Re: Pci cards roundup on dos

Posted on 2020-02-02, 14:42

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by Nemo1985

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Thank you. Avance logic card is one of my favourite for 1995 year, mainly because it's an almost unknown manufacture but to my eyes it's not that bad... This is my card: https://i.imgur.com/MSmETIe.jpg I would have said it's an oem card but according to vga museum it's a powercolor. I never heard …

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Re: Pci cards roundup on dos

Posted on 2020-02-02, 07:22

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by Nemo1985

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Nice ! Thank you. When you say Maximum memory did the Matrox cards have 8Mb or more ? I have some M2 with 8Mb but never tried Chris 3d test on them, odd to see good results on one test but black screen results other test. Maybe the card/matrox driver doesn't like the way the higher end test …

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Re: Pci cards roundup on dos

Posted on 2020-02-02, 00:44

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by Nemo1985

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What’s the un-colored (white) boxes represent? I’ll have to take a closer look at Permedia2. Uncolored because I'd have to use too many colors Green is for the best performance, yellow second, orange third and red the worst. The last 2 3dfx cards have white color because I wanted to try the Nvidia …

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Re: How do I flash VBIOS on an S3 card?

Posted on 2020-02-02, 00:20

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by Nemo1985

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Despite I didn't receive any further help, I kept going with the tests, I noticed that the bios of TRIO64v+ cards can be swapped with the virge, without any issue, I also noticed that Trio64v+ cards can have different frequencies despite the bios being the very same (I have one model at 60mhz with …

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Pci cards roundup on dos

Posted on 2020-02-02, 00:18

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by Nemo1985

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Hello there, I spent some time testing my collection of pci cards on ms-dos 7.1 with the phil's benchmark pack. Initially I was using a P3-650 mhz with a MSI BX MASTER mb but I started to get issues with some cards, avance logic card was freezing during some benchmarks, the ET4000\w32p refused to …

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Re: I'd like to build a VLB system

Posted on 2020-01-24, 11:37

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by Nemo1985

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I received the ark logic card, let's say i'm... disappointed about cheap... shipping price if we can call so...

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Re: How do I flash VBIOS on an S3 card?

Posted on 2020-01-24, 07:29

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by Nemo1985

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So I have been able to partially solve the problem. I copied and pasted the values from c2 to c5 from my 70mhz bios to the 2.01.07, corrected the checksum thanks to HxD and everything seems fine, so far. Next I need to understand how to translate those bin number to the hex numbers I need. Some …

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Re: How do I flash VBIOS on an S3 card?

Posted on 2020-01-21, 03:13

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by Nemo1985

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Any help, please? 😀

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Re: AGP Card for MVP3 motherboard

Posted on 2020-01-19, 09:52

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by Nemo1985

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My previous testing on ss7 machines (mvp3 and aladdinV) on windows 98SE the agp cards with most problems were: Matrox g200 windows crashing and general instability even on windows Intel I740: same Riva TNT2 M64: some random crashing mainly with opengl games On the other hand I had no issues with …

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Re: How do I flash VBIOS on an S3 card?

Posted on 2020-01-18, 12:24

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by Nemo1985

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Thank you so much! This really helps me, now I will probably do some dumb questions: I'm using HxD, i'm not very confident with hex editors Those are the values starting from 000000C0: 2.01.07: D0 09 28 41 47 25 04 15 15 02 10 00 80 FE 08 04 2.01.16: 00 00 00 09 02 80 D0 09 04 15 15 02 10 00 80 FE …

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Re: How do I flash VBIOS on an S3 card?

Posted on 2020-01-16, 23:48

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by Nemo1985

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I'm hoping someone will be available to help me, I add the bios of 2 Trio 3d/2x with in different version and frequency: S3Trio3d2xG: with brightness bug, V2.0C.0983 frequency: 83 for both core and memory S3Trio3d2xB without brightness bug, Version 2.0C.10A frequency: 100 for both core and memory

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Re: Bought some non working videocards

Posted on 2020-01-16, 11:44

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by Nemo1985

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So after some time I got back to those cards: Radeon pci x700: it apparently works fine, I added what was missing to the c64 spot, the problem is still the fan, it's silly it works fine when it's not connected to the heatsink (fans are free to spin even inside the heatsink) but when I put it back …

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Re: Do i have bad CPUs?

Posted on 2020-01-15, 15:06

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by Nemo1985

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The only cpus I bought and proved non working were socket a, from an ebay guy that claimed to have a positive feedback before I could even try them... go for refund!

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Re: How do I flash VBIOS on an S3 card?

Posted on 2020-01-15, 08:38

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by Nemo1985

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Sorry for the necroposting, I'm trying to identify the offsets in the bios of s3 cards (virge, virge dx and trio 64v+) which controls the memory and core frequency (to my knowledge they are syncro). According to MCLK there are 3 settings to set the frequency clock, despite of that I can't find the …

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Re: Asus PVI-486SP3 or Shuttle hot433

Posted on 2020-01-13, 03:50

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by Nemo1985

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According to https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/A/ASUS-COMPUTER-INTERNATIONAL-486-PVI-486SP3.html it uses parity ram. Don't know if that will make a difference. That page shows all the accepted memory combinations. The mainboard should accept the memory stick, maybe it just doesn't like it …

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Re: My 486 UMC8886/8881 Project

Posted on 2020-01-12, 18:12

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by Nemo1985

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Good read. Thank you. @Nemo1985 Not far ago i actually compared the Biostart UMC and and ASUS SP3 mobos here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=65395&start=40 (page 3). I think there is a big thread (the ultimate 486) that has comparison of the two as well, only basic dos tests, results …

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Re: My 486 UMC8886/8881 Project

Posted on 2020-01-12, 16:47

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by Nemo1985

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That's very interesting, thank you for sharing such benchmarks. I am interested to do a head to head ASUS PVI-486-SP3 vs BIOSTAR MB-8433UUD-A, basically SIS vs UMC. I'm using an Amd 5x86 at 133 with write back on both l1 and l2, 32mb ram and a Virge 4mb. Actually with my Asus and fastest memory …

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Re: Asus PVI-486SP3 or Shuttle hot433

Posted on 2020-01-12, 01:47

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by Nemo1985

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Hello, I'm going to do to a head to head to compare Asus PVI-486SP3 against the Biostar MB-8433UUD-A as soon I get some stuff from China. On friday I got the fpm memory from a famous german shop (32MB PS/2 FPM SIMM RAM Double Sided 60ns 8Mx32 non-Parity Samsung KM44C4000BK-6), now I tried to install …

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Re: Am5x86 lastest hardware revisions

Posted on 2020-01-11, 17:13

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by Nemo1985

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That's an interesting matter (to me at least), I asked something like that some time ago since I had 2 am5x86 (The ADZ has manufacturing date 962xxx (can't read because it's scratched) while the W16BGC has manufacturing date 9811GPB). Most of people says it doesn't matter they are the same rev and …

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Re: I'd like to build a VLB system

Posted on 2020-01-11, 04:10

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by Nemo1985

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I don't think the card can divide the VL-Bus frequency. It has to communicate at 50 MHz on the host side as this is how the CPU is driving the bus. I think what the 33/50 MHz jumper does is to calibrate command cycle length on the IDE side of the interface. So that the PIO4 cycle length is roughly …

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