Re: Seeking information on a Tyan 486VL/EISA Motherboard

Posted on 2013-05-04, 05:58

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by NJRoadfan

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There are quite a few undocumented jumpers and no listing for setting the bus speed. What is interesting is that the board came with a DX2/66 and the machine states only a 33Mhz CPU is installed. The NiCE board properly shows 66Mhz and has a pretty much identical BIOS.

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Re: Best version of Windows 95?

Posted on 2013-05-03, 21:23

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by NJRoadfan

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For those who say Windows 95's USB support doesn't work. I have confirmed that USB Mass Storage devices do indeed work without a problem with this driver and OSR2.1 http://toastytech.com/files/cruzerwin95.html

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Re: Seeking information on a Tyan 486VL/EISA Motherboard

Posted on 2013-05-03, 19:41

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by NJRoadfan

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Board came today and POSTs fine thankfully. Very odd, the board has no markings indicating it was made by Tyan, only the BIOS POST screen says such. I also thought Tyan made their boards in the USA and not Taiwan, I guess not. Zero jumper info is slik screened on the board itself. The only markings …

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Re: Another 486 build.... with EISA!

Posted on 2013-05-03, 19:37

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by NJRoadfan

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OK, got another EISA board (it popped up on ebay and I couldn't resist). Its a Tyan 486 VL EISA marked "S1437". Same SiS chipset as the MCCI NiCE board and the BIOS appears to be identical too. I'm seeking info on this one HERE . It came with 8x1MB parity SIMMs. I'll do some testing this weekend to …

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Seeking information on a Tyan 486VL/EISA Motherboard

Posted on 2013-05-01, 04:30

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by NJRoadfan

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I just won one on ebay stating the machine it was in didn't POST. Hopefully its something simple/silly/stupid. Anyway, TH99 doesn't seem to list any info for several jumpers on this board. This is a long shot, but anyone have a manual? I'm interested in bus speed frequency configuration. My NiCE …

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Re: 440BX Question

Posted on 2013-04-26, 03:43

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by NJRoadfan

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northernosprey02 wrote: Someone said the making it unstable when it OCed with 133FSB is the hard drive, is it true? Not likely, the PCI bus multiplier can be set to run at 33Mhz on 133FSB 440BX boards.

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Re: Matrox G400, Glide wrapper, and other question

Posted on 2013-04-26, 02:37

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by NJRoadfan

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If anything its out of date by now. I don't recall what the changes were outside of the registry tweaks and bundling the wrapper.

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Re: Matrox G400, Glide wrapper, and other question

Posted on 2013-04-25, 04:11

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by NJRoadfan

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I remember using XGL200 back in my G400 days. It was included in ParaKnowYa's G400 driver pack. I'm posting them up here since they seem to no longer be available online. It includes some registry tweaks for the Windows 9x G400 driver as well.

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Re: Another 486 build.... with EISA!

Posted on 2013-04-25, 03:34

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by NJRoadfan

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I was finally able to locate a contemporary review of the Micronics board in addition to the AMI Enterprise III (which uses the SiS chipset like the NiCE board). Looks like despite having only write-through L2 cache, the Micronics is indeed the faster of the two when equipped the same. My speedsys …

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Re: 440BX Question

Posted on 2013-04-11, 18:53

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by NJRoadfan

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As long as you are running PC133 RAM, the 440BX runs fine at 133FSB. Keep in mind that you will be overclocking the AGP bus to ~87Mhz due to it having a fixed 2/3 bus divider. Most decent video cards will handle this without complaining, but some will get pretty grumpy.

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Re: Socket 8 --> Slot 1 Slotket Adapters

Posted on 2013-04-10, 02:56

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by NJRoadfan

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http://www.ebay.com/itm/151023441980 Hmm, its got a Socket 8 Slotket..... and its EISA! The board uses the 440FX chipset.

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Re: Another 486 build.... with EISA!

Posted on 2013-04-06, 19:24

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by NJRoadfan

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Ugh, I hate transient memory problems. This problem did get me thinking, would a board this old even support 3 chip 4MB SIMMs (2 4M x 4 DRAM chips plus parity chip)?

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Re: Beast 486 system board

Posted on 2013-04-05, 22:51

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by NJRoadfan

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I have a full size AT Micronics EISA/VLBus board here that I might be selling soon. Shipping likely won't be cheap though due to size.

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Re: MS-DOS 5.0 over Compaq dos 3.31

Posted on 2013-04-05, 13:40

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by NJRoadfan

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DOS 4.x is pretty uncommon. Most OEMs stayed with 3.3 since 4.0 was found to be very buggy. Accessing UMBs on a XT usually require additional hardware or chipset support. I wouldn't be surprised if the SCA hard drive isn't being detected due to a hardware issue, not a software one. Wide SCSI (16bit) …

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Re: Printing from DOS/Win3.1/WIn95

Posted on 2013-04-05, 12:33

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by NJRoadfan

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Just remember that by default, WfW and Win9x clients can't directly connect to Windows 7 file and printer sharing. You usually have to disable NTLMv2 authentication among other things.

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Re: Printing from DOS/Win3.1/WIn95

Posted on 2013-04-05, 11:41

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by NJRoadfan

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Its a GDI printer, so you'll need a workaround. You need to create a "virtual" Postscript printer to share on the network. Here is how: http://www.stat.tamu.edu/~henrik/GSPSprinter/GSPSprinter.html Make sure you grab the latest REDMon 1.9 and Ghostscript for Windows 7 compatibility: http://pages.cs. …

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Re: How do I know how much memory in Soundblaster AWE32

Posted on 2013-04-05, 02:43

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by NJRoadfan

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DIAGNOSE.EXE has a memory detection and test routine built in. The memory amount also appears in the AWE Control Panel under Windows.

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Re: Printing from DOS/Win3.1/WIn95

Posted on 2013-04-04, 22:34

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by NJRoadfan

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What model printer? Most network ready units support PCL and Postscript these days.

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Re: Another 486 build.... with EISA!

Posted on 2013-04-01, 21:03

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by NJRoadfan

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I finally decoded the data cache part numbers, its 20ns. Hmm, both data and tag are 20ns, that could be a problem. FWIW, the cache on the Micronics board was also 20ns. I also figured out why the machine won't run in the "fastest" setting. One of the 4MB SIMMs is apparently bad, but the defect …

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Re: Another 486 build.... with EISA!

Posted on 2013-03-31, 04:13

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by NJRoadfan

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Here are the Speedsys results thus far: Memory "Slowest" http://www.vogons.org/files/niceslowest.png Memory "Slower" http://www.vogons.org/files/niceslower.png The thing thats bothering me about this board is that the CPU seems to run slightly slower and both the L1 and L2 cache are running slower …

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