Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + DEC Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + Matrox GPUs - Help needed with testing

Posted on 2019-08-27, 17:27

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

See results from my previous posting for SIV, where SIV reports a Cx486 when idon.com is used. Thank you for checking out SIV on the NexGen. I have worked out why if says Cyrix when IDON. With IDOFF Windows reports it as a 385 without CPUID support. DBGINI 2683 Process Type 386 Level 3 DBGINI 2688 …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + DEC Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + Matrox GPUs - Help needed with testing

Posted on 2019-08-27, 15:49

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was wondering also about the NExGen approach. If you enable IDON it identifies by CPUID as Cyrix 486SX. What does that help you to eventually identify it as NexGen CPU ? Thank you for the save files and I will post Beta-19 once I have added DEC 10EB164 motherboard support and improved the GPU …

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Re: Windows 2000 Disablded the CPU-1 Cache, does anyone know how to fix this please?

Posted on 2019-08-27, 15:12

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Did you install the "Update Rollup 1"? Thank you for the link and it does have UR1 installed, but I have another similar system which also has it installed and that system is OK. I wonder in it's just Multi-Core CPUs that suffer. I think I will install 2003 and see it that works, I just need to …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + DEC Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + Matrox GPUs - Help needed with testing

Posted on 2019-08-27, 13:18

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I am now running beta-18 and did not experience any issue with system shutdown. I did still notice that the screen size is too small resulting in your buttons being truncated. Attached are the requested files. Thank you for running the test and posting the files. Casting my mind back something …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + DEC Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + Matrox GPUs - Help needed with testing

Posted on 2019-08-27, 12:39

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It would also be interesting to use the actual native SIV32A instead. Wow, thank you. I felt asking for SIV to be tested on an Alpha was a long shot, but... I general getting SIV to report Alphas is tricky as much of the information is not available. If you post both the save files I will add …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + DEC Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + Matrox GPUs - Help needed with testing

Posted on 2019-08-27, 05:41

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I just got this system setup so only have 1 SSD that is running 98 in there currently but I have a ton of old SSD drives laying around so plan is to install an OS to each. This will be for game and application compatibility testing. Thank you. I tend to just have one disk in my test systems with …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + DEC Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + Matrox GPUs - Help needed with testing

Posted on 2019-08-27, 00:04

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Same system but with Windows 10. Thank you, It's good to know the SIV X38 support is OK. I guess you ran SIV from the pre-install environment so the GK110 [GeForce GTX 780] drivers were not installed and SIV only reported the GeForce4 MX 420 [NV17.3] GPU. Please may I have SIV_Gigabyte_X38-DQ6.dmi …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + DEC Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + Matrox GPUs - Help needed with testing

Posted on 2019-08-26, 22:49

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I don't know BWC's contact info, but I tried posting a comment on the blog. Back to ganged... Thank you for posting the comment and please let me know what they say. Martin has told me that he will update HWiNFO to do much the same as SIV does so the next Beta should report Legacy Boot and only …

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Windows 2000 Disablded the CPU-1 Cache, does anyone know how to fix this please?

Posted on 2019-08-26, 22:35

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Hi Guys, I have had a Gigabyte GA-686DX with 2 x Intel Pentium II Overdrive (Deschutes) running NT 4.00 + NT 3.10 for many years and today I decided to install W2K on it and make it triple boot. I how have W2K running, but CPU-1 is very slow and it looks like the caches are disabled. I don't think …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + DEC Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + Matrox GPUs - Help needed with testing

Posted on 2019-08-26, 22:23

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I knw you asked for C2 Extreme but I just finished putting together my C2Q with Windows 98SE so here it is. Thank you, given this is 98SE I was quite pleased to see that SIV got the cache topology correct and reported both GPUs. Is the system Dual Boot with Windows XP or later? If so then SIV …

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Re: SIV and the Windows 2000 extended kernel functions

Posted on 2019-08-25, 13:57

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Yes, it finishes the whole report without problems. It shows two entries (see pic) HWiNFO paradoxically shows UEFI boot is true but BIOS is not UEFI capable. Thank you, all is now as I expected/hoped and I am pleased to have got to the bottom of this. Please will you post a new save file so I can …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + DEC Alpha CPUs and 3Dfx + Matrox GPUs

Posted on 2019-08-25, 08:05

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Everything seemed to read fine on this one, including identifying & detecting the clocks on my V3 correctly, although it doesn't seem to get much more else from the card. Once I release it 5.41 Beta-19 SIV should report the Voodoo memory timings. Are there any things that other utilities report …

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Re: SIV and the Windows 2000 extended kernel functions

Posted on 2019-08-25, 06:33

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GetFirmwareEnvironmentVariableA and GetFirmwareEnvironmentVariableW are indeed present! I don't what these do or if they work as expected. Sometimes the extended kernel functions are just "dummies" that do nothing and return failure, just to avoid errors coming up about missing imports. Are single …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586/DEC Alpha class CPUs and 3Dfx + Matrox GPUs

Posted on 2019-08-24, 10:47

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I had a crash even with uefi-info unchecked (and this time it caused the system to freeze completely, I had to reboot and do CHKDSK and the whole nine yards) I also unchecked bios-make and bios-option as one of those appeared to be the culprit. That worked. This system uses Win2000 extended kernel, …

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Re: SIV with KernelEx v0.36a

Posted on 2019-08-24, 06:56

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Note: this system is running 98SE with KernelEX installed (the K6-2 doesn't have it.) Not sure that makes any difference. This is also a less "pristine" system meaning I've had it for a while & have swapped around graphics & sound cards/drivers a bit. When saving a report I get a crash at Section …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + DEC Alpha CPUs and 3Dfx + Matrox GPUs

Posted on 2019-08-24, 00:16

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Everything seemed to read fine on this one, including identifying & detecting the clocks on my V3 correctly, although it doesn't seem to get much more else from the card. The PowerVR PCX2 (Matrox M3D) in the system was not detected as a "GPU" but does show up in the PCI device listing. This is a …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + DEC Alpha CPUs and 3Dfx + Matrox GPUs

Posted on 2019-08-24, 00:03

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Shuttle XPC (Geode+Geforce 3): Note: this system is running 98SE with KernelEX installed (the K6-2 doesn't have it.) Not sure that makes any difference. This is also a less "pristine" system meaning I've had it for a while & have swapped around graphics & sound cards/drivers a bit. Everything seems …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + DEC Alpha CPUs and 3Dfx + Matrox GPUs

Posted on 2019-08-23, 23:24

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BTW big thanks for still supporting these old machines. Thank you for checking things out and all now looks to be OK. The SIV start-up time is rather longer than usual which I think is down to the speed of the D: flash drive. BTW the system seems to have a SO-DIMM with the AD2SHH1GS1WB-6EGE part …

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Re: ECS P6FX2-A motherboard post error 27 + 25

Posted on 2019-08-23, 22:51

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DankEngihn wrote: Have you tried using an ISA video card? Thank you for the information, but I don't have an ISA VGA card. I will see if I can get one from eBay for a sensible price.

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Improved SIV support for the VIA CX700 chipset

Posted on 2019-08-23, 20:56

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CPU is reported as a "VIA Eden 500MHz" running at 1GHz (5x200). I think this is a problem with the CPUID as it happens in everything , including CPU-Z, Windows's device manager, and Linux's /proc/cpuinfo. Thank you for checking out SIV and your excellent post. I have adjusted SIV, there is now a 5. …

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