Re: Running 2x audio cards in one machine

Posted on 2022-05-15, 17:27

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by Baoran

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I was considering myself using SB AWE64 for digital sounds and using yamaha YMF744 card for getting opl3 in dos instead of the awe64 music. Is there any reason why this would not work?

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Re: GA-5AX prices on Ebay are outrageous; why?

Posted on 2022-05-13, 15:48

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by Baoran

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One reason is simply this discussion, without anyone giving enough importance to the value of something, that something has no value. And a rational value is not always applied to things. I think it is not rational to pay the same for an article from twenty years ago as for a new one. Reason, lack …

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Re: GA-5AX prices on Ebay are outrageous; why?

Posted on 2022-05-13, 10:20

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by Baoran

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Also I am sure lots of them have stopped working over the years. I also have one GA-5AX motherboard that does not work and I am probably going to have to throw away because of that.

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Re: SY-5EMA+ writing cache becomes disabled

Posted on 2022-05-12, 10:18

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by Baoran

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My PC is set up in old fashioned way that it boots to the dos that comes with win98se without the GUI and to load the GUI I have to give it the old "win" command. If I had 3 256MB modules I would like to test if the cpu cache would still be disabled for writing if I installed 3 modules instead of …

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Re: SY-5EMA+ writing cache becomes disabled

Posted on 2022-05-12, 06:05

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by Baoran

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I did another test and 256MB does not seem to be the absolute limit. I did put 3 128MB sticks of ram on the motherboard for total of 384MB and caches were working as they should be. Filename socket7-c.jpg File size 1.27 MiB Views 68 views

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Re: SY-5EMA+ writing cache becomes disabled

Posted on 2022-05-12, 05:38

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by Baoran

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True, the CPU internal cache is likely set to write-through by the BIOS. Similar to rasz_pl mentioned above. Could you check with CHKCPU to see what information says about the internal cache on that motherboard? CHKCPU says that L1 cache is enabled in write-back mode with both 256MB and 512MB. So …

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Re: SY-5EMA+ writing cache becomes disabled

Posted on 2022-05-12, 03:41

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by Baoran

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L1 cache may be independant of chipset limitations but its not independant of BIOS decisions. BIOS can disable it anytime for whatever reason be it intentional or due to a bug. True, the CPU internal cache is likely set to write-through by the BIOS. Similar to rasz_pl mentioned above. Can it …

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Re: SY-5EMA+ writing cache becomes disabled

Posted on 2022-05-11, 17:50

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by Baoran

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majestyk wrote on 2022-05-11, 17:29: L1 cache may be independant of chipset limitations but its not independant of BIOS decisions. BIOS can disable it anytime for whatever reason be it intentional or due to a bug. Can it disable it just for writing and not reading? It seems to be just standard …

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Re: SY-5EMA+ writing cache becomes disabled

Posted on 2022-05-11, 15:25

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by Baoran

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They don't get disabled, all three are unable to cache more than their maximum size and each data written by SpeedSys is fully randomized AFAIK. But cpu internal cache isn't suppose to have such limitation as motherboard cache has about how much ram can be cached or am I wrong about that? Didn't …

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Re: SY-5EMA+ writing cache becomes disabled

Posted on 2022-05-11, 10:01

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by Baoran

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Just a guess: As far as i remember the VIA MVP(3) chipsets needed 2MB of L2 cache to cache 512MB RAM. This is probably also the case when L2 cache acts as L3 cache under a K6+ CPU. In case there´s only 512K or 1MB L2 cache on your board (you didnt tell us so far) - depending on the Soyo BIOS, L2 …

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Re: SY-5EMA+ writing cache becomes disabled

Posted on 2022-05-10, 17:30

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Here is the speedsys picture with all writing related lines at the bottom of the graph. Filename socket7-a.jpg File size 1.67 MiB Views 248 views Here is the same with one of the sticks removed. Filename socket7-b.jpg File size 1.43 MiB Views 248 views

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Re: SY-5EMA+ writing cache becomes disabled

Posted on 2022-05-10, 17:26

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by Baoran

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Just a guess: As far as i remember the VIA MVP(3) chipsets needed 2MB of L2 cache to cache 512MB RAM. This is probably also the case when L2 cache acts as L3 cache under a K6+ CPU. In case there´s only 512K or 1MB L2 cache on your board (you didnt tell us so far) - depending on the Soyo BIOS, L2 …

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Re: SY-5EMA+ writing cache becomes disabled

Posted on 2022-05-10, 06:16

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by Baoran

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majestyk wrote on 2022-05-10, 05:58: What size is the onboard L2 cache? Are the two SDRAM sticks you tried the same size and what size? Is there an option in the BIOS to enable/disable memory interleave? 2 identical 256MB PC133 sticks. Originally taken from a duron system. There is no option for …

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SY-5EMA+ writing cache becomes disabled

Posted on 2022-05-10, 05:13

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by Baoran

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On SY-5EMA+ motherboard and K6-3+ cpu when testing with speedsys things are normal with single 256MB memory stick and speedsys shows 3 levels of cache in the graph but if you add second 256MB stick the reading test stays the same but writing test becomes flat like all 3 levels of cache would be …

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Re: Win98 works on h87 performance(haswell), on z690 I get vcache protection error

Posted on 2022-05-08, 18:59

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by Baoran

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I limited ram to 512MB with my Athlon64 systemwith himemx, but I still get out of memory errors randomly in win98se just by opening normal file explorer windows and trying to copy files.

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Re: Advice on a best early Sierra (Space Quest, Kings Quest, Police Quest) era build?

Posted on 2022-05-08, 18:55

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by Baoran

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Either my 386 33Mhz or my 486 33Mhz connected to MT-32 seems to work fine for those.

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Re: Best way to transfer files to PC without USB?

Posted on 2022-05-03, 09:58

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by Baoran

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I often write cd-rw disk myself too. As long as you finalize the disk even basic mitsumi 8x drive seems to be able to read it.

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Re: Heatsink glue for Pentium 233MMX?

Posted on 2022-05-03, 07:30

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by Baoran

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Looking at the original picture in this thread it looks to me like there are possibly some leaky caps there too.

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 issue...

Posted on 2022-05-01, 09:20

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by Baoran

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This should be in different section of the forum. There is different section for the sound stuff.

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Re: Some eBay sellers are assholes

Posted on 2022-05-01, 04:21

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by Baoran

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When it comes to people who raise price when you ask a question you could also use it against them by asking question about things that you are not interested in and making them raise price which would make them much less likely to be able to sell it.

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