Re: Asus TUSL2-C motherboard - no POST - board lights up, CPU heats up, tried several GPUs and RAM

Posted on 2023-06-26, 04:01

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by shevalier

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andre_6 wrote on 2023-06-25, 21:41: Rubicon / Nichicon caps and honestly they seem immaculate Well, it's not even Mundorff, Audio Note or Jantzen. What is immaculate about these? ESR is measured in milli_Ohms, not "brand names". ~15 mOhm is a normal ESR for this size and capacity.

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Re: Need advice on how to flash SPD on a 440BX motherboard.

Posted on 2023-06-25, 10:53

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by shevalier

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Thanks for the solution. Micron flashed perfectly, Hunix - it turns out that already in those years the first 128 bytes were locked for writing. But, no luck. 124MHz FSB - ok, 133 - or RAM error, or no detect 1 stick. Moreover, at any voltage - 3.4 / 3.5 / 3.65 Volts. Need to look for and select …

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Re: RJ45 network card for Abit BH6 and Asus A7S333 (Win98SE)

Posted on 2023-06-24, 16:32

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by shevalier

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Why not a 3Com? Definitely more in line with the time range. There should be a lot of these cards on sale.

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Re: Asus TUSL2-C motherboard - no POST - board lights up, CPU heats up, tried several GPUs and RAM

Posted on 2023-06-24, 15:35

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by shevalier

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I would recommend checking out cheap polymer capacitor manufacturers such as Samwha, Lelon and Capxon. As well as the choicing of a simple soldering station. Yeah, I'm not hinting at anything, if anything.

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Re: Need advice on how to flash SPD on a 440BX motherboard.

Posted on 2023-06-24, 13:18

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by shevalier

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There is no need to desolder the SPD ICs in order to reprogram them, as they are directly accessible via the edge connector. You can use a spare DIMM slot or any dead motherboard and wire it to the programmer. AIDA64 reads SPD normally, which means that all circuits are wired and functioning. …

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Need advice on how to flash SPD on a 440BX ASUS motherboard.

Posted on 2023-06-24, 11:47

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by shevalier

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Many thanks to @rasz_pl for this post . Download and run Astra32 portable http://www.astra32.com/download.htm And Spdtool 0.63 perfectly work with 440BX motherboard from Asus. ________________________________ I have 4 sticks 256MB dual rank of IBM branded RAM and and CUBX-L motherboard. BUT, 1 - …

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, P3V133, CUBX, CUBX-E/L and P3C-E

Posted on 2023-06-22, 16:31

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by shevalier

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DOS partition size is correct, maxes out at 2GB per partition for total of four partitions. Windows 2000 supports larger partitions as well. Cheers, Undecided ancient flash drive 256 MB FAT32. Which was been read correct in Windows 2000 itself. But, this is most likely a nuance of PLOP USB driver. …

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, P3V133, CUBX, CUBX-E/L and P3C-E

Posted on 2023-06-22, 13:47

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by shevalier

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From a quick test, this method also seems to work for PLOP. I had to use the "-forceINT" parameter when configuring the ROM module, otherwise the boot manager wouldn't initialize: plpbtrom.exe -forceINT plpbtrom.bin plpbt.rom I didn't try actually booting anything from the boot manager screen, …

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Re: Weird pentium 3 failure

Posted on 2023-06-21, 17:10

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by shevalier

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Connect the oscilloscope to a battery powered laptop with the AC cable physically disconnected. It's never clear if it's power noise or common mode noise. Use only Ground Spring for probing. I would change all the small electrolytic capacitors near the socket, memory and chipset - like 10-100uF. …

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Re: Radeon 9800 Pro or Mx440 for Win 98 SE gaming

Posted on 2023-06-19, 16:46

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Built a Win98 SE around Asus P3B-F, 512 MB, Slot 1 650 MHz, SB Live SB0100. I have 2 video cards Palit 9800 Pro and MX440 -8x, 128 MB. Games I'm playing MW3 and 4, Enemy Engaged Comanche vs Hokum, Blade Runner. Right now, I'm using MX440 (61.76 drivers) but was think about swapping it for the 9800 …

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Re: Ways to reduce the Noise of ISA Soundcards?

