Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-10-31, 04:18

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by Horun

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Soldering time today - I recently found a third MSI MS-6168 i440BX with onboard Voodoo3-2000 8MB. First one ran everything up to Tualatin but had bad video RAM. Second rock solid but despite being exact same revision with exact same BIOS (I swapped EEPROMS) and exact same VRM circuitry, it utterly …

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Re: Need help finding childhood Super 7 mobo w/ big Dragonfly on box (ALI Aladdin chipset)

Posted on 2020-10-31, 02:20

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by Horun

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In fact, I distinctly remember lying on the floor of my bedroom as a kid, with the box & manual in hand, trying to figure out the brand of my motherboard, and it was very difficult.. (can't remember if i did eventually). But I remember that the lack of branding struck me even then. Might have been …

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Re: Identify 2 ISA cards

Posted on 2020-10-31, 01:39

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by Horun

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The unknown board is a good exercise for reverse engineering an ISA card. No custom PALs on them, most traces visible, not too complicated. I will still spoil the result: It seems to be an 8-bit digital I/O card with opto-isolated floating inputs and open-collector outputs. It mostly works like …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-31, 01:05

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by Horun

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Found a NOS sealed box generic CDRW from 2002 today at a thrift store for $10, could not pass it up. Opened it and is a Ultima WRR-4848 (man date 2002), not the best brand but is beige and IDE. Will have to test it but am sure it works. Also saw a NOS sealed box Pioneer slot load CDROM in same store …

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Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2020-10-30, 05:41

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by Horun

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In late summer 1999 had my first Asus P2B and a P2 300Mhz, was still running a lot of scsi stuff for HD's and CDroms.I was one of those early adopters back then....

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-10-30, 05:13

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by Horun

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I've dumped the ROMs for the Emerson 4412 286 system. It's a pretty neat box, and there's not a lot of information around on it. It's got a lot of nice features: 8mb ram max, built-in hardware EMS support, boots from rom, a very in-depth self diagnostic BIOS utility. The manual hints at some sort …

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Re: Floppy Disk DISK.ID

Posted on 2020-10-30, 05:08

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by Horun

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I am lost as well how do you install sb pro 2.0 drivers from a gotek floppy? The drive id is different and you cannot change the default floppy000 Is exactly why I keep a few 3.5" and 5,25" floppy drives around. There is no true modern replacement for them on certain older hardware under certain …

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Re: Hosed my Seagate FireCuda 1000GB

Posted on 2020-10-30, 04:44

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by Horun

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Have you tried spin rite from Gibson Research Center? https://www.grc.com/sr/spinrite.htm iI couldn't figure out how to download the "spinright" program. It looks like i need to buy it first. That is NUTS ! I downloaded Spinrite 6.1 for free off their website many years ago. Guess they decided to …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-10-30, 04:25

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by Horun

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Is it of interest "The MGA Millennium Bulk CD Version 1.3, January 20, 1996"? Currently in Vogons Driver we have "The Matrox Millennium Multimedia SuperPack Version 1.60, November 11, 1996" which I think it is a later version of the same CD but with a rebranded title. The ISO is available at the …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-10-30, 04:23

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by Horun

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I've dumped the ROMs for the Emerson 4412 286 system. It's a pretty neat box, and there's not a lot of information around on it. It's got a lot of nice features: 8mb ram max, built-in hardware EMS support, boots from rom, a very in-depth self diagnostic BIOS utility. The manual hints at some sort …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-10-30, 04:21

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by Horun

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appleiiguy wrote on 2020-10-30, 01:12: Dos & Win 3.1x Drivers for Diamond DT197A30 DT-0197H Isa Sound Card. Nice ! If the card looks like this one will add the driver to the library

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-10-30, 03:01

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by Horun

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Nice ! How much did the ST05X cost you ? Somewhere in my storage I have a few real 8bit IDE and SCSI HD cards but never found a working ST05x yet. You should save the BIOS files and upload them here if possible, last ST05x I saw was missing the BIOS chip so was useless since no BIOS files existed …

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Re: Replace Compaq Series PS 2013 with a modern ATX power supply

Posted on 2020-10-29, 03:10

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by Horun

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That is a bastard design IMHO. Compaq did have some very good OEM standard ATX boards but this is not one of them, and what appears is a Riser card for PCI+IDE with PSU and a soldered P3 on main board is very odd. You cannot easily swap a standard ATX PSU in for a specialty PSU like this board needs …

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Re: Retro Hardware Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-10-29, 01:17

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by Horun

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I guess this counts as a rant? I appologize if this isn't the kind this thread is for. Someone (I won't link to the listing directly) is selling an Amiga 1200 for $1,299 maple bucks on eBay. This one is apperently tricked out with a 68030 CPU accelerator, modern CF storage and a re capped PSU. I …

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Re: K6-2+ Windows XP general tab ?

Posted on 2020-10-29, 01:09

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by Horun

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Are you talking about what right click on My computer > Properties says on the main screen ? iirc my K6-2 450 says AMD 5x86 or similar and not much else on that top line (is not a K6-2+ but K6-2) but could be wrong as my memory is not that sharp anymore :( Have the box in storage and am going out of …

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Re: DTK bios for 386 PEM-3332D

Posted on 2020-10-29, 00:52

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by Horun

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acogman wrote on 2020-10-28, 22:30: I'm happy to report the BIOS works fine on the PEM-3332D board 😀 Thanks again, Andrew Great ! imi wrote on 2020-10-20, 18:52: here you go DTK_PEM-3334D.zip Thanks ! am saving it in my mobo archives with notes about it working on both boards.

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Re: external l2 cache issue - 486 socket 3 mobo

Posted on 2020-10-28, 02:25

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by Horun

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my flash rom arrived and flash the bios from the weblink above which is v3.20 and with l2 cache on it gets past updating escd... and starting booting from hdd or a floppy disk and say starting ms-dos and then nothing but again turning off l2 cache altogether works fine changing the l2 cache to …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-10-28, 02:02

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by Horun

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Wow you guys have done some awesome work ! I got a bunch of stuff locally: Nice ! All I did today was track down as much info on some old Full Yes (FYI) motherboards as could find from the 1997-1999 era, not all that successful but is work in progress (there are no Full Yes/FYI boards in TH99 or in …

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Re: Does anybody knows how to setup an old Seagate ST-296N scsi1 harddrive 5.25 inch?

Posted on 2020-10-27, 03:06

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by Horun

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Originally that HD was used with 8bit scsi controllers like the Seagate, Trantor, or other old 8bit ISA scsi cards. The 1540 is a newer 16bit scsi-2 controller and can work with those old drives but you need to go into the cards BIOS and set it for max of 10Mbs (SCSI-1) If you can format it from DOS …

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Re: Does anybody knows how to setup an old Seagate ST-296N scsi1 harddrive 5.25 inch?

Posted on 2020-10-27, 02:35

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by Horun

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Am not familiar with it, because i couldnt affort any back in the days.. And never tried such a drive. Does anybody nows how to setup the drive to getting it working? I could image that is was of the earlier scsi drives. Does it works the same as setting up an MFM / RLL drive by using the low level …

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