Re: Actual value of some bits on the interrupt status register on the ES1371

Posted on 2023-09-19, 16:36

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by RichardG867

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I was working alongside OP on diagnosing this issue and have since completed an investigation into the matter: Ensoniq AudioPCI ES1371 and the driver bug nobody found

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Re: How do you bypass 'Please Insert Correct CD' error when I already have the correct CD/ISO on 86box?

Posted on 2021-12-06, 21:45

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by RichardG867

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Rip your discs to cue/bin for using with 86Box, as iso doesn't preserve some information used by copy protection.

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Re: Identifying Pentium II "LISBON" mainboard...

Posted on 2021-10-19, 22:49

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by RichardG867

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It's a TriGem Lisbon. I could immediately tell from the TriGem city naming scheme.

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Re: SeaBIOS booting progress on 86Box!

Posted on 2021-09-10, 12:46

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by RichardG867

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I was working on adding support for the 440BX ports of coreboot to 86Box a long time ago, specifically for the ASUS P2B-LS and P3B-F, two motherboards which were added to the emulation roster in their original Award BIOS form with the intention of adding coreboot versions later. Running coreboot …

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2021-04-11, 00:46

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by RichardG867

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I've successfully decompressed the .ETI files from the Evergreen Spectra v2.01 (found by @jheronimus a few posts up) and v4 CDs after a couple days of reverse engineering attempts. Aside from the MR BIOS files, the CDs also include Unicore Award upgrades for many Socket 5 and 7 boards and even a few …

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Re: Iwill DVD266u-RN + 2x 1.26ghz Tualatins = flakiness

Posted on 2021-01-30, 17:57

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by RichardG867

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I do not see any bulging capacitors or any other signs of failing hardware. Capacitors can fail without bulging. My Shuttle FV24 board showed no signs of bulging, yet it was unstable (integrated graphics crashing to a black screen after POST or within the operating system), then I replaced a few …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-12-31, 17:21

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by RichardG867

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red-ray wrote on 2020-12-27, 12:32: I noticed there was a VIA Samuel, did you try SIV with it? The Samuel works fine just because its emulation happens to be currently less thorough than the P6 emulation, and as a result, it wasn't coded to GPF on unknown MSR yet.

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-12-27, 02:08

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by RichardG867

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Good, please may I have new Menu->File->Save Selected files with [msrs] deselected so I can check the changes I made such that SIV should use MSR 2A work OK? Attached. Do you plan to fix the MSRs emulation bug? I plan on doing some more tests myself - other versions of Windows, other CPUs, and real …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-12-23, 21:04

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by RichardG867

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After pondering this I decided SIV should not be trying to read these MSRs on your 86BOX system so please will you try SIV32X 5.55 Beta-01 or later. If it still triggers a BSOD do SIV32X -DBGINI > SIV_DBGOUT.log so we can see how far it gets. The startup BSOD no longer happens, that's good. The MSR …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-12-19, 19:53

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by RichardG867

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Yes, stopping the BSOD would be my top priority and suspect once you have done this many more hardware reporting programs will run. Thank you for the links, I had a look and adjusted SIV32X 5.55 Beta-00 light of what I found. Please may I have two new save files? I also added code to deduce there …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-12-17, 18:25

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by RichardG867

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When I looked some more at the save file I noticed that MSR 0000001B is returned as zero and as this is the APIC base it should never be zero. As a result of this SIV did not even try to read any of the other MSRs as it deduced the CPU was not a real CPU and therefore unlikely to return anything …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-12-14, 22:38

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by RichardG867

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Thanks for the attention. I expect the root cause of this is down to bugs in your emulator as SIV always reads MSRs within a _try{}_except(){} block. Do you need to know anything more for you to fix this? Don't really need any more information, this is being investigated, reading MSRs like this …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-12-14, 20:12

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by RichardG867

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Thank you for the report and links to the datasheet. Please try SIV 5.54 Beta-08 or later, check if SIV finds the SMBus and it works, if not post [PCI Bus] . Can you also post the two Menu->File->Save Local files as I suspect I will need to made some changes to the PCI device reporting for the …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2020-12-11, 21:23

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by RichardG867

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Mumak wrote on 2020-12-11, 20:53: Thanks for the feedback and info! This one should be easy, please try this build and let me know if it works: www.hwinfo.com/beta/hwi32_641_4331.zip Works perfectly, I get all the SPD data now. Thanks.

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-12-11, 20:13

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by RichardG867

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SIV (and just about any other tool) doesn't read SPD and other SMBus data from the SMSC SLC90E66, a rare southbridge that mostly mimics the PIIX4 (apparently with Intel's blessing). It has the same function layout as the PIIX4, and according to the datasheet (p. 149-154) and the Linux kernel (l. 785 …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2020-12-11, 20:09

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by RichardG867

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HWiNFO (and just about any other tool) doesn't read SPD data from the SMSC SLC90E66, a rare southbridge that mostly mimics the PIIX4 (apparently with Intel's blessing). It has the same function layout as the PIIX4, and according to the datasheet (p. 149-154) and the Linux kernel (l. 785), the same …

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Re: SATA2PATA adapters experience

Posted on 2020-12-03, 04:38

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by RichardG867

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So you have a DoF adapter that goes from a sata drive to an IDE controller? I have not seen one. Are you able to post a pic? Looks exactly like this. I have successfully used it both ways, with an 80 GB Hitachi SATA drive on two IDE boards (SiS 620 and VIA 686B), and a 40 GB Maxtor IDE drive on a …

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Re: SATA2PATA adapters experience

Posted on 2020-12-03, 00:15

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by RichardG867

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I've once tried double-bridging a SATA DOM on my PC-Chips M748MR board flashed with an Award BIOS from another board. It didn't go well, even with the original (32 GB limited) AMI BIOS. The adapter is a red PCB bi-directional AliExpress special with the D0F bridge, and the DOM is a 4 GB Apacer ( …

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Re: Wanted: full BIOS dumps from Intel 430TX/440*X motherboards

Posted on 2020-11-09, 00:21

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by RichardG867

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gex85 wrote on 2020-11-07, 08:17: Would a dump from the SR440BX help? I have one rigged up right now. Unfortunately not, as the SR440BX uses AMI BIOS and already has an update available with a boot block. I appreciate the offer though.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-06, 00:09

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by RichardG867

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Shuttle FV24 motherboard + Coppermine 1000 + 512MB RAM. Found this set on the local eBay for a reasonable price many months ago in a random Google search(!); the motherboard caught my attention because it's a fully integrated Socket 370 board not much bigger than ITX. It could fit in an ITX case …

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