Re: Biostar MB-8433UUD-A External Battery Question

Posted on 2020-05-03, 09:53

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Remove the RTC and install a socket it is then. How tricky is the RTC to remove? It is kind of adjacent to the ISA slot, but I don't think it has any nasty solderpads on the ground plane or anything? A solder wick and solder sucker should be enough?

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-05-03, 06:36

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WildW wrote on 2020-05-03, 06:33: After recently burning out a bit on Transport Tycoon Deluxe, I just discovered and fell in love with Sid Meier's Railroads which is much more like a boardgame if anything. I've not found a Firaxis game yet that isn't great. Civ: Beyond Earth for beginners, is …

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

Posted on 2020-05-02, 22:31

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A friend of mine recently acquired a Voodoo 2 and found out that it was dead. So he asked me to look at it and mailed it to me. It has been sitting on my desk for a month now, so I thought I would check it out today. There were three issues with the card: Bent pins, missing oscillator and a blob of …

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

Posted on 2020-05-02, 19:24

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Mega Drive pads can cause damage, because they don't fully follow the Atari standard. On a C64 for example, you'll kill the SID chip if you just connect it. That adapter protects from that and also allows configuring the two fire buttons you wish to use. I thought this was only an issue on C64 …

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Biostar MB-8433UUD-A External Battery Question

Posted on 2020-05-02, 19:23

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I have this board: https://i.postimg.cc/xCsvgDF6/Biostar-MB-8433-UUD-A.jpg I know it's a popular board there are many posts on Vogons about it.. So I thought I may ask a few questions here. According to manuals and jumper settingson the web, JP42 (header not soldered) is supposed to be the External …

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

Posted on 2020-05-02, 18:59

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Sitting at work waiting to be called for my coronavirus test, so I soldered up some stuff for my Amiga 500. Floppy boot selector, gamepad/joystick adapter, and added some headers to a Gotek so I can easily jumper to flash it. Edit, annnnd I just realized I accidentally have the two tiny surface …

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Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2020-05-02, 12:52

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CuPid wrote on 2020-05-02, 12:47: TechieDude wrote on 2020-05-02, 12:31: Does this fix K5 crash? A big bug was found and fixed (thanks to appiah4), it is very possible that the same caused the crash on the K5. Can you please try again and let me know ? Happy to help. 😀

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Re: Best CPU for high end 1995 486 build?

Posted on 2020-05-02, 07:26

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Trying to run my IBM 5x86 at 120MHz is a very enticing idea indeed.. Another board I am considering for the job is this PCPartner 486CV:

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-05-02, 07:21

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Still suffering my way through Divinity: Original Sin but I really hope I start enjoying it more soon... Also went back to Doom (2016) and hope to finish it soon.

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Re: AZ2316 v. ES1868F

Posted on 2020-05-01, 20:46

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gdjacobs wrote on 2020-05-01, 19:00: Garrett W wrote on 2020-05-01, 10:22: Just saw this thread, has anyone ever managed to get WSS to work on ES1688F cards? If so, any help doing so 😀? I believe ESS cards use their own protocol for 16 bit audio and not WSS. The datasheet says they are WSS …

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Re: Best CPU for high end 1995 486 build?

Posted on 2020-05-01, 18:08

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Were there ever SX4 chips?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-05-01, 16:45

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imi, where do you store so many boards if I may ask? I have around 20 and they take up so much space I find myself having to sell inferior options whenever I come across something more premium.. It's the one thing I can't really 'hoard' many of, they take up so much space!

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Re: What's wrong with all these sound cards???

Posted on 2020-05-01, 12:06

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If you are limited to PCI get a ForteMedia FM801 card they are incredibly simple to set up and possibly the most compatible PCI DOS sound chip I know of. ESS Solo-1 is a close second but that one is more picky about what motherboard you put it in; on some systems it really requires an SB-Link header …

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Re: AZ2316 v. ES1868F

Posted on 2020-05-01, 12:03

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What exactly is the trouble you are having?

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

Posted on 2020-05-01, 12:02

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I have a few SECC2 processors that did not boot on initial testing, this reminds me to go back and check them out sometime..

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2020-05-01, 12:00

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AndrewK2685 wrote on 2020-05-01, 10:03: How about Novell Netware? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NetWare We used to have this in my high school computer lab running on 386SX25 computers. I don't have very fond memories of it, but it worked. We could print to a dot matrix printer from Professional …

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2020-05-01, 11:58

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Wilderun - Veil of Imagination is an amazing album.. Listening to it today and it really added some wrinkles to my brain.

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Re: Best CPU for high end 1995 486 build?

Posted on 2020-05-01, 07:53

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A Very nice Board. This Board will be a good partner to your IBM 5x86. I played with a Shuttle HOT433 with the same UMC chipset and a Cyrix 5x86 a long time without any quirks, also in L1 WB mode and mostly enabled Cyrix registers. But i highly recommend an upgrade of your cache to 256kB dual …

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

Posted on 2020-05-01, 07:14

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I've finally found out why none of my three mismatched Voodoo II's would work reliably in SLI mode regardless of the combination: It's the FastVoodoo drivers. They claim to support mismatched SLI out of the box, but I only got that working one time for some dubious reason. In all other cases my …

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Re: Best CPU for high end 1995 486 build?

Posted on 2020-05-01, 06:00

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A lot of very informative and insightful posts overnight, thanks to everyone who chimed in :) This might make for some interesting reading material: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=28470 Oh I know this great benchmark but thank you for reminding me once again! I do agree that, for a 486, …

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