Re: Did Creative remove some legacy drivers from their website?

Posted on 2021-10-12, 02:48

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by AmiSapphire

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Just downloaded the NT4 and 9x drivers from there as a test. I guess we could archive them at some point. (Note: they're going to do maintenance on their site next week, however.)

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-10-08, 22:58

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by AmiSapphire

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Follow-up post of this: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1004381#p1004381 I started from scratch on the Arduino serial MIDI sketch (which will stay internal for now) since I found out a simple Serial.begin(31250); starts MIDI, and I managed to code in a MIDI byte indicator LED. Then I was …

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Re: pc chips mainboard M573 resurrection

Posted on 2021-10-04, 00:52

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by AmiSapphire

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More complete BIOS list: https://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/archive/housto … m573/index.html There are three known releases, and the 4/30/1998 BIOS is the most recent one.

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Re: Looking for information on an A-Trend ATC6240V-01 with 440BX chipset

Posted on 2021-09-30, 15:11

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by AmiSapphire

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^ You're welcome. Now that I know that BIOS 3.0r05 unofficially supports 1GHz Intel Coppermine CPUs that use the 100MHz bus speed, that note has just been added to my A-trend ATC-6240 page.

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Re: Looking for information on an A-Trend ATC6240V-01 with 440BX chipset

Posted on 2021-09-29, 15:43

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by AmiSapphire

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It should presumably match this: BIOS info: 01/09/2000-i440BX-W977-62400000C-EC Sure enough, it does say "i440BX-W977-62400000C-EC" on post. Since it does say that do you believe flashing it with a bios for a "ATC6240M V3: PCB rev R06" would work rather than brick it? Thank you for pointing me in …

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Re: Looking for information on an A-Trend ATC6240V-01 with 440BX chipset

Posted on 2021-09-28, 15:52

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by AmiSapphire

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Um, weird. Searching that VER:1.0r01 WB1 string brings up conflicting info by itself. However, going through my A-Trend BIOS stash and reading them in a BIOS editor, the date on that screenshot seems to match the ATC6240M v3 BIOS version 3.0r02. It seems your board is actually an ATC6420M V3: PCB …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-09-28, 01:47

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by AmiSapphire

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Partially recapped the Abit SR7-8X board some hours ago. The soldering iron I use had to be set to near max to remove and replace the caps (no surprise). But, I can't test the board. I misplaced the older Pentium 4 CPU cooler somewhere in my room. Before and after images provided. Before: 20210926_ …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-09-26, 20:55

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by AmiSapphire

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That board was never used since I tested it in 2011, so this happened entirely in storage. Edit: Though the power supply part will be useful on boards I am still using, so thanks. :) Please thoroughly examine the "Nichicons" after you removed them, and open a thread if you find anything unusual. …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-09-26, 20:04

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by AmiSapphire

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Yeah, I hate that. I have an Abit SR7-8X mainboard I got in 2011 that has some bulging Teapo and Nichicon caps, an issue I caught ~3 years ago: Teapo caps first, Nichicon caps second. Started with two, now it's nine (including one more Nichicon starting to bulge.) Hadn't bothered fixing it, either, …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-09-26, 13:28

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by AmiSapphire

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So, today being Sunday I figured it would be a nice day to get rid of that hole in the back of my case where that IO shield is supposed to be and to my horror I discover leaky caps! I never had leaky caps on boards before. My common retro era is 286/386/486 so I guess boards from those periods …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-09-25, 21:03

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by AmiSapphire

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Set up a much smaller MIDI controller just for the Roland SC-7 so I don't have to use the much larger Roland XP-80 (or even the Roland MT-32) as a MIDI controller. It is basically an Arduino Uno with a MIDI shield and the KonverterMidiUSB sketch compiled and uploaded to the Uno. I test projects …

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Re: Found the real manual for Atrend ATC 6240M motherboard with 440BX chipset.

Posted on 2021-09-18, 23:57

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by AmiSapphire

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Great find! I actually own that motherboard version, too! (Needs a bit of repair, though.)

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Re: PCB card-edge connector gold plating

Posted on 2021-09-03, 21:08

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by AmiSapphire

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Yeah, made a Snark Barker with HASL a few years ago, and it turned out fine to an extent. Added solder paste to the card edge connector and re-flowed it, though. (Still have three PCBs left, however...)

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Re: FTP is dead (in Mozilla Firefox v90)

Posted on 2021-07-26, 19:36

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by AmiSapphire

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I knew a few months ago, before v90 was even released. Icon layout for FTP was broken in Firefox for years, though. For browsing FTP servers, I use either Pale Moon (too lazy to remove it from the machine; uses very old Firefox release as base) or SeaMonkey (uses Firefox ESR release as base). I use …

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Re: HDD not detected by my BIOS... ARGH!

Posted on 2021-07-26, 13:07

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by AmiSapphire

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Apparently, the AWDFLASH version is 7.53. You can use the Windows 98SE boot disk for this process. (You may have to press F5 at floppy disk boot to stop memory managers from loading if this is the Startup Disk, however. The format a: /s system disk method does not need this.) Thanks for the help! …

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Re: HDD not detected by my BIOS... ARGH!

Posted on 2021-07-26, 11:57

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Which version of AWDFLASH should I use? There are so many: https://www.wimsbios.com/awardflasher.jsp Also, for the boot floppy, can I just use the one which came in my Windows 98 SE box? Or do I have to make a different one using DR DOS (I have been struggling to find any guides on how to do this). …

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Re: HDD not detected by my BIOS... ARGH!

Posted on 2021-07-25, 14:31

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by AmiSapphire

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That board's BIOS has a 32GB HDD limit (bug). There is a 128GB HDD patched BIOS on http://wims.rainbow-software.org, but I would back up your original BIOS in case something goes wrong. http://wims.rainbow-software.org/ajz/Tekram%20P6BX-A%28n%29.zip Edit: That BIOS is out of date (latest is v1.08), …

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Re: HDD not detected by my BIOS... ARGH!

Posted on 2021-07-25, 13:49

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by AmiSapphire

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That board's BIOS has a 32GB HDD limit (bug). There is a 128GB HDD patched BIOS on http://wims.rainbow-software.org, but I would back up your original BIOS in case something goes wrong. http://wims.rainbow-software.org/ajz/Tekram%20P6BX-A%28n%29.zip Edit: That BIOS is out of date (latest is v1.08), …

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Re: Tyan Tiger MPX S2466. Any had experience with it?

Posted on 2021-06-23, 23:49

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by AmiSapphire

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^ Pretty much my experience, not great. Didn't like certain Flash graphics, even with different GPUs (it was 2013; located and attached image, redacted usernames), and some programs would crash and burn upon attempting to run them... but I could run Youtube videos quite well back then, which nearly …

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Re: Firmware for Panasonic/ Matshita CR-583 8x IDE CD-ROM drive

Posted on 2021-06-05, 14:34

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by AmiSapphire

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Apparently this link should work: http://www.rpc1.org/farzeno/club-internet/firmware/583_107.zip 😏 RPC1 site didn't update the paths when they mirrored the original site. I did locally download the file to test it, though. Ouch, that means that the day that site goes down (hopefully never, but life …

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