Re: XMGR and HimemX causing system freeze

Posted on 2022-02-24, 11:04

by

by tyuper

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

So the only reasonable alternative is to use HIMEM and boot mode of XMGR uses twice as much memory as HIMEM, if it's loaded once and without EMM386. The /PN is always used, because motherboard doesn't have port 92h implemented (odd for motherboard from 1996 not having that one feature derived from …

---

Re: XMGR and HimemX causing system freeze

Posted on 2022-02-23, 17:24

by

by tyuper

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Can you post your config.sys? When using XMGR with /B are you remembering to load XMGR twice? One before and one after loading EMM386(or alternative). Example from the readme: DOS=HIGH,UMB DEVICE=C:\BIN\XMGR.SYS /B /N24 ;24 Handle XMGR "boot" DEVICE=C:\BIN\JEMM386.EXE I=B000-B7FF ... DEVICEHIGH=C:\ …

---

XMGR and HimemX causing system freeze

Posted on 2022-02-22, 17:50

by

by tyuper

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I would like to know if there's anyone who encountered the problem that manifests with full system lockup after entering command to start a game / an application when XMGR or HIMEMX are in use and MS-DOS is in HMA. At least that is happening on my two PC Chips A101's, one being in my possession for …

---

Re: Using Pentium for old DOS and Win 98

Posted on 2022-02-18, 11:10

by

by tyuper

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Linkintime wrote on 2022-02-17, 21:39: I appreciate it. Thanks that processor support is crazy. Please let me know if he is willing to release; that'd be awesome. Jan gave permission, so here's the BIOS.

---

Re: Using Pentium for old DOS and Win 98

Posted on 2022-02-17, 22:06

by

by tyuper

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

XMGR did not like the /PA flag, it gave me an A20 error and failed to load. /PN didn't cause an error and Doom loads just fine with the /PN flag or with no flags. However with no flag or with /PN nothing is loading high so I have only 472kB conventional memory vs 619kB with himem.sys. With HimemX …

---

Re: Using Pentium for old DOS and Win 98

Posted on 2022-02-17, 21:45

by

by tyuper

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Linkintime wrote on 2022-02-17, 21:39: Is it flashed like a modern bios only floppy or do I need an eprom writer like I've seen some use? I used floppy equipped with DOS and Uniflash 1.40 - I recommend this one, instead of unreliable AWDFLASH. These motherboards should have EEPROM, so can be …

---

Re: Using Pentium for old DOS and Win 98

Posted on 2022-02-17, 21:16

by

by tyuper

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This site has a BIOS for that board patched for up to 64 gigabyte hard drives: http://wims.rainbow-software.org/index.php?start=160&count=40 There's 128GB patched BIOS with CPU additions made by Jan Steunebrink. Here's readme.txt: PCChips M520 motherboard BIOS Release 1.1A (12/07/98) with patch J.2 …

---

Re: Sound Blaster X-Fi SB0770 Dell / Alienware OEM

Posted on 2018-02-14, 23:53

by

by tyuper

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Another necroposting, but it's important for me to sort out the problem with this card when it's running in modern systems, where PCI bus can be only provided with third-party bridge chip. Details: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=41052#p649661 Anyone, who still have this card and …

---

Re: Something Modern: PCI soundcards with PCI-to-PCIe bridge chips?

Posted on 2018-02-12, 20:49

by

by tyuper

in Milliways

in Milliways

! Necroposting ALERT ! but it's for the sake of I have Gigabyte Z170-HD3P (uses ASM1083 rev.4 chip) motherboard and OEM X-Fi XtremeGamer SB0770 (Phil's thread about it https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=44185), running it on Windows 10 AU x64 with Daniel_K Support Pack 4.0. I don't know if …

---

Re: The World's Fastest 486

Posted on 2017-10-14, 10:10

by

by tyuper

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you, feipoa. No, it's totally beyond my skills to do PS/2 mod and it's my only one PCI 486 motherboard (and have also only one VLB). :( But I'm gonna need it to check one issue that I had with PKM-4DPS BIOS, i.e any ISA sound card (worth mention they all are PnP) I put in this motherboard …

---

Re: The World's Fastest 486

Posted on 2017-10-13, 23:18

by

by tyuper

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

DTK-PKM-0033S Cyrix 5x86-133/4x @ 3.70 V 1024 KB write-through L2 cache 128 MB FPM 60 ns Win95c/WinNT4 SiS 496NV / SiS 497NU 33 MHz FSB Voodoo3 3000 16 MB Adaptec 2940U2W Ultra2 SCSI Seagate Ultra320 SCSI HDD - 146 GB - 10K RPM - ST3146707LW 3Com 3c515-TX 10/100Base-TX Creative AWE64Gold with 28 MB …

---

Re: Strange issue with windows 8.1

Posted on 2016-12-21, 06:56

by

by tyuper

in Milliways

in Milliways

PREFETCH and PREFETCHW are the only non-deprecated instructions from AMD's 3DNow! extension. Microsoft's planned obsolescence at its worst. But you can still replace P4 with Core 2 CPU.

---

Re: Strange issue with windows 8.1

Posted on 2016-12-20, 16:51

by

by tyuper

in Milliways

in Milliways

64-bit versions of Windows (starting with 8.1) requires some instructions, which aren't present on early x86-64 CPUs https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/dn140267.aspx http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/some-older-amd-cpus-do-not-support-windows-8-1.html You can check capabilities of your …

---

Re: 7-zip benchmarks for over 60 CPUs

Posted on 2016-11-29, 21:48

by

by tyuper

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Added results from client's daily driver PC (HDD kicked the bucket completely), the Sempron 2300+ on ASRock K7S41GX motherboard. Filename title.JPG File size 113.76 KiB Views 1526 views

---

Re: AWE64 Platinum deluxe

Posted on 2016-11-04, 00:04

by

by tyuper

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sound Blaster Milestones on Creative website http://www.soundblaster.com/about/ What card is presented as AWE64? 😉

---

Re: Phil's Ultimate VGA Benchmark Database Project

Posted on 2016-09-27, 10:45

by

by tyuper

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Aaand it's gone. 8 entries survived. 😢

---

Re: Intel SE440BX-2 ("Seattle") & IRQ 9

Posted on 2016-09-25, 15:10

by

by tyuper

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In some motherboards (like Abit BE6-II) even with disabled ACPI, ISA cards can't use IRQ9, because manufacturer reserved this interrupt for SMBus. However, it's possible to reclaim IRQ9 - by modifying value in southbridge (in our case, the 82371AB/EB) internal register SMBHSTCFG. I used this program …

---

Re: Fastest, and compatible Windows98se AGP card

Posted on 2016-08-21, 22:25

by

by tyuper

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You can't run v45.23 drivers with the 5950. It's not a show-stopper, but Arkzyw did say, "not producing issues with slightly older games". Being able to use older drivers may possibly offer a compatibility advantage. This is not true. 45.23 supports any card from FX series, but models like 5900XT …

---

Re: 7-zip benchmarks for over 60 CPUs

Posted on 2016-08-17, 07:10

by

by tyuper

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looks like upgrading from my old OCed Q6600 to i5-6600 (again 6600? aargh 😵 ) in 7zip brings ~2x more performance. Filename 7zip.PNG File size 102.36 KiB Views 1748 views

---

Re: Is your pentium 3 faster then mine?

Posted on 2016-06-29, 09:41

by

by tyuper

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Is there something wrong with voltage in CPU-Z,... ...or you just preparing to squeeze extra frequency from CPU? 🤣

---