Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2014-05-01, 13:26
$20 shipped. DFi K6BV3+/66 http://www.ebay.com/itm/321394137232 Another Super 7 board!
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2014-04-30, 14:05
borgie83 wrote: I second that! I've looked for the creative one everywhere but the only ones I can find are the after market simmconn ones. +1 Where did you find that? I've been searching for a few years now!
Re: VOGONS Benchmark archive?
Posted on 2014-04-29, 18:45
Nice work!
Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!
Posted on 2014-04-28, 23:33
I did confirm the second board is also at BIOS Rev. 0305 (from 1995). I think I'm all set though - someone has graciously offered to burn me two of these DIP-28 chips with the latest BIOS for these boards. I'll let everyone know how it pans out. I also picked up a Write-Back version of the Intel DX4 …
Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!
Posted on 2014-04-28, 18:41
I have got a STG G540 programmer, what exactly you want to burn, Artex ? Hey Bristlehog - It sounds like I need to purchase a M27C512 EPROM Chip and have it programmed with the latest BIOS for my Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 Rev. 2.1 board. I believe it's the 0402 bios. You should do the 0402.001 BIOS, …
Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!
Posted on 2014-04-28, 18:30
bristlehog wrote: I have got a STG G540 programmer, what exactly you want to burn, Artex? Hey Bristlehog - It sounds like I need to purchase a M27C512 EPROM Chip and have it programmed with the latest BIOS for my Asus VL/I-486SV2GX4 Rev. 2.1 board. I believe it's the 0402 bios.
Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!
Posted on 2014-04-28, 14:52
vetz wrote: The burners are not very cheap, so getting someone to help you out for the price of a beer or two and you paying shipping might be good idea 😀 I'm a big fan of this idea. Any fellow Vogoneers out there willing to help a brother out? 😀
Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!
Posted on 2014-04-28, 14:29
(I had a very good member here help me out to burn it) I had no idea that physically programming these chips was the only way to do this back in the day. So people basically had to buy these chip programmers themselves if they wanted an updated BIOS that supported the latest processors, etc? Would …
Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!
Posted on 2014-04-28, 00:04
Argh - the plot thickens... Interesting!! I appreciate the info. I guess I've been spoiled doing all these BIOS flashes over the years. 😜
Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!
Posted on 2014-04-27, 23:55
Why can't it be flashed?? BIOS file : SV2G0401.AWD BIOS Ver. : 0401 (#401A0-0401) Related Mainboard : VL/I-486SV2G(X4) Rev. 2.0 or above Related Chipset : SiS 85C471 chipset Description : 1. To support the following CPUs : a.) AMD 486DX4 (SV8B) : with green & L1 cache write-back. b.) Intel 486DX4 (& …
Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!
Posted on 2014-04-27, 23:20
Your VLB system is too slow. Write back seems to be disabled too. How does that quote go... "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." This board's seller said he included an AMD DX4-100.. but that appears to NOT be the case here. I should've checked right away but I assumed all was …
Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!
Posted on 2014-04-27, 18:26
Spent some time this morning benchmarking these two builds. It's definitely easier working with the MB-8433UUD system - argh. The second system (VLB-based) will not properly recognize any of the hard drives I've thrown at it. I ended up having some success using the CF->IDE adapter with a 4GB CF …
Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!
Posted on 2014-04-27, 14:53
Was wondering about that as well. I grabbed the latest version and will be spending some time on the two systems today. I'll upload a more complete set of benchmark results using the updated version of SpeedSys and of course Phil's excellent home-brew benchmarking suite.
Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!
Posted on 2014-04-27, 14:25
PCXdump is probably the best one. But it is not as easy as making Screenshots in windows. About SpeedSys screenshots: When images contain large areas of a single color, they are best converted to GIF or PNG, instead of JPeg. Looks better and is smaller still. Awesome! I'll try out that utility and …
Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!
Posted on 2014-04-27, 01:48
Are there any DOS utilities to grab screenshots by chance?
Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!
Posted on 2014-04-27, 00:53
Yep - will upload the results tomorrow for you.
Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!
Posted on 2014-04-26, 23:05
Here are the results from my 2nd build: AMD Am486 DX4-100 (A80486DX4-100SV88) ASUS VL/I-486SV2GX4 Rev. 2.0 STB Lightspeed ET4000/W32P VLB (2MB) 16MB RAM (FPM) 256KB L2 Cache 540MB IDE Hard Drive on VLB Promise IDE Controller http://img845.imageshack.us/img845/4433/y838.jpg http://img836.imageshack. …
Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!
Posted on 2014-04-26, 19:35
False alarm (thank God!!) One of the memory SIMMS was a little loose so I had to re-seat it. Here are the results of SpeedSys.. BIOSTAR MB-8433UUD-A AMD AM5x86-P75 / AMD X-5-133ADZ 32MB EDO RAM 256KB L2 Cache STB S3 Trio64V+ (2MB) 4GB CF Card (CF->IDE Adapter) http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/9449 …
Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!
Posted on 2014-04-26, 18:18
Well...not a good start today. Can't get video on the MB-8433UUD. Tried several processors, memory, etc. 🙁
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2014-04-26, 02:42
Don't you just love when that happens? Scored these beauties today the same way. One of them was boxed! 3 x Turtle Beach Montereys! http://www.ebay.com/itm/301164045884
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