Re: Chaintech ES-675M bios flash, how to know correct board revision?

Posted on 2024-01-26, 03:58

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by william9

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Thanks, I read your reply late, but I just went and flashed with bios filename "ES675M-9.bin", can't remember what download it was but at least at one point I also thought it might be D revision because of the text printed. All went fine and seems like everything is working, just tested with Ubuntu, …

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Chaintech ES-675M bios flash, how to know correct board revision?

Posted on 2024-01-25, 12:28

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by william9

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I have Chaintech ES-675M motherboard, I did minor upgrade from Celeron 2GHz to 2.2GHz and while the board boots it doesn't seem to recognize the new CPU properly as it claims that it is Pentium 4 2.2GHz without any cache. I found bios downloads but they mention couple revisions and I don't know what …

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Re: Aureal Vortex 8820B2 died?

Posted on 2023-09-10, 10:52

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by william9

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Yeah, I guest it would be better to inspect properly and only then try to fix clear faults. I do have magnifying glass somewhere and even USB microscope, but I just felt that I'll blast it with some heat and if it doesn't fix then I can't fix it. Interestingly after reboot the 1GB ram which my test …

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Re: Aureal Vortex 8820B2 died?

Posted on 2023-09-10, 09:15

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by william9

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Update to this: the problem was / is the soldering connections to the Vortex chip. I blasted the chip pins with some hot air, first at 100c for some time, then I set the temp to 150c and continued to heat for a while and finally I set the temp to 210c. As far as I know, solder from this era should …

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Re: Aureal Vortex 8820B2 died?

Posted on 2023-09-03, 17:41

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by william9

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Measured power caps marked in the picture and all of them have either 3.3v or 5v. Ferrite beads are apparently also OK.

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Re: Aureal Vortex 8820B2 died?

Posted on 2023-09-03, 15:49

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by william9

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Well yeah, New Hardware wizard doesn't appear etc. :) I cleaned PCI connector when I first used this card and it looks OK. I powered on the machine and just measure some capacitors with multimeter since they were relatively easy / safe to measure, voltages I found were 6v, 5v, 1.38v and one cap was …

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Re: Aureal Vortex 8820B2 died?

Posted on 2023-09-03, 13:49

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by william9

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It has been a while since I tried this card but today before I assembled the test system I looked the card and probably pressed some chips etc. but currently Asus A7V133-c agrees to boot with this card installed. However even though it now has booted into Windows 98 several times it did crash once …

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Aureal Vortex 8820B2 died?

Posted on 2023-09-03, 11:07

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by william9

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When I first received this card it would cause Windows 98 to hang during driver installation. After couple more attempts and after finally switching it to another machine it got worse. It was detected couple boots in that another machine but no sound (machine has Ubuntu). During another boot attempt …

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Re: Riva TNT2 M64 AGP, is the compatibility this bad?

Posted on 2023-08-06, 07:44

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by william9

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Yes, I forgot to mention but Windows 98 is the OS. I downloaded older drivers from Phils Computer Lab site and indeed the D3D version of UT worked normally, interestingly OpenGL mode was now extremely slow slideshow, unplayable.

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Riva TNT2 M64 AGP, is the compatibility this bad?

Posted on 2023-08-05, 09:09

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by william9

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So I have two identical Riva TNT2 M64 16MB AGP cards and both of them have the same issues. With Asus A7V133-C the 3D functionality is very bad, nothing I tested works properly, Quake 2 & 3, Unreal Tournament (using D3D) and 3D Mark 2001. Graphics glitches everywhere, this what Quake 3 looked: …

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Re: ForteMedia FM801 FM0801-A1 soundcard problems, faulty card?

Posted on 2023-08-01, 18:26

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by william9

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There is something wrong with the card, today I found another one of these and there are no issues with it using driver I downloaded from Vogons. With the problematic card using the same driver everything shows up correctly in Device Manager but there simply is no sound, I have tried other drivers …

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ForteMedia FM801 FM0801-A1 soundcard problems, faulty card?

Posted on 2023-07-30, 16:20

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by william9

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Got this card and now trying to test whether or not it is working. Apparently Power Color branded (sticker on the back). Tried it in Windows 98 + Asus A7v133-c combination, installed drivers but in device manage FM801 PCI audio appears twice and one of them has exclamation mark. No sound from …

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Re: ATI Rage Fury Pro AGP glitches in DxDiag and Quake 2, Dawning Demo works fine

Posted on 2023-07-28, 18:37

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by william9

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Unreal Tournament worked fine with the driver which caused problems in dxdiag, quake 2 and quake 3 which I now also tested. I tried older driver which I download from some random driver site, setup filename was A239902. This driver fixed issues with Quake 2 but with Quake 3 there was still some …

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ATI Rage Fury Pro AGP glitches in DxDiag and Quake 2, Dawning Demo works fine

Posted on 2023-07-28, 15:43

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by william9

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So I have two ATI Rage Fury Pro AGP graphics cards and both have same issues, ATI's own Dawning Demo works fine but while Quake 2 runs it has graphics artifacts. DxDiag is also having some problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqPw4PKOC4U Motherboard is ASUS A7V133-C which does have VIA chipset, …

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Re: Solved: Old JVC hard drive from T1200XE, can't boot after reformatting it

Posted on 2023-04-02, 15:56

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by william9

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Well, this is solved and I guess I learned something. Asus A7V133-C and that noname Pentium MMX 166 laptop (normally running Win 98) were too new to correctly use this drive, but Compaq LTe 5100 had no problems formatting this correctly and booting from it.

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Re: Old JVC hard drive from T1200XE, can't boot after reformatting it

Posted on 2023-03-30, 17:40

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by william9

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Yeah, it probably would be thr best to have other hardware from similar era as well... I googled that apparently Toshiba T2000 has this same drive (JD-E2850P) as option and technical data was listed on its manual:

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Re: Old JVC hard drive from T1200XE, can't boot after reformatting it

Posted on 2023-03-30, 14:18

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by william9

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Yes files have been gone long ago. I have tried formatting with Microsoft's fdisk, FreeDos fdisk and Ubuntu's Gparted. Just moments ago I executed dd to write zeros to the drive, apparently it completed without issues, I then created FAT partitions using Gparted, after this I haven't tried instaling …

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Re: Old JVC hard drive from T1200XE, can't boot after reformatting it

Posted on 2023-03-30, 04:49

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by william9

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I installed Dos 5.0 with that laptop also so unfortunately that Trend ChipAwayVirus can't be the problem. Partition was made active. Both the Asus A7V133-C and that laptop autodetect the drive with same CHS values, 42MB, Cylinders 791, Heads 3 and Sectors 35. I'll try IDEDIAG later to see what it …

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Solved: Old JVC hard drive from T1200XE, can't boot after reformatting it

Posted on 2023-03-29, 19:51

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by william9

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I have broken Toshiba T1200XE laptop, recently I removed hard drive from it and to my surprise discovered that it has regular IDE connector. I hooked it to my test motherboard (Asus A7V133-C) via adapter and surprisingly drive seemed to work, I was able to boot from it to DOS and browse files. There …

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