Re: I’m sad! :-(

Posted on 2023-02-10, 11:19

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by Babasha

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looks like a IDE controller sometimes looses connection with an IDE device... Yup. That’s what it’s doing. After that happens the hard drive is inaccessible. In the past I bumped into such situation when a pin of a IDE connector of a HDD or a CD-drive lost contact with a PCB. So I re-soldered it to …

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Re: I’m sad! :-(

Posted on 2023-02-09, 11:55

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by Babasha

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Check the capacitors on your motherboard.

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, P3V133, CUBX and CUBX-E/L

Posted on 2023-02-09, 05:50

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by Babasha

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

First, thanks for your work! I'm running your P3B-F bios with P3 Tualatin 1.4s, which I installed a couple of years ago (just when you released it) and never found time to properly thank you, so thank you very much! :) However, I just noticed this post: I need a info are there tools/methods to …

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Re: #freshmeatrecovery - Asus old/new rig

Posted on 2023-02-08, 08:50

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by Babasha

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Asus DIMM module 😀

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Re: #freshmeatrecovery - Asus old/new rig

Posted on 2023-02-08, 08:48

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by Babasha

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cards 😀

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Re: #freshmeatrecovery - Asus old/new rig

Posted on 2023-02-08, 06:34

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by Babasha

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As soon as you think that you have assembled an Asus rig, you can close the case and calm down ... and you come across auction with the original front panel for the Asus TV-tuner)))

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Re: #freshmeatrecovery - Asus old/new rig

Posted on 2023-02-07, 07:58

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by Babasha

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Assembly and basic cable managment 😀

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Re: #freshmeatrecovery - Asus old/new rig

Posted on 2023-02-07, 07:55

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by Babasha

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just for memories - recoloring)))

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Re: Getting Ensoniq Vivo Isa running with another Isa Soundcard

Posted on 2023-02-07, 05:08

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by Babasha

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in Marvin \ Sound

First of all reserve ISA IRQ/DMA in your BIOS for Ensoniq Next - set up your config.sys and autoexec.bat Examples on my screenshots (just unREM Ensoniq section) In this case it installed VIVO as 220/5/1/330 device (with Ensoniq functionality) and secondary soundcard as 240/10/0/320 soundblaster …

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Re: #freshmeatrecovery - Asus old/new rig

Posted on 2023-02-06, 22:19

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by Babasha

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Main concept is “so basic Pentium-2 as possible”. So I found P2 266MHz free-mul with 133MHz (66 x 2). TV (antenna input) just to connect analog tv-out devices like consoles or zx spectrum era home/amateur computers).

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#freshmeatrecovery - Asus old/new rig

Posted on 2023-02-06, 17:48

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by Babasha

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It takes more than one year to collect and assembly Asus P3B-F motherboard + P2 266Mhz CPU (free multiplier) Asus RAM DIMM PC-66 16Mb + PC-100 128MB Asus AGP V3000 videocard Asus PCI TV-FM tuner 7133 Asus PCI-AXP201 sound card (with additional wavetable 2MV RAM and 128kb buffer memory modules) Asus …

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

Posted on 2023-02-03, 23:09

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by Babasha

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Part II.

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

Posted on 2023-02-03, 23:07

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by Babasha

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My new “ASUS-mania” case recoloring and start of assembly.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-02-03, 06:21

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by Babasha

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Shagittarius wrote on 2023-02-02, 23:17: Babasha wrote on 2023-02-02, 19:45: Powerhungry AGP monster What CPU are you using in that rig, those scores seem low to me. My ATI 9800 scores 22k Yep! This “rig” is overbottlenecked))) AMD AthlonXP 1733MHz based system assembled just to check 6800 Ultra …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-02-02, 19:45

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by Babasha

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Powerhungry AGP monster

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Re: Videologic Sonic Storm (ESS Maestro1)

Posted on 2023-01-31, 11:54

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by Babasha

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in Marvin \ Sound

Yes... its a model without the ram chips for wavetable. I've try it last night, run a few games and the sound was not great.. clicking sounds... no detetion in some dos games... Exchange it for a ESS ensoniq 1373 - pci64/128.. great compatibility with every game.. every dos game worked without the …

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Re: Can't finish Windows 98 install on Sony Vaio

Posted on 2023-01-31, 08:27

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by Babasha

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in Marvin \ Software

Just format it with format c: /s ftom the DOS prompt

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Re: Videologic Sonic Storm (ESS Maestro1)

Posted on 2023-01-30, 17:55

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by Babasha

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It looks like very basic realization of Maesro-1 soundcards. So no RAM chips for loadable wavetable and hardware assist for DIRECTSOUND acceleration. But! Its a nice card anyway especially if it boxed!

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Adaptec 1205SA BIOS needed

Posted on 2023-01-30, 12:11

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by Babasha

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi! As I understand Adaptec never release BIOS update for their PCI SATA card (non-RAID) model 1205SA Does somebody own such card and can read its BIOS using Ubiflash? uniflash -PCIROM Tnx!

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Re: Pentium 4 chipsets for Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2023-01-27, 12:47

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by Babasha

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Successfuly install Win98 on my Compaq W4000 system. P4 2GHz/i845/1Gb RAM/ATI Radeon 9600 Pro AGP/AC97 AD1815codec/ADAPTEC PCI SATA card/NEC based USB2-FireWire card

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