Re: Your Opinion on the Best Video Card by Retro Operating System

Posted on 2021-01-31, 05:59

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by Horun

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I do like some of your choices but have an issue with PCIe for Warp 3/4 and Win9x. Being that PCIe did not really become OK/stable until about 2007 with ver 2.0, picking a PCIe video card means a PCIe motherboard and most of us do not consider using a late 2000's board to run a OS from mid 90's. …

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Re: How to identify this 486 motherboard techmedia UMC um8498F

Posted on 2021-01-31, 02:28

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by Horun

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Hi, i saw a 486 board on ebay which was teared down from a techmedia 486 machine. It got UMC um8498F chipsets on it. I asked the seller about several questions but he/she didn't have quite good knowledge of it. I attached several photos of it in attachment I would like to know: 1. Does it support …

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Re: Shuttle HOT-433 question: huge Ctrl-Alt-Del delay

Posted on 2021-01-30, 21:48

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by Horun

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Does a hard reset work instantly ? I have an older 486 that also takes time (maybe 3 or 4 real seconds) before Ctrl-Alt-Del resets from DOS but if still booting up before end of BIOS POST it resets nearly instant with Ctrl-Alt-Del, and always near instant with the reset button.

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Re: Memory not working together but works individually

Posted on 2021-01-30, 16:37

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by Horun

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2021-01-30, 04:30: The 440ZX chipset is limited to 256 MB RAM total. Archived link with specs. ^^ This ! Good summary and good find, the 440ZX datasheet also says max 256MB: https://web.archive.org/web/20060218024851/ht … ts/29065001.pdf

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Re: How risky is it to buy an untested slot A Athlon K7 650 (AMD-K7650MTR51B)?

Posted on 2021-01-30, 02:54

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by Horun

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So it's missing a fan I presume? Or were they sold with a heatsink only? My only K7 Slot A (K7-600MTR51B-C) came without any heatsink or fan originally, uses same as a P2 H/S fan AFAIK. It looks just like a Pentium II without the heatsink+fan. Have had it for years along with the Asus K7M board and …

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Re: Finding jumpers for VLB LCLK

Posted on 2021-01-30, 00:44

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by Horun

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Hmm I was all over Shuttle and Spacewalker (was the Web name before they went shuttle) websites and cannot find any extra info on the HOT 543. Will dig thru Archive a bit more this weekend, might find something on Supermicro... Maybe Mkarcher or one of the others will see and have some help on this …

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Re: Newegg.com erased my retro computing past...

Posted on 2021-01-29, 03:42

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by Horun

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Good to know. Now I can gaze upon one of my earliest purchases from them in 2003. Ok using your link changed the numbers to same on one old invoices and got this: https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16814108125?Item=N82E16814108125 You can even just type in the year and anything that has that year will …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-29, 02:32

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by Horun

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Got ITT EXRA|Profession Series 10Mhz 8088 Model-No. 401470-007 system from 1987 this week. Smaller form factor than my Redstone XT-Turbo system. I really did n't what another XT class system but one was far to good a deal to pass up. It has 768kb of ram stock, a 720k 3.5" fdd with the controller is …

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Re: Newegg.com erased my retro computing past...

Posted on 2021-01-29, 02:21

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by Horun

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I just wanted to update this thread with some wonderful news that chrismeyer6 posted here earlier. If you go to your Newegg order history page you can still search for items from orders that are more than 10 years old and it will bring up that order! Apparently they just did something stupid with …

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Re: Trying to convert old motherboard manuals

Posted on 2021-01-28, 21:05

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by Horun

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As an update: last night tried a few more apps, one said 1535 was a Word 5 doc and the 1545 was a Word for Windows 2 doc. Installed DOS Word 5 and it opened 1535 but still no images. The Word Viewer v6 (supposed to support viewing Word 6, WinWord 1.x thru WinWord 6 and Mac Word 4+) would open both …

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Re: Leading Edge Model M MP1676L

Posted on 2021-01-28, 04:37

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by Horun

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Nice ! Yes could be CGA and yes should be able to a TV but not sure. Can you open it up and get some pictures ?

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2021-01-28, 04:21

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by Horun

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Here is couple manuals I just scanned. There is some background noise and PDF's are large in size. Great ! I found an image of the 486 board and included it. Let me know if it looks ok: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1774&menustate=0,0 Will work on the 286 board tomorrow, do you …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-28, 03:21

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by Horun

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Almost bought a MS Sidewinder 3D pro today but the throttle slide was broken, was in great shape except for that 🙁 Also saw a HP external USB CDROM from about 2001 but have no use for one.... nothing else good in the local markets here.

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Re: Seagate 238R MFM drive woes.

Posted on 2021-01-28, 02:55

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by Horun

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I think it is a motherboard BIOS issue with that Intel 440LX. Try the 486 motherboard. If the special HD utils can talk to the controller and it does see the HD at the low interrupt level then it has to be something about the motherboard BIOS or a setting (being Intel board and Phoenix bios your …

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Re: Seagate 238R MFM drive woes.

Posted on 2021-01-27, 02:13

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by Horun

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The drive does no actions, i put my finger very very lightly on the drive head motor underneath and there is no movement, i also hear nothing internally. You cannot hear the drive spinning ? Do you have the control cable on J4 ? That is for C: drive. For C/H/S 615/4/17 sounds correct for using it …

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Re: Trying to convert old motherboard manuals

Posted on 2021-01-27, 00:17

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by Horun

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Yes have run into some odd .DOC files before, one was from Phil's and it had a RIFF formatted picture in it (which did not convert using standard PDF conversions). This one has some PowerPoint as mentioned but all the PowerPoint and Web based Doc converters can not properly convert it. If I can …

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Re: messed up flashing bios

Posted on 2021-01-26, 03:51

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by Horun

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Do not buy the cheapest ones ! Get a real TL866ii plus direct from XGecu: http://www.xgecu.com/en/ Ebay: search for: xgecu then make sure: xgecupro is the seller. They have shipping from either China or USA , if in US pick the US shipped. Thanks for this advice. Located them on ebay AU (item: …

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

Posted on 2021-01-26, 03:41

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by Horun

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I usually wipe old drives without looking what is on them. Stories like this do make me wonder how often I should check them though. Very heart warming to me :) I NEVER do that. Why would I? People who sell/bring machines with all the data on HDD don't care about their privacy or data anyway. I did …

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Re: Help find a manual for this Baby AT Socket 7 board (AVB55C REV B2)

Posted on 2021-01-26, 03:34

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by Horun

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Try with a SIMM in slot 1 and 3 or 2 and 4 (so one open space in between). I seem to remember something weird about this board. I may have owned an 430FX variant of it at some time. Wow, just noticed after you posted this that the SIMM slots are numbered that way (0-1-0-1) on the board. Never even …

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Re: ALR RAM Expansion 16 bit ISA Card

Posted on 2021-01-26, 03:08

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by Horun

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I cannot read the memory chips but is similar to an IBM 61x6720 1Mb expansion card (minus the parallel port), they made a 1Mb add-on for the IBM and assume there is also one for you ALR. The jumpers would set which UMB 64k window the ram could be accesssed. It would typically use XMA2EMS.sys or …

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