Re: IBM Apitva 2175 ~ BIOS issue

Posted on 2023-09-12, 06:32

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by ala_borbe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

find the latest bios on the website https://www.os2site.com/sw/hardware/ibm/aptiva/index.html use a blank floppy to create a bios update disk boot from the created floppy. bios will update and microcode will update. reboot and enjoy

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Re: PCI Nvidia Riva TNT2 M64 not working in socket 7 PCI - Fix!

Posted on 2023-08-04, 09:24

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by ala_borbe

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3.3 volts are available elsewhere on the motherboard. find a coil from 3.3v and run a wire from it to the correct pin on the PCI slot.

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Re: ECS P4S5A-DX+ joys and tribulations

Posted on 2023-03-20, 12:32

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by ala_borbe

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

most likely ide controller is running in pio mode try going to device manager, locating ide controller > update driver > Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller Driver and then reboot and test

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Re: radeon 9800se pixel pipeline driver softmod under win9x

Posted on 2022-12-27, 15:16

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by ala_borbe

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There was a method to dump your bios and mod it to unlock the pipes and flash back Remember doing it myself back in the day and unlocking radeon 9500 to radeon 9700 with similar method https://www.overclock.net/threads/guide-to-radeon-x800-x850-bios-modding.149501/ or you can back up your bios and …

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Re: PCChips M747 / SiS 600 Tuning: The Anti Thesis Thread. NOT the bane of MY existence.

Posted on 2022-11-18, 12:44

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by ala_borbe

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

thank you for going tough the process and giving the opportunity to learn, since i will be trying to do something similar myself with M748lmrt

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Re: Athlon XP 3200+ FSB problem

Posted on 2022-09-29, 13:46

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by ala_borbe

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not all xp 3200+ have fsb 400, some have fsb 333. its bet to check exact cpu model reference here https://web.archive.org/web/20191210123943/ht … e/opn-xp-e.html

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Re: Windows 11 - MS wants to get rid of HDDs for drive C:

Posted on 2022-06-10, 06:16

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by ala_borbe

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incompetence in programming and optimisation leads to hardware upgrade but little improvement if terms of speed due to bad code imagine instead of R&D in new ssd or ram investing into OS optimisation...

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Re: Fixing a 3DFx Voodoo 3000

Posted on 2022-05-24, 06:14

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by ala_borbe

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in Marvin \ Video

i would gladly take it to fix it... pm me for details

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Re: Dune 2000

Posted on 2022-04-20, 12:43

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by ala_borbe

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try changing the VGA cable and make sure that in device manager your monitor is set to plug and play monitor or that it actually shows the model of your monitor

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Re: I want to drill holes into my PowerVR PCX2 to mount a heatsink. Does anyone have access to an x-ray machine?

Posted on 2021-08-26, 11:12

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by ala_borbe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

thermal double sided tape? Japan SEKISUI #5760 Transparent Clear Double-sided AdhesiveTransfer Adhesive Tape for Heatsink 10cmx20cm https://www.aliexpress.com/i/32946404940.html works for me

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Re: Why people still love XP

Posted on 2021-08-18, 06:18

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by ala_borbe

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well , the way i see it, its simple... WinXp was all around ok, not perfect but ok. lasted long and people got familliar with it. improved quite a bit in comparison to previos versions and during its lifetime (SP1, SP2, SP3) all versions after are WAY WAY WORSE than WinXP (Win7 with SP1 is not that …

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Re: Graphical stuttering win98

Posted on 2021-08-17, 09:38

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by ala_borbe

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Limpem wrote on 2021-08-17, 07:16: I personally prefer to use SP2 instead of SP3 for Windows 98. It already contains all patches for 98 and I don't need any of the newer functions SP3 provides. Haven't had any problems with that version so far. +1 SP2 works without issues..

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Re: Old BIOS modding tools?

Posted on 2021-08-12, 07:55

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by ala_borbe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i do not know which bios versions are supported but here is a quite a collection of tools. https://www.bios-mods.com/downloads/

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Re: Low memory score

Posted on 2021-08-05, 12:29

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by ala_borbe

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

have you treid updating bios to letest version and removing cmos battery to reset bios settings? (sometimes load defaults and load fail safe do not work) i love QDI brand and have used many of thir boards with VIA chipset (both s370 and s462) but i do not remember ever being so slow. also its worth …

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Re: Crossflash TNT2 M64 BIOS?

Posted on 2021-05-14, 13:34

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by ala_borbe

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well, crosflashing bios would not solve enything but you need to resolder resitors in order to change ID of the card. maybe additional ram chips on board with unpopulated ram would do something like incrasing memory path from 64bit to full there is nice bit of info here http://www.plasma-online.de/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-03-23, 19:29

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by ala_borbe

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luck has struck today so im very very happy NOS DFI CA64-TC S370 VIA chipset with ISA slot... capacitors are gonsky but that is not an issue ASUS V6600MX geForce 256 SDR agp (details pointing out that those are 64bit models but all pictures i found on net has 4 memory chips while this one has all 8 …

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Re: Rage 128 memory upgrade

Posted on 2021-03-22, 11:36

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by ala_borbe

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in Marvin \ Video

have you tried measuring important pins on newly soldered ram? VDD, CS... maybe 0ohm resistor is missing somewhere... you can always compare readings on "old" ram and measure same pin on "new" ram for any differences

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Re: QDI Legend PlatiniX 2 drivers required for Win98

Posted on 2021-03-03, 10:04

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by ala_borbe

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

man, put jumpers on FPAA and you will have sound

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Re: Programming a 27C010

Posted on 2020-12-04, 13:51

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by ala_borbe

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

if it is UV erasable eeprom make sure you erase it with UV light berfore programming i am not familiar with your programmer but for old chips i use willem and it works great make sure you programmer supports 12 VPP signal for programming. from picture i see its usb powered, but usb provides 5v only …

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Re: Voodoo 2 component map

Posted on 2020-11-13, 14:46

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by ala_borbe

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tnx a bunch... i have a couple of dead / half dead voodoo 2...this will help for sure

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