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Posted on 2021-11-29, 19:02

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by bakemono

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A recent post reminded me of this diagnostic software for Win 3.1 which I used back in the '90s. Doing a web search about it yielded very little info, eg. https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/1997-10-28/helix-announces-hurricane-98 I have a ZIP file of it from 1999 so I decided to see if I could …

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Re: Introducing HWiNFO16 (for 8086/88/186/188/286)

Posted on 2021-11-28, 16:17

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by bakemono

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Mumak wrote on 2021-11-28, 14:35: bakemono wrote on 2021-11-28, 14:02: For me there are still a few phantom network adaptors hanging around. Intel ones this time. Thanks. Does enumerating the PnP devices in v1.4 also cause stability issues for you like for vstrakh? Didn't see any problems with it, …

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Re: Introducing HWiNFO16 (for 8086/88/186/188/286)

Posted on 2021-11-28, 14:02

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by bakemono

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For me there are still a few phantom network adaptors hanging around. Intel ones this time.

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Re: Introducing HWiNFO16 (for 8086/88/186/188/286)

Posted on 2021-11-27, 13:40

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by bakemono

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Here's my test system: 6MHz IBM AT motherboard (@7MHz), AMI BIOS, 512KB on board (piggy backed DRAMs), 1024KB on expansion card, ESS 1868, 3C509, WD 90C00 VGA Some questionable reportings... 2MB RAM? computer name "NEC" ? 39 instances of AMD PCnet Ethernet Adapter IRQ list is missing the network …

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Re: Windows NT 4.0 running on real new hardware (Ryzen 3900x)

Posted on 2021-11-22, 17:30

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by bakemono

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To install a new PCI device you have to manually specify its bus number. I was able to install is a Realtek 8029 NIC which has a driver where you can manually select the bus. I used HWINFO to find out which is the bus number, selected bus #11 and it worked like a charm... Sound card is still not …

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Re: Modern and Fast Video Card for Windows 2000 (Stock Kernel) Question?

Posted on 2021-11-21, 22:01

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by bakemono

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If someone has gotten a GT 240 working, then it stands to reason that a GTX 285 would also work. Have you seen a report of the GT 240 working with the vanilla kernel somewhere online? Well, there is a blog comment from 2010, in Japanese, from someone who says they used a GTX 260 with no problems. …

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Re: Modern and Fast Video Card for Windows 2000 (Stock Kernel) Question?

Posted on 2021-11-21, 08:29

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by bakemono

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I know that an NVS 290 works on stock kernel with 182.46. Never tried to go any further than that on stock kernel. A GT 240 works on extended kernel with 197.45 but I never tried 197.45 on stock kernel (though it is said to work...)

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Re: P-ST8 utility for Win32 on AMD CPUs 10h, 15h

Posted on 2021-11-13, 16:56

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by bakemono

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Now also works on Windows 7 64-bit. (Turns out the 32-bit winring0 DLL can load the 64-bit driver...) http://www.hyakushiki.net/misc/p-st8.7z

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Re: XT PC era hardware - info / advice please

Posted on 2021-11-13, 09:04

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by bakemono

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I have a Laser keyboard and it is AT compatible, so I guess at least some of the Laser systems must have supported an AT keyboard. Don't know if they were "XT class" machines. Are those MiniScribe ST-506 "MFM" drives? (Separate control and data ribbon cables?) If so... if you want to access the …

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Re: New processors for old sockets.

Posted on 2021-11-12, 05:11

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by bakemono

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🤔 can you do it? If the idea is feasible it'll need a PCB design with FPGA, ZIF socket, voltage regulation, etc. and all of that is above my pay grade... I found an interesting document though about connecting an FPGA to Intel CPUs: https://www.xilinx.com/support/documentation/application_notes/ …

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Re: New processors for old sockets.

Posted on 2021-11-11, 06:17

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by bakemono

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An FPGA CPU would be hard pressed to out perform existing Pentiums on socket 5. On socket 3 and lower you have to deal with interfacing the 5V bus. But what about using an FPGA to adapt a newer CPU to the older socket 5/7/370 bus? In other words, the FPGA would handle differences in bus protocol or …

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Re: Is there a VLB card that supports > Mode 3 or UDMA support?

Posted on 2021-11-07, 09:42

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by bakemono

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How about a ROM dump please for the VLB 2300+ for those of us with a ROM-less OEM card? Dumped. BTW, I have the EIDE2300+ installed in my socket 3 system as well as the paper manual and drivers. I have Win95 installed on a Quantum Fireball EL2.5. With the Win95 driver installed (ptivgapi.mpd) but …

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

Posted on 2021-10-30, 07:02

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by bakemono

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Look what I found inside my COMDLG32.DLL file for Windows 2000 (see pic) C7 45 F0 03 00 00 00 This instruction sets the default file listing type in the open/save dialog window. I changed the '3' to a '4' and now when I go to open a file it will always come up with the "Details" view without me …

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Re: Genecyst Emulator

Posted on 2021-10-29, 21:14

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by bakemono

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Not sure why it would crash under Win 98. Maybe try to edit the GEN.INI file and set a different screen mode like 320x200? Or you could run it inside dosbox. (emulator inside an emulator...)

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Re: History of PowerVR graphics cards

Posted on 2021-10-29, 00:26

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by bakemono

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yjfy wrote on 2021-10-23, 06:22: Neon 250 core and video memory are 125Mhz, 12Mpixels/s fillrate, 12Mtexels/s fillrate. Is this part a typo? 12 instead of 125 perhaps? Otherwise, great post 😀

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Re: How many video cards / VGA cards or GPUs do you have?

Posted on 2021-10-28, 23:36

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by bakemono

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I have about 30. From EGA cards up to DX11 GeForce/Radeons.

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Re: 486 SIS 471 mobo with Pentium Overdrive 83MHz - apps crash when L2 is enabled

Posted on 2021-10-28, 22:50

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by bakemono

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I would try running a memory test program, with and without the L2 enabled. If it does fail when enabled, maybe try it with another CPU as well just to be sure. There could be a fault with an SRAM chip (or socket or motherboard trace?) that tends not to reveal itself except with the Overdrive CPU. …

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Re: Compaq Workstation SP750 - W2K & Win NT4 WKS - Installation problem

Posted on 2021-10-28, 22:38

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by bakemono

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In a situation where Windows has a mysterious booting problem, you might like to download WinDbg and try remote kernel debugging to search for the root cause.

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Re: Interview with "last XP fan"

Posted on 2021-10-26, 19:28

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by bakemono

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I'm using Win 2000 right now. 20 years, 7 different ISPs, no anti-virus bloatware. I've been waiting so long for the warnings of impending doom to materialize, but they never have. Of course, I have never used worm farms like Internet Explorer or Outlook. Opera was always better. I didn't use XP for …

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Re: Modding support for AMD K6-2 into a Socket 5 Award BIOS?

Posted on 2021-10-26, 18:05

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by bakemono

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The 1500 PCT-A BIOS image is 128KB but the first 32KB is blank, the 2nd 32KB mentions NCR 53710... is it a SCSI controller BIOS? After that appears to be an oldschool uncompressed 64KB Award BIOS, not the newer modular type. Ripe for disassembly and patching, if somebody knows what needs to change. …

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