Re: The Ultimate 686 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2024-04-19, 18:00

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...at least 2 of them used really cheap and bad caps. So in principle they seem to be good boards, but not every component is up to their quality claims. I don't think anyone that made these boards expected them to be still used today so while the components were top notch at the time, they were …

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Re: Short on ISA slots? Try this.

Posted on 2024-04-03, 00:39

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Pretty interesting. Back in the day there were companies that sold passive backplanes like this for industrial computing (they also had some neat stuff like a full motherboard on a card so you get a passive backplane and then add a 'motherboard' card to it for a full PC). They were pretty expensive …

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Re: 2.5Gb NIC 98SE Support?

Posted on 2024-03-26, 15:18

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In the driver pack I just downloaded from Realtek, there's a rtenic.sys file in a WIN98SE directory. See the .INF file in that directory, there's a list of supported chips there: Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC Realtek RTL8168C(P)/8111C(P) PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC Realtek RTL8168D …

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Re: 2.5Gb NIC 98SE Support?

Posted on 2024-03-26, 13:58

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Grzyb wrote on 2024-03-26, 13:52: I'm afraid not. There is "0001-PCIE_Install_98ME_5708_1119.zip", but no RTL8125 driver there. In the driver pack I just downloaded from Realtek, there's a rtenic.sys file in a WIN98SE directory. I don't have my 98SE system or a 2.5Gb nic to test with, but was …

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2.5Gb NIC 98SE Support?

Posted on 2024-03-26, 13:20

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I was just looking at Realtek's RTL8125 driver page and it indicates that there's 98SE, XP and other legacy support (even Novell!). Anyone tried this yet and confirmed it works?

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Re: Dos 6 conventional memory tricks

Posted on 2024-02-12, 03:38

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This will help DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\emm386.exe D=64 I=B000-B7FF I=C800-EFFF FRAME=C800 RAM If you have cards with OPTROM installed then use UMBINFO.COM to determine where their ROMs are located and exclude it from arguments for EMM386.EXE . This is actually very important and I didn't remember that I …

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Re: Convert USB keyboard to PS/2 or AT?

Posted on 2023-08-19, 07:50

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Great, will use that for my optical Microsoft Intellimouse, which supports PS/2 mind that ps2 brackets are hard to source nowadays and pinouts arent standardized, thus my link with some ideas Yep, back in the 486 era, we all used serial port mice. The one time I tried to adapt a mouse to ps2, I …

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Re: Convert USB keyboard to PS/2 or AT?

Posted on 2023-08-19, 00:10

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Instead of going through all that effort, I would look for an iogear 2 port kvm that was discontinued a long time ago model GCS1732: https://www.iogear.com/product/GCS1732 (there is also others in this series that can do the same job) This had a usb inputs for the console, but depending on the type …

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Re: Convert USB keyboard to PS/2 or AT?

Posted on 2023-08-18, 23:35

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Just an update. I received these the other day and they are brand new in original box. I'll post another update when I test. Please do. I'm interested in how these work since I have a few applications that could use it. Small world too. I spend a lot of time in the Huntsville area, especially in …

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Re: 386 DX-40 multi-sound card build (5 sound cards!)

Posted on 2023-07-26, 15:54

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Beautiful! Now all you need is some DAW software on there and do some digital tracking--1990s style!

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Re: Dos 6 conventional memory tricks

Posted on 2020-08-29, 20:51

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I thought BUFFERSHIGH could put the buffers in upper memory. I haven't looked at my config.sys or autoexecs in decades now, but recall that we would do this in msdos 5.0. I think it actually works only on Windows 9x (DOS 7.x), and FreeDOS (possibly since certain versions). Strange. I know we …

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Re: Dos 6 conventional memory tricks

Posted on 2020-08-29, 20:29

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...like the BUFFERS and FCBs. I thought BUFFERSHIGH could put the buffers in upper memory. I haven't looked at my config.sys or autoexecs in decades now, but recall that we would do this in msdos 5.0. Possibly. I am quite tired right now and without it being easy to boot it up and check, it's …

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Re: Dos 6 conventional memory tricks

Posted on 2020-08-29, 18:09

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ssokolow wrote on 2020-08-29, 17:23: ...like the BUFFERS and FCBs. I thought BUFFERSHIGH could put the buffers in upper memory. I haven't looked at my config.sys or autoexecs in decades now, but recall that we would do this in msdos 5.0.

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Re: Dos 6 conventional memory tricks

Posted on 2020-07-15, 21:15

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There may be someone spamming the thread (either with advertising or with idiocy) whose posts are being deleted before you can see them. Yep, this is my guess too. This is why I like forum platforms that allow you to have the post reply included in the email notification--so you know if it's spam …

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Re: Biostar MB-8433UUD-A

Posted on 2020-04-07, 18:06

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Sounds like this might have been by design. Motherboard makers back in this era didn't work as hard to work the same as other brands, so there would be quirks like this. Maybe but I'm not sure about that, don't know if not implementing that was an option for manufacturers even back then. All 3 of …

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Re: Biostar MB-8433UUD-A

Posted on 2020-04-07, 10:02

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Dusko wrote on 2020-04-07, 04:10: ...the thing is, the motherboard is not sending a reset pulse on power-up... Sounds like this might have been by design. Motherboard makers back in this era didn't work as hard to work the same as other brands, so there would be quirks like this.

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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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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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