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Re: Socket 4 VLB - enabling full 1MB cache

Posted on 2022-11-07, 21:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Problem solved! I've tried different BIOS... it was from exactly (99%) the same motherboard from the same manufacturer and chipset but with socket 5 not socket 4... Revision of bios was the same - I was sure it's identical but after change all started to run! It recognize my 133 overdrive as pentium …

Re: Socket 4 VLB - enabling full 1MB cache

Posted on 2022-11-04, 11:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

CoffeeOne wrote on 2022-11-02, 22:28: Is the 256kB cache working in this case? Confirmed by speedsys? Yes

Re: Socket 4 VLB - enabling full 1MB cache

Posted on 2022-11-02, 20:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's weird. So when you insert the 8 sticks of 128kx8 and close the 2 jumpers the Bios reports 256kb, right? Is it really 256kB? Did you confirm it with a test program like speedsys? When you have 256kB working with the 128kx8 sticks, it is very unlikely that the 128kx8 chips are bad. Could be a …

Re: Socket 4 VLB - enabling full 1MB cache

Posted on 2022-11-02, 19:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you everyone for replying. Unfortunately no solutions found so far. Maybe some of you have "proper" manual? O knowledge of three chips that are missing?

Re: Socket 4 VLB - enabling full 1MB cache

Posted on 2022-10-30, 08:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thak you for reply. Yes, of course. I've tried all obvious actions. And even trying two different (also tested) sets of cache sticks.

Socket 4 VLB - enabling full 1MB cache

Posted on 2022-10-30, 08:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi Everyone! For a long time I'm on a quest to build quite exotic machine Socket 4 VLB. I know that VLB has more sense with 486, but as I mentioned it is going to be exotic build. I have not found anywhere this exactly motherboards scheme. The closest one (from the same manufacturer and very similar …

Asus SP98AGP-X + Fastest Cyrix MII / cashe problem - photo needed

Posted on 2022-06-05, 13:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi folks! Just for fun I want to build system based on the fastest Cyrix MII I own (433GP). System will be based on Asus SP98AGP-X motherboard. My mobo has only 512Kb cache and I want to upgrade it to whole 1Mb - there is empty slot and some versions of this mobo has both slots filled and 1Mb cache …

Re: The K6-III build

Posted on 2021-12-08, 16:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I love this clean look and super socket 7 too! Really nice!

Re: Best (Super) Socket 7 motherboard?

Posted on 2021-11-19, 10:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

majestyk wrote on 2021-11-06, 08:39: The Freeway seems to have just 1MB L2 Cache and the older MVP3 southbridge that´s capable of ATA33 only. Not very convincing... If you really need 5 or 6 PCI slots it might be an option. It has 2MB for sure. Second chip is on other side.

Re: Fastest socket super socket 7 motherboard

Posted on 2021-11-16, 22:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For me the fastest was Freeway FW-5VGF+/Ultra with 2megs of cashe… sadly without ISA… i run there k6-III+ 550 acr https://collection.batyra.pl/motherboards/freewayss7

Re: All you retail boxes lovers - meet the Aureal SQ3500 Turbo retail packaging!

Posted on 2020-10-20, 08:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks hard1k for this opportunity- that was really a challenge and great fun to work with! Hope to make more replicas in the future... Honestly I thought of Intel Tillamook 266 box... as the fastest socket 7 CPU from Intel.

Re: Hearsay 1000 for IBM PC - a missing piece of PC sound history from mid-eighties

Posted on 2020-02-03, 16:05

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

WOW! Beautiful thing!

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-18, 16:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was not posting new things for a while cause I'm so busy :( But that doesn't mean that I don't get new stuff ;) Here is what came to me this week. Some boxed goodies: - Roland CM-500 - IBM Music Feature Card - Canopus Spectra X20 (GF3) - PowerLeap for Slot-1 to Socket-370 for Tualatins - Boxed and …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-18, 06:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This cutie came in the mail today. Phone camera doesn't do justice to how shiny it is. Hopefully when I take out the real camera for the build log it'll capture it much better. All the text on the "memorial" side of the board is quite shiny and reflective, along with the platinum plated heatsink. I …

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

Posted on 2019-03-09, 11:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Played Half-Life and Unreal on my Quantum3D Mercury brick (8 Voodoo 2's in SLI, 2 Voodoo 2 chipsets in SLI on each 200SBi board) Interesting. I thought that there were some issues with black 200SBi with 100MHz memories, that’s why green bricks with 125MHz memories were originally mounted in Mercury …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-03-05, 19:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

yawetaG wrote: What's mounted to the daughterboard? TV out Ozzuneoj wrote: Batyra wrote: Got this beauty today… It's suprisingly small. Quantum Obsidian2 S-12 AGP 12MB Voodoo 2 for AGP Wow! Never seen anything like it! I don't know how you find this stuff. This time finding wasn't hard... but I had …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-03-05, 17:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got this beauty today… It's suprisingly small. Quantum Obsidian2 S-12 AGP 12MB Voodoo 2 for AGP

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-03-03, 14:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

hard1k wrote: Well, if it plays without any prior initialization when supplied with data through its MIDI IN, then technically you can make it sound in DOS. You just need a proper MPU-401 to drive it via MIDI IN. Worth trying, I guess. Challenge Accepted hahahha 😀

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-03-03, 12:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

jaZz_KCS wrote: https://i.imgur.com/ntoy2VYl.jpg […] Show full quote Sorry for the blurry shot. Great find! Thats creme de la creme of midi music. I love it! Sadly you cant run any midi game on it

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-03-02, 12:11

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

^ Great findings!

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