Re: Socket 7 PB motherboard identification & BIOS access issues

Posted on 2024-10-13, 20:07

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by weedeewee

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I recently had a similar issue with a salvaged mainboard. It came with cpu & ram so I hooked it up to a psu and it started, yet like yours it froze after a moment. sometimes it managed to get through the memory test, other times I even managed to get into the bios. It was odd, until I noticed one …

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Re: ABIT IC7-G bricked after BIOS flash

Posted on 2024-10-12, 17:53

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by weedeewee

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Havis wrote on 2024-10-12, 17:32: Do I need any adapters or is everything included with XGecu TL866II+ ? Depends on what package you bought. there are versions without any adapters, and there are versions with different adapters. If I read it right, you'll need a plcc32 adapter.

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Re: ABIT IC7-G bricked after BIOS flash

Posted on 2024-10-12, 14:07

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by weedeewee

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Havis wrote on 2024-10-12, 11:22: The board has PhoenixBIOS D686 BIOS chip, but I failed to find any info about it (what voltage it needs to be programmed etc.) Remove the sticker.

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Re: Onboard 3dfx mobo

Posted on 2024-10-11, 19:44

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by weedeewee

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You definitely want to change the electrolytic capacitors on that board.

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Re: WinXP wont cooperate with secondary drive used with Win98??

Posted on 2024-10-09, 16:26

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by weedeewee

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Want to try something else ? try a linux live cd or live install cd, and see if you can open the descent.zip on the 120G drive. 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-10-08, 19:34

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by weedeewee

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I haven't bought it but found it for sale pretty cheap and would like to inquire others opinions about this possible purchase. Asus Z8NA-D6 rev 1.01G 2x Intel Xeon E5520 2x 4GB DDR3-1066 for €35

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Re: TEAC_CDI.SYS messing with system performance

Posted on 2024-10-08, 15:39

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by weedeewee

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Boohyaka wrote on 2024-10-08, 15:11: Were you using the TEAC_CDI.SYS driver with a speed parameter ?

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Re: Tyan Tachyon G9600 Pro

Posted on 2024-10-05, 20:42

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by weedeewee

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in Marvin \ Video

Seems its all there on the Tyan Ftp server (I took time to look around their ftp site myself), thats lucky as most manufacturers sites dont keep that stuff online any more. Good on Tyan..... I wonder how long it will still remain, since going to the ftp.tyan.com redirects to https://www. …

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Re: WinXP wont cooperate with secondary drive used with Win98??

Posted on 2024-10-05, 20:40

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by weedeewee

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you still have the partition formatted with allocation (cluster) size 512, could you copy a large text file onto the drive in win98, and then copy it back from within XP to a second file, so we can compare the two. meh with mention of the extended partition present, while "unnecessary" it can …

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Re: AWE32 CT3780 mosfet info

Posted on 2024-10-05, 13:22

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by weedeewee

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

looking at https://wiki.preterhuman.net/images/2/26/Ct3780-4.png P2 is a 7809 9v voltage regulator P3 looks like a 7805 5v voltage regulator but I haven't found a photo yet that clearly identifies it. https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/images/CT3780.jpg LM340T5 aka 7805

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Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee

Posted on 2024-10-05, 13:00

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by weedeewee

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in Marvin \ System Specs

So hoping for some assistance or advice! Due to being quite busy I started my weecee build quite some time ago, and then had to leave it for a while before I finished it off (last few resistors etc.) just today! I was actually considering buying that one that was on ebay relatively recently, and am …

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Re: Tyan Tachyon G9600 Pro

Posted on 2024-10-05, 11:58

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by weedeewee

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

BTW that quote I put in my post came from here. https://web.archive.org/web/20041010084402/http://www.tyan.com/support/html/faq_gc.html ftp.tyan.com is still up and following the archive link Grem Five posted to the driver page https://web.archive.org/web/20041204185156/http://www.tyan.com/support/ …

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Re: Tyan Tachyon G9600 Pro

Posted on 2024-10-05, 11:07

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by weedeewee

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in Marvin \ Video

ftp.tyan.com is still up and following the archive link Grem Five posted to the driver page https://web.archive.org/web/20041204185156/http://www.tyan.com/support/html/drivers_gc.html ftp://ftp.tyan.com/Graphic/7.91/WinMe_9X_driver/wme-catalyst-7-91-030625a-010027c-efg.exe ftp://ftp.tyan.com/Graphic …

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Re: I need help with identifying my CRT monitor

Posted on 2024-10-05, 10:00

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by weedeewee

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in Marvin \ Video

Dang, I know I could look it up... :-p , what's the formula again ? Horizontal frequency is listed, 30 to 50 kHz Vertical frequency is listed, 50 to 90 Hz and bandwidth is listed, 70 MHz ok so pretty basic & way off it seems Hpixels * Vpixels * refresh = dotclock (bandwidth) but visible Hpixels & …

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Re: I need help with identifying my CRT monitor

Posted on 2024-10-05, 06:59

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by weedeewee

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

When an FCC ID is present it can often times lead to some useful information, though not always. in this case it leads to https://fccid.io/AMPJD144 which just mentions Jean Co Ltd Color Monitor Maximum resolution: 1024 X 768 non-interlaced. JD144 enjoy

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2024-10-04, 20:04

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by weedeewee

in Milliways

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Found a weird "off by one" error on some quoted posts. Post quoted was at bottom of previous page, the link in the quote takes you to top of following page. I don't know if this is a temporary or one off thing due to an intervening post being deleted or something, or whether it is some other …

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Re: WinXP wont cooperate with secondary drive used with Win98??

Posted on 2024-10-04, 17:03

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by weedeewee

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Long time lurker, rarely posting, but LOVE the wealth of knowledge on this site. Mad respect to everyone here . Trying to finalize my Win98 machine and got 99% of it figured out. However this recent issue has me absolutely stumped! The machine is mainly for 98, but XP will also be on the machine …

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Re: Help get microsoft intellimouse trackball working

Posted on 2024-10-03, 20:02

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by weedeewee

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I recently got this Microsoft IntelliMouse Trackball device. I was intrigued by it because it says that it is serial and ps/2 compatible, so I could use it for my systems without ps/2 ports. Does the serial mode require specific drivers? I have not been able to find any, or a user manual that tells …

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Re: FreeDOS boot disk - How to format with MS-DOS system files?

Posted on 2024-10-03, 14:53

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by weedeewee

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

no idea if it's possible with freedos sys but... freedos [/b]sys /oem:ms[/b] ? active primary partition yes, correct Partition boot record ? dos system files in correct location, true for old versions of dos. can't remember if it's still valid for msdos 6.x dos system file entries in correct …

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Re: Possible to Have 2 hard drives and CD ROM on 486DX2 AMIBIOS 1993

Posted on 2024-09-28, 18:51

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by weedeewee

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just to add some more information https://theretroweb.com/expansioncard/documentation/20327.pdf The jumper settings for the Tyan S1342 VLB Multi IO controller. It looks like there needs to be a jumper on J2 & J3 for both controllers to work... Though I don't see any clear indication of an enable/ …

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