Re: Intel SE440BX-2 / Issues

Posted on 2020-07-16, 18:52

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by AvalonH

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does the pci sata card display a message at POST mentioning UMDA5 or 6. When I use PCI/X SATA cards that don't have drivers in Win9x but have a bios that supports UDMA in DOS I force Win9x to use the cards bios. Rename ESDI_506.PDR to ESDI_506.BAK and reboot . Check if you get the same speed you get …

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Re: Moving Mouse dramatically slows down CPU

Posted on 2020-06-27, 18:04

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by AvalonH

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Loading FreeDOS Xkeyb instead of MS-Dos keyb.com fixes this on some motherboards. Interesting, does this only affect people who use a regional keyboard layout? I.e. something other than English US. I'm not too clear on when/how keyb.com is used. Yeah, Keyb is just used to configure a keyboard for a …

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Re: Moving Mouse dramatically slows down CPU

Posted on 2020-06-27, 16:57

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by AvalonH

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I noticed this issue for the first time today while recording some game music. It happened on two separate computers, one with an Abit KT7A motherboard (VIA KT133A chipset) and another with an Abit ZM6 motherboard (Intel 440ZX chipset). It could be that some games exibit slowdowns more severely …

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Re: I'd like to create a cd with all the useful programs/bench tools/general tools

Posted on 2020-06-27, 15:34

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by AvalonH

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I'm back to this. Thanks everybody for the contributions. In fact I'm not looking to create a bootable cdrom, just put together a cd with all the most common programs used with dos (mem mangers, burn cds, zip...). Licences aside, I needed to find the latest version available for dos for each. It …

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Edit.com replacement

Posted on 2020-06-03, 17:19

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by AvalonH

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MS-Dos 7.1 Edit .com has a maximum file size limit of around 4.7MB. Trying to open a file with a size larger than this will produce an 'out of far memory!' error message. Someone made a patch to bypass this limit (around 1998-99) but I can't remember the exact name or find it after searching . The …

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Re: System Shock - moving PS/2 mouse causes AWE32 music to slow down (CTMOUSE)

Posted on 2020-05-24, 00:28

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by AvalonH

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Hello everyone, I am playing System Shock (CD version) on a Pentium 133 with an AWE32 (PNP), configured for AWE32 music. If I increase the resolution in the game options, it runs decently but the music slows down whenever I move the mouse. This does not happen when running the game at the default …

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GA-586ATM/P (430FX) - Manual

Posted on 2020-05-23, 23:38

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by AvalonH

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One of those obscure models ( GA-586ATM/P, not sure if it's a OEM board), gigabyte seem to have erased the existence of it from their website quickly in the late 90's. I have been searching for the manual for a few months now. It's a 430FX Intel Triton chipset but using a later socket 7. I have the …

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Re: 486 motherboard won't post - DRAM config?

Posted on 2020-05-20, 13:59

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by AvalonH

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today the new CPU arrived, re-jumpered the board for this particular processor, tried to boot, but unfortunately, everything is the same. The CPU gets warm (this one gets warmer, but I guess because it's a faster one), but that's really all. Nothing else gets warm or show any sign of life. Switched …

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Re: Sound Blaster Audigy 2 for in windows98 dos prompt

Posted on 2020-05-19, 17:36

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by AvalonH

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in Marvin \ Sound

Is this emulation or does the Audigy actually have some kind of CQM inside it? Joestar's linked post actually sounded kinda decent for CQM. I honestly have no idea what the Audigy2 ZS uses for FM synth, but it does an ok job most of the time. However, if you have an ISA sound card as well, you can …

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Re: CF/SD/IDE and Asus P2B

Posted on 2020-05-05, 18:55

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by AvalonH

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I had been using the same revision P2B with the latest beta BIOS for some months with a 120GB SSD on a IDE-SATA converter and never had a problem with it. I moved the SSD+converter to an AOpen AX6BC and never had a problem either. Based on that experience I would guess your problem has to do with …

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Re: Upgrading an old PC -- Recommendations for a Newbie

Posted on 2020-05-05, 18:09

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by AvalonH

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The 430FX Triton is a great chipset, also from the pictures it looks like your board comes with the faster pipeline burst cache. This is my preferred Pentium chipset for Dos games and configured right with enough memory works well with Win95 (get 32mb edo ram minimum). Also before you think about …

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Re: speed penalty for running DOS games under a 9x VDM?

