Re: FIC 486-VIP-IO2 CPU support

Posted on 2020-02-17, 03:24

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by douglar

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I got my FIC 486-VIP (no io) to work with an AMD 5x86 133 after a lot of jumper trial and error. Got the WB cache to work too. The Bios still calls it a DX4 100 when it posts, but the benchmarks say it is performing better than a DX4 100. I can post jumper settings if anyone is interested. I have …

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

Posted on 2020-02-17, 03:01

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by douglar

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I have an FIC 486-VIP ( no io ). It gets finicky with PCI boards after 1997, but it works fine with the Matrox Mystique and the S3 Trio that i have. At first I didn’t think it liked my PCI et4000 board, produced a ton of artifacts & unstable, but it turns out that the edge connector needed cleaned. …

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Re: Hard drive size limits and cylinders in bios

Posted on 2020-02-16, 21:28

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by douglar

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Large or big mode gets you up to 1gb on many older machines. Oddly 540mb hard drives were very common, much more common than anything 500-528mb, one would hope A machine made post 1990 could use one Most hard drives were sold under decimal MB at the time, since the number was larger. 540 Decimal MB …

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Re: SD2IDE Adapters + Drive Overlays (+ 90s Laptops/Notebooks) - A Report

Posted on 2020-02-14, 16:55

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by douglar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Much happier with the EZ-drive firmware. the drive is identified correctly regardless of geometry configured in BIOS Partitions are visible from windows 10 I don't need special drivers for protected mode IO in Windows 98

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Re: SD2IDE Adapters + Drive Overlays (+ 90s Laptops/Notebooks) - A Report

Posted on 2020-02-13, 20:15

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by douglar

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Thanks for the file. I have not been loving Ontrack so far and I would like to be able to use the SD to "sneaker net" software onto the system, since getting Win98se to work with the contemporary web is nearly impossible these days. I've rebuild the system so many times already that I should make an …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2020-02-13, 19:46

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by douglar

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OK, this board is kind of dirty, but kind of fun-- M2N61-AR Back in the days before HDMI, I was always looking for electrical SPDIF connectors to run to my receiver, so that always gets me nostalgic, even though this was never anything but a hobby board for me. IMG_8543.JPG IMG_8541.jpg The …

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Re: SD2IDE Adapters + Drive Overlays (+ 90s Laptops/Notebooks) - A Report

Posted on 2020-02-13, 13:56

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by douglar

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I have a shuttle hot 419 motherboard with a sintechi sd2ide (SD35VCO) with a 16GB Samsung SD. The current Bios (dated 12/1993 ) only supports up to 528MB. Ordered an eeprom burner so I can upgrade to a 1996 bios, but that's where I am today. So I got the 9.57 Ontrack Disk overlay. The LPA sector …

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Re: Advice on making a stable VLB build

Posted on 2020-02-13, 02:59

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by douglar

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While this is the common advice passed around on Vogons it's not true, I've had boards (looking at you ECS 480-UL1) where even two VLB cards (VGA + Multi I/O) failed to work 100% on a 33MHz bus regardless of wait states. Some VLB Multi I/O cards are very anal about how they use the VLB apparently. …

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Re: Any love for AM2?

Posted on 2020-02-12, 19:34

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by douglar

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I had a very nice Opteron 175 on a high end Asus motherboard that was my top end system for years & yeas. SLI. Dual Lan. Sata Raid. Had memtest in the bios. Had a freakin' TDR into the bios for checking your network cables. Rock solid. Performed great. Overclocked in tiny grains like a scientist. …

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Re: Shuttle HOT-419 BIOS Update

Posted on 2020-02-12, 16:26

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by douglar

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Is the TL866A USB Programmer a good one to buy or would anyone recommend that I purchase a different make or model ?

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Re: [SOLVED] cache modules for HOT419 R2

Posted on 2020-02-11, 18:26

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by douglar

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I’m going to give this upgrade a shot if I can find the chips on the cheap. My version of the board looks like a cut down revision that is missing the 3.3v regulators. Has places on the Mobo for them, but the pads are not populated. Could it be as simple as just soldering the right regulator into …

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Re: Best video cards for Athlon XP 2000+

Posted on 2020-02-11, 16:20

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by douglar

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Yeah try to go for a Barton 2500+ and Radeon 9700/9800 for those. Barton 2500+ and ATI 9800 was what I was running back in November 2004. That Barton overclocked very nicely. I think Ill always remember the day that half-life 2 came out. I started playing at about 6pm when I got home from work. A …

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Advice on making a stable VLB build

Posted on 2020-02-10, 17:16

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by douglar

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I know that a single VLB card build will almost always have higher signal tolerance and less chance of a show stopping incompatibility than a 2 VLB card build, but is there a general rule of thumb for which VLB slot to use first to get the best chance at a stable single VLB card build ? For example, …

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Re: What's in your toolkit?

Posted on 2020-02-09, 16:24

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by douglar

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I see lots of items similar to this on Amazon and Ebay: PCI & ISA Tester Motherboard Anaylzer Card Support the power source working indicator -- +5V,+12V,+3.3V and 12V Dual POST code display - User can readout the POST at PCB component and solder side. Fully compatible with any kind motherboards …

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Re: Memtest86+: does it also test cache memory?

Posted on 2020-02-04, 03:28

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by douglar

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So basically you are suggesting that the best way to test a mainboard cache is to run demanding software that uses an active memory foot print that’s a little bigger but not too much bigger than the main board cache. Is that the idea?

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Re: L2 cache and 386 performance

Posted on 2020-02-03, 18:18

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by douglar

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I have a 386DX-33 machine with 64k cache, is it worth it to upgrade to 128k? If you can increase the cache size without increasing the cache memory waits, your system will be a tiny bit faster. If you have to increase the cache memory waits to keep the system stable after increasing the cache size, …

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Re: I need information about certain CPUs' prices in 1997

Posted on 2020-02-01, 16:30

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by douglar

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June 1997 prices: https://books.google.com/books?id=AnmwQa8W3JUC&pg=RA12-PA4&lpg=RA12-PA4&dq=amd+k5+price+1997&source=bl&ots=f8RBtdKwHv&sig=ACfU3U05uH9EgTI4lxBW0KYG0YLMj_vlSQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiS1syJ3rDnAhXKg-AKHc3yDPY4ChDoATAMegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=amd%20k5%20price%201997&f=false Ahh, the grey …

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Re: Stuck ST-177I drive

Posted on 2020-01-31, 23:03

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by douglar

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“Stiction” from lubricant breakdown was a real problem with early 3.5 inch drives.. sometimes the heads would stick. Try the wiggle at power on , or try warming the drive up to a few degrees above room temperature to soften the lubricants. Opening up the drive could work but it’s sort of a last …

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Re: Until what date is a pc with ISA bus needed?

Posted on 2020-01-31, 22:50

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by douglar

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I don’t think many people had a P4 before the year 2001.

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Re: When was booting from cd-rom possible ?

Posted on 2020-01-31, 20:35

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by douglar

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm familiar with the floppy emulation, but there's been other types of bootable CD/DVD's since than, yes? What other bootable CD-Rom formats came out since then?

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