Re: 193 copies of VGA card in Device Manager

Posted on 2024-12-28, 20:21

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by PlunderBunny

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Ah great, currently trying to flash the BIOS using the Gigabyte utility but it's stuck right away at "Blanking Flash Memory" :/ I did get copies of the BIOS and have them saved in a few locations, here's the GA586-AS 1.21 BIOS 586AS121.zip Fingers crossed that I didn't brick the damn thing in the …

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Re: 193 copies of VGA card in Device Manager

Posted on 2024-12-25, 15:33

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by PlunderBunny

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Try reinstalling 98 but this time run "setup /p i" this will disable ACPI without any changes to the BIOS or CMOS setup parameters Max, will that option also work to disable ACPI for the Windows 95 setup as well? I wanna install Windows 95 on a separate Compact Flash card as well. Can you save your …

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Re: 193 copies of VGA card in Device Manager

Posted on 2024-12-24, 19:07

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by PlunderBunny

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maxtherabbit wrote on 2024-12-24, 18:20: Try reinstalling 98 but this time run "setup /p i" this will disable ACPI without any changes to the BIOS or CMOS setup parameters I'll give that a shot when I've got the time to reinstall Windows 98 again, thank you!

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Re: 193 copies of VGA card in Device Manager

Posted on 2024-12-24, 18:18

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by PlunderBunny

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Thats just IRQ assignments. P&P is about much more resource allocation stuff. That manual page is weird. PCI IRQs are Level triggered, Edge would break functionality ? :o What is the exact model of your mobo? have you upgraded to latest bios? I thought IRQ assignments were part of P&P, on top of …

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Re: 193 copies of VGA card in Device Manager

Posted on 2024-12-23, 20:35

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by PlunderBunny

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Alright, I'm trying to mess with... What I think are all of the BIOS Plug & Play settings, as far as I can tell. However, I haven't had any luck with it, I'm hoping someone can help me look at this and figure out how it actually even WORKS, because the BIOS settings and documentation feel needlessly …

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Re: 193 copies of VGA card in Device Manager

Posted on 2024-12-23, 16:04

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by PlunderBunny

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Plug&Play issues sounds plausible to me, especially because I tried installing Windows 95 on another CompactFlash card and got the EXACT same issue, 193 copies of the graphics card, lol... So it's not a Windows 98 thing, at least. So alright, I can fiddle with the ACPI/Plug&Play stuff in the BIOS, …

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Re: 193 copies of VGA card in Device Manager

Posted on 2024-12-22, 23:32

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by PlunderBunny

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So it gets weirder, I reinstalled Windows from an image from a different source, same thing happened, 193 devices in the manager. BUT! This time, the first device is shown as working properly, then the rest are shown with exclamation marks, except for a bizarre pattern... After the hundredth device, …

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Re: 193 copies of VGA card in Device Manager

Posted on 2024-12-22, 17:08

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by PlunderBunny

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Unfortunately I don't have any other graphics cards I could test, no. Makes you wonder WTF happened here. Pentium PCI motherboard so that eliminates IDE pin 28 CompactFlash BALE/CABLE SELECT glitches. Very curious what you mean about these IDE compactFlash BALE/CABLE SELECT glitches... What are …

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Re: 193 copies of VGA card in Device Manager

Posted on 2024-12-22, 16:49

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by PlunderBunny

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Uh-oh... 20241222_114630.jpg Like I was worrying, Windows sees about 200 new graphics cards when I reboot after removing them all. -_- Still holding out hope someone will have a suggestion for a more permanent solution... Or at the very least maybe some kind of explanation as to why this would …

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Re: 193 copies of VGA card in Device Manager

Posted on 2024-12-22, 16:19

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by PlunderBunny

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Right? Never seen anything quite like this, lol.. Well, I don't really wanna muck around with figuring out how to do it in the registry (and probably screw it up and wreck something), so I'm just gonna remove them all from the device manager. One... At... A... Time xD I guess it's time to watch one …

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Re: 193 copies of VGA card in Device Manager

Posted on 2024-12-21, 17:18

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by PlunderBunny

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Hahaha yup, fresh install on a freshly formatted CF card... Well, technically speaking it's the SECOND install, but only because the first did the EXACT SAME THING. So something weird must be happening with my setup, I guess?

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193 copies of VGA card in Device Manager

Posted on 2024-12-21, 11:54

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by PlunderBunny

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Yeah, so here's a fun one, it's basically what it says on the tin. Just did an installation of Windows 98 SE on my new CF card on my Pentium PC, and... There are 193 copies of my S3 Trio VGA card in the Device Manager. 20241221_052920.jpg Video... Seems to be working fine? I mean I have an image …

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Re: SoftMPU project needs your help! (game & sound card testing)

Posted on 2024-12-21, 09:15

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by PlunderBunny

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Princess Maker 1 (Japanese) and Princess Maker 2 are now liberated from fixed IRQ=9 . I found where the IRQ number is inputted as constant 9 (it was just 9, not 2 or 9) and modified hex from corresponding executables. For Princess Maker 1 (Japanese) it is AUTOEXEC.EXE and for Princess Maker 2 it is …

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Re: Socket 5 CPU Upgrade Help

Posted on 2024-11-23, 10:26

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by PlunderBunny

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A P233MMX draws 6A, whereas the fastest So5 CPU (100MHz) only draws 3A. That's asking for trouble with the regulator unless it's very over-specced for its original purpose (and well-cooled too). It wouldn't actually be too difficult to replace the CPU voltage regulator with one specced to handle …

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Re: Socket 5 CPU Upgrade Help

Posted on 2024-11-23, 10:22

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by PlunderBunny

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I was curious what the undocumented jumper config - JP6 1-2, JP7 2-3 would do, but you already got the desired result. I was sorta wondering the same thing, but I've been too much of a coward to try it out... I wouldn't imagine a manufacturer would make an undocumented but easily configurable …

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Re: Socket 5 CPU Upgrade Help

Posted on 2024-11-22, 11:03

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by PlunderBunny

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After doing a surely beautiful and professional soldering job on the BF0 pin on the rear of the socket, the processor is now running at 133MHz! Or, well, 132MHz to be perfectly accurate, but what's a million cycles or so between friends? xD Thank you again everyone for all the help!

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Re: Socket 5 CPU Upgrade Help

Posted on 2024-11-20, 15:50

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by PlunderBunny

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Oh god right, good point, dunno what I was thinking considering that this is on the CPU, 🤣... great, I'll try pulling the BF0 pin on the socket low and see if that works, thank you again! 😁

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Re: Socket 5 CPU Upgrade Help

Posted on 2024-11-20, 15:04

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by PlunderBunny

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...also, going by the above linked resource , if I'm reading everything correctly the BF0 pin for P54C CPUs would be the Y33 pin, I think? Could anyone who knows what they're doing better than I do confirm that for me before I start trying to solder things? 😆

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Re: Socket 5 CPU Upgrade Help

Posted on 2024-11-20, 14:52

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by PlunderBunny

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Yep. Locked multipliers internal to the CPU were a later thing; these CPUs need to be told how to behave. Ah, okay, so I wasn't just making that up my thought process was just too modern, alright then! It's pretty simple really: socket 5 CPUs get their multiplier information from the BF0 pin. If …

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Re: Socket 5 CPU Upgrade Help

Posted on 2024-11-20, 13:20

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by PlunderBunny

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Thanks so much! Just tried it and the system booted just fine with this CPU, no magic smoke, but as expected it only has the CPU running at 100MHz. My prior understanding was that the clock multiplier was something internal to the CPU, not something set on the motherboard, so this makes sense... if …

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