Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2020-03-22, 00:10

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vorob wrote on 2020-03-21, 16:32: Let's try again) I'm afraid there's not much I can do. This value is reported by the BIOS, which is responsible for the accuracy. If it doesn't change at all, then it's most likely invalid.

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-21, 18:51

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Do you maybe know the values of DIR0 and DIR1 for this CPU? I'm not sure if it's possible to tell the ST from Cx.. Yes, the Cx ID for this CPU is 1F36h Can you please try to manually select the Peripherals screen and take a picture when it crashes? I can not upload files now, anyway... Selecting …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-21, 17:46

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Thanks guys for all the feedback. So here just another build: [removed file as there's a newer version available] Updates in this build: - Rewritten and optimized PnP support. The problem seems to be timing, which is difficult to test. So hopefully now it will consistently report all CSNs and …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-21, 17:34

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Thak you for this tool! I itested it in a PCChips / Elpina M919 v3.4 board with an "It's ST 486DX100" CPU, without L2 cache module. The CPU model detected in HWiNFO is a Cyrix with 4Kb L1 cache, but in fact this ST CPU has 8Kb. And about 70% of the time when I exit the tool, the computer hangs with …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2020-03-21, 15:16

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Hi, new laptop, new issue! Fujitsu Siemens Amilo Xi 1546 with ATI Mobility X1800, latest HWINFO reports 97C while it never changes. Also no other program report GPU temperature. Is there any way to get proper value? Sorry, but the attached Debug File doesn't contain sensor data (you probably didn't …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-21, 10:17

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Here a new build (version remains 6.0.2, build date is different): [removed file as there's a newer version available] Changes: - Fix hang @ HPLANP above - Fix wrong identification of Intel 82595 LAN - Fixed reporting of L3 cache for AMD-K6-2+ - Updated SB AWE DRAM size detection. Not sure if this …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-20, 19:38

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I did a few runs, and sometimes it wont see my second PnP CSN. sometimes it will.. I attached log where it shows; log1 - 2 csn's, correctly lists awe32+ gus pnp log2 - 2 csn's, only lists gus pnp both times it does not show more than one sound card on the perhiperhals screen. even when it shows two …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-20, 18:17

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Baoran wrote on 2020-03-20, 06:25: One thing I noticed was that 550Kb of conventional ram wasn't enough. I had 552Kb free and the program loaded fine, but I got out of memory error during the tests itself. Meanwhile I did a few more memory optimizations, that should improve it. Will be part of next …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-20, 15:48

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Shagittarius wrote on 2020-03-20, 15:45: On my P90 I get : "Fatal Error: Cannot open HWiNFO.PCI" using MS DOS 6.22, maybe this isnt intended to be run with PCI bus? It is. Are you launching the tool from the directory where all files (including HWINFO.PCI) are located?

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-20, 15:37

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the blinking is because I think, its trying to go into 'ice' colour mode. I dont know its real name. But it uses blink as hi-colour in text mode to give you extra background colours. Yes, looks like some problem with intensity. Instead of high intensity the video adapter interprets it as blinking. …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-20, 15:28

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my system roughly; FIC PA-2013 v2.1 motherboard, VIA MVP3, k6-2+ 500mhz. 512mb ram. 1 AGP (Matrox G400 MAX) 1 PCI (3COM 3C905C) 2 ISA (Gus PNP, AWE32 PNP) I tested with hwinf602.ziop mainboard : it misses my third level cache of 1mb on my motherboard, with my amd k6-2+ which has 1st + 2nd level …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-20, 09:32

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V86 managers do not allow low-level access to certain hardware, so this is definitely not recommended. And you can't expect a DOS application to work properly under hardware-virtualized host like VMware, it's totally isolated. I would expect that it will not working with some interpreter as Dosbox, …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-20, 08:56

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Why not use a WinPE bootable USB with HWiNFO32/64 for later systems? So, HWiNFO does work under PE... problem solved, then. I had problems running some stuff in PE, so I didn't even try with HWiNFO... Yes, both HWiNFO32 and HWiNFO64 fully support WinPE. In some cases you might also need to load …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-20, 08:55

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There is some bug which reporting that HWinfo is running under Win95/98 when just MS-DOS 7.1 is used. Otherwise i dunno if it supported, but is nice to see what virtualization tools trying to emulate.. I tested Vmware and Virtualbox and there are working fine, with Qemu so far i wanst lucky, but im …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-20, 07:30

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Currently it's 386SX up to approx. Intel Core family, perhaps a few newer too. But later ones might lack a few things as I scrapped some support to save memory. I don't expect users of those system to be running DOS. I don't use DOS on modern machines, but I don't use Windows on them, either. And …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-20, 07:27

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Here's what is says on my gateway bat4ip3 mobo-- HWiNFO v6.0.1 º Main Processor: AMD Am5x86, 119.6 MHz º º Bus Type: PCI (V2.00) + ISA º º Mainboard Model: Unknown º º Mainboard Chipset: Intel 82420EX º º First Level Cache: 1 KBytes º º Second Level Cache: 256 KBytes of Asynchronous SRAM º Three …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-19, 20:48

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I tested this on my Thinkpad 560X. I tried it cold, just running my defaut configuration with JEMMEX. It did its usual thing complaining about me having a memory manager loaded. But this time it actually loaded, ran through all the tests, and worked! It never used to do that before, would only work …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-19, 20:38

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Shouldn't be. Com ports are 02f8 and 03f8 and parallel port is disabled in bios. Only thing I have no knowledge of is the game blaster compatibility of old sound blaster card like this and if it uses any address that I don't know about. Pctools 9.0 system information detects the sound blaster fine …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-19, 18:31

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Port 280 Is anything at that port, perhaps the IO card ? Shouldn't be. Com ports are 02f8 and 03f8 and parallel port is disabled in bios. Only thing I have no knowledge of is the game blaster compatibility of old sound blaster card like this and if it uses any address that I don't know about. …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-19, 17:11

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Incredibly I finally have both the time and being in the right location to test my Compaq Presario 2232 media GX system. Clock speed reporting is off, as in it's inconsistent from try to try, I actually don't know for certain the speed of the chip, info on this old piece of crap is limited, but as …

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