Re: Custom interposer module for TI486SXL2-66 PGA168 to PGA132 - HELP!
Posted on 2021-06-17, 08:30
Somebody send that man a CPU, ASAP.
Re: Are K6-iii chips obtainable?
Posted on 2021-06-17, 04:54
Although I haven't checked this week, the last several times I bought one they were neither expensive nor rare (which surprised me, because I never saw these in the wild back when they were new). On CPU-World a year or two back they had a huge lot of the 1.6v versions going for next to nothing. I …
Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware
Posted on 2021-06-15, 00:30
Maybe it's because it came with the super valuable fasmath FPU. The one I'm talking about sold on ebay within the last 6 months. I'm pretty sure it was a BIN and sold instantly. Of course, now I can't find it in the 'sold' history. Probably a region dependent issue.
Re: Market value for popular or rare classic computer hardware
Posted on 2021-06-14, 11:23
Was it boxed at least? It seems kind of steep. I've seen bare ones go for $50-$60 fairly recently.
Re: Can't get into CMOS setup on old 486.
Posted on 2021-06-08, 06:32
Are you able to find the documentation for any gateway 2000 486s online? Maybe they used a non standard key combo
Re: New 486dlc build problem.
Posted on 2021-06-07, 10:59
Your Cyrix support in bios is way more sophisticated than mine. The only option I have is internal cache enable. It never really worked correctly so I use the software utility instead.
Re: HP Vectra ES/12 12Mhz 286
Posted on 2021-06-07, 09:13
I can’t remember if I originally used overlay on my 5170 or not. At one point it was a 6mhz 286 with dual 127mb quantum ELS drives. It definitely used a generic ide controller. I’ll look in my box of floppies to see if I have the disk. I suspect it was 1995 overlay software from Quantum. I used an …
Re: HP Vectra ES/12 12Mhz 286
Posted on 2021-06-07, 03:25
I forget the exact procedure, but from what I can recall as long as the drive is mechanically sound, the overlay software installed from a floppy disk should take care of the rest (formatting, modifying the MBR etc.) I thought that some overlay software required the drive type to be set to a certain …
Re: Old Videos Cards On New Systems (OVCONS)
Posted on 2021-06-06, 23:48
My current graphics card is a GeForce 210, but I guess it's not OVCONS because my motherboard is equally old (socket 1155, G530)
Re: HP Vectra ES/12 12Mhz 286
Posted on 2021-06-06, 23:36
To use an IDE drive (be that a CF card or a spinning 3.5" HDD), you are going to need an IDE BIOS; and it appears that your system doesn't have support since you say it only works with MFM drives - your options are: I'm probably being nitpicky here, but I'm pretty sure if the original BIOS works …
Re: ATI Wonder - bios information check
Posted on 2021-06-06, 13:33
Is the gold topped RAMDAC functionally inferior in any way? (usually the differences between these cards were very minor) Do you know the logic behind the 'VGA 88' name? I always assumed it's because it came out in 1988.
Re: ATI Wonder - bios information check
Posted on 2021-06-06, 13:03
We only have a few sample images on file, and very little documentation about the release and development of the 8-bit version of the card. The gold IC you mentioned, isn't that from a photo of an engineering sample? I believe all of the cards I have seen for sale have "VGA Wonder" in silkscreen on …
Re: ATI Wonder - bios information check
Posted on 2021-06-06, 02:59
I *think* the VGA88 is an OEM version. The Edge should be a cost reduced version, and the VGA Wonder should be the full retail version. But ATi product lines were such a mess, so who really knows. About 10 years or 15 years back I really put some time into trying to figure this one out, but these …
Re: Can't find a way to connect a CR-562-B CD-ROM to via IDE connection
Posted on 2021-06-04, 23:24
MKE 2X wasn't low end in 1994. It was mid-range. In 1993 ANY CD-ROM drive was considered a luxury. Why do people keep plugging MKE drives into IDE interfaces? You'd think after 25 years of telling them not to, they'd stop. I noticed a flood of posts here on VOGONS recently of people asking questions …
Re: Dram + 286 question
Posted on 2021-06-04, 06:49
4MB is the limit for onboard memory, but you can likely still get the full 16MB by using expansion cards on the ISA bus.
Re: 486 Multimedia dream build ( 1993/94 ).
Posted on 2021-06-02, 14:33
I had Word Perfect on both the PC and Amiga. Back then the compatibility thing wasn't such a big deal, since most people didn't have computers at home anyway. For me the word processor was mostly used to printing out school reports on a dot matrix printer. I don't know why, but I find installing …
Re: The worst motherboards you have had to work with
Posted on 2021-06-01, 07:23
Since I see you are using an SATA SSD, I suppose you are using a separate controller? That might explain some things. A lot of grief was related to their crappy 4 in 1 driver.
Re: The worst motherboards you have had to work with
Posted on 2021-06-01, 03:14
Anything with a via chipset is a nightmare. I also agree that ASUS quality slipped after the p2b.
Re: How to identify this 486 motherboard techmedia UMC um8498F
Posted on 2021-05-31, 14:14
This is a really weird board. What's with the funky placement of the barrel battery and the integrated video at the front end.
Re: OPTi Tribute system, Opti Chipset, VGA and sound
Posted on 2021-05-30, 13:54
Have all VIA and all UMC systems already been tried?
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