Re: Is it even possible to save a "fried" board?

Posted on 2020-02-20, 03:51

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by Horun

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Both socket A and socket 370 cpu's had no thermal limiting and no LID. If heat sink was not attached properly would very quickly fry the cpu, sometimes in a matter of seconds. Socket A would burn itself up like flash paper, but socket 370 CPUs had a thermal diode that gave the motherboard a …

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Re: Digital equipment's celebris XL 5100 has black screen and gives out an error code.

Posted on 2020-02-20, 02:47

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by Horun

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Nice looking tower. I have a NEC dual Pentium that looks similar, also has onboard scsi. If you have a regular Win95 CD then all you need is a DOS 6.22 (Or Dos 7) boot floppy and add those files and lines. You should be able to access the cdrom and run setup.

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Re: Digital equipment's celebris XL 5100 has black screen and gives out an error code.

Posted on 2020-02-20, 02:29

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by Horun

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Yes that is v3 bios. Are you trying to make a boot disk that has cdrom support ? In config.sys add these lines in this order some where after Himem.sys and make sure those files are on the floppy: DEVICE=MINICAM.SYS DEVICE=SCSIDISK.SYS DEVICE=CDROM.SYS /D:MSCD001 In autoexec.bat add this line and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-20, 02:07

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by Horun

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jmarsh wrote on 2020-02-19, 07:33: Your video card is upside down. Deczor wrote on 2020-02-19, 07:26: Quite sweet, eh? Dos 6.2, Windows 3.1 the original driver disks, all as new and possibly unused. "Carla" might tell a different story. Hahhhaaaa just the bracket is upside down. WOW Deczor did you …

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Re: Has anyone used an old version of PC-Anywhere with a serial/wifi bridge adapter to remotely access an old PC?

Posted on 2020-02-20, 02:02

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by Horun

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Not sure what you are trying to do but if only transfer files or access internet then you should only need one and use it to connect to a wifi router. From there you should be able to setup a local access if you want to send files from a diff computer. No never used pc-anywhere with a wifi adapter …

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Re: Jumper setting for Sound Blaster Pro 2.0 ( CT1600 )

Posted on 2020-02-20, 01:55

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by Horun

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Stiletto wrote on 2020-02-19, 19:34: Merged duplicate topics. (Damn it, Intel486dx33...) Ooops...🤣 IRQ7 is always used for Parallel ports so should be avoided unless you disable it. Is why most back in the day used IRQ5 for SB ISA sound cards as we had old printers that needed the PPort.

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Re: Running without chipset drivers

Posted on 2020-02-20, 01:51

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by Horun

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So any chipset drivers usually work regardless of motherboard? As long as it is the same chipset, yes. Also the Intel chipset driver from the Asus site (you can get it many other places) supports tons of different chipsets. Just like an AMD or Nvidia graphics card driver will support maybe 7-8 …

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Re: Digital equipment's celebris XL 5100 has black screen and gives out an error code.

Posted on 2020-02-20, 01:46

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by Horun

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You need the NCR SDMS scsi driver package for the onboard scsi adapter. Not sure which version would apply to your board but would assume version either 3.x or 4.x . You need to look at the scsi BIOS version during boot and see what number it is. If it is NCR Bios 3.x. then you need v3. v3: http:// …

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Re: Running without chipset drivers

Posted on 2020-02-20, 00:37

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by Horun

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The full snappy driver pack is 90GB, no thanks. Would rather spend the time and research the required drivers but that is just me. I have a fully functional i7-8700k on a Z370 board running Win 7 and found all the drivers needed just by doing some research. Unfortunately Intel, Asus, MSI etc removed …

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Re: What are these pins for?

Posted on 2020-02-19, 02:54

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by Horun

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They are for us to wonder why ! hahaa just kidding, according to the Conner pdf the 3 pin is for "optional 3pin power connector (not used)", the odd 9 pin off from the DM/DS/CS are some sort of serial in/out not described as to what they are used for though usually 2 of the pins are for the drive …

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Re: M-tech R418W2 memory size issues

Posted on 2020-02-19, 02:27

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by Horun

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From the SiS 496-497 datasheet: ftp://retronn.de/docs/chipset/SiS%20496-497.pdf "1.1 DRAM Controller Supports 8 Banks Non-Interleaved Access for Single and Double Sided SIMMs up to 255 MBytes. Supports DRAM CAS Before RAS Refresh. Supports "Table-Free" DRAM configuration. Programmable driving …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-18, 05:49

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by Horun

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Got a Sony USB FDD MPF88E (2005) and an older (2009) InWin BL647 case today. Case has a floppy slot so is sorta retro and a Intel DG41RQ motherboard inside that works which is not retro but has possibilities. Also got a microsoft optical wheel mouse that is usb and ps/2 compatible, tested and does …

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Re: FIC 486-VIP-IO2 CPU support

Posted on 2020-02-17, 04:08

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by Horun

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I see there are no jumper packs in the sockets, should there be ? They look like black resistor packs but are actually jumper blocks. Just curious because your board and the manual do not match (it is late so might have missed the details)

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Re: Need Help with FIC 486-vip-io PCI Video Card

Posted on 2020-02-17, 03:54

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by Horun

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- 2mb Diamond Stealth64 2001 series S3 Trio64V+ (from 1995) -4mb Diamond Stealth 3d 2000 series S3 Virge (from 1996) S3 Trio64V+ should work, use one as a test card in all sorts of PCI capable motherboards including 486, but do not have a FIC 486-vip-io. The S3 Virge might be pci spec 2.1 so might …

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Re: Is it even possible to save a "fried" board?

Posted on 2020-02-17, 02:06

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by Horun

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Both socket A and socket 370 cpu's had no thermal limiting and no LID. If heat sink was not attached properly would very quickly fry the cpu, sometimes in a matter of seconds.

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Re: Problem with Adaptec 1542B BIOS 3.20

Posted on 2020-02-16, 23:41

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by Horun

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I'm trying to make this card to work with Win98 SE but no luck yet. There is no resource conflict too. It didn't also detect my CD-RW drive. Should I set the ID of it to 3 or above for CD drive? I would try id4 or 5, usually most save the lower numbers for HD's. Does the controller see the drive …

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Re: DriverGuide.com’s Not-so-surprising Scammy Tactics

Posted on 2020-02-16, 22:13

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by Horun

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I have been able to DL from www.driverguide.com for a while using the following (discovered by accident) under Xp with FF 52.9: Search for your driver on their home page, I choose Matrox G200 as example. 1.After searching I get a list and of course first one is DriverFinderInstall, skip it and going …

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Re: Cirrus CL-GD5434 drivers for Windows 95

Posted on 2020-02-16, 21:41

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by Horun

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100% agree !!! There is a few other websites that do same exact thing. At least at DriverGuide you can download stuff w/o their "driverfinder.exe" crap if you know how. Please tell us how. I have an old thread about them here and you have my permission to give it an update: https://www.vogons.org/ …

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Re: Manual for CI-2205 SCSI VLB

Posted on 2020-02-16, 20:54

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by Horun

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Can you take a better picture ? It appears all the jumpers are labeled, I can barely read the IRQ and I/O address jumpers mid board. The Centos website in archive.org does not go back far enough to get any info. The drivers would be standard Adaptec.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-02-16, 17:55

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by Horun

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Predator99 wrote on 2020-02-16, 11:09: Tested my 286-SBCs... Bought these (retro) hardware today ...in a "temporary" backplane. Both seem to be working, but I dont hav […] Show full quote Tested my 286-SBCs... Bought these (retro) hardware today ...in a "temporary" backplane. Both seem to be …

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