Re: Msi Bx Master and Promise ATA66 issues (IRQ?)

Posted on 2020-02-24, 13:20

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by Nemo1985

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I solved the issue, mainly thanks to a Phil's video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-L-mLCk-CFM) he found there were some issues with some hard drives, I bought and get an hard drive that was the same as the one died and everything works like a charme...

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Re: How to overclock an S3 Virge?

Posted on 2020-02-21, 09:40

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by Nemo1985

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Watch the card, the difference between EDO\FPM memory and SGRAM is visible. Link: http://vintage3d.org/virgedx.php

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Re: Msi Bx Master and Promise ATA66 issues (IRQ?)

Posted on 2020-02-21, 08:09

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by Nemo1985

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No, there is no way to access the bios: photo_2020-02-21_09-04-55.jpg Also the weird thing is that everything was working fine with the very same configuration but the 80gb hard drive, I will try another hard drive later... Change IRQ in Windows? Also enable "PNP OS installed" option. Maybe OS can …

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Re: Msi Bx Master and Promise ATA66 issues (IRQ?)

Posted on 2020-02-21, 06:13

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by Nemo1985

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I will try that, but now I also noticed that after the windows trouble the hard drive is detected from the bios but not from any os, in fact it says there is no bootable device, if I turn off and on the pc, it works again. I'm wondering is it possible that there is an incompatibility between the …

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Re: Msi Bx Master and Promise ATA66 issues (IRQ?)

Posted on 2020-02-21, 05:17

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by Nemo1985

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The ata66 ports are integrated with the mb, I can only switch the pci port of the SB Audigy, but since I tried to take it off and nothing changed...

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Msi Bx Master and Promise ATA66 issues (IRQ?)

Posted on 2020-02-20, 10:33

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by Nemo1985

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Hello, It's 2 days i'm fighting against that mb since I swapped the hard drive. I have been using a Maxtor 80gb hard drive with windows 98 freshly installed using the integrated "scsi" Promise ATA66 without issues, suddenly the hdd died and I had to use another one, I installed windows 98 SE once …

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Re: Testing of SRAM cache chips

Posted on 2020-02-12, 20:00

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by Nemo1985

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It's an interesting project if it's going to allow chinese chip testing, they sell them as 10ns but I doubt they really are...

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Re: Ebay sellers world wide ?

Posted on 2020-02-12, 19:02

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by Nemo1985

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I bough 2-3 times from Usa, since I live in Europe I prefer to buy inside EU, but I never had problems, sure I bought stuff like video cards or memory. The only problem I had was with a fellow italian seller who sold a 3dfx card saying it was in pristine condition while it was damaged, he didn't …

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Re: The Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2020-02-11, 21:11

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by Nemo1985

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Yes they should be the very same, but if you are willing test them both, even cpuchk could show if there is any difference.

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Re: Advice on making a stable VLB build

Posted on 2020-02-11, 20:41

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by Nemo1985

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Thank you for the advice, actually is the only VLB card I have (those aren't easy to find nowadays), but I will get a Cirrus logic card soon... I'm using it on a full umc board (chipset+cpu) so to get decent performance I will probably need to overclock it to 50mhz

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Re: How can I add PS/2 port to 5pin PS/2 header on PPro MS-6103 motherboard?

Posted on 2020-02-11, 20:32

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by Nemo1985

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For ps2 mouse just 4 pins are used: 6-Wire Layout PIN SIGNAL COLOR Pin 1 Mouse Data Brown Pin 2 Reserved Open Pin 3 Ground Red Pin 4 +5V Yellow Pin 5 Mouse Clock Green Pin 6 Reserved Open Since you just have 5 pins in one line ignore the pin 6 (that is NC anyway).

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Re: Advice on making a stable VLB build

Posted on 2020-02-11, 19:48

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by Nemo1985

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I have a Biostar MB-1433/50UIV-a rev 3.1 Jumper 36 is MCA3 VESA BUS Slot Select: 1-2 Closed Synchronous Mode 2-3 Closed Asynchronous Mode I tried both settings but it changes nothing about the performance, what is it then? Also at 40 mhz it's stable with 1 wait state but if I use 50mhz the pc gives …

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Re: Biostar mb-1433/50uiv-a help needed

Posted on 2020-02-10, 14:55

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by Nemo1985

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I actually think I may have put the debug card on the wrong way. The smoke smell comes from the ISA slot I used to put the debug card. I also noticed that the Intel cpu when the system is on gets hot, while the UMC cpu stays cold Here a couple of pictures, the first is of the mb in general: https:// …

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Biostar mb-1433/50uiv-a help needed

Posted on 2020-02-10, 14:27

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by Nemo1985

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Hello, I received this Biostar\Bioteq mb-1433/50uiv-a rev 3.1 It came with Intel dx2 66 settings, I installed such cpu and everything worked fine. I switched to UMC cpu changed the setting following this page: https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/B/BIOSTAR-MICROTECH-INTERNATIONAL-CORPORATION- …

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Re: Pci cards roundup on dos

Posted on 2020-02-07, 13:14

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by Nemo1985

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Shit, that SiS 6326 is an absolute dog.. I will be doing a similar test on my current Socket 7 PC at some point. I have a crap ton of PCI cards to test with it. Sis 6326 is bad with the 486 pc, but with the k6-3 wasn't that bad (not great, not terrible), still I don't get why some cards gets lower …

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Re: Pci cards roundup on dos

Posted on 2020-02-07, 11:56

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by Nemo1985

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Why don’t add a column to your spread sheet for total score of all the benchmarks to which card has the best overall score. Thank you for the advice. Honestly I do not think it would be useful, I just compared the overall results of the Millennium 2 and Trident card, the first get an overall higher …

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Re: The Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2020-02-07, 11:43

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by Nemo1985

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I recently spent some time to compare the Asus PVI-486SP3 rev 1.22 vs the Biostar MB-8433UUD-A rev 2 with a Amd 5x86 133. Asus PVI-486SP3 rev 1.20 BIOS release 0306, 256kb cache 15ns. Some observations: I was able to run (at 33mhz fsb) with the fastest settings with 16x2 fpm 70ns memory. With 40mhz …

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Re: Pci cards roundup on dos

Posted on 2020-02-07, 11:19

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by Nemo1985

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I did the same tests with the Amd 5x86 133 paired with Biostar MB-8433UUD-A, 256kb cache and 32mb FPM memory, settings for cache an memory are the fastest possible. 002.jpg Results are just silly, the videocards are heavily cpu limited. For this reason I also tried the ET6000 with overclocked cpu …

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Re: Pci cards roundup on dos

Posted on 2020-02-02, 14:42

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by Nemo1985

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Thank you. Avance logic card is one of my favourite for 1995 year, mainly because it's an almost unknown manufacture but to my eyes it's not that bad... This is my card: https://i.imgur.com/MSmETIe.jpg I would have said it's an oem card but according to vga museum it's a powercolor. I never heard …

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Re: Pci cards roundup on dos

Posted on 2020-02-02, 07:22

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by Nemo1985

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Nice ! Thank you. When you say Maximum memory did the Matrox cards have 8Mb or more ? I have some M2 with 8Mb but never tried Chris 3d test on them, odd to see good results on one test but black screen results other test. Maybe the card/matrox driver doesn't like the way the higher end test …

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