Re: Silicon Image 311X MSDOS cdrom driver

Posted on 2020-05-29, 20:55

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by sunaiac

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll check the i/o ports tomorrow I forgot. Config : - Gigabyte GA-7IXE - Athlon thunderbird 1GHz slot A - 512 MB PC133 CL2 - Onboard IDE/serial/parallel deactivated - Rest of the bios on default values I've seen on the startup screen that both the VGA (AGP) and the Sil3114 are on IRQ11.

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Re: Silicon Image 3114 BIOS flash

Posted on 2020-05-29, 20:49

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by sunaiac

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cool, thank you.

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Re: Silicon Image 311X MSDOS cdrom driver

Posted on 2020-05-29, 20:49

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by sunaiac

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mine freezes after "Driver name is "MSCD001"" Currently SSD is on C0, DVD on C1. I'll try to swap tomorrow morning. Did you pass any special option to the driver in config.sys ? Thanks for all the help.

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Re: Orpheus Soundcard: a new DOS soundcard with SPDIF/OPL3/MPU support

Posted on 2020-05-29, 20:01

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by sunaiac

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in Marvin \ Sound

So many sound card projects, so few optical inputs on my amp 🙁

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Re: Silicon Image 3114 BIOS flash

Posted on 2020-05-29, 19:55

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by sunaiac

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I do plan on editing my original message with the solutions and links when I'm done. Sadly, I am not, since I'm stuck at finding a DOS driver that can mount my CD. The PCI Sata card looked like a good plan, but the SATA/IDE adapter on the drive starts to look better and better ^^ darry, did you use …

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Re: Silicon Image 311X MSDOS cdrom driver

Posted on 2020-05-29, 19:52

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by sunaiac

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm on a IDE BIOS 4.2.10, since the 5.4.03 (raid as well as IDE) was freezing the computer after disk detection by the card. XDVD2 did not find a device. XGCDROM finds a device, which is better than gcdrom, but freezes :( I'm starting to think I should just have bought SATA to IDE converters to put …

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Silicon Image 311X MSDOS cdrom driver

Posted on 2020-05-29, 17:34

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by sunaiac

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello, anyone has been able to get a SATA cdrom plugged to a Sil3112/14 PCI card with non-RAID BIOS working under DOS ? I've tried the gcdrom.sys driver with no success, but it's not suprising since it seems to be for Intel/Nvidia/Jmicron.

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Re: Silicon Image 3114 BIOS flash

Posted on 2020-05-29, 17:14

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by sunaiac

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Received the QNINE card. It's exactly the same, except the bios chip is the AMD version instead of Intel and is flashable. Funny thing, it actually didn't lock the computer on startup with the same raid bios. But still no JBOD option. So I flashed the latest non raid BIOS, which this time locked the …

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Re: Silicon Image 3114 BIOS flash

Posted on 2020-05-27, 07:12

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by sunaiac

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The drive is configured as 8GB FAT32, 16GB NTFS and 8GB free. I'm probably gonna use it mostly under windows 2000. But it's gonna see very little usage, so worst case, if I have to reinstall it every 10 years, so be it ^^

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Re: Silicon Image 3114 BIOS flash

Posted on 2020-05-26, 21:32

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by sunaiac

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evasive wrote on 2020-05-26, 20:54: You could try to ask support at the manufacturer. http://www.qnine99.com/article.php?id=1 They don't list any drivers or documentation to start with. The QNINE I just ordered to replace the other one, because it seems to have the "right" bios chip.

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Re: Silicon Image 3114 BIOS flash

Posted on 2020-05-26, 21:31

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by sunaiac

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darry wrote on 2020-05-26, 21:01: I got lucky. I ordered 3 cheap SIL3114 cards and they all have an SST 39SF010A on them . I never got TRIM or SMART working on a SIL3114 . Otherwise, they've worked fine for me . Yeah I plan on trimming it in another system if needed ^^

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Re: Silicon Image 3114 BIOS flash

Posted on 2020-05-26, 21:31

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by sunaiac

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Hi, check out this thread in case you need an older BIOS (3112 and 3114 are the same, just 2 and 4 device support). Your m/b it's not a slot 1 PII but it's from the same era. I'm not saying this is the case, just trying to help because you are having the exact same symptom, device recognized and …

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Re: Silicon Image 3114 BIOS flash

Posted on 2020-05-26, 20:40

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by sunaiac

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I haven't encountered your issue, got to flash the card under DOS with the standard method (it's a noname SI3114 bought on eBay). I remember it working fine under DOS/Win98/WinXP (driver slipstreaming required)/Linux. However I decided to drop it because of the large amount of low memory it …

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Re: Silicon Image 3114 BIOS flash

Posted on 2020-05-26, 20:39

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by sunaiac

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quite generic as in absolutely no markings on the card and no reference/part number in the leaflet/manual? It's this one : https://www.amazon.fr/Carte-PCI-Raid-SATA-ports/dp/B000NJWTSY/ref=sxts_sxwds-bia-wc-p13n1_0 Ordered that one : https://www.amazon.fr/QNINE-dextension-contrôleur-convertisseur- …

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Silicon Image 3114 BIOS flash

Posted on 2020-05-26, 19:23

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by sunaiac

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi, I'm trying to move my GA-7IXE system from its old school IDE drives to a SSD. Bought a Sil3114 PCI card. Card detects what I plug in it, I can reach the card's BIOS. It hangs after detection. So far, so good, nothing unexpected given its equipped with the raid bios. My problem is, none of the …

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Re: BIOS tinkering, GA-7IXE

Posted on 2020-05-26, 16:57

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by sunaiac

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello, fast boot option is possible with both BIOSes. Memory bypass, aka super bypass, is a AMD750 chipset option for later revisions of the chipset that improves memory performance of slot A athlon systems by bypassing some stuff. It brings up to 10-15% performance.

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BIOS tinkering, GA-7IXE

Posted on 2020-05-26, 16:26

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by sunaiac

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello, I have two BIOSes for my GA-7IXE - BIOS F3, with memory bypass option present, but hard drive limited to X < 75GB - BIOS F7, without memory bypass option, and hard drive limit == 75GB (and other cool stuff like CPU speed on startup screen) Those are ami bioses. My question is, how do I get …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-19, 07:21

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by sunaiac

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Hope this is OK to post here. There is an item on eBay that I would very much like to get for preservation and to help the community. The only problem is that the seller is in Italy and his listing says he only ships to the EU and has not yet responded to my messages. Would anybody here be willing …

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Re: Is it common for slot A 1 GHz Orions to work on a board but not 1 GHz Thunderbirds?

Posted on 2020-05-06, 11:49

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by sunaiac

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For me it's always been simple system freeze after random time between 2minutes and 15 minutes under windows.

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Re: Is it common for slot A 1 GHz Orions to work on a board but not 1 GHz Thunderbirds?

Posted on 2020-05-06, 10:31

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by sunaiac

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

None of my K7 pro (5 boards) work with 1GHz tbird. My 2 GA-7IXE and my 1 GA-7IX do. Those 8 Boards are AMD750 equipped. Some of my K7 pros at least are bypass enabled, so are my 7IXE (not my 7IX) the 7IX has a 99.9MHz FSB, the others are at 100.9MHz (which explains their better results at "stock" …

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