Re: Issues with CF Card IDE solution for Socket 3 machine

Posted on 2022-06-03, 01:01

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Have you tried it with another CF card? I think the velocity should be like a wide pipe that holds a lot of water, but if you pour a little water, there should be no problems... Did you also test with a HD? Every CF card I've tried on this machine has this issue (now that I think about it). 10GB …

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Re: Issues with CF Card IDE solution for Socket 3 machine

Posted on 2022-06-03, 00:39

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devius wrote on 2022-06-02, 20:52: Is it using DMA for data transfers? That usually causes all sorts of problems from my experience. My bios doesn't have any setting for DMA. The only setting I think might be causing this is the PIO mode, but I have not found conclusive evidence of it yet.

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Re: Issues with CF Card IDE solution for Socket 3 machine

Posted on 2022-06-03, 00:30

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For SD to ide, there is software that must be used. Also, 32gb is a lot for a 386, are you using any disk overlay? I have a hunch, maybe there is a buffer that is overflowing when copying large files The problem is on my AMD 586. I was just saying my 386's XTIDE works perfectly with the same sd …

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Issues with CF Card IDE solution for Socket 3 machine

Posted on 2022-06-02, 20:21

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I have a late socket 3 machine with an AMD 133 chip in it. It's a really nice industrial (point of sale) machine that has everything but sound integrated. I have a Startech IDE/CF card adapter installed and no other IDE devices connected. It works really well except for when it doesn't. Card is …

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Re: Advice on motherboard recap

Posted on 2022-06-01, 04:15

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I don't know how you plan to desolder the caps, but I would not do it without a desolder iron: https://www.amazon.com/YIHUA-Electric-Desoldering-Charging-Through-Hole/dp/B094ZCRXMN/ref=sr_1_8?crid=3BB6W3OGNJE1Z&keywords=desolder+iron&qid=1654056841&sprefix=desolder+iron%2Caps%2C90&sr=8-8 That one is …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-05-20, 02:52

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I finally finished fixing a 386 33 DX I picked up over a year ago. Nice ! That is a tall tower :) Good to see you using a UPS ! Most Cyberpower are good as are most APC, they are a bit expensive but they are generally built well and can save a much more valuable piece of hardware ! I'm a much …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-05-20, 02:11

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I finally finished fixing a 386 33 DX I picked up over a year ago. It needed an RTC replacement (finally used the glitchwrks thing, but I prefer just modding the dead RTC chips) and a new tantalum capacitor right next to it. I also snagged a XT-IDE card that made getting my 32gb CF card up and …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2022-05-17, 12:49

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Salient wrote on 2022-05-14, 18:49: My computing area in 1994. I managed to identify quite some stuff. 😀 You look exactly like my college roommate from 1996. I would have been really envious of that tower back then, I was still rocking a DX4 100 VLB.

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2022-05-09, 21:14

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My ever evolving space for my PC projects. The Dell CRT is connected to a 4 port KVM, so I have 4 computers connected... the CFD case just below the monitor is a killer AMD 133 (586) industrial machine and there's an awesome 386 33Mhz DX in the cabinet along with a Shuttle XPC Athlon 64. The 4th …

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Re: [Help]An acceptable Windows XP Gaming System

Posted on 2022-05-03, 13:20

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tl;dr - XP gaming covers a very big span of games with greatly different requirements. To cover everything, get a later core 2 duo or early i5/i7 PC. If budget is a concern, then a pre-built core i3 540 or 3240 with a GT 650ti or radepm 7770 should cover your needs nicely. If you want to be a bit …

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Re: [Help]An acceptable Windows XP Gaming System

Posted on 2022-05-02, 13:34

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This rarely gets mentioned so I figure I'll say it here... the Nforce platform is amazing for XP era machines. Nvidia used unified drivers for everything on the board and they still host the drivers on their site. Getting one of these systems up and running is literally one install and has fantastic …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-04-30, 20:13

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Retro activitiy of the day: I had smoke coming out of an old hard drive.. Nice. I had smoke coming out of the Turbo switch this morning. I misaligned the pins (really easy to do) and nearly started a fire. Good news is that only the button mechanism is fried so a quick trip to ebay found nearly …

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Re: Booting from a 32GB CF Card

Posted on 2022-04-29, 18:29

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formatting with /s just copies the system files over after the format is done. you might be thinking of fdisk /mbr, but that just rewrites the MBR. I've noticed that hdd/partition info which dos sees can be different due to already existing partition info and mainboard autodetection, which often …

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Re: Booting from a 32GB CF Card

Posted on 2022-04-29, 18:12

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weedeewee wrote on 2022-04-29, 18:07: I'd try this... Clear the first Megabyte of the CF card on another computer using HxD or dd (linux) and then use the card on your Biostar board for setup, partitioning & dos install. Will do, this is what I suspected, but I also read that formatting with /s …

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Re: Is Pentium 1 too fast for early 90s DOS games?

Posted on 2022-04-29, 17:52

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I've actually not used SetMul yet... I have an original K6 200 that I was planning to mess with over the weekend, so perfect timing to try this all out. Unfortunately, adjusting the CPU multiplier with SetMul won't work with non-K6plus CPUs. :( At least that utility has some additional slowdown …

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Booting from a 32GB CF Card

Posted on 2022-04-29, 17:42

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I'm trying to boot from a 32gb CF card in DOS, but the machine always crashes after the system status table thing on boot. Some details... - Motherboard is a Biostar Socket 3, DX4 100 build- jumpers are all correct. This is my exact same board: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=37527 - …

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Re: Is Pentium 1 too fast for early 90s DOS games?

Posted on 2022-04-29, 13:46

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Seems that you didn't read my post which mentions some information about using the Turbo button on Socket 7 motherboards. :| Still, I'm currently using a K6-2+ CPU for flexiblity reasons as it allowed me to switch the CPU multiplier on the fly. Sorry, you are correct, I glossed over that somehow. …

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Re: Is Pentium 1 too fast for early 90s DOS games?

Posted on 2022-04-28, 16:58

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I was never satisfied with a Pentium for DOS era titles with the exception of later software rendered 3D titles. Old games (< 1991) were often too wonky feeling, something that bios tweaks and tools like Moslo never fully resolved for me. I brute forced the situation by configuring a 386 33DX, 486 …

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Re: 468 PCI/ISA motherboard vs Floppy drive

Posted on 2022-04-27, 13:03

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Seems like you've done everything right. If you can flash the bios (and can find the correct one), I would definitely give that a try. I assume you would be getting a CRC error at boot if the current bios is corrupted, so it's in the realm of possibility that the wrong bios was previously flashed.

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Re: 468 PCI/ISA motherboard vs Floppy drive

Posted on 2022-04-25, 13:04

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I've never experienced this issue on any of my boards that lack an HDD/FDD controller, but I only have multi I/o cards. It seems the only thing left to do is try and find out what the jumper settings do... seems like it might be an IRQ conflict or some weird incompatibility. Have you tested these …

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