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

Posted on Yesterday, 23:06

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally backing up Dad's old Acer Aspire Win98SE install from a year 1998 Maxtor 5.7GB HDD. The drive went into a clicking state in 2018 and 2019, but somehow in 2020 it lives again. There is some old data on that install that Dad still used until then. Too bad the custom wired PSU from the Acer …

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

Posted on 2020-05-23, 22:14

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My MCS-48/41 adapter for my Willem programmers just arrived and I managed to dump the data of an old American Megatrends keyboard controller IC. That and its corresponding BIOS HI/LO data dump are still on my EPROM burning desktop PC. I also have a Holtek HT6542B IC from a semi-dead PC Chips M520 …

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Re: Rant: stop linking to "Stason .org" for Total Hardware 1999 (TH99) pages

Posted on 2020-05-20, 23:05

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, I'm going to agree here. (Though, I have a local copy of TH99 for my own personal purposes anyway...)

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

Posted on 2020-05-17, 06:57

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by AmiSapphire

in Milliways

in Milliways

Ordered an MCS-48 adapter for my Willem programmers (yes, I own two of them). Also... So, the NAS locked up not long after browsing through it for a PDF (I only found out when Sis wanted some non-CD game music rip that I forgot to add to the server and I attempted to transfer it to the NAS). Went to …

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Re: Intel-built 486/Pentium/PPro/PII motherboard guide

Posted on 2020-05-13, 15:23

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've uploaded it to archive.org, seems to be the safest host for such things: https://archive.org/details/old_intel_motherboards_resources I hope I've described it well enough for people to find it via google. At least someone else archived it, though some files seem to be missing, notably adv_mn. …

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Re: Intel-built 486/Pentium/PPro/PII motherboard guide

Posted on 2020-05-13, 04:58

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just hit the old Intel motherboards BIOS/docs jackpot: ftp://ftp.ioncomputer.com/HardWare/SYSTEMS/1990s BIOS images and documentation for things as old as Intel Model 302 or Professional Workstation. Intel Xpress and Xtended Xpress motherboards stuff. Mirrored it, I recommend it to everyone else. …

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Re: FIC PT-2200 Manual

Posted on 2020-05-11, 19:31

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Archive.org entries: https://archive.org/download/ftp.fic.com.tw-20151022/20151022-ftp.fic.com.tw.tar/ftp.fic.com.tw%2Fmotherboard%2Fmanual%2Fsocket7%2Fpt-2200%2FPT-2200.ZIP https://archive.org/download/ftp.fic.com.tw-20151022/20151022-ftp.fic.com.tw.tar/ftp.fic.com.tw%2Fmotherboard%2Fmanual% …

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Re: 6800gs replace capacitor

Posted on 2020-05-09, 07:33

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Same cap as on my nVidia GeForce 7800GS card; it is a Panasonic SVP series polymer cap (rated 1200uf 4V), as mentioned earlier. Exact part number is 4SVP1200M.

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Re: I think AOpen just nuked their FTP server

Posted on 2020-04-04, 21:07

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

oh damn. im so sad. i got a buch of aopen stuff, even avsoundcard. i hope you guys were able to make a full backup. its just horrible to have retro hardware and in the future not being able to download drivers and patches. A few people have mirrored the server (at least the server mirrors that had …

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Re: I think AOpen just nuked their FTP server

Posted on 2020-04-04, 13:19

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

oh damn. im so sad. i got a buch of aopen stuff, even avsoundcard. i hope you guys were able to make a full backup. its just horrible to have retro hardware and in the future not being able to download drivers and patches. A few people have mirrored the server (at least the server mirrors that had …

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Re: I think AOpen just nuked their FTP server

Posted on 2020-04-02, 08:20

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Deksor grabbed a complete copy of their FTP server before my version finally finished; all within a few hours. Still have an archived complete (at the time) copy of it on my own web server, but it's not Internet-facing. I touched the .com one, and Deksor probably went to .com.tw. Wouldn't be …

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Re: Looking for Abit AV4 BIOS image

Posted on 2020-03-27, 01:28

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Was taking a long break from doing some PCB work in KiCAD and saw this thread. I did find a ROM like that, but it had to be dug up from an old MAME 0.209-0.210 ROM update collection. Found using hex editor: 40-00AG-001247-00101111-060692-SIS3486 AV4 ISA/VL-BUS SYSTEM BIOS

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2020-03-17, 23:09

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello all. Firstly, this is great work. Thank you to everybody who has contributed. I recently bought a cheap DH61WW to test out a batch of 2nd and 3rd gen processors I picked up a while ago, hoping that the BIOS would already have been updated and expecting it to be easy if it hadn't. No such luck …

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Re: Fic FTP site is gone. We lost most of the drivers

Posted on 2020-03-17, 16:36

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I also have a (very incomplete) AOpen FTP mirror from the same year, but it's not much of a priority right now. there's a ton of stuff on the AOpen FTP, and it could go dark any day now - might want to back that one up too Yeah, my backup stops at /pub02/drivers/ somewhere and I stopped since …

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Re: Fic FTP site is gone. We lost most of the drivers

Posted on 2020-03-17, 04:24

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The FTP archive is uploaded on the Archive here: https://archive.org/details/ftp.fic.com.tw-20151022 Why I archived it in the first place (and it's a weird one): I bought a FIC PA-2013 rev. 2.1 motherboard in 2014, got that, then downloaded some things for the board from their server. Before that, I …

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Re: Fic FTP site is gone. We lost most of the drivers

Posted on 2020-03-14, 21:59

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, someone on Twitter told me today. I just located my compressed archive and I am going to upload the entire thing from October 2015 to the Internet Archive later this week. Same person also told me I am now the only one that has the directory. This is the entire FTP archive from late 2015. Some …

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Re: Need help with broken AWE64 Gold CT4540

Posted on 2020-02-12, 21:36

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I own this card, so here are the cap values: C33 - 4.7uf 50V C58 - 1uf 50V C119 - 4.7uf 50V C122 - 4.7uf 50V

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-09-19, 04:17

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Since I own a VS440FX and MU440EX and will try to DL all the "Legacy" last BIOS and post to usenet somewhere. I cannot find any of the BIOS thru their ftp so may not get all the old boards listed as will have to DL thru their support website. Good luck. I went after what was left of their Server …

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-09-15, 08:47

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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Unfortunately I expected this since last year, like the HP thing in 2017. Especially when they said they were revamping their site then, too. :confused: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=60219&p=672727#p672727 A lot of their older stuff was already gone before that as well. I only noticed …

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Re: Was Win95B the best version?

Posted on 2019-09-14, 23:55

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

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I actually never ran into the automatic install of Win95C's Desktop Update. Had no clue it even existed until I browsed the CD for it. (And probably this thread a few years ago.) Then again, I always removed the CD after the final part of the initial install out of habit... Admittedly I used an old …

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