Re: stange behavior on a motherboard

Posted on 2020-01-11, 20:01

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

thanks for your posts. truth is this mobo is 20+ years old. it was given to me for free and i dont know about how it was treated or stored. now it is known that a capacitor can fail even if shown visually ok just like in my case. heat can restore some capacitance and esr levels, but sold solder- …

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stange behavior on a motherboard

Posted on 2020-01-11, 09:55

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i have a qdi advance 5/133 slot 1 motherboard that wont post when its components are cold it beeps like there no ram in the ram slots. when i let the mobo get warm a little or if i personly heat the area near the cpu the one with lot of capacitors with a hair dryer it will post. then boot to windows …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-01-03, 11:31

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it will be an awe64 with all good parts back compared to vanila awe64. and exept main ics, the card has new components like the caps and is redesigned. lower noice at least when compared to value models. and propably would last more compare to old good vanila awe64. yes that part i confuse aweutil. …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-01-03, 09:48

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in Marvin \ Sound

my isa motherboard inst working right now to test. hopefully i will repair it. but if i remember corect for just midi or awesynth you need aweutil in dos. but cant confirm right now, i have the impresion you need aweutil for both to work

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-01-02, 20:15

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thats undreastandable if i want awesynth (some games sound better with it some others like blood not at all beter compared to old good general midi) i will use aweutil. if i want general midi or like the sound of it beter that awesynth, then the mpu chip on this new awe card will be a beter solution …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2020-01-02, 19:54

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question about the 2nd mpu. is this a real mpu like sb16? so in pure dos we just inisialize the card with ctcu and mpu will play without aweutil? that will be great since in pure dos midi games give problems with vanila awe64. example try run blood in dos if you select awe as music card the game and …

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Re: qdi advance 5/133

Posted on 2019-12-09, 22:32

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i made some research on it its either caps or northbridge 50/50 on that. but i would like to hear if someone had same issues. on ant brand motherboard

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qdi advance 5/133

Posted on 2019-12-07, 17:47

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

after some years i finaly have a mobo with isa. it was given to me for free before 8 months, it was working corect and i bought an sb awe64 all were good until i try to put a new slocket the ms6905 master, my mistake didnt notice 2 caps on that slocket are damaged after swaping the slocket with the …

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Re: DOSBox ECE (for Windows & Linux)

Posted on 2019-10-01, 13:24

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right now the x86 builds are enough. an sbawe32 emulation is more needed i think

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Re: Rudolph Loew apparently passed away in September 2019

Posted on 2019-09-28, 06:24

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i have an interupt fix for win9x i buy from him 2 years ago. i will submit it

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2019-09-22, 10:40

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ive taken a multimeter plug a male to male jack in line in and test. l-r are not seem bridged

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Re: Ion Fury - A new Build Engine game

Posted on 2019-09-09, 07:50

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the game uses a modified eduke32 to run. propably eduke32 is the reason for the high demands. the visuals dont justify the high requirements. i play duke nukem atomic edition with eduke32 64bit and the cpu-ram-gpu usage is the same as ion fury. eduke is the reason for those insane requirements

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Re: Ion Fury - A new Build Engine game

Posted on 2019-09-08, 20:04

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dont know why but this game has crazy requirments. even quake 4 didnt have requirements that high. and the visual quality of this game doesnt justify its requirements. its a fantastic game but give the feeling it belongs to my win98se retro pc. some hardcore people are talking about full ms-dos port …

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2019-08-30, 10:25

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in Marvin \ Sound

yes that a good question how much the cost will reduce if we provide our awe64? also do you plan to create awes from other models exept 4520 example ct4380 ct4500 or even the gold ct4390? just before i see this post i orderd a value ct4380 and its good. and with this redisign it will be AWEsome

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2019-08-26, 10:20

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so bad idea. anyway once is confiqured via a pif everything is sweet. what really matters is the real opl chip and that the card will come with max memory. also are the opl chips salvaged from other cards?

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Re: New sound card project: AWE64 Legacy

Posted on 2019-08-25, 09:29

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i didnt read everything now this project is amazing. having true olp3 chip will be nice thing, why keep the cqm anyway? also is there a way to make it nonpnp? also for people with only pci slots but with pc-link on ther mobo is possible a pci awe with pc-pci header? too bad i already ordered a awe64 …

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Re: NTVDM on windows 10 x64

Posted on 2019-03-03, 20:08

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ah ok got it. i thought the pif shortcuts made from ntvdm or dos but is not. i total agree with you patching ntvdm for better fuctionality is higher priority than patching the shell for pif creation. about the .bat and cmd creation they are are ok but .pif have also memory adjustments not found on . …

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Re: NTVDM on windows 10 x64

Posted on 2019-03-03, 17:01

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oh sorry you didnt undreastand well in x86 windows we can create a pif shortcut. but why in x64 even after install of the ntvdmx64 any attempt to create a pif gives an error about not enough space and pif cant created

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Re: NTVDM on windows 10 x64

Posted on 2019-03-03, 16:53

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mmm got it. another question in x86 machines we can create a shortcut of a 16bit exe the so called pif in x64 even with this patched ntvdm the shortcut creation gives error about space why is that?

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Re: NTVDM on windows 10 x64

Posted on 2019-03-03, 16:43

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yes its slow because v86mode is not avaible on long mode, when a x64 os is working the cpu switches to long mode. your cpu is fine. that is a big if not the main issue why ntvdmx64 works slower than the one on x86 machines. maybe a rework in the cpu emulated area make things better. porting cpu …

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