Re: ASUS PVI-486AP4 motherboard fsb jumpers?

Posted on 2020-10-16, 22:04

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by AvalonH

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Finished scanning the manual, took awhile, 94 pages!! lot of excercise running up and down stairs to the scanner and trying not to damage the manual. I have attached it to this post, front inside page of manual states it is manual revision 1.2, dated August 1994, and for mainboard Rev 1.6 and up. …

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Re: ASUS PVI-486AP4 motherboard fsb jumpers?

Posted on 2020-10-13, 22:50

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by AvalonH

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Well, the 5x86 I was using was one of the Evergreen upgrade chips that will work with either 5v or 3.3v. I left it at 3.3v and it seemed to work just fine at 160Mhz from the little bit of testing I was doing. Way back in the day when I had an AMD 5x86 in my main system, I was running that at 160Mhz …

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Re: My new DOS machine... Pentium 75Mhz. Some advice...

Posted on 2020-10-12, 18:39

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by AvalonH

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1) Voodoo games for dos are different from voodoo games for windows.. if i install a Pentium133 and voodoo1/2 can i use the games for windows till 1998/99? I wouldn't buy that 133mhz yet, Pentium 75 was the best classic pentium chip to overclock. I have had one running @100mhz since 1995 in a …

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Re: ASUS PVI-486AP4 and CF card problem

Posted on 2020-10-12, 17:46

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by AvalonH

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What rev AP4 do you have printed on the motherboard. Using latest bios (Award 11/25/97) and a 1GB CF card connected as master to the onboard IDE works for me. This is using a cheap chinese CF > IDE adaptor with floppy power connector. It is slow though, limited to PIO-3, I'm not sure if the onboard …

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Re: Sound Driver Pack

Posted on 2020-09-22, 14:26

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by AvalonH

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I need to run sound.com to get Adlib music in Golden Axe (on a real machine in dos).

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Re: "FastTrak S150 SX4 Lite" PCI SATA control cards?!

Posted on 2020-08-05, 17:34

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by AvalonH

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Here is the test result in DOS. Can you elaborate more about (rename ESDI_506.PDR in SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS dir to ESDI_506.BAK) ? Boot straight to Dos. Go to the Windows\SYSTEM\IOSUBSYS directory and rename ESDI_506.PDR to ESDI_506.BAK. Restart and boot to windows, run atto again check if the speed has …

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Re: "FastTrak S150 SX4 Lite" PCI SATA control cards?!

Posted on 2020-08-05, 13:17

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by AvalonH

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I've already edited the .INF file for the Win98-ME drivers to add the SX4 Lite to it.. based on the HP 2k/XP driver pack for the SX4 Lite and a few other cards including some TX cards. Just waiting to hear back to see if it works or not. The SX4-M and SX4000 cards use a completely different chip …

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Re: Retro PC without ISA. What sound would you choose?

Posted on 2020-08-03, 21:03

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by AvalonH

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Largely depends on what motherboard you will use. A ForteMedia FM801 card is probably your most compatible bet that has very agreeable FM music. There is no fifth PCI chipset I would use for DOS gaming. Aureal Vortex 2 works more or less hassle free but it sounds like ass in FM synthesis. Crystal …

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Re: Games that don't run properly on faster CPUs

Posted on 2020-07-22, 18:03

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by AvalonH

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Supaplex -I though this game was just really picky with sound cards but no, (sb16, als100, als4000, solo-1) all work on a 386 16mhz machine. On a pc faster than around 133mhz > the game hangs or freezes (game irq auto detection problem?) when selecting sound blaster and then the FX option. You can …

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Re: Intel SE440BX-2 / Issues

Posted on 2020-07-16, 18:52

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by AvalonH

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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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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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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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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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