Re: CHIPS F64300 Vesa Local Bus - Video BIOS

Posted on 2025-05-18, 23:31

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Bump? :D I today took a closer look to the card again. There are some scratches on the board, but nothing seems to be interrupted. I tried then the board again in the Asus SV2GX4 and (WTF) it works. No idea, why it did not work in first place. I can upload the bios, when somebody is interested, …

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Re: Slot2 Intel C440GX+ with Dual Pentium 3 Xeon + Voodoo5 6000 clone PCI66MHz

Posted on 2025-05-18, 12:11

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HSC update will fail without connection to a hot swap backplane

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Re: Slot2 Intel C440GX+ with Dual Pentium 3 Xeon + Voodoo5 6000 clone PCI66MHz

Posted on 2025-05-17, 19:27

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These errors messages are commonly reported as occurring on both the C440GX+ and L440GX+ boards...intel suggests that you - - try performing a processor retest: 1.Reboot the system. 2.During POST, press the key and run SETUP. 3.Select Server Menu. 4.Select Processor Retest YES. 5.Save and exit …

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Re: Logitech Scanman Color on Windows 9x?

Posted on 2025-05-17, 05:30

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This is all great info, who would have thought it could be so problematic. I am not entirely sure, though, that my Pentium III machine will be able to run Windows 3.11 though. My other option is a PII, so I am shit out of luck. I have long gotten rid of my 386 machines. Need to see how to figure …

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Re: Microsemi / Adaptec maybe close to removing downloads for their older products - call to action

Posted on 2025-05-14, 15:57

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OzzFan wrote on 2025-05-14, 15:19: Was anyone able to obtain a copy of the BIOS flash utility for the Adaptec 2940UW card? I may also need the BIOS and flash utility for the 2940U2W card as well. And this 😀 ... Filename afuv220.exe File size 262.6 KiB Downloads 6 downloads File license Fair use/ …

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Re: Adaptec BIOS updates

Posted on 2025-05-14, 15:53

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OzzFan wrote on 2025-05-14, 15:17: Thanks! I did not see that thread and I'm happy to see the community has already jumped on the problem. I'll post my request in that thread. This... Filename afuv220.exe File size 262.6 KiB Downloads 12 downloads File license Fair use/fair dealing exception

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Re: Logitech Scanman Color on Windows 9x?

Posted on 2025-05-14, 14:23

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This is all excellent info. Thank you! I just wrecked my Windows 98 install after installing the fucking 16 bit drivers 🤣 so after I manage to install Windows again (it's giving me an unusually hard time on this machine!) I will try these solutions and report back. This morning I was thinking that …

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Re: DIY Bios Modding guide Jan Steunebrink k6-2+/3+ 128gb

Posted on 2025-05-14, 13:20

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Hi pappyN4, Yes, both these board’s BIOSes are affected by the UDMA and 32GB HDD limit bugs. The fix for the GA-586TX3 is easy. Flash the Rel 2.2 Award BIOS update from Unicore from https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/gigabyte-ga-586tx3-rev-1-0x#bios This April 2000 BIOS has all these bugs fixed …

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Re: Slot2 Intel C440GX+ with Dual Pentium 3 Xeon

Posted on 2025-05-14, 07:16

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As above... https://storage.microsemi.com/en-us/support/_eol/aaa_raid/aro-1130sa/interop/raid_guide.htm?nc=/en-us/support/_eol/aaa_raid/aro-1130sa/interop/raid_guide.htm and https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=73337 Think that's pretty much it for RAIDport III cards, so if you're planning for …

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Re: Drivers for TOPTEK CDROM ISA 3in1 card

Posted on 2025-05-11, 20:08

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Hi, Can someone help to find the DOS drivers for this card? IMG_2562.jpeg IMG_2563.jpeg Try these (possibly 95, 98 & DOS)...version.txt says GOLDEN SOUND 3in1 CDROM SOFTWARE VERSION 1.2 DATE:1993/DEC/29 TopTk3n1.zip For jumpers try here... https://theretroweb.com/expansioncard/documentation/50887. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-05-11, 14:55

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pitchshifter wrote on 2025-05-11, 14:15: Just got these 2 mobos, anyone knows the model of the 386? It only says MBA-021. Educated guess would be an as yet unlisted MITAC/Trigon board... https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/?page=1& … =24&name=mba-02

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Re: Anomalies in the Intel® Pentium® III Processor Specification Update

Posted on 2025-05-08, 11:18

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Finally got round to the promised check!... Thank you it's [cB0] as I suspected it would be and not [cD0] , the images also confirm the year as 2000. I wonder why SIV didn't report much for GPU-1 + GPU-2, what are they please? What does Menu->Machine->GPU Info report ? At a guess Voodoo 1 or 2. …

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Re: Anomalies in the Intel® Pentium® III Processor Specification Update

Posted on 2025-05-07, 04:42

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Finally got round to the promised check!... Filename SL49G.jpg File size 229.82 KiB Views 248 views File license Fair use/fair dealing exception Filename SIV_SL49G.png File size 102.33 KiB Views 248 views File license Fair use/fair dealing exception

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Re: Need drivers for CoStar LabelWriter II Plus

Posted on 2025-05-06, 08:14

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The old VersionTracker site pointed to v5.0.4 for the Mac... https://web.archive.org/web/20080405113437/http://www.versiontracker.com/php/dlpage.php?id=1051&db=mac&pid=1054&kind=&lnk=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.dymo.com%2Fmedia%2FSoftware%2FDLS504Mac.hqx ...whilst the Dymo archive still retains v5.0.5... …

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Re: Anomalies in the Intel® Pentium® III Processor Specification Update

Posted on 2025-05-03, 12:46

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If you'd like, I have a couple of the SL49G (850/250/100/1.65V) which I can check to confirm as cB0/0683h, rather than cD0/068Ah of the 850/256/100/1.75V part

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Re: Slot2 Intel C440GX+ with 2 Pentium 3 1GHz Xeons build

Posted on 2025-05-02, 17:38

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Those are the two processor VRM modules...the AT-style connector will be for extra juice on heavily loaded systems

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Re: In need of PINS for embedded Matrox G200 SD AGP 8mb

Posted on 2025-04-26, 17:30

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I have HP Vectra VEi8 D8174A with embedded Matrox G200 SD AGP 8mb (MGA-G200-D2). For some reason the PINS are gone and nothing from https://web.archive.org/web/20040110103309/http://grafi.ii.pw.edu.pl/gbm/matrox/ works for me. If someone has the same PC, please export PINS. I've attached the PINS …

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Re: Intrest in new ISA cards?

Posted on 2025-04-24, 05:24

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Had a quick search for RasterOps own drivers ( Windows 3.1 & AutoCAD according to this graphics card group test https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-Byt … yte-1994-02.pdf )but no luck so far 🙁 Filename BYTE - Feb 94.png File size 586.41 KiB Views 455 views File license Fair use/fair dealing …

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Re: Intrest in new ISA cards?

Posted on 2025-04-23, 18:40

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Does anyone have any details or knowledge about it? This is a strange graphics card for more than one reason. RasterOps video cards are mostly used on Macintosh and adopt the NuBus interface. As far as I know, RasterOps did not launch ISA interface graphics cards nor use S3 display chips. Having …

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Re: Full-Tower ATX case suggestions?

Posted on 2025-04-22, 17:58

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I got lucky when I got my LG440x+ motherboard a number of years ago, as it came as part of a full system (a Data General AVIION 2300 server) in a case Intel intended for this very motherboard - the Astor II . Talking of outrageous prices, check out the new open box one on the bay (search for …

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