Re: VIA C3 Nehemiah vs. Coppermine(-128) and Tualatin

Posted on 2017-08-29, 04:24

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by Kamerat

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Nice to hear. 😀 You can always use PCISET under DOS to change the PCI registers that contol the timings of the RAM. One other and more permanent option would be changing the timings in the SPD chip on the DIMM.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-26, 17:36

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by Kamerat

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Got a VIA C3 "Ezra" 733MHz yesterday. 😀

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2017-08-24, 06:43

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by Kamerat

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Nice, now there's hope. 😁 Maybe you should start a new thread in the Video part of Marvin to ask for help about the BIOS.

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Re: Hello, World! :D - Robert B's PC builds - oogle away freely :)

Posted on 2017-08-23, 19:40

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by Kamerat

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For your Voodoo 4: Perhaps the flash chip on your board got corrupted, have you tried booting with a PCI graphic card while still having the Voodoo 4 in the system to see if it shows up in device manager or under PCI devices in your BIOS post screen?

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Re: Is there a way to get sound + music working with AC'97 integrated sound?

Posted on 2017-08-23, 18:24

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by Kamerat

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AC97 works in Windows quite well and in Dos while running under Windows98, BUT in plain Dos I did not get anything to work. Here is my advice: Deactivated the AC97 Sound an put this Pci-Soundcard into it: Terratec ESS Solo-1 ES1938S TTSOLO1-S Ver 1.1 It MUST be this card, no other. Then buy that …

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Re: Is there a way to get sound + music working with AC'97 integrated sound?

Posted on 2017-08-23, 04:33

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by Kamerat

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Can you give us more information about your setup? Like what motherboard you're using and if you're running DOS games in Windows or from DOS (Exit to DOS or boot directly to DOS).

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-22, 06:23

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by Kamerat

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System 3: Custom Build "Maximus" Cyrix Mii PR300 in AT case, 256MB ram, 2 floppy drives, 2 CD-rom drives, Full length Sound Blaster AWE32 CT3990. Those "VIA" stickers on the chipsets look real suspicious... I wonder what chipset that board actually uses. (Most likely it's a PC Chips board; this is …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2017-08-21, 18:26

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by Kamerat

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Got this from under the bed in the spare bedroom in my moms house. Just your average P4/2.4, but now I know what happened to that GF3 I lost a few years ago. Wish I'd found it sooner as I thought I was crazy when I clearly remember having a ti500 and not just the ti200 I ended up using in one of my …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2017-08-18, 18:31

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by Kamerat

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my "98" bundle, without case. Asus P2B rev 1.10 Intel 440BX Intel Pentium II 450 SL2WB Toshiba PC100 SDRAM 8ns 64M x2 Diamond Viper V550 16M AGP NVIDIA Riva TNT Diamond Monster 3D II 12M PCI 3Dfx Voodoo2 Diamond Monster Sound MX300 PCI Aureal Vortex2 Nice photos of a nice setup. Things happend fast …

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Re: Building my new Windows 98 / DirectX 7.0 Rig

Posted on 2017-08-16, 06:16

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by Kamerat

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The Coppermine Pentium III 850 is the fastest officially supported Coppermine CPU on the right revision boards. I have P17, the latest, on mine and it's good to go. I do recall having to do that back in the day with a Powerleap 1400 though. That's nice, I got the wrong revision of the board …

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Re: Building my new Windows 98 / DirectX 7.0 Rig

Posted on 2017-08-16, 02:28

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by Kamerat

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greasemonkey90s wrote: I agree that the se440bx-2 is bulit proof but not all can support majority of cpus. My current se440bx-2 wont go past a p2 450 even after bios update. So it really depends on sn #. Otherwise there awesome. I had luck with older BIOSes for Coppermine, but newer ones failed. …

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Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2017-08-16, 01:31

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by Kamerat

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Interesting. I don't suppose you could get sound working if your machine had a SB Live! and the drivers were already set up on the DOS install? No, Ensoniq/Creative cards like the Live! stopped working on ICH6 and up. Yamaha YMF7xx (with the DSDMA TSR) and Aureal Vortex might work on earlier Core …

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Re: Help Identifyng Mainboard

Posted on 2017-08-16, 00:34

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by Kamerat

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ACHME COMPUTER, INC. MS-5146: http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/A/AC … um-MS-5146.html

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Re: ES1370 driver loads successfully, but legacy device is not being detected

Posted on 2017-08-15, 05:35

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by Kamerat

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What does the chipset of the motherboard have to do with things if the Sound Blaster emulation is handled by the AudioPCI driver? Unfortunately I'm not a programmer or very deep in to PC architecture, but from what I have read and exprienced myself getting anything newer than ICH5 to cooperate with …

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Re: ES1370 driver loads successfully, but legacy device is not being detected

Posted on 2017-08-14, 22:35

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by Kamerat

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The chipset of your motherboard is just to new, Sound Blaster emulation won't work with Ensoniq/Creative PCI cards.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-08-11, 20:45

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by Kamerat

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Finally soldered a PC/PCI connector to one of my ESS Solo-1 PCI sound cards (Terratec). Didn't work at first, but with a newer initializer (2.31D) it detected PC/PCI on my Intel 810 based GA-6WMM7. :) How has this board been to you so far? Not many people here ever bothered with i810, but there are …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-08-11, 06:32

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by Kamerat

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Finally soldered a PC/PCI connector to one of my ESS Solo-1 PCI sound cards (Terratec). Didn't work at first, but with a newer initializer (2.31D) it detected PC/PCI on my Intel 810 based GA-6WMM7. 😀

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Re: Recommend a PCI Sound Card for DOS

Posted on 2017-08-11, 01:34

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by Kamerat

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You can modify duke3d.cfg manually to set 16 bit DMA lower than 5.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-08-09, 18:52

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by Kamerat

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Aha! YMF-PCI card? Yes, or more corretly the PC/PCI signals for it. Actually tried out a Trident 4DWave-NX at first, didn't wan't to waste my YMF744 card if I connected anything wrong. I might solder a PC/PCI connector to on one of my ESS Solo-1 card's and use that instead as it got a wavetable …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-08-09, 18:26

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by Kamerat

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gdjacobs wrote: Front panel audio? bjwil1991 wrote: Computer diagnostics/BIOS repair over a Serial port? No, but this might give you a hint: Signals are SERIRQ#, PCGNT# and PCREQ#. 😉

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