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

Posted on 2020-05-17, 06:57

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by AmiSapphire

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Ordered an MCS-48 adapter for my Willem programmers (yes, I own two of them). Also... So, the NAS locked up not long after browsing through it for a PDF (I only found out when Sis wanted some non-CD game music rip that I forgot to add to the server and I attempted to transfer it to the NAS). Went to …

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Re: Intel-built 486/Pentium/PPro/PII motherboard guide

Posted on 2020-05-13, 15:23

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've uploaded it to archive.org, seems to be the safest host for such things: https://archive.org/details/old_intel_motherboards_resources I hope I've described it well enough for people to find it via google. At least someone else archived it, though some files seem to be missing, notably adv_mn. …

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Re: Intel-built 486/Pentium/PPro/PII motherboard guide

Posted on 2020-05-13, 04:58

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just hit the old Intel motherboards BIOS/docs jackpot: ftp://ftp.ioncomputer.com/HardWare/SYSTEMS/1990s BIOS images and documentation for things as old as Intel Model 302 or Professional Workstation. Intel Xpress and Xtended Xpress motherboards stuff. Mirrored it, I recommend it to everyone else. …

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Re: FIC PT-2200 Manual

Posted on 2020-05-11, 19:31

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Archive.org entries: https://archive.org/download/ftp.fic.com.tw-20151022/20151022-ftp.fic.com.tw.tar/ftp.fic.com.tw%2Fmotherboard%2Fmanual%2Fsocket7%2Fpt-2200%2FPT-2200.ZIP https://archive.org/download/ftp.fic.com.tw-20151022/20151022-ftp.fic.com.tw.tar/ftp.fic.com.tw%2Fmotherboard%2Fmanual% …

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Re: 6800gs replace capacitor

Posted on 2020-05-09, 07:33

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Same cap as on my nVidia GeForce 7800GS card; it is a Panasonic SVP series polymer cap (rated 1200uf 4V), as mentioned earlier. Exact part number is 4SVP1200M.

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Re: I think AOpen just nuked their FTP server

Posted on 2020-04-04, 21:07

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

oh damn. im so sad. i got a buch of aopen stuff, even avsoundcard. i hope you guys were able to make a full backup. its just horrible to have retro hardware and in the future not being able to download drivers and patches. A few people have mirrored the server (at least the server mirrors that had …

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Re: I think AOpen just nuked their FTP server

Posted on 2020-04-04, 13:19

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

oh damn. im so sad. i got a buch of aopen stuff, even avsoundcard. i hope you guys were able to make a full backup. its just horrible to have retro hardware and in the future not being able to download drivers and patches. A few people have mirrored the server (at least the server mirrors that had …

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Re: I think AOpen just nuked their FTP server

Posted on 2020-04-02, 08:20

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Deksor grabbed a complete copy of their FTP server before my version finally finished; all within a few hours. Still have an archived complete (at the time) copy of it on my own web server, but it's not Internet-facing. I touched the .com one, and Deksor probably went to .com.tw. Wouldn't be …

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Re: Looking for Abit AV4 BIOS image

Posted on 2020-03-27, 01:28

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Was taking a long break from doing some PCB work in KiCAD and saw this thread. I did find a ROM like that, but it had to be dug up from an old MAME 0.209-0.210 ROM update collection. Found using hex editor: 40-00AG-001247-00101111-060692-SIS3486 AV4 ISA/VL-BUS SYSTEM BIOS

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2020-03-17, 23:09

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello all. Firstly, this is great work. Thank you to everybody who has contributed. I recently bought a cheap DH61WW to test out a batch of 2nd and 3rd gen processors I picked up a while ago, hoping that the BIOS would already have been updated and expecting it to be easy if it hadn't. No such luck …

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Re: Fic FTP site is gone. We lost most of the drivers

Posted on 2020-03-17, 16:36

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I also have a (very incomplete) AOpen FTP mirror from the same year, but it's not much of a priority right now. there's a ton of stuff on the AOpen FTP, and it could go dark any day now - might want to back that one up too Yeah, my backup stops at /pub02/drivers/ somewhere and I stopped since …

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Re: Fic FTP site is gone. We lost most of the drivers

Posted on 2020-03-17, 04:24

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The FTP archive is uploaded on the Archive here: https://archive.org/details/ftp.fic.com.tw-20151022 Why I archived it in the first place (and it's a weird one): I bought a FIC PA-2013 rev. 2.1 motherboard in 2014, got that, then downloaded some things for the board from their server. Before that, I …

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Re: Fic FTP site is gone. We lost most of the drivers

Posted on 2020-03-14, 21:59

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, someone on Twitter told me today. I just located my compressed archive and I am going to upload the entire thing from October 2015 to the Internet Archive later this week. Same person also told me I am now the only one that has the directory. This is the entire FTP archive from late 2015. Some …

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Re: Need help with broken AWE64 Gold CT4540

Posted on 2020-02-12, 21:36

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I own this card, so here are the cap values: C33 - 4.7uf 50V C58 - 1uf 50V C119 - 4.7uf 50V C122 - 4.7uf 50V

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-09-19, 04:17

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Since I own a VS440FX and MU440EX and will try to DL all the "Legacy" last BIOS and post to usenet somewhere. I cannot find any of the BIOS thru their ftp so may not get all the old boards listed as will have to DL thru their support website. Good luck. I went after what was left of their Server …

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-09-15, 08:47

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Unfortunately I expected this since last year, like the HP thing in 2017. Especially when they said they were revamping their site then, too. :confused: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=60219&p=672727#p672727 A lot of their older stuff was already gone before that as well. I only noticed …

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Re: Was Win95B the best version?

Posted on 2019-09-14, 23:55

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I actually never ran into the automatic install of Win95C's Desktop Update. Had no clue it even existed until I browsed the CD for it. (And probably this thread a few years ago.) Then again, I always removed the CD after the final part of the initial install out of habit... Admittedly I used an old …

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Re: AWE64 Gold CT4390 Firmware

Posted on 2019-07-05, 22:04

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I actually altered the Dell flash utility through hex editing to write my personal copy of the CT4390 config EEPROM last night since I own three AWE64 Gold cards (2x 4390 and 1x 4540), but I have no real way to test its flash capabilities other than the fact I didn't break the program. Never …

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Re: What are IBM HDD "Deathstar" serials ?

Posted on 2019-05-27, 19:58

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh, I remember those, if I recall, there were two issues that were fixed in firmware. One was a corruption issue, and the other was to prevent the heads dwelling over the same track for long periods when idle https://web.archive.org/web/20041116230353/http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR …

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Re: What are IBM HDD "Deathstar" serials ?

Posted on 2019-05-27, 15:15

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, it's the 75GXP (DTLA) series drives that had gotten the "Deathstar" moniker. Ran into 2x 15GB drives of that series a few years ago, I think 2014, when I was still buying vintage motherboards. They were barely used when I got them (less than 5 POH) and still functioned as normal, and I …

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