I thought I wrote something earlier to this thread... well I try to recreate my post: It will be a shorter Version I will just list the differences: Both look like they support the Pentium Overdrive, so I won't list it. The cache max is also 256 on both boards. MSI vs. Chicony RAM: max: 64MB 32MB …

Maybe you should use a original GM Midifile next time ;) It's more authentic, or you at least should include the MT32 Version ^^ And you can notice a big difference, yes. Especially if the fonts are from different brands, but also if they are just the same set in different sizes. Maybe most notable …

Hello there! Is there someone here in this forum who is located in Europe and who has the knowledge and experience to repair an old 486 motherboard? Because I don't have a good hand with these boards I've got some here which are broken and I can't even detect the problems. Got around 4 broken boards …

Thanks I received it and could test it on the board. Everything was working fine until I put it in a different case. Now the board is dead and I even don't know how it happend. Tested it outside the case, it was working, put it inside the case added a I/O Controller (before turning it on, so I don't …

Thanks for the long answer :) I just need some (E)EPROMs because I wan't to get the board running with 5x86 processors. Don't have enough space to really make it into a big hobby ;) Maybe later, but right now I don't think I need a programmer, maybe later. So right now it would be enough for me …

That would be great if this works, because buying a programmer just for two or three chip is a little bit strange ;) But I still would need a EEPROM programmer for flashing it the first time, right? Still would be much cheaper than a EPROM programmer... Or would somebody flash 2 or 3 chips for me? ( …

Oh thanks... I thought it was flashable. Do you know it has to be a 27C512 or what the specifications are which are important for the chip? Jo22 do you've got a GX4? I've got a Rev 2.1 and would like to check with somebody who also programmed a chip for this board, to not make any mistakes. (like …

Yes should be the same card. I'm just confused because there is also the 9684M version, which also have 4mb on board. But maybe you're right and there was a 8MB model planed (in the specs there is written something about an 8MB VLB card, but I never saw one. Thought maybe some of the owners of these …

Hi there! I've got a VL/i-486sv2gx4 with an old bios version of 0306 which just didn't want to flash the bios. One thing is that awdflash says the rom bios should be updated first. The other thing is, that aflash says, that the flash rom protection switch is on. Could there be a jumper or something …

If you are going for speed in DOS Games, it is more important, which CPU you are using. I would also second the Virge/GX over the Trio64(Diamond) > Trio64(Expert Color) > Vision864 IF the Vision864 has 2 Mb RAM if it has 4 Mb Ram, and you also want to use it in windows I would prefer the vision 864 …

Hi there, I've got a Diamond Stealth 64 VRAM Video (FTUVL9688M) today. Thought I figured out the code: FTU for the company VL because it's a VLB card (instead of FTUPCI) 968 because it is a S3 968 and 8M for the number of Mb the card has on board. Like the 3240 series 2MB equiped 4 max, or Video …

I've tried to use the system commander, but everytime I try to boot a system, it freezes after selecting. and show the blue starting box.. Any ideas, what the problem could be?

Hi Elianda! Thanks, for those resource page. Was looking for something like this, since the TerraTec FTP is down. Found also a lot of different mixer files, but so long I didn't have any luck getting the Midi1 Output to work. Will try it with an RA50 and check if the whole output/input is corrupt or …

Hi Elianda! Thanks for the help. I read all the solutions and used the CS32Mix line, after some shifting around the lines it works now (had to put it between the initialization of my Soundblaster and setting up the mixer, because otherwise one of the mixer settings (CS/EWS64XL or SB) reseted to …

Found the error, was a mixture of the Soundblaster Pro bug (occuring everytime the card is set to Soundblaster Pro, CS32Mix doesn't help with this :( ) and the volume set by the SB16(volume has to be maxed for line in to the EWS64) and the EWS64(wrong value on right channel, somewhere in the ttm …

Hi to all! I'm got a Soundblaster 16 in my old 486 machine and added a EWS64xl to the setup. First I tried it under DOS, which didn't work, because (I think) of the setting. After checking under win95 that the card wasn't broken(everything worked with soundblaster 16, EWS64XL and all possible Midi …