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Re: Has this ever happened to you? Low priced ebay auctions not BIN'ed.

Posted on 2013-06-12, 21:25

in Milliways

some sellers have it set so that if you send an offer ...for example 5-10% lower than the buy-it-now price it auto accepts. So it never hurts to send an offer before you buy-it-now

Re: scored some hardware

Posted on 2013-06-12, 20:42

by rgart

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

do you know how minimal some of these bios are? do you mean the jumper setting on the MB or a possible bios setting? heres a pic of the underside of the cyrix chip. Even with no enhancements turned on and on the correct cpu voltages with DRAM at heavy/slow timings. Using either the GP or GF cyrix …

Re: scored some hardware

Posted on 2013-06-12, 07:11

by rgart

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also, from Cyrix 5x86 Register Enhancements Revealed , I noted "to get BTB working on Stepping 1, Revision 3 CPUs, it is necessary to disable LOOP, BWRT, and possibly RSTK". Yeah I tried that. theres something else at play here. Im having trouble getting either chips to install windows 98. Dos is …

Re: scored some hardware

Posted on 2013-06-12, 06:35

by rgart

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

When I test the 120GP chip in this system. ibmm9.exe shows stepping 1 rev 3 is that unusual ?

Re: How many Retro PCs do you got in your house?

Posted on 2013-06-11, 15:19

by rgart

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

awesome computers Malik!!

Re: scored some hardware

Posted on 2013-06-11, 14:42

by rgart

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cyrix system 100-GF CPU oc'ed to 120. voltage set to 3.45 disappointing pcpbench scores even with the matrox speedsys score better than amd-150 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/850/dsc00969pe.jpg speedsys score 57.71 http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/12/dsc00968zy.jpg http:// …

Re: scored some hardware

Posted on 2013-06-11, 13:19

by rgart

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Back to the Cyrix System. everytime I turn on the PC WT1, USE WBAK and LOCK NW are already turned on (1) Is that usual? Do i have to use autoexec.bat or command line to turn enhancements on. Theres nothing more permanent?

Re: scored some hardware

Posted on 2013-06-11, 12:20

by rgart

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ill try jumpering the turbo pins. I used the silk screens on the motherboard as much as I could but there are many jumpers that are not labeled. I will reread your post in the morning and see what I can do to change the RAM being so slow.

Re: scored some hardware

Posted on 2013-06-11, 11:54

by rgart

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I really dont have many options with that board. Im unable to change cache timings. I cant use WB mode. If I change a few jumpers I can get the CPU registering as a AM5x86 when the PC boots but external cache turns off automatically and I am unable to turn it back on even when I set WB on the …

Re: scored some hardware

Posted on 2013-06-11, 11:39

by rgart

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok: these pics are NOT about the cyrix machine this is the AMD 133 running at 3x50mhz http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/23/dsc00951ge.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/833/dsc00952tp.jpg http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/1024x768q90/341/dsc00930us.jpg http://imagizer. …

Re: scored some hardware

Posted on 2013-06-11, 11:20

by rgart

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I will mem test tonight I cycled through all the cache chips. Still has issues with regards to RAM speed.

Re: scored some hardware

Posted on 2013-06-11, 10:31

by rgart

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The unofficial Win88SE service pack is everywhere online. It is even on those annoying download sights which have 10 "download" buttons, whereby you need to figure out which download button is the correct one. Those pages drive me crazy. Its even funnier when you have to signup and THEN get the run …

Re: N64 emulation - does anyone else share my dissatisfaction?

Posted on 2013-06-11, 09:48

by rgart

in Console & Arcade Emulation

Hmm ok ill do some research. I haven't touched Saturn emu for maybe 12 months. I do remember having difficulty finding a good version of SSF. It was running on a dual core intel E8500 Im sorry to hijack this thread and turn it to SEGA op. 😀 thanks for the link!

Re: How many Retro PCs do you got in your house?

Posted on 2013-06-11, 09:43

by rgart

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Im in the middle of getting the hardware I want into my systems but currently my complete systems are: K6-2 450mhz PC - Gaming PC - Windows 95 Pentium II Slot 1 400mhz PC - Gaming PC - Windows 98 Dell Optiplex GX270 - domain server - Ubuntu 12.04 AM5x86 P75 133 oc to 150mhz - Gaming PC - dos 6.22 …

Re: N64 emulation - does anyone else share my dissatisfaction?

Posted on 2013-06-11, 05:28

by rgart

in Console & Arcade Emulation

i recall my favourites having very little or no support in SSF. Nights. Shining the holy arc, Shining force scenario 1,2,3 and premium disk - must be difficult to emu those titles

Re: scored some hardware

Posted on 2013-06-10, 11:36

by rgart

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I suspect that you enabled BTB while leaving LOOP and RSTK enabled. For branch prediction (BTB) to work, LOOP and RSTK need to be disabled. Yeah I was doing that... Windows 98 on a 486...ouch :-P the 100GF is a Step 0 Rev 5 chip. Can you define what you mean by "work fine"? I like to have all …

creative labs cd and dvd drives dos drivers

Posted on 2013-06-10, 10:16

by rgart

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have noticed some of the generic dos cd programs like asus_cd dont work for the creative cd/dvd drives. Is that right or do I have some faulty drives? Can anyone recommend some dos drivers for the following units and the best place to get them?