Re: How to set Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 (SiS471) into L2:Write-through mode?

Posted on 2021-01-15, 20:00

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by OzzFan

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What flash utility did you use? I'm having trouble locating the right one. You won't fine a flash utility because the flash chip is an EPROM that needs to be erased with UV light and programmed externally. Ah ok. I don't have one of those. So these aren't flashable EEPROMs? No chance of getting an …

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Re: How to set Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 (SiS471) into L2:Write-through mode?

Posted on 2021-01-15, 14:13

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by OzzFan

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What flash utility did you use? I'm having trouble locating the right one.

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Re: Looking for Windows 95 PCI Gigabit 1000Mbps ethernet card.

Posted on 2021-01-14, 23:23

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by OzzFan

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Have you tried setting up something like an iPerf test between two systems to see if the network bandwidth is there?

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Re: Newly made 4MB 30pin SIMMs

Posted on 2021-01-14, 21:38

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by OzzFan

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I wonder if these modules would help my 486 - though I'm not sure if it'll work without parity memory and my soldering skills are nil. Did you say that 60ns 4MB 30 pin modules can be found on eBay for those of us in the States?

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Re: CPU collectors: do you collect each and every revision or just one?

Posted on 2021-01-14, 20:48

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by OzzFan

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My favorite timeframe is from 1986 - 1996. So many things were going on; so much competition in the CPU space, advances in Operating Systems were happening, so many vendors were showing off their products trying to differentiate and grab a piece of the pie, and shareware and BBSs and benchmarks... …

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Re: Looking for Windows 95 PCI Gigabit 1000Mbps ethernet card.

Posted on 2021-01-14, 20:00

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by OzzFan

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In the end, the NICs are cheap enough that you might as well try both 100Mbps an 1000Mbps and determine for yourself how fast they are in relative and absolute terms . Please let us know if you do run those tests . I haven't found a cheap gigabit NIC that works with Win95 yet. I'm only willing to …

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Re: Looking for Windows 95 PCI Gigabit 1000Mbps ethernet card.

Posted on 2021-01-14, 04:12

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by OzzFan

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digicube wrote on 2021-01-14, 02:05: Nice to know that but the PC is also for Win98SE and hopefully NT4 in the future. Maybe DOS too. Of those you named, only NT4 can handle symmetric multiprocessing. Win9x and DOS are not capable of using more than 1 CPU.

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Re: Fastest socket 7 build on a 430tx chipset

Posted on 2021-01-13, 07:00

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by OzzFan

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K6-III+ @ 550. Pretty! I'm sure you paid a hefty price, as you said. 😀 This looks like it's going to be an awesome build. Can't wait to see when it's finished!

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Re: CPU collectors: do you collect each and every revision or just one?

Posted on 2021-01-13, 02:43

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by OzzFan

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I am happy with the fastest CPU per CPU generation. For my older systems (e.g. pre-Pentium) I am trying to go with the fastest for each manufacturer. So for my 486s I have an Intel DX4 100MHz, an AMD Am5x86 133MHz, an AMD DX4 100MHz, a Cyrix Cx5x86 100MHz (having trouble sourcing the 120/133Mhz …

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Re: CPU collectors: do you collect each and every revision or just one?

Posted on 2021-01-13, 02:32

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I was trying to collect every CPU milestone at the fastest possible speed. That is to say, for example, a Pentium 66MHz Socket 4, a Pentium 200MHz, a Pentium 233MHz MMX, Pentium II 450MHz, Pentium III 1000MHz 100MHz FSB Slot1, Pentium III 1000MHz 133MHz FSB Socket 370, etc, etc... and each had to …

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Re: CPU collectors: do you collect each and every revision or just one?

Posted on 2021-01-13, 02:11

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by OzzFan

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I was trying to collect every CPU milestone at the fastest possible speed. That is to say, for example, a Pentium 66MHz Socket 4, a Pentium 200MHz, a Pentium 233MHz MMX, Pentium II 450MHz, Pentium III 1000MHz 100MHz FSB Slot1, Pentium III 1000MHz 133MHz FSB Socket 370, etc, etc... and each had to be …

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Re: Yet another 486 DX4-100 build

Posted on 2021-01-12, 00:34

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The problem I had with my VLB controller was supporting large hard-drives. The driver for the VLB controller will only support up 410mb hard-drive. If I used a larger capacity hard-drive the driver would report an error and only run at 16-bit mode and not 32-bit mode. So slower data transfer rates. …

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Re: ISA vs Socket 5/7 bus speed

Posted on 2021-01-04, 15:40

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by OzzFan

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The ISA bus is not necessarily fixed at one speed depending on the design of the motherboard. A lot of late 486 and Pentium era boards ran the ISA bus off a divider from the bus clock. You may have to see if your BIOS supports changing the divider to keep the ISA bus between the 8 - 10MHz range as …

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Re: Help needed with restoring 486 Packard Bell system

Posted on 2021-01-04, 15:36

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by OzzFan

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I actually just found this Zenith 5-slot riser that looks like it might work...it's cheap enough I'm tempted to just buy it and take the chance. If it really just straight up ISA like it looks to be it should just work, right? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Zenith-Riser-Card-240-8038-10-85-3738-01/ …

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Re: Tyan Titan-Pro AT/ aka S1662

Posted on 2021-01-03, 18:33

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by OzzFan

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Nice build. I have a similar system with an Intel 440FX board running 2 Pentium II Overdrives, 512MB RAM and NT 4.0 SP6a and is currently my legacy file server and PDC for my Win3.x/OS/2/DOS systems. The thing runs like a champ!

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Re: Coding help

Posted on 2021-01-02, 15:05

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by OzzFan

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Excellent feedback! Thanks! To expand on what I'm doing, I am writing a version control utility to ensure my applications are ran together within the same application suite. This gives me some control over the expected functions of a given application within the application suite. So, for example, …

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Re: Help needed with restoring 486 Packard Bell system

Posted on 2021-01-01, 16:58

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by OzzFan

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There's an arm that reaches from the front of the case:

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Re: Help needed with restoring 486 Packard Bell system

Posted on 2021-01-01, 09:32

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by OzzFan

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That's the same case as my first 486! Yours looks to be a newer model though. I'm terrible at taking pictures (and it's currently 3:30AM here), but I hope this helps: https://www.shelteringoak.com/Images/PB400-riser.jpg Riser card with model number https://www.shelteringoak.com/Images/PB400-floppy- …

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Re: Ultimate OS/2 Warp 4 machine?

Posted on 2021-01-01, 09:06

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by OzzFan

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Fascinating thread! I'm still trying to figure out which system I want to put my copy of IBM OS/2 Warp 3 Red Spine on - but I really want it to have networking and I can't seem to get MS Lan Manager 2.2c working on it. Preferably I'd like to have newer networking support so that it can join my …

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Re: Ultimate OS/2 Warp 4 machine?

Posted on 2021-01-01, 00:34

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by OzzFan

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Fascinating thread! I'm still trying to figure out which system I want to put my copy of IBM OS/2 Warp 3 Red Spine on - but I really want it to have networking and I can't seem to get MS Lan Manager 2.2c working on it. Preferably I'd like to have newer networking support so that it can join my …

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