Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-24, 04:28

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by Horun

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How about this SOC 486 evaluation board? Should just be able to add a sound card and drives and have a fully functional "486 class" computer. Up to at least 100Mhz fsb and 128MB PC-100 SDRAM DIMM support. 66Mhz PCI support as well from what I can tell. This should be interesting. Seller's pics: …

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-11-24, 03:58

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by Horun

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Link works, thanks for that, will come in handy at archive.org for searching for old webpages on those boards you saved links too. Got my archiving, sorting, naming, etc. done. Total of 259 different boards manuals and bios, totals about 5Gb (5.02 to be exact) with everything.

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Re: Where to find cheap PS/2 brackets for AT motherboards ?

Posted on 2019-11-23, 21:39

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by Horun

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Ok, well was worth a try. I had some I/O shields shipped to me from Netherlands in a 5"x8" envelope and shipping was only 3 euro. I need to check what it cost for me to ship a 2 ounce small package to parts of Europe. If the mouse socket was removed from the backplate it would easily all fit in a …

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Re: Gigabyte GA-P43-ES3G in short

Posted on 2019-11-23, 21:24

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by Horun

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The socket looks good. Here is a pic that may help

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Re: Where to find cheap PS/2 brackets for AT motherboards ?

Posted on 2019-11-23, 21:06

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by Horun

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If you are in Europe see if this can be shipped cheaper: https://www.amazon.co.uk/StarTech-com-Connect … 74543154&sr=8-1

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Re: ASUS VL/I-486SV2GX4 PS/2 Problem

Posted on 2019-11-23, 20:50

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by Horun

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Glad you got it fixed !

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Re: drivers for PC Action Pad Controller. Logic 3 Jt264

Posted on 2019-11-23, 20:46

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by Horun

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Try this driver. It says it is for Win 9x in the readme. Unzip and be sure to follow the instructions in ReadMe.txt. I scanned it at Virus Total: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/bb0f62b96a2e0d279cbb298717b7268154b01dbc034b26e76b5a8638cf6ed69e/detection no virus found so it should be safe to try. …

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Re: ASUS VL/I-486SV2GX4 PS/2 Problem

Posted on 2019-11-23, 18:22

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by Horun

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https://www.philscomputerlab.com/uploads/3/7/ … 2gx4_manual.pdf page 3-13 do you have IRQ12 (ps2 mouse) Enabled ? I do not see any other references in the manual for ps2 mouse. Have you tried a real PS2 mouse (not a USB/PS2 compatible) ?

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Re: List of S7/ SS7/ S8/ Slot1 ATX mobo with +4 ISA slots

Posted on 2019-11-23, 06:00

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by Horun

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Micron M55HI soc7 has 4 ISA, do not think you will find any Slot 1 with 4 ISA due to the AGP but there could be some odd board out there that does.

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-11-23, 05:43

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by Horun

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One of the things I tried to save with the manuals and BIOS is a (crude) .TXT of the BIOS download page which contains as important info as the BIOS Release..pdf (as to what the files are). Now that those pages at Intel are down here is an example of one Archived page: https://web.archive.org/web/ …

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-11-23, 03:45

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by Horun

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Intel has already started removing these pages. They work really fast, probably are using some kind of a bot or automation software (or whoever is managing their site has nothing better to do). My download's list is incomplete and let's not even talk about saving all these links to Archive.org's …

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-11-22, 04:49

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by Horun

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Hopefully someone will save these downloads somewhere, in any third party service? Intel is going nuts if they will really remove them. I have a mini-ITX board which BIOS I have never upgraded, except the day I created my last hackintosh back in 2014. IF you would have included the model number of …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-22, 03:33

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by Horun

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Nice ! How much did the ST05X cost you ? Somewhere in my storage I have a few real 8bit IDE and SCSI HD cards but never found a working ST05x yet. You should save the BIOS files and upload them here if possible, last ST05x I saw was missing the BIOS chip so was useless since no BIOS files existed at …

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

Posted on 2019-11-22, 03:12

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by Horun

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Great work ! Being a good fabricator is a good skill specially on old stuff.

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Re: Crazy prices for some retro hardware stuff.

Posted on 2019-11-21, 02:48

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by Horun

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And places like Goodwill have their own auction sites so you can't just visit a local store and find an old Pentium anymore. And yeah the horders have a bad effect on pricing too 🤣

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-11-21, 02:14

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by Horun

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Egad ! You guys are so lucky ! Hard to find any "bundles" over here but did get a box of "scsi stuff" off a local advert for $75. Have not gone thru the box yet but I spied a VLB card sticking out longer than the other cards.... Will post a pic once I get them unboxed..

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Re: DataExpert EISA/VLB info & utils needed

Posted on 2019-11-21, 01:59

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by Horun

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If you stick with standard ISA and VLB cards then you should not need the EISA config, it is only used with EISA cards. Those EISA slots have to accept standard ISA as part of the EISA spec. Do you have any EISA cards ? Thanks dionb, good resource for eisa .cfg files !

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Re: Western Digital WD1003V MFM controller in XT (8 bit) ISA?

Posted on 2019-11-21, 01:50

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by Horun

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Quick answer: No. The manuals state AT or AT compatible. It has no jumpers for IRQ, DMA, BUS width or Port addresses so you cannot set it to 8bit mode by using only the 8bit IRQ, DMA, Port, etc. AFAIK. Here are links to the manuals in case you do not have them: http://www.minuszerodegrees.net/ …

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-11-20, 02:56

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by Horun

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Thanks for the MD5 but most of the stuff I downloaded direct from Intel is not in either archive, maybe 10-20% is and why I decided to manually grab what I could. See my dir list for the Legacy Boards (https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/products/70408/boards-and-kits/desktop-boards/ …

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Re: How I washed motherboards and PCBs

Posted on 2019-11-20, 02:36

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by Horun

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but then again, I use brake cleaner for more difficult tasks :lol: LOL I use Windex Window cleaner for the tough greasy/oily stuff then rinse well and then a final with IPA and distilled water. I just use compressed air for removing loose dust and dirt (and by compressed air I don't mean spray can …

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