Posted on 2020-04-30, 15:48

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by AvalonH

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auron wrote on 2020-04-30, 15:35: here you go. Thanks for that.

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Re: speed penalty for running DOS games under a 9x VDM?

Posted on 2020-04-30, 15:03

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by AvalonH

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got back to this question with some testing, i used a pentium 60 on a batman's revenge board, 32mb RAM, a matrox millennium and a quantum 1280AT on the onboard RZ1000 to run the duke3d shareware according to the criteria in dukebencTim.txt for comparability. the results (320x200) were 34 fps in DOS …

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Re: SB Audigy SB0090 DOS support

Posted on 2020-04-30, 14:53

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by AvalonH

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Add the following line "Set CTSYN=c:\DOSDRV" without the quotation marks in your Autoexec.bat file BEFORE the line C:\DOSDRV\SBINIT.COM That is assuming that your Audigy Dos drivers are located in the directory c:\DOSDRV . Sbeinit.com wil then be able to find the CTSYN.INI file that holds the config …

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Re: speed penalty for running DOS games under a 9x VDM?

Posted on 2020-04-20, 13:32

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by AvalonH

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got back to this question with some testing, i used a pentium 60 on a batman's revenge board, 32mb RAM, a matrox millennium and a quantum 1280AT on the onboard RZ1000 to run the duke3d shareware according to the criteria in dukebencTim.txt for comparability. the results (320x200) were 34 fps in DOS …

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Re: MSI 815E Pro Photo needed

Posted on 2020-04-05, 14:41

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by AvalonH

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On my motherboard is printed '815E PRO VER:1' MS-6337, I don't know what revision you have. Filename IMG_20200405_151322336_HDR.jpg File size 625.28 KiB Views 419 views Filename IMG_20200405_145653813.jpg File size 1.54 MiB Views 420 views Filename IMG_20200405_151509255.jpg File size 731.58 KiB …

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Re: Problems with Promise Ultra 100 TX2 - 486

Posted on 2020-03-28, 16:51

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by AvalonH

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I tested a 2005 Adaptec 2410sa PCI-X card. This is a 4 port SATA raid controller. It boots and works in non-raid jbod mode using a connected SSD with DOS on a 486 Asus AP4, (420ex chipset). Same with a HighPoint RocketRAID 1820A 8 port SATA raid controller. Bit overkill for a 486 but good to know …

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PCI Bus Mastering in DOS

Posted on 2020-03-24, 19:08

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by AvalonH

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in Marvin \ Video

Does PCI bus mastering matter in Dos or offer any speed improvement (SVGA games). Using a SE440BX-2 motherboard that has PCI bus master slots I tested a few cards. 1999 Vodoo 3 3000 PCI - no bus mastering 1996 DIamond Steath 64 VIDEO VRAM PCI - no bus mastering - 1994 Mach 64 PCI - supports bus …

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Re: Need help with Batman games in DOSBox

Posted on 2020-03-23, 16:36

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by AvalonH

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I wanna be able to correctly run every Batman game made for DOS in DOSBox. That means: 1. Batman: The Caped Crusader 2. Batman: The Movie 3. Batman Returns 4. Batman Forever 5. Batman Forever: The Arcade Game 1. The Caped Crusader appears to run perfectly. The only problem is I can't figure out the …

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Re: California Games 2 adlib support and Golden Axe MT32 support

Posted on 2020-03-22, 00:05

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by AvalonH

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Looking for strings in CGII.EXE, you will find this segment: .^PSQRVW _^ZY[X r1tC PSQRVWU ]_^ZY[X adlib.dat !"$%& !#%'( !"#$%&(* !"#%')+- !$%&')+-/0 !#%&')+-/02 However, my version does't include the adlib.dat file; maybe there are some that did? Looking through CGII.EXE it doesn't even contain …

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