Re: Help identify unknown motherboard

Posted on 2020-02-27, 14:47

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by iulianv

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Closest I could find is https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/E/EDOM-INTERNATIONAL-CORPORATION-486-486VL3-MP032F.html followed by https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/B/BEK-TRONIC-TECHNOLOGY-INC-486-BEK-P402.html Unfortunately BIOSes don't seem to be available for either of them, so I guess …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-01-30, 18:47

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by iulianv

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I inquired about getting these in this thread last week, well, here they are in my possession: https://i.postimg.cc/2jbYqCR0/OPTi-495-SLC-Am386-DX-40.jpg Does anyone know the make/model of this? I will be removing the battery immediately tonight.. Looks a lot like this one (although your BIOS is …

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Re: List of S7/ SS7/ S8/ Slot1 ATX mobo with +4 ISA slots

Posted on 2019-11-25, 17:01

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by iulianv

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Biostar MB-8600TTX-A (socket 8, Intel 440FX) Спасибо! The Biostar I have, the Chaintech 6ITM I googled, but you can quickly expand your list by scanning for ATX boards with 4 ISA slots through the TH99 listings - for example, there are two pages dedicated to Slot1 mainboards here - https://stason. …

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Re: List of S7/ SS7/ S8/ Slot1 ATX mobo with +4 ISA slots

Posted on 2019-11-24, 21:11

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by iulianv

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Biostar MB-8600TTX-A (socket 8, Intel 440FX)

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Re: Post photos of your Rarest or Unique computers or components.

Posted on 2019-05-03, 09:34

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by iulianv

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Mine would probably be the ELSA Winner 1000: https://sites.google.com/site/iulianvshw/vide … _1000-front.jpg But I also like some of the mainboards (Gigabyte GA-386UM, ASUS ISA-386C, DTK PEM-0030YS, Biostar MB-8600TTX-A)...

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Re: Intel 810 and OpenGL

Posted on 2019-02-22, 13:58

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by iulianv

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In the end I decided to give up on WinXP and go for 98SE - with Fujitsu's video drivers (pretty much the same as Intel's latest at first sight) Quake2 runs like a charm in default OpenGL mode.

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Re: Intel 810 and OpenGL

Posted on 2019-01-05, 11:57

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by iulianv

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GPU Caps Viewer shows "OpenGL 1.1 (GDI Generic with 2 ext.)" (those two extensions being GL_EXT_bgra and GL_WIN_swap_hint). Intel's driver also installs an i81xgicd.dll file in system32 - I guess I'll try older versions of the driver, to see what happens...

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Intel 810 and OpenGL

Posted on 2019-01-04, 15:40

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by iulianv

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I'm trying to run Quake2 in default OpenGL mode on an Intel 810E2 based Fujitsu Siemens Scenic T computer - with either the OS (WinXP SP3) installed video driver or the latest one downloaded from Intel the game bails out with "GLimp_Init ( ) - no hardware acceleration detected" on the console. Tried …

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Re: How many Retro PCs do you got in your house?

Posted on 2013-06-11, 13:01

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by iulianv

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386DX-40, P/133 (HP Vectra VE 5), PPro/200 (IBM PC Server 325), Celeron/300A, P3/866... plus a Sun SPARCclassic 😀

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Re: Finally scored a 25 mhz Harris

Posted on 2013-05-20, 05:30

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by iulianv

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A kind request to the OP: would it be possible to take an image of your BIOS and attach it here? Many thanks in advance.

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Re: Hello from croatia

Posted on 2013-05-19, 12:51

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by iulianv

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Like this one? Looks nice, too bad there's no room for a CD drive... http://sysadmin-vit.blogspot.ro/2011/02/unisys.html Anyway, for AMI BIOSes 1long+3short beeps indicate a memory test failure, while for Award BIOSes the same beep sequence means video card or video RAM failure - I'd start with re- …

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Re: Another semi-unknown 486 board

Posted on 2013-05-11, 14:22

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by iulianv

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Well, the board is tossed, but I kept the EPROM. I just "hot-saved" its contents on some socket7 board, using UNIFLASH - I'm attaching the file, hoping that is will be usable for you.

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Re: Help me decide Pentium Overdrive 83@100mhz vs Pentium 90

Posted on 2013-05-11, 10:21

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by iulianv

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mr_bigmouth_502 wrote: I wonder, are there any Socket 3 boards out there that incorporate both VLB and PCI? http://www.phantom.sannata.ru/forum/index.php?t=2933 http://mail.lipsia.de/~enigma/neu/pics/mainboard_ga486im.jpg

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Re: Finally scored a 25 mhz Harris

Posted on 2013-05-08, 15:04

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by iulianv

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I have the exact same board at home, received some time ago without a BIOS chip. I have a couple of 27C512 EPROMs but I recently discovered that, rather than looking for an UV eraser and a programmer, it should be easier to just use a DIP-32 flash chip - it requires a bit of work to adapt, but …

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Re: Barrel type CMOS battery

Posted on 2013-04-20, 16:12

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by iulianv

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Speaking of soldering coin-like cell holders instead of barrel-type batteries - how long does it usually take for the inferno to occur? 😀 I did this on several 386 and 486 boards, and would run them for hours without the CR2032s even getting warm...

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Re: Game skills you really suck at?

Posted on 2013-03-22, 08:44

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by iulianv

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My orientation skills are non existant so I suck playing RPG exploration games without automap. I sucked also playing Wolfenstein because of this too. :happyhappy: I suck at orientation too... sometimes the issue can be successfully overcome by "sticking to the same side" (for example in …

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Re: Seeking docs for a 486 board

Posted on 2013-03-16, 18:46

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by iulianv

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More than one year later, while cleaning around my desk and having nothing better to do, I thought I'd play with this board a bit. It didn't start as it was, but I found another photo online, set the jumpers like in the photo, and it POSTed with a 486DX2 CPU. BIOS ID string is 41-S203-428075- …

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Re: K6-2+ 550Mhz RetroPC

Posted on 2013-03-16, 18:02

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by iulianv

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What I like about that mainboard is that, no matter the slot, nothing stands in the way of long expansion cards...

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Re: What is your age?

Posted on 2013-02-25, 14:00

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by iulianv

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gerwin wrote: I was born a few weeks before sprcorreia. Me too (February 7th)...

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Re: VOGONS Wiki (retro hardware reference)

Posted on 2013-02-18, 18:50

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by iulianv

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I'm no native English speaker either, but it's (= it is) "its own advantages", "its competitors", "its good 2D performance"... 😀

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