Re: Looking for EISA configuration utility for this EXP4409 motherboard (and any documentation too)

Posted on 2021-03-12, 17:39

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by NJRoadfan

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When the machine POSTs, what is the AMI BIOS string shown on the bottom left corner of the screen during memory test? This will ID the company that made the board. You may want to try the generic Micro Computer Systems configuration tool (CF.EXE) as well. Looks like it may be a DataExpert board: …

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Re: Looking for EISA configuration utility for this EXP4409 motherboard (and any documentation too)

Posted on 2021-03-09, 15:24

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by NJRoadfan

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That board uses the HiNT Caeser Mini-EISA chipset. The implementation is limited and incomplete with regards to bus mastering. You should be able to find the configuration tools and config files here: http://66.113.161.23/~mR_Slug/EISA/ This should work with the AMI ECU to detect the board: http:// …

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Re: 11th hour refuses to run on ET4000AX?

Posted on 2021-02-10, 02:59

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Getting The 7th Guest/11th Hour working on real hardware was a giant pain back in the day. I recall a friend with a ET4000 having similar problems.

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Re: PS/2 Vs. USB for Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2020-12-29, 02:07

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by NJRoadfan

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You want PS/2 for Windows 98SE. Its USB stack is horrible and if something driver-wise breaks.... well you don't have any input devices in Windows. Windows 2000 and later fixed all that, it handles legacy-free setups much better so you at least have a working keyboard and mouse at boot-up (you don't …

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Re: PC100 M747 - The bane of my existence

Posted on 2020-11-30, 18:04

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by NJRoadfan

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I would like to know if PCChips/Hsing is the manufacturer of modern Crapple boards... Nope..... PC Chips eventually got absorbed into ECS Elitegroup... whose boards landed up in the same segments as PC Chips in the modern era. These boards were a pain when I was a tech back in the day. They almost …

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Re: Windows 9x Parallel Port Compact Flash Reader Now (Mostly) Working in MS DOS 6.22

Posted on 2020-11-12, 20:43

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by NJRoadfan

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Which Shuttle chipset is in use on this thing? I know the EPST (parallel to SCSI) has DOS drivers, don't know if the EPAT (parallel to IDE) had them.

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Re: LCD monitor VGA compatibility database

Posted on 2020-09-20, 03:18

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by NJRoadfan

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One of these days I have to subject the OSSC to this torture test. Using a CRT as the output device because enough monitors choke on these modes without an extra device in the chain!

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-09-13, 18:54

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by NJRoadfan

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The Datapath E1S is a proper 4:4:4 RGB capable frame grabber. You want to avoid chroma subsampling as much as you can in your processing chain as every conversion step will result in further degradation of color. You also have to deal with potential errors from color space conversions between RGB …

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Re: Modern graphics on a 486

Posted on 2020-09-13, 03:25

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by NJRoadfan

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Intel's own AN430HX works with everything. Any ATX board should work too in theory, because they support PCI 3.3v, unlike most AT boards. Its irreverent in this case. "3.3V" and "5V" PCI cards refers to SIGNALING voltage, not the actual power required to run the card. Signaling voltage is what the …

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Re: Volo's Gamepad to PS/2 Adapter. Device discussion (official thread)

Posted on 2020-06-27, 01:38

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by NJRoadfan

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The irony of this whole project is that the Multibay Docking Station for the Compaq LTE 5000 series has a fully functional DB-15 Joystick/MIDI port.

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Re: Windows 98SE PCI-E graphic card support

Posted on 2020-05-28, 15:51

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by NJRoadfan

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The Intel chipset "drivers" really are just INF files to make the device manager entries look pretty. Windows 98SE doesn't need them on modern hardware. Rloew's memory patch and AHCI/SATA drivers are a must though. G31 chipset USB should work as its UHCI/EHCI compatible. The big caveat is that you …

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Re: IRQ N/A?

Posted on 2020-05-26, 18:42

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by NJRoadfan

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All it means is that PCI device isn't assigned an IRQ. 1102/7002 is the onboard game port device on a SoundBlaster Audigy card. VIA 686 southbridge machines and some Creative PCI soundcards don't get along. Try pulling the card and seeing if the machine boots.

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Re: Difference between USB Legacy Support and Port 60/64 Emulation

Posted on 2020-05-26, 18:17

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by NJRoadfan

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Found a few Gigabyte boards with both options. The description in the manual is pretty vague. Both methods use SMM to provide the emulation. I'm guessing Port 60/64 provides more emulation for certain situations. Many of these motherboards still have at least one PS/2 port on them, so i8042 support …

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Re: Vintage Altec Lansing speakers

Posted on 2020-05-26, 16:05

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https://img.claz.org/t/400x320/ienqtu-AREaAQdPRkodBRsHCAILXxYdGksNHRsADUsBBxxbBwAaXgJERiQ7JTwqDFIKQEFBXFUMFBARXVUMSBZAUFwLQUNAXFdZFRJGCgdBGQERGgoABxUZBQAXXhI0BRELEis5CAsdGBoSNigbHQAcBAAKGBUqOhAMBhsaDwAcLjkaDQACLkEQC1RaQUITXQFfRkBbAxUJ Here. The higher end ACS300.1 also used a clamshell design and …

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Re: Difference between USB Legacy Support and Port 60/64 Emulation

Posted on 2020-05-21, 15:31

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by NJRoadfan

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Should be the same thing. Different BIOS/UEFI setups use different names for the same thing.

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Re: What was the last retail ISA sound card?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 15:27

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by NJRoadfan

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The Soundblaster 16 WavEffects was still being sold in 1999 as I bought one at the time. The pack-in CD-ROM is dated 1999 as well.

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Re: Oldest video card with DVI?

Posted on 2020-05-13, 23:21

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by NJRoadfan

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Almost every Matrox G400 card can have DVI added to it. I have the daughter board for my Marvel G400-TV. I think some G400s came with DVI stock as well. The cards support Windows 3.1x, 9x, and NT 4.0,2000,XP. Here is the add-on complete with brackets if you find a G400 card: https://www.ebay.com/itm …

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Re: The Great Sound Blaster Live! Install CD Test Off

Posted on 2020-04-12, 04:08

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by NJRoadfan

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I have the full original SoundBlaster Live! purchased new in 1998 (I think the base card was the CT4620 plus the SPDIF digital output/MIDI breakout board). It's drivers were for Windows 9x/NT 4.0 only and that's likely what the 1998 dated CD is from. It also came with a terrible v1.0 DOS emulation …

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Re: When did PCI become popular? And when did you have your first PCI System?

Posted on 2020-04-07, 13:22

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by NJRoadfan

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PCI was adopted widely because it was cheaper to implement than VLB and still had a backwards compatible option of using ISA and EISA slots by using a bridge chip. Being a clean sheet platform independent "mezzanine" bus not hampered by a decade of kludges helped too as eventually Apple, DEC, and …

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Re: Win3mu Soon OpenSource

Posted on 2020-03-25, 02:34

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matze79 wrote on 2020-03-17, 10:26: No Midi Driver 😀 Quite the opposite. the machine has a SB X-Fi with real hardware MIDI.

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