Re: The "Driver CD" for motherboards thread

Posted on 2021-06-20, 18:39

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by SETBLASTER

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vmr_ wrote on 2021-05-24, 16:30: I think I have somewhere the original CD for Gigabyte ga-5ax, possibly Asus P5a as well. Have to dig it out from storage 😀 Not sure about AOpen ax59pro, have to check did you find anything?

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Re: The "Driver CD" for motherboards thread

Posted on 2021-05-24, 21:42

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by SETBLASTER

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vmr_ wrote on 2021-05-24, 16:30: I think I have somewhere the original CD for Gigabyte ga-5ax, possibly Asus P5a as well. Have to dig it out from storage 😀 Not sure about AOpen ax59pro, have to check thanks! anything you can find will help when you do an iso please upload to any hosting site like …

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Fixing floppy drives ?

Posted on 2021-05-21, 00:36

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by SETBLASTER

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i got an old system that was kept untouched for many years. tried to read a brand new floppy disk and it worked then copied files to the floppy disk and it worked also then tried to run a program install from the floppy disk and it failed at some percentage of the installation after that. the floppy …

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Re: MEDIA VISION FUSION CD16. Anyone has one?

Posted on 2021-05-19, 01:22

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by SETBLASTER

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Gona wrote on 2021-05-18, 16:18: IXP-PAS16P (PAS16 LMSI) 650-042. A version with Philips type CD-ROM interface and drive: https://www.flickr.com/photos/broox/26999661875 very nice! is that yours?? mine came with the exact same cd games and speakers,but the cdrom was a sony one.

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Re: Trying to understand 30pin simm memory modules capacity, please join if you can help.

Posted on 2021-05-17, 22:03

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how rare are 4mb 30-pin simm modules? i have seen people in my country looking for some of those for years. I was lucky enough to get 4 modules on a pc from a co-worker. gave it to me for free because he had it in the closet for 20 years. When i opened , it had a really bad motherboard, a nice …

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Re: Max size for HDD on a 486?

Posted on 2021-05-10, 20:44

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by SETBLASTER

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It depends on the motherboard BIOS. Some of the later ones are good up to 8GB+. If you get a PCI SATA 1 RAID card, you can go up to whatever as the card's BIOS handles it. A workaround is to use a drive overlay software. i got an almost new soyo sy-4saw2 which in the manual it states the jumper …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-05-07, 15:49

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by SETBLASTER

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bought this 10 bucks, fic va-503+ with cooler and a k6-2 350. not sure if its a good revision of the board, 1.1b

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-05-07, 02:52

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dulu wrote on 2021-05-04, 20:41: What is this? Sellers picture https://www.techpowerup.com/gpu-specs/quadro2-pro.c2372

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Re: Differences between Soyo 4SAW, 4SAW2, 4SAW5 ?

Posted on 2021-05-07, 02:49

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by SETBLASTER

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It looks same as some pictures of a 4SAW2 but that probably means nothing. here is one picture: https://thumbs.worthpoint.com/zoom/images1/1/0617/22/soyo-sy-4saw2-486-pci-vl-isa_1_81d05379ccce54768c4adfdeca777158.jpg thanks, do you know why there are 2 bios? one named 4saw-wa3 and anotherone called …

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Differences between Soyo 4SAW, 4SAW2, 4SAW5 ?

Posted on 2021-05-07, 01:41

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by SETBLASTER

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someone offered me this motherboard battery is in great condition, but before selling.. he wanted to test it , when he turned it on, the got a "bios ROM checksum error" "detecting floppy drive A media" "insert system disk and press enter" does this error mean the bios should be reflashed? this is …

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Re: Did PC-Chips ever release a high quality motherboard?

Posted on 2021-05-07, 00:41

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by SETBLASTER

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some peole say m577 was good, but when i tried it i had problems detecting the memory, and im talking about 128mb sticks for some reason everything i tried was detected as half, or the board did not want to post

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Re: Super expensive Pentium overdrive , any alternative?

Posted on 2021-05-02, 17:38

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mmmm using a dx4 overdrive 100 instead of a pentium overdrive 83? is that even possible?

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Re: Any STLs for attaching heatsinks to 486 CPUs?

Posted on 2021-04-27, 23:37

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by SETBLASTER

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these are the only two i saw online https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2459258 https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4659201 but i dont like because you need a heatsink of an specific height. you can update the design tho, but im not sure what can be modified in order to make it for a customized heatsink …

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Re: Heatsink and/or fan for Voodoo 3 3000

Posted on 2021-04-22, 00:35

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how did you remove the heatsink? it has glue and you can break the card taking it off

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Re: Gigabyte GA-6BA and Voodoo 3 jumpers

Posted on 2021-04-20, 19:41

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I have tried using these jumpers to run a Voodoo 3 3000 AGP on a GA-BX2000 board in the past and it was still not stable. I've had better luck with a GA-BX2000+ but it was still not completely stable. My advice for Gigabyte boards from this era would be to skip them for Voodoo 3 builds. My GA-6OXT …

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Re: Gigabyte GA-6BA USB and PS/2 connectors?

Posted on 2021-04-20, 19:02

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Wow, thanks @PC Hoarder Patrol for the diagrams, my mobo revision is 2.4 and now that I know I have to made the cables by myself it will be a lot easier (I guess) and a more entertaining project :D do you know why this motherboard has jumpers for voodoo card on revision 3.0? that means voodoo3 …

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Re: Gigabyte GA-6BA and Voodoo 3 jumpers

Posted on 2021-04-20, 18:39

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It bypasses the onboard 3.3v regulators for the AGP port and uses the ATX power supplied 3.3v lines directly. My understanding is that, at the time the Voodoo cards were most likely the most power hungry 3.3v AGP cards available and caused issues with VRMs. You'll notice the jumpers are right near …

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Re: Help with setup of Media Vision PAS16 with Sony 2x CDROM drive.

Posted on 2021-04-08, 22:30

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by SETBLASTER

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nice card, can you post some pictures? that pack must have had come from one of those media vision fusion cd16 packs here are some drivers for cdrom http://ftp.mpoli.fi/pub/hardware/CDROM/OTHER/ whats the difference between model cdu 33A and 31A ?

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Re: List of open-source PC hardware projects

Posted on 2021-04-07, 00:14

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awesome stuff , i would like to see a yamaha db50xg wavetable clone

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Re: Fabricating a New Turbo Display

Posted on 2021-04-07, 00:10

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I'd be interested in purchasing several (4-5 units), but with a 3 digit display... I have several pentium 233 and k6-II/III PCs in AT cases with missing MHz displays.... ^this and what we really need are those (attachments) as they are very rare and everything else is relatively easily sourced from …

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