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Re: Quad boot... is possible?

Posted on 2023-11-20, 17:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's probably possible, below is from my PIII using Boot-US as you have found. I like it because it allows me to hide the partitions from the other operating systems. It can be an difficult to get working however, with a lot of testing what OS will overwrite the mbr or fail to boot properly. NT4 was …

Re: Win98SE becomes unresponsive for a while when deleting files/folders

Posted on 2023-10-14, 18:06

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Did you install IE6? I've been making sure to stay a IE5.5 on my 98SE installs to avoid the slow deletion issue.

Re: Getting Maxtor SATA 150 PCI card working in NT 4 setup

Posted on 2023-08-21, 15:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had NT4 install issues with a highpoint 1640 sata1 controller. Freedos, 98SE and 2000 were fine. NT4 setup insisted it wasn't detected on my PR440FX. I used a 1520 which is almost the same controller chip on my P3 build which was fine with NT4. Eventually i was able to install NT by setting MPS in …

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

Posted on 2023-07-20, 20:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Needless to say, I'm interested. What tools did you use to unpack, repack and modify the bios? I ws thinking about it just today! :) The iflash utility for the intel bios has a user data flash area option that contains the logo image. There is a tool and instructions for creating the file to flash …

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

Posted on 2023-07-20, 18:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Playing with the logo data area on my PR440FX! Also found FreeDOS can't get EMS working on this or my P3 dual board due to so much rom address space being used, nvidia geforce 3 and quadro4 seem to be the main culprits.

Re: Intel PR440FX - more issues

Posted on 2023-07-04, 21:47

in Milliways

in Milliways

Are you using an adapter to connect to the Plextor 40x? Btw, we have the same driver :) I should buy one. No, the drive has a 68 pin connector. I only found out after I purchased a scsi cable with just two connectors that IBM had the built in terminator/jumper removed compared to the real PX-40TSi. …

Re: Intel PR440FX - more issues

Posted on 2023-07-04, 21:19

in Milliways

in Milliways

I now have a 40x IBM branded scsi Plextor drive, so I was able to boot from a Windows 2000 CD and install to the CF card . The CD drive is plugged into the onboard 7880. I already installed NT4 from my DOS 6.22 install by copying the files over with Windows 98 that was already working. Installing …

Re: Intel PR440FX - more issues

Posted on 2023-06-30, 21:15

in Milliways

in Milliways

I've been reading a lot of pr440fx posts on this old newsgroup archive https://groups.google.com/g/intel.motherboards.pentium_pro "USB will work with W2K on the PR440FX motherboard *only* if you set the PCI IRQ mapping to "ISA Legacy IRQ". However, this disables the APIC interrupt scheme, and forces …

Re: Intel PR440FX - issues installing an OS

Posted on 2023-06-29, 21:32

in Milliways

in Milliways

Is it just motherboard, CPU, RAM, floppy drive, CD drive and disk drive? What GPU are you using, any other audio cards etc?

Re: Intel PR440FX - issues installing an OS

Posted on 2023-06-29, 19:06

in Milliways

in Milliways

I don't have any suggestions, yet! However I was testing a pr440fx this week with Windows 98SE. I may be able to see how I get on with NT4/2000 over the weekend. I did see a few issues that can affect the board. I know some early bios revisions do not properly support dual CPUs with a later stepping …

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

Posted on 2023-06-24, 20:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Some testing of the Pentium Pros and motherboard today. Noticed a bent pin on one of the chips while having a final close inspection. It doesn't seem to be quite touching the one next to it and I daren't try and move it, it's bound to break if I do. The bent leg is bios chip select, as I can boot I …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-23, 19:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wow, what are you doing for CPU cooling? Will it fit many ATX cases? Currently it has two passive heatsinks, but I'm going to try and add some low noise 60mm fans (the fan headers are only rated at 80mA). I finished a passive dual P3 recently, but the heatsinks on those are double slot height and …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-22, 18:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally gave in and got a Pentium Pro board bundle from ebay. It was quite expensive, although import, tax and shipping from US to UK didn't help! It's the PR440FX, the cost was not too bad considering the pricing of the same parts in the UK. Got the motherboard, 2 x 200MHz 512k CPUs, 4 x 256MB EDO …

Re: IBM LTO-3 Ultrium tape drive - setup help

Posted on 2023-06-18, 20:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bottom side. https://youtu.be/RhvvbpD2Akc Here it shows 2 yellow leds, but when it fails mounting it usually just goes back to green. It all sounds ok, does it eventually give up and eject the tape? I'm guessing it can't read the start of the tape so halts with an error. LTO cleaning tapes aren't …

Re: IBM LTO-3 Ultrium tape drive - setup help

Posted on 2023-06-18, 17:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I tested the unit and reports "Mount tape" ABORTED (EC 6 error code) Trying to Mount Tape it goes back and forth seeking but eventually fails. I'll try a cleaning tape (no idea how) or open and go with IPA and cotton bud? As the tape is loading/unloading and trying to seek this is a good sign, it …

Re: IBM LTO-3 Ultrium tape drive - setup help

Posted on 2023-06-18, 17:21

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Error 6 is an unknown error when loading the tape. Sometimes it can be caused by dirt and a cleaning tape/new tape can fix it. Other times it is a physical fault with the loading operation. When you put the tape in the drive is it pulled in and then loaded? You should hear it pulling the pin out of …

Re: IBM LTO-3 Ultrium tape drive - setup help

Posted on 2023-06-18, 16:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The IBM drivers will usually have an option to install the drivers in non-exclusive mode, in the default exclusive mode only one program will be able to access the drive. You may have to reboot after using tape tools before Uranium can access it. The tape may need to be formatted before tape tools …

Re: Windows NT 4.0 setup on X58

Posted on 2023-06-08, 16:57

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I've not tried NT on anything modern other than VMs (before recent CPUs became a problem). Stop 7b will be missing/broken storage controller drivers, have you tried the UniATA driver as an additional driver instead of the SP4 ATAPI one? I found it ok, but I'm only using it on a PIII which I felt …

Re: Windows NT 4.0 setup on X58

Posted on 2023-06-06, 14:30

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

You could just try with 480MB NTFS as that should cover most things. The bootloader and OS files have to remain within the C/H/S limit until patched, otherwise NT will be unable to access the Windows files required to boot.

Re: Windows NT 4.0 setup on X58

Posted on 2023-06-06, 13:27

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

What C/H/S values does the SSD report? On my CF card installs the drive reports only 16 cylinders. This means the c/h/s limit for the CF card is 504MB (16/1024/63). I create a partition at the beginning of the drive of 480MB and install to that. Once patched with SP6 and the XP ntldr/ntdetect.com I …

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