Re: ISA Graphics Cards - need solid advice inbetween all the confusing scene

Posted on 2023-01-18, 00:18

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Interesting discussion on jailbars with Cirrus cards. Got an ISA CL-GD5429 graphics adapter in my 486, connected to a 19" LCD monitor. Haven't seen the slightest trace of any jailbars so far. Running Windows 3.11 in 800x600, 65356 colors. Launched and checked edit.com as suggested earlier in the …

---

Re: Help me fix 486-VIP-IO motherboard doesn’t post

Posted on 2023-01-16, 01:17

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

w0000t nice

---

Re: Help me fix 486-VIP-IO motherboard doesn’t post

Posted on 2023-01-15, 22:13

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yea hard to say. Could be a problem with the board such as a bad trace or possibly lifted legs etc. on some of the chips. May be time to break out the microscope / multimeter and start probing...

---

Re: Help me fix 486-VIP-IO motherboard doesn’t post

Posted on 2023-01-15, 18:59

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Any ideas or troubleshooting guidance? Attached picture of board test setup. Connect reset switch, see if pressing it changes the state of CPU reset. And the ISA reset signal as well, which should be visible on the POST card LED. Also, from experience, some 486 mobos can be super picky about RAM …

---

Re: ISA Graphics Cards - need solid advice inbetween all the confusing scene

Posted on 2023-01-15, 18:40

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If the jailbars are your only issue, can you try to find a CRT? On a similar note, the VGA input on my dell ultrasharp has much worse banding than if I use my Extron VGA-DVI upscaler . So perhaps another consideration if you can find one of these for cheap.

---

Re: My 3DfxVoodoo Banshee died apparently without a reason...

Posted on 2023-01-15, 13:57

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

what a nice person, you will definitely get PMs from people haha

---

Re: Help me fix 486-VIP-IO motherboard doesn’t post

Posted on 2023-01-15, 13:54

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

was it working before you stored it away?

---

Re: ET4000/w32 PCI - Vertical bands

Posted on 2023-01-15, 02:27

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I use an OSSC, does it count as LCD panel? Also the card was definitely working sometime ago, but I tested it in a different motherboard and power supply. But I don't have them anymore. All devices that uses oversampling rate to read analog to digital and scaler to rescale the image to fit given …

---

Re: DigiPOS adventures!

Posted on 2023-01-15, 00:28

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That does seem a tad slow. I get 1800 kB/s on my 486 with VLB I/O card. Tell me about it; on my FIC-386SC (with 486 DLC-40) I can hit 3Mbytes/sec with the same type of card (Sandisk 16GB Ultra), CF reader and a bog standard ISA multi-io card (that's with the XT-IDE rom shadowed). On a 286 with a …

---

Re: ISA Graphics Cards - need solid advice inbetween all the confusing scene

Posted on 2023-01-14, 18:59

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the jail bars are not that bad on my CL 5429 VLB... they are only really noticeable, at least to me, when you have a static solid colored image (like in msdos editor) this site has a good comparison of VLB cards. but there are a bunch of different sites, just google https://dependency-injection.com …

---

Re: ISA Graphics Cards - need solid advice inbetween all the confusing scene

Posted on 2023-01-14, 18:34

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the jail bars are not that bad on my CL 5429 VLB... they are only really noticeable, at least to me, when you have a static solid colored image (like in msdos editor) this site has a good comparison of VLB cards. but there are a bunch of different sites, just google https://dependency-injection.com/ …

---

Re: desperate for quality AT psu

Posted on 2023-01-14, 00:52

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

zzzxtreme wrote on 2023-01-13, 10:31: Thanks all. New atx psu arrived. Both the 286 and 386 booted without explosion. nice

---

Re: DigiPOS adventures!

Posted on 2023-01-09, 23:51

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That does seem a tad slow. I get 1800 kB/s on my 486 with VLB I/O card. Tell me about it; on my FIC-386SC (with 486 DLC-40) I can hit 3Mbytes/sec with the same type of card (Sandisk 16GB Ultra), CF reader and a bog standard ISA multi-io card (that's with the XT-IDE rom shadowed). On a 286 with a …

---

Re: DigiPOS adventures!

Posted on 2023-01-09, 19:20

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That does seem a tad slow. I get 1800 kB/s on my 486 with VLB I/O card.

---

Re: DigiPOS adventures!

Posted on 2023-01-06, 15:51

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Definitely some keyboard issues with this thing - key repeat seems broken (i.e. hold down a key and it doesn't repeat... at all), and the keyboard still 'goes away' now and again - it's not the KVM, as I've tried direct connection and the same symptoms appear. There's no corrosion anywhere (since …

---

Re: desperate for quality AT psu

Posted on 2023-01-06, 15:38

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ok guys. I've orderd the ATX-AT cable , and a modern quality ATX PSU. When it arrives, I will connect them but won't switch on until I post photos first. Now, can I re-use the original switch on the AT case ? The AT case switch is Black-White Brown Blue the adapter cable has only Green and Black …

---

Re: desperate for quality AT psu

Posted on 2023-01-06, 13:35

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ok guys. I've orderd the ATX-AT cable , and a modern quality ATX PSU. When it arrives, I will connect them but won't switch on until I post photos first. Now, can I re-use the original switch on the AT case ? The AT case switch is Black-White Brown Blue the adapter cable has only Green and Black …

---

Re: DigiPOS adventures!

Posted on 2023-01-05, 23:55

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

cool find. how do those winchips compare to their amd/intel peers?

---

Re: My 3DfxVoodoo Banshee died apparently without a reason...

Posted on 2022-12-24, 12:48

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i would start by inspecting for bent/shorted pins, missing surface mount components, broken solder joints, etc. generally these things just dont 'die' Well, but that is what happened! The video card was working fine, then i took it off from the motherboard. ( Didn't try under benchmarks ) I would …

---

Re: Transferring files to your retro project. help thread

Posted on 2022-12-23, 03:17

by

by drosse1meyer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

+1 for 10/100 NIC. 3com and intel typically have very good support in 9x. Use ftp or set up a Windows 2000 VM on one of your more modern boxes to host a network share

---