Re: Cirrus CL-GD5434 drivers for Windows 95

Posted on 2020-02-16, 17:25

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by Horun

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looks to have W95 drivers, but they wish you to download their stuff. Unfortunately, that sh*tty site does not provide any drivers. Only sleazy DriverEasy utility, which is an obvious scam. 100% agree !!! There is a few other websites that do same exact thing. At least at DriverGuide you can …

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Re: Found ABIT AB-BH6 Slot 1, Seeking to Identify hardware...

Posted on 2020-02-16, 17:21

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by Horun

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That Quasar card is a BIOS add-on adapter like a DTC1181, it probably gives support for large HD's. There are two rev's to AB-BH6 so if you decide to flash it's bios be very careful as the bios versions must match the board revs. https://soggi.org/motherboards/abit/BH6.htm Have a ct2940 but no …

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Re: Weird unknown Xebec ISA card?

Posted on 2020-02-16, 05:46

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by Horun

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Looked thru the bios and it does appear to be for HD's. I still say it is an interface card and not a full HD controller. There is no way in 1988 that it could do scsi, sasi or winchester directly connected, just not enough electronics. I think it was a mate to an external HD box for XT's that had …

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Re: Identifying old PC hardware\chip company logos?

Posted on 2020-02-16, 05:29

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by Horun

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BastlerMike wrote on 2020-02-16, 03:25: The logo on your board belongs to Biostar I take your word for that but have never seen that image on a Biostar board or manual before. The ones am familiar with are a weird A with stripes but never saw a an older logo afaik. Thanks.

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Re: Missing Operatin System error on UM386 Board with 256MB CF IDE

Posted on 2020-02-16, 05:13

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by Horun

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Yes there is a drive size limit in older BIOS and also versions of DOS. DOS from v4 thru 6.22 has a 2GB partition limit. Most BIOS of the 286 and 386 era have a max of 1024 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors/track which leads to a max of 528Mb (504Mb). The way around that is a drive overlay program ( …

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Re: Valuation of old hardware

Posted on 2020-02-15, 21:35

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by Horun

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Some sales do not show in the Advanced search but it can be sort of handy. A few months ago I was looking to see what the selling of a specific board was, found one for much cheaper and bought it. Works great as was advertised and left positive feedback BUT a "sold" search for that product does not …

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Re: How can I tell if CMOS battery header is charging or non-charging?

Posted on 2020-02-15, 19:52

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by Horun

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Ok, CR2 definately makes sure the battery is connected properly or else no volts to cmos, also would prevent any charging. You need a 4.5v +/- battery source (4.5v- 0.7v for diode=3.8v) so three AAA or AA batteries is what it needs. It probably had something like the attached picture originally …

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Re: How can I tell if CMOS battery header is charging or non-charging?

Posted on 2020-02-15, 18:43

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by Horun

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I was told that you need to measure current when a battery is connected and the computer is turned on and that will tell if it will charge it or not. The problem with that is most CMOS chips only need about a dozen microamps to keep it's memory alive, and it does not account for the reverse charge …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-02-15, 17:35

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by Horun

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There's more than 1 in there, there are 3 more. I already saved 2.. don't have room for more at my house lol. DS20E's are next. Nice ! There is a place in my area where you can dump off old computers and they recycle the parts, have seen big bins full of old computers there BUT they guard it well …

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

Posted on 2020-02-15, 17:28

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by Horun

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imi wrote on 2020-02-15, 16:57: nobody buys those anyways, so they just sit there forever and pollute the search results. I removed the clothes rail from my old wardrobe yesterday and put another shelf in so I can store more hardware. 🤣 you want to help me organize my storage space ? It is truly a …

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Re: Valuation of old hardware

Posted on 2020-02-15, 17:27

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by Horun

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I think knowing market value for computer items is interesting in its own right and I don't ever plan on selling any computer hardware I own. I started a topic some time ago which attempted to track the value of sold items, but there wasn't enough participation to make it viable. https://www.vogons …

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Re: How can I tell if CMOS battery header is charging or non-charging?

Posted on 2020-02-15, 17:16

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by Horun

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Sounds like it is a charging battery connection or you would not see any volts. Did it have a barrel type battery attached to the board originally? If it did then you need 3.7v of battery as those barrels were only made in 3.6-3.7v AFIAK. If it never had a barrel then it would have used a 3.6v Nicad …

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Re: Cirrus CL-GD5434 drivers for Windows 95

Posted on 2020-02-15, 17:05

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by Horun

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red-ray wrote on 2020-02-15, 16:30: I see Horun has updated the .INF for your GPU. I compared before with after and the additions look correct to me. Fingers crossed that it now runs OK Thanks but I missed editing a copy line, think it would have errored. Updated the file.

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

Posted on 2020-02-15, 16:19

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by Horun

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I quit hunting on ebay for parts to repair the misfit systems I have due to the greed. People want $50 for a used and un-tested floppy drive. Yes ! Hate that some ask such high prices for "untested" parts. Only retro thing I did lately is look thru a bunch of old driver disks looking for anything …

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Re: Cirrus CL-GD5434 drivers for Windows 95

Posted on 2020-02-15, 15:59

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by Horun

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Can you remove the driver and delete the 5440.inf then use the attached .inf and reinstall the driver please ?

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-02-15, 05:47

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by Horun

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Friend's dumpster find - I received this stuff in exhange for 486 build I'm completing for him. Some damage unfortunatelly... but not on the items I really cared for (SCSI controllers, CGA card, 286 board) some of it I may fix... Nice ! It looks like a 10Mhz 286 but the main Xtal looks like 48Mhz, …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-02-15, 04:25

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by Horun

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Thanks Pierre32 ! Added MS Intellipoint mouse driver and MS 3D Pro Joystick drivers for Win95, also went thru some of the "uncategorised" and moved some stuff to more appropriate section (like the motherboard stuff to "motherboard")

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Re: Cirrus CL-GD5434 drivers for Windows 95

Posted on 2020-02-15, 03:31

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by Horun

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I have a driver in my archives that also may work, is for Cirrus Logic 5430 PCI, 5434 PCI, 5436 PCI and 5440 PCI. If you are using a VLB card it may or may not work. added: Let us know if a file works so it can be added to Vogans Library, thanks

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Re: Weird unknown Xebec ISA card?

Posted on 2020-02-15, 01:43

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by Horun

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All older ISA SCSI and SASI have terminator resisters on the card near the connectors which your card does not. I am guessing it is an interface card similar to what Apple II and early PC used for some tape drive. The FCC ID came up with next to nothing other than being similar to some Xebec Apple …

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Re: Issues with Asus Cubx-e Tualatin 1.4 post

Posted on 2020-02-14, 06:13

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by Horun

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If you can get the new BIOS file and flasher util to your HD that is better than flashing from a floppy. As far as the actual bios file and setting I do not know. Did you breadboard test the motherboard with a lessor cpu after fixing the caps and before building the system ?

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