board recognized it as "Pentium II 1200MHz" with no cache memory (Cache Memory: None). Without the cache memory the processor is fine under DOS …

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Re: Fastest PC with ISA slot

Posted on 2014-10-24, 13:11

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A bump in this thread... I've been thinking for a while... EDIT: Post update. It seems there are something worth noting. I just checked the datasheets of ICH5 , ICH6 , and 7-series PCH and apparently, entries about PC/PCI were indeed documented in ICH5, but no longer present in ICH6 and onwards. …

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Re: Games that expect working VGA (D-Sub) connections to the monitor...

Posted on 2014-10-22, 13:18

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Thanks. It worked. It seems that while things appear to be the same on the surface for both VGA and DVI, some underlying stuffs were different, and this was one example. The problem affects all video cards that are being connected to the monitor with a non-VGA connection (like DVI and HDMI) …

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Games that expect working VGA (D-Sub) connections to the monitor...

Posted on 2014-10-21, 14:24

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It seems some DOS games expect a working VGA connection, not DVI, nor HDMI, through some means I don't know yet. Otherwise it will refuses to run. Actually I was talking about this game: EPIC from DID . There was a thread in DOSBox Games/Apps here talking about the game refuses to run and says " …

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Re: Dark adventures of AMD AM3+ SB950 DOS SB PCI and other compatibility.

Posted on 2014-07-27, 09:29

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Actually legacy audio is completely impossible on AMD SB7xx/8xx/9xx, as far as I've tested back then. ATi/AMD southbridges (SB6xx/7xx/8xx/9xx) seem to lack the capabilities for legacy audio entirely from the very beginning, unlike others. Some boards would go even far failing to enumerate those …

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Re: Games that don't run properly on faster CPUs

Posted on 2014-06-07, 06:34

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I had a game that apparently has issues with faster CPUs. It's Thor's Hammer Trilogy by Escape Programming. (http://www.classicdosgames.com/game/Thor%27s_Hammer.html) I've been planning to post this for quite a while, but I'm not sure whether I could describe it accurately enough to know what the …

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Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2013-04-18, 14:16

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I just got myself a GA-P31-DS3L (P31/ICH7) to test out. No good for ICH7 (and all the current ICHx). FM/Adlib only, no sound on ESS and FM801. YMF7x4 and CS4281 drivers will not load, the drivers cannot detect their presence. The only card that can play digitized sound fairly okay on it is Aureal …

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Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2013-04-17, 11:19

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d1stortion wrote: Look up Low Pin Count. There is a LPC bridge listed in HWiNFO64 for AMD 700/800/900 series' southbridges. Every current motherboard should have one. It has something to do with the implementations, I think...

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Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2013-04-17, 10:10

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Haven't checked here for several years. Speed is another issue. I had limited success slowing down a Phenom II (Asrock AMD chipset board with FSB and multi adjustments), but there is only so much you can do. And even if you slow down the CPU to the correct level, the memory and video subsystem still …

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PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2010-05-11, 14:38

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UPDATE (May 2022): Considering revising and refactoring the OP using spoiler blocks for readability. I hesitated about writing something about this topic several times before... but I think I should put it here: The ONLY and the MOST VITAL requirement of enabling legacy DOS audio support for capable …

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Re: Disabling MPU-401 for SB16 in DOS...

Posted on 2010-01-27, 04:18

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I don't know how to configure the jumpers of these, anyway (there seem to be a lot, and some are probably factory configured that I shouldn't change)... Whatever it is, I'll have a look... Besides, there are no such settings about disabling MPU-401 (General MIDI port) in Diagnose.exe. Actually, this …

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Re: Disabling MPU-401 for SB16 in DOS...

Posted on 2010-01-26, 04:06

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Of course, I disabled the onboard audio and everything related to it in BIOS, and SB16 DIAGNOSE program can set it to Port 330h. I really don't know what MPU-401 is, anyway, as it's often stated as an external MIDI port or something... In fact, in some cases I prefer Adlib sounds instead of MIDI... …

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Disabling MPU-401 for SB16 in DOS...

Posted on 2010-01-25, 11:26

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These days, I reused my old EP-8KTA3PRO motherboard, with a Sound Blaster 16 (Actually it's a Vibra 16 based CT3110). Everything works fine as it used to but I still have one problem: to disable the non-working MPU-401 port. (Probably I need an real external synth to make it work, which is now hard …

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Re: Running DOS apps/games on modern systems using compatible soundcards... possible?

Posted on 2010-01-10, 12:36

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After a long time testing, I have to conclude here... As for memory management, I don't know why, but on DOS other than MS-DOS (these days my computer was unable to boot to MS-DOS due to a mysterious "Disk I/O Error"), the system seems to produce less UMB than it should, and in FreeDOS, even the UMB …

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Re: Running DOS apps/games on modern systems using compatible soundcards... possible?

Posted on 2009-12-16, 14:18

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Dude, everything you're doing sounds like it "may" be incompatible. I tested UMBPCI, and now I'm certain I have no TSRs incompatible with it. At least, UMBPCI can seem helpful for me to run games that cannot run on v86 mode, notably Tetris Pro (by Michiel Ouwehand), an SVGA game that would refuse …

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Re: Running DOS apps/games on modern systems using compatible soundcards... possible?

Posted on 2009-11-15, 11:15

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It's been a long time. I've checked the system for something these days... Have you looked into UMBPCI already? I'm sorry but I fear this is not gonna suit me, since I may load something incompatible with it, and on a modern board, B000-B7FF seems to be necessary since I need more space (and I have …

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Re: Running DOS apps/games on modern systems using compatible soundcards... possible?

Posted on 2009-11-01, 03:45

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At least with music and basic adlib sounds will be okay... In fact, during the early days I didn't know about the BLASTER environment variable for a very long time, so I was only playing these games using only music and PC speaker (if possible). But what I can conclude is that audio is still …

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Re: Running DOS apps/games on modern systems using compatible soundcards... possible?

Posted on 2009-10-31, 12:06

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Unless you have a motherboard with ISA slots you will have a hard time getting good sound. Not to mention that many onbaord devices mess with the availlable address room (or whatever) which makes EMS not work properly in some cases. You are right that onboard devices are sure to mess up with the …

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