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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-06, 05:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was a bit worried, not only cause a lot of the copper is straight up gone, but because the traces seem to be burned. That's legitimately impressive damage. And it's just as impressive that it still works. I am definitely curious as to what the hell could have caused it! It's really intense damage …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-06, 03:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I needed an AT form factor Socket 7 (not Super 7) board, other than my dreadful PC Chips M558. Found a QDI Explorer II SpeedEasy (430VX based) for only $25, surprisingly low for a board with an Intel chipset these days. "Untested" of course, aka code for "it's broken but I don't want to admit it"-- …

Voodoo3 3000 causing BIOS video error beeps - but works fine

Posted on 2020-10-11, 23:04

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Just something strange... I have had an AGP Voodoo3 3000 (standard 166/166 clock, fan has been added) in my Gateway G6-450 system for over a year now. The motherboard is a Gateway Tabor3 which is based on one of the SE440BX's (I think the SE440BX-2), the CPU is a Coppermine-128 1100mhz in a generic …

Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2020-09-22, 17:47

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

For reference, wanted to document some attempts I made with a few of these BIOSes on a Diamond Flower 386/25-33-40UCE Rev A board. (Board is extremely similar to the 386/33-40UCE that has available jumper info online-- but it isn't the same board! The locations of everything are moved around ever so …

Re: KT400 & Radeon 9700: No-Go?

Posted on 2020-08-18, 20:26

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Well, I got somewhere but I'm not exactly sure how. I realized that I might be able to adjust the AGP Capability in the BIOS if I wasn't actively using an AGP card, so I swapped in a PCI card and was able to actually change it from Auto to 4X. Unfortunately, putting the 9700 back in still made it …

Re: KT400 & Radeon 9700: No-Go?

Posted on 2020-08-18, 17:27

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

That's the problem though, the BIOS does not seem to allow me to change the AGP speed*. It is greyed out and just stays at "AGP 8X". Can I tweak SmartGART settings without the driver loaded? I can get into Safe Mode for registry changes or whatnot *Despite the manual saying I can. AGP Capability [8X …

Re: KT400 & Radeon 9700: No-Go?

Posted on 2020-08-18, 15:14

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Yeah, this issue seems to be specifically a KT400 issue, alongside contemporary chipsets supporting AGP 8X (SiS 648, P4X400). I do have a KT7-RAID and an Asus A7V266 (KT266) but both need recapped badly -- actually the A7V266 might not work at all, I just rescued it from a PC that was in someone's …

KT400 & Radeon 9700: No-Go?

Posted on 2020-08-18, 03:58

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I was putting together an Athlon XP build and have run into some issues using a Radeon 9700... The system is as follows, not much in there yet: Asus A7V8X-X (VIA KT400 chipset) - latest bios 1014.002 installed Athlon XP Thoroughbred-B 2600+ 2x1GB DDR-333 Radeon 9700 (standard version, 128MB) Promise …

Re: AudioPCI MIDI synth quality, VXD vs WDM

Posted on 2020-07-09, 00:35

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

While you are correct that it brings that up as the default, it is definitely not the MS GM/GS Synth. Listen to the audio clips I provided, it is the AudioPCI ECW sound set which is quite different. :) I have the selection changed to "SB PCI Synthesizer" (All the WDM drivers are post-Creative …

AudioPCI MIDI synth quality, VXD vs WDM

Posted on 2020-07-08, 18:56

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I never see this mentioned about the AudioPCI so I thought I would make a thread about it. I've noticed that using an ES1371 with the VXD drivers results in very crisp and clear MIDI, whereas the WDM driver results in a more compressed/filtered sound as if it's downsampled to 22050hz or something. …

Re: DEC HiNote Ultra CT475 - A 486 "Ultrabook"!

Posted on 2020-04-22, 19:34

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Think I found one that will work, for under $20. The Digital (DEC) FR-PCP8H-AD. 11VDC / 2.73A, 30w continuous, same plug and pinout. Ordered.. Sorry I didn't see this earlier, always surprised this thread is still going. That is the correct model AC adapter, same as I have. In my case mine came …

Re: [RELEASE] Mega Man X - Better Music Mod for MS-DOS - Testers Welcome.

Posted on 2020-03-02, 00:57

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hey, from what I was able to test this sounds great. I'm glad you decided to make the effort to improve the music. Not an issue with the modded music, but I figure this might be as good a thread as any to ask about how to get this buggy port to work properly. I installed from CD so no copy …

Re: K6-2 / Gigabyte GA-5AA - Unstable?

Posted on 2019-09-13, 15:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Honestly I think the jumper configs in the manual are inaccurate. I had similar issues trying to get the speeds I wanted with the K6-2 (I believe that's how I ended up at 250 once, I was going for 450). I know there are multiple board revisions so the manuals out there may only apply to the latest …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-08-12, 00:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Awesome! That's similar in size to the librettos but has L2 cache :) Is it the one with the touchpad, or the little trackball? If it's the one with the trackball, I think it's also known as the "AL-N4" This is the only reference I've seen for it online: https://download.milesburton.com/Libretto/ …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-08-11, 22:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had a surprising retro laptop haul today. I saw a post on Facebook Marketplace for a Panasonic CF-41, which is a 486 laptop known for its odd setup where the CD-ROM is under the keyboard! I've heard of it but never seen one so I decided to pick it up. The guy was very nice and said he had a box of …

Re: All Claimed! Hardware Giveaway (10zig 56xx Thin Clients)

Posted on 2019-01-20, 18:30

in Milliways

in Milliways

Got a chance to try things out. This is off to a great start! -As others have mentioned, adding the max speed option to the speed menu would be useful. Probably just an artifact of the low-powered Atom, but it seems like almost every game has audio stutter if Max is not used. -Mounting an external …

Re: Hardware Giveaway (10zig 56xx Thin Clients)

Posted on 2019-01-13, 21:29

in Milliways

in Milliways

I'd be interested if there are any left.

Re: HP 9000 C110

Posted on 2018-10-26, 19:11

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I picked up one of these a while ago. As far as I can tell it has 128MB of RAM installed and what I think is an HCRX-24Z card (the one with the hardware Z-buffer). It seems like an interesting machine but I was surprised how little information is out there. It's got an old install of HPUX 11.11 on …

Re: K6-2 / Gigabyte GA-5AA - Unstable?

Posted on 2018-10-26, 18:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wow, talk about a necropost. Was rather surprised to see this old thread again. Never really figured out what was up with it. Power supply seems fine, I ended up running a 486 off it for a few years. Right now it's back with the GA-5AA in the same case as originally described here, but I have a …

Re: New Am486DX4 build

Posted on 2018-03-25, 17:26

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Hm... I suppose the stuttering could be DMA related. The QD6580 only supports up to PIO4. I also discovered that I was only getting PIO2 out of it, and needed a driver for the controller to get anything fast going. I found the DOS driver and after installing it PIO4 is working and my read speeds …

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