Re: I have the TURBO button in the Pentium75, what is it for?

Posted on 2021-05-09, 22:17

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by jheronimus

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I have a 430VX board where the turbo header drops FSB to 50MHz. Also a lot of Intel’s Socket 7 boards (those that used AMIBIOS, so up to 430HX) had turbo that gave something around 386dx33 — I guess those just disabled cache.

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Re: Strangest thing found on harddrives

Posted on 2021-05-04, 22:49

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by jheronimus

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I usually have luck with Macs. One Mac (a Quadra 630) had articles written for a local newspaper in a small town near Kazan, Russia. Topics included: "local barbershop announces a special offer for elderly people, drops the offer when a lot of people show up", "owner of a local shopping mall rents …

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2021-05-01, 02:14

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by jheronimus

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Did a bit of an update. Added around 40 new BIOS files. Most are just different versions for Triton-based motherboards (versions 3.19-3.31). What's more important is I've rearranged the whole structure of the archive. Now almost all folders are called by MR BIOS part names (e.g. V097B50D) and are …

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2021-04-29, 20:42

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by jheronimus

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So I did a thing where I've cross referenced most of the known MR BIOS files with official documentation and made a list of everything. There are around 500 files, but many of those are different versions of the same BIOS (especially when it comes to Intel/Asus motherboards). I'd like to copy the …

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Re: X2GS : Waveblaster board with dual soundbank support, official Dream/Roland licensed GS bank

Posted on 2021-04-25, 13:49

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by jheronimus

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Original X2 owner here. I'm pretty bummed that I can't just buy this soundbank and upload it to my board. My only choice it to actually buy an almost identical board — even though the reason I've bought X2 in the first place was to be able to use custom soundbanks, and to add insult to injury, there …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-20, 22:14

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I never realized the G400 max came as a dual head card I think that was kind of a big thing with Matrox G400 series. It's been done before (even on VLB videocards), but it generally required two separate chips. Here it uses single chip but two DACs, and they are not equal (the DAC for the bottom …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-04-20, 21:53

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by jheronimus

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Soo, just when I've thought I don't need any new hardware, this is what I get: First, an Iwill SIDE cached VLB controller: https://i.imgur.com/wUxfMsEm.jpg https://i.imgur.com/PdlKjIAm.jpg Does anybody know an exact model name? I'm trying to find drivers/manual, looked through Archive.org on Iwill. …

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Re: FTP Client for Win95C

Posted on 2021-04-17, 21:31

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by jheronimus

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Total Commander is updated for Win9x to this day (recently there's been a version 10 beta, also available for Win 9x), I'm using it for all my FTP tasks

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Re: Great soundcard audio!

Posted on 2021-04-14, 10:46

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Here are some of my favorites from the top of my head: Heart of the Hive (Icarus WAD for Doom) — GUS with Pro Patches Lite Silpheed intro on OPL3 Can't Remove the Pain (Ultima 6) on OPL3 Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone (intro) on OPL3 Cannon Fodder (the song from the recruitment screen) OPL3 Epic …

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2021-04-11, 02:30

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by jheronimus

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I've successfully decompressed the .ETI files from the Evergreen Spectra v2.01 (found by @jheronimus a few posts up) and v4 CDs after a couple days of reverse engineering attempts. Aside from the MR BIOS files, the CDs also include Unicore Award upgrades for many Socket 5 and 7 boards and even a …

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Re: How about a MR-BIOS ROM file repository?

Posted on 2021-04-09, 21:26

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by jheronimus

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So I did a thing where I've cross referenced most of the known MR BIOS files with official documentation and made a list of everything. There are around 500 files, but many of those are different versions of the same BIOS (especially when it comes to Intel/Asus motherboards). Here's the list, …

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Is BIOSAgentPlus legit?

Posted on 2021-04-06, 14:24

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by jheronimus

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Hi, all Recently I've been looking for BIOS images for various obscure motherboards, and I reliably find them on BIOSAgentPlus/DriverAgent/Wim's BIOS. However, when I try to download the file, I'm greeted with a screen requiring me to buy the BIOSAgent. The "join" button on DriverAgent is dead. I …

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Re: Biostar MB-1500PCT — need help restoring missing components

Posted on 2021-04-05, 09:45

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by jheronimus

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So I came back to this project, ordered mx8315pc from eBay and found a guy that will (hopefully) be able to fix the board, but he will only be able to start in May at the earliest. He already fixed a Supermicro P54VL-PCI for me, so I figured that it's a better idea than trying to fix the Biostar …

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Re: Does anybody have Evergreen Spectra Utilities disks V1/V2?

Posted on 2021-03-31, 17:33

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by jheronimus

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Chadti99 wrote on 2021-03-31, 16:22: Looks like I have version 4.35 that came with a Spectrum 400. Let me know if that helps you. I'm pretty sure that's the V4 that is available on Vogonsdrivers. Spectra 400 is the revision that supported K6-3 and other late S7 chips. Thank you anyways!

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Re: Which Socket 7 upgrade kit is right for my Socket 5 motherboard?

Posted on 2021-03-31, 15:28

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by jheronimus

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Sphere478 wrote on 2021-03-31, 05:29: What about contacting Jan? Well, it certainly wouldn't hurt. Sent him an email.

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Re: Which Socket 7 upgrade kit is right for my Socket 5 motherboard?

Posted on 2021-03-31, 00:51

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woohoo!!! good job. any effects from using the different bios? I'll do some testing on weekend, but I've already mentioned vanilla Quake crashing on this setup. Also UNIVBE decided to re-run configuration at startup that froze the system. Running Windows 95 would probably be the ultimate test of …

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Does anybody have Evergreen Spectra Utilities disks V1/V2?

Posted on 2021-03-31, 00:28

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by jheronimus

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Hi, all I continue my ongoing quest to find MR BIOS images for Opti 546 and 596 chipsets :) Evergreen Spectra is a CPU upgrade kit for Socket 5/7 motherboards that allowed the user to install an MMX/K6 CPU into the motherboard that didn't support it. It also came with a disk that had a collection of …

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Re: GUS Frustrations

Posted on 2021-03-30, 22:56

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by jheronimus

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Weirdly enough my experience with Classic/Max was much better than with PnP. Especially once I realised I could set it up in half-duplex mode (e.g. 240/7/7/7/7) and save half the resources, even a more compilcated setup (e.g. GUS+AWE32+MPU controller) became quite easy to configure on various …

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Re: Which Socket 7 upgrade kit is right for my Socket 5 motherboard?

Posted on 2021-03-30, 21:38

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So, I've actually made a mistake — this was an MMX Overdrive after all, a SL24W. The original BIOS did not start with MMX chips, hence it did not work with this one. I've flashed a BIOS from TMC PCI54PV and the system started: 2021-03-31 00.18.39.jpg And Quake did deliver 33 FPS using somewhat …

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Re: Mountain Racecard-286: looking for drivers and jumpers descriptions

Posted on 2021-03-29, 22:33

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Still waiting for the card, but in the meantime it has dawned on me. Here's another photo of the card: -racecard_286_mountain_accelerator_cpu_isa_card_ibm_5150_pc_5160_7___2mhz_orchid-3_156.jpg I thought the 8088 should be piggybacked into the end of the cable that goes into the motherboard CPU …

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