Voltage error on Asus P5A-B

Posted on 2023-07-21, 21:57

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by egbertjan

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am building a system on a Asus P5A-B rev 1.04 with a AMD-K6-2/500 CPU. I use a PSU of which name and specs are on the photo. 20230720_203935.jpg 20230720_210928.jpg 20230720_203812.jpg On one of the other photo's is a picture of the Power Management page of the BIOS. Here are shown the different …

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Re: Jamicon KM-S4-1 / Rectron RT-4S3 Speed PCI-slot going down after overclock

Posted on 2023-07-17, 20:48

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by egbertjan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you mkarcher. As you adviced I changed the setting of JP12 to 33 MHZ. The result was a very little increase of the speed of the videocard. The same videocard on another motherboard with the same chipset shows a much higher speed: 16600 in stead of 14805 KB/s. Are there more options to increase …

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Jamicon KM-S4-1 / Rectron RT-4S3 Speed PCI-slot going down after overclock

Posted on 2023-07-16, 13:13

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by egbertjan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a motherboard KM-S4-1 with a AM5x86-P75-S CPU. The most recent BIOS (4.2) is installed. Normally this CPU is operated at a clockspeed of 133 MHz. I have overclocked the CPU by rising the busspeed from 33 to 40 MHz, so that the CPU works on 160 MHz. After I raised the CPU-voltage to 4 V the …

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Re: Jamicon KM-S4-1 / Rectron RT-4S3 Bios update

Posted on 2023-07-16, 12:20

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by egbertjan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Before update: Filename 3.jpg File size 1.62 MiB Views 491 views After update: Filename 3.jpg File size 1.94 MiB Views 484 views After the update there was an extra setting in the BIOS: CPU burst write. Can someone tell what this is about and should it be dis- or enabled?

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Re: Jamicon KM-S4-1 / Rectron RT-4S3 Bios update

Posted on 2023-07-16, 12:13

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by egbertjan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

From Chkcpu I received a chip with an update for the BIOS. I mounted the chip on the board and the result was completely OK as you can see on the photo's. The AM5x86-P75-S is now correctly supported. I am realy happy with this result. Before update: Filename post.jpg File size 1.26 MiB Views 496 …

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questions about ASUS p5a-b

Posted on 2023-07-04, 17:09

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by egbertjan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I plan to build a super socket 7 PC with an ASUS P5A-B Motherboard. Now I saw that there are different versions 1.03,1.04 and 1.05 . What are the differences between those versions? I have a pentium 1 233mhz that I can put on it. I see that this motherboard also AMD K6-2 and AMD K6-3 processors …

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Re: Jamicon KM-S4-1 / Rectron RT-4S3 Bios update

Posted on 2023-07-01, 14:10

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by egbertjan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you very much Jan, you are very herlpfull. I indeed live in the Netherlands, in Drenthe. I would appriciate it very much if you could help with updating the BIOS. Can you let me know what steps I have to take? Egbert Jan

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Re: Jamicon KM-S4-1 / Rectron RT-4S3 Bios update

Posted on 2023-06-30, 20:31

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by egbertjan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you very much. Here is the picture of the BIOS-chip. Do you know wether or not I can flash this chip? Filename 20230630_222713.jpg File size 1.58 MiB Views 596 views

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Jamicon KM-S4-1 / Rectron RT-4S3 Bios update

Posted on 2023-06-28, 19:52

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by egbertjan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a motherboard which indicates in my post that it is a RT-4S3 the board is also known as KM-S4-1 Here's a picture of my post Can someone tell me which version I have on it now and whether there are also newer versions for this motherboard and if there are newer versions what they improve? I …

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Re: Asus pvi-486sp3 bios reset

Posted on 2023-02-09, 23:02

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by egbertjan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

is there any way outside the bios

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Asus pvi-486sp3 bios reset

Posted on 2023-02-09, 19:25

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by egbertjan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have an Asus pvi-486sp3. What is the best way to do a hard bios rest?

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How can I update a bios of an Asus pvi-486sp3 rev 1.22?

Posted on 2023-01-11, 21:09

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by egbertjan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have an asus pvi-486sp3 rev 1.22 with bios 306. I would like to update this bios to bios 307. How can I best update this bios. Which jumpers do I need to adjust for this? Where can I download bios 307 and what flash tool do I need and where can I download it? Who can help me with this?

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Re: Memmaker breaks CD-ROM drive

Posted on 2023-01-03, 14:41

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by egbertjan

in DOS

in DOS

Gmlb256 wrote on 2023-01-03, 14:03: Does loading the CD drive with OAKCDROM.SYS help? It is the most compatible one, but it consumes more memory. I did indeed try OAKCDROM.SYS, but it had exactly the same trouble with Memmaker.

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Re: Memmaker breaks CD-ROM drive

Posted on 2023-01-03, 13:06

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by egbertjan

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in DOS

As soon as i start memmaker, the cdrom driver no longer recognizes my cd player. It doesn't matter if I connected it to my motherboard or my creative awe 32 ct3900. I am using dos 6.22 Only when I remove memmaker again does it malfunction the CD-ROM player again. I use this SBIDE.SYS driver when it …

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Re: Memmaker breaks CD-ROM drive

Posted on 2023-01-01, 13:32

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by egbertjan

in DOS

in DOS

As soon as i start memmaker, the cdrom driver no longer recognizes my cd player. It doesn't matter if I connected it to my motherboard or my creative awe 32 ct3900. I am using dos 6.22 Only when I remove memmaker again does it malfunction the CD-ROM player again. I use this SBIDE.SYS driver when it …

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Memmaker breaks CD-ROM drive

Posted on 2022-12-31, 22:59

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by egbertjan

in DOS

in DOS

As soon as i start memmaker, the cdrom driver no longer recognizes my cd player. It doesn't matter if I connected it to my motherboard or my creative awe 32 ct3900. I am using dos 6.22 Only when I remove memmaker again does it malfunction the CD-ROM player again. I use this SBIDE.SYS driver when it …

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Problems with drivers Creative AWE 32 CT3900

Posted on 2022-12-28, 17:01

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by egbertjan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have the following PC with dos 6.22 and windows 3.11 Am5x86 133mhz ASUS pvi-486sp3 ver 1.22 S3 virgin DX 4mb (2x16) 60ns 32mb fpm Creative awe 32 ct3900 3Com EtherLink III 3C509B-TPO Maxtor 6E030L0 7200RPM 2MB cache TEAC CD-W58E 8x8x32 be quiet! SFX L Power 600W PSU Now I have the following …

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Re: Help to expand the cache of an asus PVI-486SP3 from 256kb to 512kb

Posted on 2022-12-21, 20:07

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by egbertjan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I indeed operate the FSB on 33 MHz and the timing is 2-1-1-1. I will try to find the chips you advised.

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Help to expand the cache of an asus PVI-486SP3 from 256kb to 512kb

Posted on 2022-12-20, 00:11

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by egbertjan

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have an asus PVI-486SP3 rev 1.22 motherboard. I now have 256kb cache on it. I would like to expand that to 512kb. I read that I need 4 chips of 128kb of 15ns with 32 pins is that correct? Do I also have to replace the tag chip or can I leave the current one on? I see different chips on the …

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measure fps in dos games

Posted on 2022-12-19, 17:49

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by egbertjan

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in Marvin \ Software

How can I measure how many fps I have in dos games? For example, I want to measure how many fps I get with my 486 in Duke Nukem 3d or Wolfenstein 3d? Is there a special program for this?

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