Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

Posted on Yesterday, 15:08

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by weedeewee

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Looks like 3DO IDE emulator should be shipping soon! https://twitter.com/flxel/status/1664662980649275392 How much do these cost? I think a very low cost open source solution with something like a Pi Pico should have been possible by now, possibly something that can emulate a HDD, FDD and DVD-ROM …

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Re: What's this strange SCSI card?

Posted on 2023-06-04, 01:34

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by weedeewee

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to clarify. That odd card will not pop up in the mainboard bios, but it might/should pop up in the SCSI bios if the scsi cable is connected to a scsi card with scsi bios enabled. That odd card is not a pci device.

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Re: What's this strange SCSI card?

Posted on 2023-06-03, 15:15

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by weedeewee

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Seems like that heidelberg card is more a scsi device than a pci device if it was attached to the scsi interface, since the pci card edge connector has hardly any pins connected and those that are, are most likely just power & ground pins. edit: as for the dc-395U, have you tried it with a linux …

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Re: Jumper settings of KWX-SC1616?

Posted on 2023-06-03, 14:44

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by weedeewee

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My best guess by looking at it, is that it sets the IRQ & DMA for the panasonic/mitsumi/sony CDROM interface. Which jumper is which can be easily determined by looking at the isa slot pinout. add: the es688 pdf says it has midi I/O functions as documented in the Sound Blaster Series development kit …

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Re: Killed two Nforce2 south bridges with a faulty POST diag card...

Posted on 2023-05-31, 18:36

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by weedeewee

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Is your POST diagnostics card new or did you have it for a while before it went faulty? It's from Ebay. Single chip (CH311L) 2015. PCI/ISA type. I have a bunch of different ones. After the accidents I tried it in a crappy P3 board and it couldn't post with the diag card. Shut it off immediately. …

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Re: Teseng ET6000 2MB

Posted on 2023-05-31, 15:57

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by weedeewee

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the devil 's in the details. post photos of your card as kixs said and give full specs of your system. manufacturer/model ... of all components, mainboard, other expansion cards etc...

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Re: Can someone help identify this socket 3 motherboard?

Posted on 2023-05-31, 15:29

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by weedeewee

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Those DCA chips on you motherboard are supposed to be the cache. Cache is a little bit of faster memory that allows faster execution of programs. Several times before mainboards have been made that reported to have cache, yet in reality the chips where either fake, as in they looked like chips but …

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Re: Can someone help identify this socket 3 motherboard?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 10:41

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by weedeewee

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Let us know if the cache on your board is real or fake.

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Re: No Keyboard at 8088 System

Posted on 2023-05-21, 07:45

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by weedeewee

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Kekkula wrote on 2023-05-21, 07:41: And as I resently learnt, not all newer 1.44 drives support reading 720K disks 🙁 if you're talking about usb floppy drives, that would just be a firmware limitation of the usb floppy interface.

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Re: Help! AMT/ME refuses to die!

Posted on 2023-05-19, 20:56

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by weedeewee

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWHby5BvnK4 I think in that video the bios gets edited, serial number changed or removed, thus negating the mdm check.

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Re: Help! AMT/ME refuses to die!

Posted on 2023-05-19, 07:07

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by weedeewee

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Mobile Device Managment (MDM) is the first thought that pops into my head upon scanning through your post.

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Re: Help needed! nVIDIA 7900 GTX complaining of not recieving enough power.

Posted on 2023-05-18, 21:45

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by weedeewee

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Auch, that looks like three capacitors are gone and two transistors. C504, c587, c576, q515 & q519

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Re: GPT disks on windows XP SP3 (partially solved)

Posted on 2023-05-18, 18:36

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by weedeewee

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FYI, regarding Paragon GPT loader, which is discontinued commercial software. Only internally connected single 2.2TB+ drives are supported, not external storages, or those combined into RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks). from https://www.paragon-software.com/technologies/gpt-loader/# and …

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Re: What motherboard do I have?

Posted on 2023-05-18, 05:30

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by weedeewee

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Looks like this one : https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/protech-pm486pa-vip Allthough not all the jumpers seem to match, it may be a different revision.

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Re: List of VLB IDE Controllers

Posted on 2023-05-15, 18:03

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by weedeewee

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Can anyone help me get this file? The zip file seems corrupt when I download it. Is there something I need to do to get it to download correctly or is there a mirror of this section of dreamland BBS? https://web.archive.org/web/20140815164600/http://www.dreamlandbbs.com/drivers/control/index.html …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2023-05-13, 08:39

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by weedeewee

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Some time ago I got some computer stuff that was stored on sometimes attic for 20 years, and I'm slowly digging thru. This find I thing is interesting: CameraZOOM-20230512211238533.jpg It's a Tyan S1856S Tomahawk BX board. Can't test it, because it's missing the bios chip, but s370 and BX chipset …

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Re: Dallas DS12887 Replacement help

Posted on 2023-05-12, 20:42

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by weedeewee

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maxtherabbit wrote on 2023-05-12, 13:46: https://mou.sr/3LZKJw9 No idea where OP is located, but... for me... Stock: Shipping Restricted What the F !?!

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Re: Dallas DS12887 Replacement help

Posted on 2023-05-12, 12:56

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by weedeewee

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The battery is epoxied to the chip. something like you get a plastic cup, connect the battery to the chip , fill the plastic cup with a specified amount of epoxy and put battery & chip into it. Flip it upside down and you have your standard dallas RTC cmos package. there are replacements available …

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Re: Turbo button activation options

Posted on 2023-05-12, 10:25

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by weedeewee

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Drill a hole in one of the empty drivebay covers and put a switch in that hole.

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Re: 5.25" floppy drive doesn't read most of my old floppies.

Posted on 2023-05-12, 09:41

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by weedeewee

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OK, little update: I cleaned the reading heads with cleaning solution and I have some progress: - Where I could not completely read any disk before (only the index, but always got errors when making an image), I can now read 360 kB disks without a lot of problems (a few are damaged, apparently, but …

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