Re: Ali M1209 Chipset and 4MB Simms

Posted on Yesterday, 21:48

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by Deksor

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For JP3, have you tried to benchmark the RAM with both settings ? If you set JP4 to "FGA", what happens if you pull out the keyboard controller ? Also for JP2 the supposed ISA divider change may not be the only thing it does, maybe it tweaks the RAM a little and some other obscure thing in the …

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Re: 286 dead, long live the 286! Sourcing and building a fast 286 replacement

Posted on Yesterday, 17:19

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by Deksor

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I have a 386SX motherboard with a VLSI SCAMP chipset and I can say it's pretty quick ! I think it may beat some cacheless 386DX-25. The bios has the same features ^^. Actually if you can find this motherboard's BIOS I'm sure you can turn any VLSI 311L based motherboard into a speed monster (or maybe …

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Re: Help identifying Socket 3 motherboard.

Posted on Yesterday, 08:33

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by Deksor

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Ian´t this one of the PC-Chips models where the traces at the onboard cache chips lead nowhere / to themselves. Even If cache chips are present, they won´t do anything. Found it: M919 https://redhill.net.au/b/b-96.html Rofl. Wtf... how did that happen lmfao. Scam PCChips were scammers, they often …

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Re: 286 dead, long live the 286! Peaktron PA286-SMT / Micro Systems PA286-SA1

Posted on 2021-01-17, 22:05

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by Deksor

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Yeah I added these here after seeing this thread but I misunderstood. I'll remove them 😀

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Re: ALL USA 486 build suggestions ?

Posted on 2021-01-17, 18:11

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by Deksor

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I think I've found your motherboard's documentation : http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/5487 Could you please take a clearer shot so I can add it to the page and also make a BIOS dump using this http://cd.textfiles.com/microhaus/mhblackbox3/MEMORY/GETROM.ZIP ? According to the documentation …

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Re: 286 dead, long live the 286! Peaktron PA286-SMT / Micro Systems PA286-SA1

Posted on 2021-01-17, 16:51

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by Deksor

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Hey have you heard of our project UH19 ? http://www.win3x.org/uh19/ It's TH99's that we turned into a database that you can browse and that's also editable :) You can definitely help us document your board properly if you want. I think we could use the Peaktron board that's very similar to yours as …

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Re: Help identifying Socket 3 motherboard.

Posted on 2021-01-17, 16:03

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by Deksor

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Well like I said it's a COAST module but despite having the same form factor as COAST modules on pentiums, this one is specific to this board and using a pentium COAST module in it or using this COAST module in a pentium would destroy both.

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Re: Need info on AL486 rev1 mobo

Posted on 2021-01-17, 14:55

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by Deksor

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Great stuff ! I've added everything to UH19 here http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/7050 @Kayraba at page 9 of the manual you can read that the regulator is a LT1085. As for the capacitor, that's a good question which I cannot answer because I don't have that board ^^

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Re: Help identifying Socket 3 motherboard.

Posted on 2021-01-17, 13:16

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by Deksor

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Well OP is lucky because I can see that the COAST slot is populated ! so in the end you actually have cache. There is some information about it over here http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/583 but it's not complete yet. You can find more infos here https://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/ …

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Re: Is Jan Steunebrink still around?

Posted on 2021-01-17, 10:54

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by Deksor

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Since these bioses are supposedly modular, I wonder if there isn't a way to fully replace some modules with some fresh code. Now imagine that with the scale of UH19 with now over a thousand boards with their appropriate bios and automated tools ... We could at last remove each HDD capacity …

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Re: BIOS image collection - requests, discussion etc

Posted on 2021-01-17, 01:27

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by Deksor

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#84 Manufacturer/Identifier: 386A (unknown manufacturer) Chipset: CHIPS P82C301/2/5 + P82A303/4/6 + P82C206 BIOS/Version: AMI 386-BIOS / 386A V1.1 05-19-90 (2 x 27C256) 386A.zip 386A.jpg Note 1: warranty label on the back may indicate manufacturer is ECS Note 2: TH99 is wrong regarding JP7, it does …

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Re: BIOS Update for San Li / Hope Vision / Superpower BIOS - 2A59GSM9

Posted on 2021-01-16, 21:08

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by Deksor

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We have the board documented here http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/2487 but there are many things missing. First of all, please backup your bios so we can add it to our page for backup purposes. As for the BIOS you're trying to flash on it, I'm sure it's the right one, or pretty close (it …

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Re: The Ultimate Hardware 2019 (UH19) project- a stason.org/TH99 alternative

Posted on 2021-01-16, 20:43

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by Deksor

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Today we've updated the site. We have added an index like the one found in TH99 as well as pagination for smaller load on the server/client when the search returns thousands of motherboards. The index may not look very useful for the end user, but it is crucial that we have this so crawler robots …

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Re: Identify motherboard thread

Posted on 2021-01-16, 18:45

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by Deksor

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It looks similar to this board http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/6902 Can you post a higher res picture as well as a shot of the POST screen please ?

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Re: Dumping Compaq Portable III BIOS

Posted on 2021-01-16, 11:30

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by Deksor

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Well we can add it here as well 😀 http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/1294 Now this page would be better with a photo as well but disassembling such a thing isn't easy I can imagine

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Re: Fastest socket 7 build on a 430tx chipset

Posted on 2021-01-13, 21:09

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by Deksor

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I don’t have the motherboard yet. Last I checked it was in new york so I should have it within a week would be my guess. But yes, that layout looks correct. I do not believe it’s a baby AT? Didn’t those have less slots? It’s possible that the same board was used by multiple manufacturers. So I …

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Re: What chip for socket 3 motherboard BIOS?

Posted on 2021-01-13, 16:22

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by Deksor

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Which motherboard do you use ? most 486 motherboard use 64KB ROMs which are very often compatible with 27C512 chips, but some socket 3 boards use 128KB chips of another kind (same kind as later pentium boards)

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Re: Fastest socket 7 build on a 430tx chipset

Posted on 2021-01-13, 10:48

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by Deksor

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We have your motherboard documented right here http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/4311 (The brand might be wrong but the rest is matching) Can you please send us a photo of the POST string to confirm our suspicions about the brand (I think it's iwill) and a photo of the motherboard without a …

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Re: Need help finding childhood Super 7 mobo w/ big Dragonfly on box (ALI Aladdin chipset)

Posted on 2021-01-13, 10:18

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by Deksor

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Really ? They seem to be some cheap Taiwanese brand, but not specifically PCChips/amptron/ECS/whatever else. As for the name, it's true, I still have to find an elegant way of doing that because for cases like PCChips there are dozens of names that exist ... We can't just add like 10 times the same …

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Re: Need help finding childhood Super 7 mobo w/ big Dragonfly on box (ALI Aladdin chipset)

Posted on 2021-01-12, 23:46

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by Deksor

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Commate is Commel I think. They must have changed their name since the 90's As for DCS according to evasive (from nearly 18 years ago !), this is a reseller, not an actual board maker http://www.motherboards.org/forums/viewtopic. … ?p=52642#p52642

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