Re: Help needed with booting slot1 boards with unsupported CPUs

Posted on 2017-01-30, 17:28

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As a late follow-up, I can know confirm that my M6TBD with Bios Patcher 4.23-ed BIOS combined with a PowerLeap PL-iP3/T ver. 2.0 (the one with voltage jumpers, which I set to 1.5V as per CPU rating) and Celeron 1300 (Tualatin) seems to work fine . The board POSTs and correctly shows a Tualatin …

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Re: The forgotten companies of computing - New Entry for DTC!

Posted on 2017-01-19, 05:46

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Which company should I do next? Keep in mind the following things: This company must not have a Wikipedia page. I am gathering information that hasn't already been gathered. If a Wikipedia page exists, it would be redundant for me to do so. The company must not be that well known anymore. Examples …

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Re: Why doesn't this exist?

Posted on 2017-01-17, 06:40

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You know how the older via chipsets had problems with drives over sata150, yea at lot of the western digital drives have jumpers or you could use a worn down sata1 drive, but it would be really cool if there was a little chip that plugs into the drive and then the sata connector to make it sata1 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-01-15, 20:23

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Finally bit the bullet and got a PowerLeap slot 1 to socket 370 Tualatin compatible adapter .

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Re: What do you NOT have enough of?

Posted on 2017-01-06, 04:46

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Time Storage Disposable income ISA slots on the motherboards I have

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Re: Whats the most rare piece of hardware you own?

Posted on 2017-01-03, 08:51

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- 2 Gravis Ultrasound Plug & Play v. 1.0 cards - 1 Gravis Ultrasound Max (do not remenber the rev.) - 1 Compaq Ultra Sound 32 Pro (Interwave based) - 1 Audiotrix 3D/XG (card and DB60XG daughterboard) I am really happy to have held on to (hoarded :lol: ) this stuff since its heyday, but I find it sad …

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Re: Tell me this Vogons Wiki information about Voodoo 2 is false...

Posted on 2017-01-02, 23:06

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mwdmeyer wrote: At some point in time I was able to make Windows 2000 use the Voodoo 2 to display the desktop, some specific driver allowed this. Worked fine if I remember correctly. Not sure how 😀 That mirrors my experience. Sorry I accidentally skipped your post while initially perusing this …

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Re: Tell me this Vogons Wiki information about Voodoo 2 is false...

Posted on 2017-01-02, 23:02

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Can it be the same for Windows 95? AFAIK, unless there are some exceptions I am not aware of, Windows NT 4 drivers cannot be used under any version of Windows 9x (95, 95 OSR2, 98, 98SE , ME) . As for my Windows 2000 experience with the Voodoo 2 in 2D, it might have been with a beta Windows 2000 …

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Re: Tell me this Vogons Wiki information about Voodoo 2 is false...

Posted on 2017-01-02, 20:20

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If someone were to Frankenstein a Windows 2D driver together for a Voodoo 2, I would expect much the same. Virtually no acceleration would be available -- the Voodoo 2 would simply paint pixels or, at best, a texture onto the screen as ordered by the driver. This means the driver would need to be …

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Re: Anyone have DUKEBENC.TXT in their archives?

Posted on 2016-12-24, 06:17

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Here it is .

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Re: Was there BX based motherboards with 5 PCI slots, 1 AGP and 2 isa in 1998 ?

Posted on 2016-12-18, 04:13

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The original factory BIOS info for my Quantex (Biostar OEM ?) P2B-NB a.k. M6TBD is 11/13/1998-i440BX-SMC67X-2A69KB0EC-00 The most recent update BIOS says 02/10/1999-i440BX-SMC67X-2A69KB0EC-00 . It is a poorly documented OEM board, so an official availability date is difficult, but it does have 5 PCI …

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Re: Fellow members, tell a random fact about your country.

Posted on 2016-12-15, 05:12

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My country was the birthplace of Gravis, Matrox, ATI and Blackerry/RIM .

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Re: Website Check

Posted on 2016-11-06, 03:01

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1) The text at the bottom of the page says "Last modified: 08-18-09" . Admittedly, that may be a reference to last update to the site design . 2) At first glance, the product list has not changed since at least 2011 according to archive.org https://web.archive.org/web/20110205072556/http:// …

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Re: Is this the Covox Voice Master ISA card?

Posted on 2016-10-30, 23:38

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Look at the top of page 96, and you should recognize your card . It seems to be a Voice Master variant . Attempt at a direct link : https://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1989-01/1989_01_BYTE_14-01_PC_Communications_and_Annual_Awards_and_Digitizing_Tablets#page/n121/mode/2up/search/covox Otherwise …

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Re: Assistance Finding DOS Driver for Sound Card

Posted on 2016-10-20, 12:57

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Looks to be either a Diamond Multimedia Sonic Sound or Sonic Sound LX variant (at least 2 variants of each exist). Info is to be found here, but the driver links are non-functional : https://web.archive.org/web/19980111072247/http://diamondmm.com/products/drivers/driver-index.html Driver downloads …

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Re: Was it a thing for some ATX motherboards with ISA slots to generate -5v (presumably from -12v)?

Posted on 2016-10-11, 04:26

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Well I tried another PSU. It is an Arctic Cooling Fusion 550RF (reviewed at http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/arctic-cooling-fusion-550rf-power-supply-review/10/) while the previous one was a Thermaltake TR2 430W variant . I can confirm visually that the -5V pin is physically absent from the ATX …

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Re: power supply

Posted on 2016-10-08, 02:47

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Stole this from Hardforum. https://hardforum.com/threads/cheap-seasonic-550w-600w-and-650w-psus.1912136/#post-1042565342 550w: http://www.ebay.com/itm/SEASONIC-550W-ATX12V-V2-03-EPS12V-V2-91-ACTIVE-PFC-F3-PSU-POWER-SUPPLY-SS-550HT/391384022093?_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851 600w: http://www.ebay. …

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Re: Was it a thing for some ATX motherboards with ISA slots to generate -5v (presumably from -12v)?

Posted on 2016-09-24, 04:37

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Doubtful. Biostar tended to be focused on no or low frills motherboards. If you publish some high res board shots, we can try to play "spot the VRM". Definitely not the best lighting or lens for a close-up board shot, but it will have to do for now. I do not see anything close to the ISA slots that …

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Was it a thing for some ATX motherboards with ISA slots to generate -5v (presumably from -12v)?

Posted on 2016-09-20, 01:33

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The reason I am asking about this is because I just noticed that the BIOS voltage info screen for my Biostar M6TBD displays a value for -5v but that ATX 2.3 PSU I am using (Thermaltake TR2 430W ) does not supply -5v . I have not actually measured it though . Is this a bogus reading or could the …

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Re: Need help identifying what I have

Posted on 2016-09-13, 01:52

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Would you knew what chips I could put in the banks? Based on other cards of the same type (GD5428 based) , I believe you could put 8 chips like the Samsung KM44C256AP or equivalent (256K x 4bit fast page mode DRAM chips) which would give an additional megabyte of memory (for a total of 2 megabytes) …

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