Posted on 2023-06-18, 07:15

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by shevalier

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Sorry for the tediousness, but Bob Pease did not design sound cards. Maybe this card is noisy for everyone?

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Re: Ways to reduce the Noise of ISA Soundcards?

Posted on 2023-06-16, 18:31

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by shevalier

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Another major problem is the ground currents of various other components polluting the local reference, this can be combatted by moving the sound card to the furthest away slot from power supply, this has the added benefit that card is next to bottom of the case and gets some electrostatic …

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, P3V133, CUBX, CUBX-E/L and P3C-E

Posted on 2023-06-16, 10:38

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by shevalier

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Interesting idea. :-) Honestly stolen from these guys http://www.x86-secret.com/articles/tweak/i815twken.htm Here's the test sample for the P3B-F. (You need to switch the Symbios option from "Auto" to "Enabled".) I have CUBX-L which is in the process of being adapted to work with Tualatin. I don't …

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, P3V133, CUBX, CUBX-E/L and P3C-E

Posted on 2023-06-16, 05:39

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by shevalier

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feature request 😀 Is it possible to replace the anti-virus module with some kind of boot manager with the ability to boot from USB? For example, PLOP. https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/index.html

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-06-14, 18:04

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by shevalier

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dionb wrote on 2023-06-01, 21:56: That CUBX-L looks amazing, hope you can get it working again. It seems I got carried away and inserted unnecessary parts 🙁

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Re: Fastest graphics possible for a p2 400 mhz (Asus P2B mainboard)

Posted on 2023-06-12, 14:46

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by shevalier

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Thanks for the info. It's not information, it's more of a note. There are compatibility lists for p2 series boards on the Internet. Pcb version 1.1 with numbers up to xxxx contains a clock generator such and such, it does not correctly know how to initialize the 133MHz bus. Until number yyyy - PWM …

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Re: Fastest graphics possible for a p2 400 mhz (Asus P2B mainboard)

Posted on 2023-06-12, 06:03

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by shevalier

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Yes, using a socket to get Pentium 3 to work sounds like a valid option to me. Checked the prices of the Pentium 3 and they are ok as of now. I could even go up to 1 GHZ, but I'm not sure if that is feasible.? Price wise P3 850 or 900 MHZ would be the most attractive. But if the jump to the 1ghz …

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Re: Windows 7 on a Prescott P4, does it run ok?

Posted on 2023-06-11, 17:15

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by shevalier

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A mate of mine wants to put W7 x32 on his Prescott P4 (I've recommended XP) and I'm wondering if anyone has had experience with this? Has anyone seen this kind of configuration run well? Specs: CPU: P4 3GHz (Prescott, 478, 512K, not HT) RAM: 2GB DDR400 GPU: Radeon 9800 Pro Mainboard: ASUS P4P800-VM …

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Re: Fastest graphics possible for a p2 400 mhz (Asus P2B mainboard)

Posted on 2023-06-07, 09:42

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by shevalier

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Asking for the optimal graphics for that board sounds way better. I would like to have the FX ultra 5200/5600/5700. Ordinary5200/5700 do not have very good perfomance, but the "ultra" of this series are very advanced and look nice. If I have read the cpu list correctly some asus p2boards support up …

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Re: Fastest graphics possible for a p2 400 mhz (Asus P2B mainboard)

Posted on 2023-06-06, 16:01

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When the bottleneck is the CPU rather than the GPU, games slow down much nicer. Smoother somehow, and not much felt that only 15FPS. The Radeon 9200 defenetly works with 89MHz AGP (133 FSB for 440BX) and has excellent compatibility with "pre-XP era" games I used it to play Need for Speed ​​on an 800 …

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