Re: Using Hercules Driver and Software on an S3 Virge DX with VESA 2.0 and solved the brightness bug black becomes gray

Posted on 2023-10-11, 01:12

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by egbertjan

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I continued searching to get the Hercules software to work on an S3 bios that does not have the brightness bug and has Vesa 2.0 support. Now I saw in NSSI, see the picture below at the video card on the video card with the Hercules bios, Hercules and at the s3 bios Unknown or Noname. Who can tell me …

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Re: Installing IDE driver under DOS

Posted on 2023-10-09, 22:42

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by egbertjan

in DOS

in DOS

The bios of the FIC VA502 can easily handle 120GB hard drives and SSDs. I have a custom bios on it. Otherwise it won't go beyond 30 GB. I know that DOS can handle 2 GB per logical drive. I have divided it into 4 parties of 2 GB.

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Using Hercules Driver and Software on an S3 Virge DX with VESA 2.0 and solved the brightness bug black becomes gray

Posted on 2023-10-09, 21:34

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by egbertjan

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in Marvin \ Video

I have a Hercules Terminator 3D/DX 4MB graphic card that I use under DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.11. On the Hercules CD that came with my card I came across drivers and software for Dos 6.22 and Windows 3.11 that were specially made by Hercules for this card. What this software adds is higher Hz settings …

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Installing IDE driver under DOS

Posted on 2023-10-03, 17:07

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by egbertjan

in DOS

in DOS

I have a FIC VA-502 motherboard with an Intel Pentium 233 CPU. The board has a VIA VT82C580VPX chipset. I am trying to install an IDE driver by VIA, version 2.3.18, made for the chipset I just mentioned. I used a 120 GB SSD (and later a 30 GB SSD) but under DOS 6.22 the computer hanged after having …

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Re: What does the sis ide driver do under DOS and Windows 3.11?

Posted on 2023-10-01, 22:40

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by egbertjan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have installed the driver, but unfortunately the PC freezes after loading the driver. He puts my Trancent SATA SSD 30GB with converter from IDE to SATA neatly in Pio 4 mode and says that it has been successfully loaded. It is the first thing he loads from the config.sys and immediately crashes in …

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32bit disk access in Windows 3.11

Posted on 2023-10-01, 02:29

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by egbertjan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have 3 with dos and windows 3.11 with the following mother orders ASUS P5A-B, FIC VA502 and a KM-S4-1 / Rectron RT. What I would like to have 32bit disk access File access in Windows 3.11. On the KM-S4-1 / Rectron RT with a 30GB transfer SSD that is seen by BIOS as 8GB the maximum that DOS can use …

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Re: What does the sis ide driver do under DOS and Windows 3.11?

Posted on 2023-09-30, 22:16

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by egbertjan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Are there perhaps people who have installed this driver and can tell us what it does under DOS and Windows 3.11?

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What does the sis ide driver do under DOS and Windows 3.11?

Posted on 2023-09-30, 18:50

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by egbertjan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a Jamicon KM-S4-1 / Rectron RT motherboard with Am5x86-P75 133MHZ and a 30 GB SSD with a converter from IDE to SATA. There is a SiS 85C496/497 chip on the motherboard. Now I see that there is an IDE driver for both MS-DOS and Windows 3.11. What exactly does this driver do and is it necessary …

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ct4170 Creative sound blaster Vibra 16XV comparable to AWE 32 and AWE 64 Gold?

Posted on 2023-09-28, 17:03

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by egbertjan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I still have a sound card for 1 of my old retro PCs, a ct4170 Creative soundblaster Vibra 16XV. My 3 other retro PCs with msdos and Windows 3.11 have a creative awe 32 ct3900 and 2 times the AWE 64 GOLD. Unfortunately I don't have any AWE 32 or AWE 64 gold left. Is this sound card comparable to …

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Re: Asus p5b-a rev.1.04 what should I do to use a K6-III+?

Posted on 2023-09-09, 00:27

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by egbertjan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have now installed this K6 III+ 550 MHz processor https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K6-III/AMD-K6-IIIE%2B%20550%20-%20K6-III%2B-550ACR.html and it worked fine without any BIOS adjustments. I was also able to overclock it to 600MHZ by setting the multiplier to 6 and the L2 cache of 256kb made …

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Replace BIOS-chip on S3 Virge DX videocards

Posted on 2023-09-06, 18:19

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by egbertjan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have several S3 Virge DX videocards. Only one of them has de newest BIOS update. This newest BIOS update among other things repairs the bug that causes a not quite black screen where it should be quite black. The other cards have all of them a one time programmable chip, so that they can not be …

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S3 Virge GX cannot be overclocked with MCLK

Posted on 2023-09-01, 15:19

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by egbertjan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have an S3 Virge GX. This card would like to overclock, the default speed is 60MHz. no matter what I do with MCLK I get instant artifacts. I also overclocked several S3 Virge DX cards above 60 MHz, which worked fine with MCLK without artifacts. Does MCLK work differently with an S3 Virge GX than a …

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Re: Quake onder dos op 640x320 met een S3 Vrige dx 4MB?

Posted on 2023-09-01, 14:51

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by egbertjan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I mean in the DOS Benchmark Pack from PHILSCOMPUTERLAB. If I press the e there to run quake on my s3 virge dx in 640x480 it turns it in 320 x 200 can this be solved on my s3 virge dx 4mb. The s3vbefix also doesn't help to fix this or is there something to do in the s3vbefix? I have an s3 virge dx …

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which s3 virge dx driver to use under windows 98SE

Posted on 2023-09-01, 14:09

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by egbertjan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Which s3 virge DX driver should I use under Windows 98 SE. I am now using the standard that comes with Windows 98 SE. The PC crashes during the race in 3dmark 99 and also when I do the direct 3d test in dxdiag. This all works if I do this with the voodoo 2 card in the same PC. The drivers I can find …

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Re: Swap S3 virge dx bios chips between different brands of cards. Is that possible?

Posted on 2023-09-01, 13:38

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by egbertjan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I now tried some BIOS-chips on other S3 Virge DX-cards and it worked very well, so this was a succesfull experiment.

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Re: latest bios version fic from 502?

Posted on 2023-08-28, 22:21

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by egbertjan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks very much, I used Flash534 and it went very well. I flashed the 1.13AJ139 (by Steunebrink). The result was that boot from CD-ROM-player went a lot better and harddisk (SSD) of 120 GB was detected. So for me it was very successfull.

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Re: latest bios version fic from 502?

Posted on 2023-08-27, 23:50

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by egbertjan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can anybody tell me which flashing program I should use to flash the BIOS of my VA502?

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Re: how to use mclk to overclock an s3 virge DX with 35 nano memory

Posted on 2023-08-24, 21:34

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by egbertjan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

At last I found out how it works. You can choose any figure when 1

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Re: Swap S3 virge dx bios chips between different brands of cards. Is that possible?

Posted on 2023-08-24, 09:53

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by egbertjan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can I swap bios chips between the cards without breaking the cards or should I just try it out and see if it works?

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Swap S3 virge dx bios chips between different brands of cards. Is that possible?

Posted on 2023-08-24, 02:55

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by egbertjan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can I exchange bios chips from different s3 virge dx cards? I have a card s3 virge dx card from herclus with fast 35 nano memory and the black/gamma color error and no vesa 2.0 in it. It runs at 60mhz. The other card s3 virge dx has a newer bios with vesa 2.0 and the black/gamma error does not. …

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