Restoring a Compaq Armada "BIOS partition"

Posted on 2021-07-02, 11:34

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by pojo

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I purchased an old Compaq Armada 7380MT which works, but I can't get into any BIOS. It has Win95 installed, and there's only one partition. I want to do a clean install, and be able to get into BIOS. From my understanding I need to restore the special DIAGS partition. 1. Can I restore it somehow …

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Re: PLOP Boot manager+DOS+WIN98+Win ME

Posted on 2018-11-14, 09:03

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I got a bit further by reinstalling XP and PLOP, but now XP complains about missing hal.dll. This seems to be a bug in PLOP, the fix is in the FAQ: https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/faq.html#faq12

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Re: PLOP Boot manager+DOS+WIN98+Win ME

Posted on 2018-11-08, 19:28

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I've experimented with PLOP a bit lately, the goal for me is to dual-boot DOS, Win98 and XP. DOS and Win98 was no problem, but when I got to XP it naturally overwrote the MBR. I could not get back to XP properly again if I "rewrote" PLOP from a boot disk. It says "The bootloader is the MBR" in red …

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Re: MSI K7t Turbo 2 Motherboard - Possible Universal AGP + ISA?

Posted on 2018-11-02, 09:49

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by pojo

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I am happy to report that the installation of ISA slot went fine for me. The motherboard reports the card in the ISA/PNP device listing. I've tested a couple of games in Win98; Blood, Duke3D, Dune, Dune 2, all sound great. Typo in my previous post, the card I use is CT2980 with real OPL. I will test …

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Re: MSI K7t Turbo 2 Motherboard - Possible Universal AGP + ISA?

Posted on 2018-10-24, 08:16

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by pojo

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Glad to see progress here! @SETBLASTER: So you tried with another card and then it worked? I have ordered an ISA slot and will recap the board while I'm at it too. Will test this with my CT2940 (Vibra with OPL3)

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Re: MSI K7t Turbo 2 Motherboard - Possible Universal AGP + ISA?

Posted on 2018-10-16, 07:31

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by pojo

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Hmm, good work SETBLASTER. Maybe we can enable/add some feature with the Award BIOS Editor? No idea where to start, though.. http://awdbedit.sourceforge.net/

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Re: MSI K7t Turbo 2 Motherboard - Possible Universal AGP + ISA?

Posted on 2018-10-15, 10:04

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by pojo

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I have this board too and I'm going to try installing the ISA slot. Anyone have a good source for cheap connectors?

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Re: Checkmate 1500 Kickstarter

Posted on 2018-09-26, 08:07

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It looks like there will be an option to buy rear panel with vertical slots, so no need for risers then. :) https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/022/320/400/a01cae8ce361a75a6c28663aa202ee4e_original.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&w=680&fit=max&v=1535014488&auto=format&lossless=true&s= …

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Re: Checkmate 1500 Kickstarter

Posted on 2018-09-26, 07:37

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I wonder if it would be possible to fit a Baby AT board in there? Obviously a riser would be necessary.

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Checkmate 1500 Kickstarter

Posted on 2018-09-26, 07:25

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There's a Kickstarter of a new case that can be used for Amiga and ATX motherboards. It looks a lot like the old Amiga 3000. :cool: I think it could definately work for a Retro PC build as well, it has very flexible support for 3.5"/5.25" drives etc. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/483774293/ …

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Re: Oddball Shuttle

Posted on 2018-09-08, 15:06

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by pojo

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I did that at first, but I don't like the look with the plexi glass front. So I went all-in 😁 I've seen your Shuttle here before, nice one!

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Oddball Shuttle

Posted on 2018-09-07, 08:39

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by pojo

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I bought a Shuttle XPC machine that had been modified to house ITX motherboard. seller.jpg (seller image) Power supply (Enhance brand) was dead on arrival, I will recap it but maybe I'll just order a replacement for now. You can clearly see some bulging capacitors -- cheap crap. psu.jpg I then …

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Re: Recommended vintage games for kids (4-years, 6-years, and 8-years)

Posted on 2018-08-31, 08:06

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by pojo

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kid_Pix

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Re: Compact Flytech 386.

Posted on 2018-07-05, 10:46

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by pojo

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Didn't have any luck with Sound Blasters. CTCM.EXE detects it but after that, the keyboard just triggers random characters on the screen (?!) 😕 I have an ESS card on the way, will test that instead.

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Re: Compact Flytech 386.

Posted on 2018-06-25, 18:05

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Little update- I tested an 8-bit CGA card, that worked. I also tested a 16-bit ATI Mach64, that did not work, I got a continuous PC speaker beep. Internal VGA was disabled in both cases.

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Re: Compact Flytech 386.

Posted on 2018-06-25, 09:08

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I tried both a SB16 and a 3Com network card. NSSI reports no cards, and if I run SB16 DIAGNOSE.EXE or Adlib Jukebox they just report that there is no sound card in the system.. 🙁

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Re: Compact Flytech 386.

Posted on 2018-06-23, 17:57

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@tabm0de Did you ever get any ISA cards working? My machine does not seem to detect any cards at all. Maybe some jumper setting is needed?

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Re: Compact Flytech 386.

Posted on 2018-06-04, 17:41

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by pojo

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I managed to dump the BIOS with NSSI: https://archive.org/details/FLYTECH

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Re: Compact Flytech 386.

Posted on 2018-06-04, 16:22

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Well, UniFlash did not work: "PCI Bus not found or not responding" Btw, I think the computer is manufactured in 1997, I saw this year marking somewhere inside the case.

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Re: Compact Flytech 386.

Posted on 2018-05-25, 13:10

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Anonymous Coward wrote: Please dump the BIOS on this baby. Sure, any advice how? I don't have an EEPROM reader.

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