Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2020-01-27, 19:40

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Oh yea, PC365's are neat machines, I really should finish up my "series" on them I have started. World of Warcraft (Classic) is a hell of a drug kids! Oooo...where's the start of the series? I have 8 of these machines more than half are pp180s, but I've got at least 2x pp200s that I know of. I have …

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2020-01-24, 03:32

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by Samir

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Oh yea, PC365's are neat machines, I really should finish up my "series" on them I have started. World of Warcraft (Classic) is a hell of a drug kids! Oooo...where's the start of the series? I have 8 of these machines more than half are pp180s, but I've got at least 2x pp200s that I know of. I have …

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2020-01-24, 03:31

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Holy cow. I have no idea how I missed this thread. I have several IBM Pentium Pro 6589s that can run dual processors but finding the vrm has always been an issue as well as a second processor. I should have seen this. :( Very glad all this stuff was rescued! I would say about half of this haul is …

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2020-01-23, 23:57

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Holy cow. I have no idea how I missed this thread. I have several IBM Pentium Pro 6589s that can run dual processors but finding the vrm has always been an issue as well as a second processor. I should have seen this. 🙁 Very glad all this stuff was rescued!

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Re: Request: IBM Netvista A40 Type 6578-PBU drivers

Posted on 2019-06-13, 03:58

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by Samir

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Thank you for the link! Great site for older IBM systems--I actually had it noted for my 6589. :) Quick way to grab all those drivers: wget -r -l2 http://ps-2.kev009.com/pccbbs/netvista_drivers/ Took only a few minutes to get them all. :) HP/Compaq does the same thing with their driver filenames, …

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Re: Request: IBM Netvista A40 Type 6578-PBU drivers

Posted on 2019-04-25, 15:51

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Arctic wrote: I used to have that board i think. I should still have a folder with drivers, i can check if you want 😀 Thank you! It would be awesome to have the 98se drivers. 😎

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Re: Request: IBM Netvista A40 Type 6578-PBU drivers

Posted on 2019-04-25, 06:33

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I haven't looked. I haven't booted the machine since I parked it a few years ago. It currently has xph on it, but it's a much better suited machine for 98se since it has a 1gb ram limit. Once I image the current drive that's in it, I'll start to play with it, but that's probably going to be a few …

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Re: Request: IBM Netvista A40 Type 6578-PBU drivers

Posted on 2019-01-19, 22:08

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Yep, usually impossible to find unless you know the filenames or have more detailed hardware descriptions to search with. You really make me want to work on mine again! But other things first. 😒

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Re: Request: IBM Netvista A40 Type 6578-PBU drivers

Posted on 2019-01-19, 21:34

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I know this is an old thread, but I think I have one of these machines, but it is also running xp. If I have time to research it and find some 9x drivers, I'll post back here.

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Re: Upgrade paths for the 386 - Yield?

Posted on 2018-05-18, 03:32

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Several years have passed now and I cannot say for certain, but I think the symptoms were HIMEM memory errors or failure to boot. Others have tried 256K with this chipset and have also failed. I did have another motherboard with the same chipset work with 128K though. Ah, this makes sense now. Yeah …

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Re: Upgrade paths for the 386 - Yield?

Posted on 2018-05-17, 02:50

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kixs wrote: But you will need to increase the cache size to 256KB. Hmmm...I don't remember any of this back in the day. You got whatever size cache you wanted (ie could afford) from what I recall. 😕

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Re: Upgrade paths for the 386 - Yield?

Posted on 2018-05-17, 02:48

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Also I had a cool idea that I would make a RAM drive and run games from it, which would actually solve the other problem I have with my SCSI card being slow as shit (in my win95 machine, which I was going to swap into my 386). It still serves its purpose of offloading CPU overhead but being so slow …

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Re: Upgrade paths for the 386 - Yield?

Posted on 2018-05-17, 02:42

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SCSI was quirky in terms of drivers and compatibility with the various devices before ASPI, but it was almost always a slow drive to blame if the drivers and software were correct. I never saw any IDE system back in the day that could touch a properly set up SCSI system in terms of CPU usage--it …

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Re: Upgrade paths for the 386 - Yield?

Posted on 2018-05-16, 17:58

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Regarding storage, SCSI is only faster if you have a period correct drive. If you go with IDE and a newer storage solution that will be quicker, as well as easier. The problem with SCSI controllers is that they reach their internal bottleneck before the ISA bus limit. SCSI was quirky in terms of …

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Re: Upgrade paths for the 386 - Yield?

Posted on 2018-05-16, 16:23

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Also I had a cool idea that I would make a RAM drive and run games from it, which would actually solve the other problem I have with my SCSI card being slow as shit (in my win95 machine, which I was going to swap into my 386). It still serves its purpose of offloading CPU overhead but being so slow …

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Re: Upgrade paths for the 386 - Yield?

Posted on 2018-05-16, 15:08

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Feipoa, if you're listening, you said you have this board too? Any comments on RAM specs? You will have to test for yourself if 8 MB (8 sticks) has any tangeable benefit to 16 MB (4 sticks). I didn't take notes on this, but sorta recall not seeing any difference. I remember doing these type of …

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Re: Anyone ever upgraded an HP Vectra 486/50N ?

Posted on 2018-04-16, 20:30

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If someone is going to be coming here to buy them and you don't want a mess up, I'd go with the electronics distributors since those would be new and under warranty. They might be more expensive, but it would be worth it since you wouldn't really be able to come back to the seller for an exchange.

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Re: Anyone ever upgraded an HP Vectra 486 ?

Posted on 2018-03-28, 01:25

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The sad thing is, when I attempted to install the l2 cache on my Packard Bell, it would lock up at the BIOS screen, and nothing would boot or run (memory errors according to the Windows 95 installation or the OS present on the HDD). Mine were either a hit and miss, or the system's BIOS has a big …

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Re: Need help finding data/fax modem driver for windows 3.1

Posted on 2018-02-14, 06:03

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MichaelWeaser wrote: What I found out is, the modem is basically a winmodem, and only had drivers for windows 95 and up. How old is it though? Because I remember there were also winmodems that had dos and win3.1 drivers.

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Re: My first "retro" PC - overkill Win98/XP build

Posted on 2017-12-24, 08:01

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q6600 is faster than anything I have so if you're ever going to part with it, let me know!

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