Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2024-07-26, 18:20

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by Mumak

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Many Bothans wrote on 2024-07-26, 18:08: Thanks for all the work! Here's the log from my resurrected Zenith Z386SX-20 system. CPU, L2 Cache and VGA spot on. Thanks for the feedback. If any issues, please also attach the DBG file (run with -d switch).

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2024-07-21, 08:43

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Yes, this is a limitation of the non-Unicode version but it has to stay in ANSI to maintain compatibility with older systems. And I'm really not keen on building a Unicode version of legacy HWiNFO32 and maintaining that given the very low usage.

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2024-04-28, 06:25

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Somewhere between 6.0.2 and 6.1.0, HWINFO lost the ability to correctly recognize Celeron 266. Works fine in 6.0.2, but in 6.1.0+ it's misrecognized as Pentium II: cel1.png cel2.png The problem seems back in 6.2.3: 622.png 623.png Please attach LOG file that includes also the second (CPU details) …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2024-04-27, 11:10

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Grzyb wrote on 2024-04-27, 10:54: MAC address is 48-bit, but HWINFO displays 64 bits: 1.png 2.png Thanks, will be fixed.

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2024-04-21, 14:47

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Something interesting happening here: When i run old AIDA32 or current version AIDA64 and then Hwinfo32, all voltages and fan speeds are detected by Hwinfo32. It looks like AIDA somewhat reconfigure LM79 monitoring chip. After computer has been power off and on again, everything with sensors are …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2024-04-20, 20:14

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Hi Mumak, here are report from my newest retro system: Windows 2000 SP4 Micronics Helios Dual Slot 1 board with 2x Pentium II 350 MHz (440 BX chipset) 512 MB ECC SDRAM Nvidia Riva TNT with 16 MB RAM ESS Maestro-2 PCI sound card Intel 82559 Fast Ethernet PCI network card 10 GB Samsung SV1021D PATA …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2024-01-17, 12:48

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by Mumak

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That's determined because of the Genoa card positive check: Copy code to clipboard 1 3C4h index 5 (R/W): Configuration Register 2 bit 1 (R) 8bit bus if set, 16bit else Probably shouldn't apply in this case...

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2024-01-17, 09:07

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I ran HWiNFO v6.2.3 on a system with a VLB card that has a UMC 85C418 based VGA IDE controller with 1.5MB Ram on board pictured here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1225601#p1225601 HWiNFO v6.2.3 says it is a Genoa 6400/6600 (GVGA) HWiNFO v6.2.3 ÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛÛVideo …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2023-12-29, 15:03

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Released: - v6.2.3 of HWiNFO for DOS (386+): HWiNFO for DOS resurrected ! - v2.3 of HWiNFO16 (8086-286): Introducing HWiNFO16 (for 8086/88/186/188/286)

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2023-12-29, 14:51

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Released v6.2.3: Improved detection of Cirrus Logic CL-GD5420 and older adapters. Improved detection of XGA adapters. Minor updates.

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Re: Introducing HWiNFO16 (for 8086/88/186/188/286)

Posted on 2023-12-29, 14:48

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Released v2.3: - Improved detection of Cirrus Logic CL-GD5420 and older adapters. - Improved detection of XGA adapters. - Minor updates.

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2023-11-22, 06:54

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Hard to know what to improve when I don't know exactly where and on which systems it crashes. I suppose it's mostly the Super IO check which others don't check, so they don't crash. But this can be disabled in HWiNFO. Problem with such legacy systems is that there's no universal standard or method …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2023-11-18, 20:51

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I observed some somewhat reproducible freezes on my Win 98 SE on an ASUS P2B-S: I had an Elasa Winner 2000 Pro/X PCI graphics (S3 Vision968) card plugged in and HWiNFO 7.62 and 7.66 froze the whole system every time during 'Analyzing PCI Bus'. Once I swapped for a Rage XL AGP it worked fine. …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2023-11-13, 12:22

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Thanks, I will check that. Important is that HWiNFO32 still maintains the compatibility 😀

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2023-11-13, 12:14

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by Mumak

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Hmm, the installer (InnoSetup) was updated to a newer version but I thought it maintained backwards compatibility. Are you still able to run the latest portable HWiNFO32?

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2023-11-13, 12:07

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Robbbert wrote on 2023-11-13, 12:05: I notice the new version 766 will not install on Win98SE. Does that mean you've removed support for various old platforms? Can you list what you do support now? That wasn't intentional. Is the problem installation or running the HWiNFO32 ?

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Re: Introducing HWiNFO16 (for 8086/88/186/188/286)

Posted on 2023-11-09, 09:18

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Because that entry doesn't provide any further details.

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Re: Introducing HWiNFO16 (for 8086/88/186/188/286)

Posted on 2023-11-09, 07:51

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dominusprog wrote on 2023-11-09, 07:46: Tried it last night and it was great. I have a question thou, why can't I select the video card? What exactly do you mean? Which video card is that?

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2023-10-30, 22:43

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HWiNFO32 requires at least Windows 95 to run. Support for earlier versions like 3.x would require significant effort which is currently not planned. For such systems I rather recommend using HWiNFO for DOS.

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2023-09-11, 14:26

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Robbbert wrote on 2023-09-11, 14:17: For latest version 7.62 noticed missing info for windows 98 - the Computer Description is not there. It shows on newer OS's though. It's in the registry at HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\VxD\VNETSUP - keyname is Comment Thanks, will be fixed in the next …

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