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Pinball Dreams...issues.

Posted on 2021-11-12, 14:35

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Hi I bought a copy of this for practically nothing on ebay. Except as i'd expect, age and everything... installing from the floppy is impossible. But it gets more complicated. On a modern machine (USB Floppy Drive) it doesn't read at all. On Dosbox, and mounting an A: drive there, the installation …

Re: KVM Switch: Mouse/Keyboard sharing.

Posted on 2021-09-30, 11:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've had some success. With the mouse, anyway. I did things backwards, so I plugged the mouse into the retro first, and it installed loads of HID devices (5 or so) and it worked! Then back into the KVM switch, and it is working fine. Keyboard is another story. It doesn't work....kind of. Tried the …

KVM Switch: Mouse/Keyboard sharing.

Posted on 2021-09-29, 21:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi again. I've got a Depzol HDMI/VGA switch to use between modern and retro PC's. The Video output is absolutely fine and switches like it's supposed to, no issue. But mouse & keyboard don't work, at all. I was wondering if it's one of/many things. 1) Razer Blackwidow v3 + modern (not sure on make) …

Re: Graphics cards with P2B-F

Posted on 2021-09-29, 19:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, funny you mention the GF4 cards. A ti4200 (4x) I believe was on evilbay, but I wasn't sure if it would work (voltages) with the P2B-F board. Slightly more confusing as they did an 8x AGP version of that same card as well.

Graphics cards with P2B-F

Posted on 2021-09-29, 17:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

hi folks, I'm looking out there for a *reasonably priced early DVI card that'll work with this board, around 2002 or so. I know the board manual says it only supports up to AGP 2x, but would 4x be a problem with the board? I'm trying to run two systems through (modern and retro) pc through a KVM …

Re: Hard Drive Sizes/Partitions

Posted on 2021-07-30, 16:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Issue over - this bit anyway. Simple fix, it was the connector slightly out - and only slightly not enough to make it display correctly.

Re: Hard Drive Sizes/Partitions

Posted on 2021-07-30, 16:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got sent a promise PCI card in the post from a guy I bought a previous motherboard for free, it boots ok, but ive even tried a 2GB SD card in an adapter, and it says the partition is 31 MB. I don't really know what's going on. Which Promise PCI card ? Which BIOS version on the Promise PCI ? Which …

Re: Hard Drive Sizes/Partitions

Posted on 2021-07-30, 15:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I got sent a promise PCI card in the post from a guy I bought a previous motherboard for free, it boots ok, but ive even tried a 2GB SD card in an adapter, and it says the partition is 31 MB. I don't really know what's going on.

Re: Hard Drive Sizes/Partitions

Posted on 2021-07-29, 23:08

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I might try a SIL3114 and try my luck. I'll see if I can get a SATA/IDE converter (as drive is IDE) and see what happens. Luckily as I work in a university, I can borrow (technically steal) any number of SATA drives I want.

Re: Hard Drive Sizes/Partitions

Posted on 2021-07-29, 20:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Regarding option D and controller cards. Just sifting through ebay, plenty of ISA 8bit ones, and PCI-E....but PCI ones, getting lost in the searches.

Re: Hard Drive Sizes/Partitions

Posted on 2021-07-29, 19:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Even the latest P3B-F BIOS does not support LBA48 , which is required for drives > 127GB to work . AFAIK, that limitation must be overcome either by a) using something like a recent version of XTIDE b) patching LBA-48 support into the existing BIOS (non trivial) c) Using a drive overlay program …

Re: Hard Drive Sizes/Partitions

Posted on 2021-07-29, 18:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've flashed the bios to latest beta (october 2001) and still the same. Run Run Super Fdisk on it, and got this.... Is it a case of redoing the MBR, and trying to get a 128gb partition (which is what i'm after). Even the latest P3B-F BIOS does not support LBA48 , which is required for drives > …

Re: Hard Drive Sizes/Partitions

Posted on 2021-07-29, 18:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've flashed the bios to latest beta (october 2001) and still the same. Run Run Super Fdisk on it, and got this.... Is it a case of redoing the MBR, and trying to get a 128gb partition (which is what i'm after).

Hard Drive Sizes/Partitions

Posted on 2021-07-28, 22:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

hi again... Everything's been working fine on my PII system now, after the CF/IDE card disaster I had. New issue. On the ASUS P3B-F I have, I managed to pick up a 160gb IDE drive brand new and sealed. I know the limit in Win98SE is 120gb, so i'd be expecting to make a partition of that size and …

Re: CF To IDE (and SD Card) not working

Posted on 2021-07-20, 14:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have you got any photos of your setup.way of doing it? and any links to item on ebay that would be suitable for these flat board types?

Re: CF To IDE (and SD Card) not working

Posted on 2021-07-20, 08:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's the CF-IDE adapter. I tried my SD card -> IDE and it picked it up first time. Only issue i've got with it, it's just a loose board, and where do people mount these in their system? Got nowhere to do so, and it's hanging loose - I don't want it to short. Any ideas?

Re: CF To IDE (and SD Card) not working

Posted on 2021-07-19, 21:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does your BIOS have an auto detect IDE drive feature? Also, silly as it may sound, are you positive about the card' s orientation? My CF-IDE adapter expects it with the branded side up, but my USB reader expects it the other way around, and none of them has any indication of this nor any notch that …

Re: CF To IDE (and SD Card) not working

Posted on 2021-07-19, 21:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hmmm, maybe not. CF lights up when system is turned on, but then I get nothing. All I get is in the photo. Is something there when I choose manual select for IDE in the bios, but all the settings - setting PIO to 1, ultra DMA on/off does nothing.

Re: CF To IDE (and SD Card) not working

Posted on 2021-07-19, 19:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've got some happy news! Installed the P3B-F, and straight away with the CD attached, it recognised and went past post. Haven't tested the hard drive yet, but it's a positive step forwards, just need another 40pin IDE cable, and done! Think it shows as well the other motherboard is/was acting a bit …

Re: CF To IDE (and SD Card) not working

Posted on 2021-07-15, 20:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've bought the P3B-F, i'll post the results here if I get any better luck, will be a few days.

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