Re: 3 (+3 more) retro battle stations
Posted on Yesterday, 13:11
I could swear there wasn't a hidden refresh option on the original Lucky Star BIOS, just a "slow refresh" one
Re: Where to start diagnosing a dead 3dfx monster
Posted on 2021-07-22, 17:01
The video DAC chip (the big PLCC chip next to VGA ports) is most probably damaged, it is a generic part and there are several compatibles that you can try to source and use. huh? he said the image is good when connecting a monitor directly to the voodoo when it's activated that would give the DAC a …
Re: I FOUND NEW OLD STOCK PENTIUM 4 478, ATHLON, MOTHERBOARDS ASUS P4S533-E - UNIVERSAL AGP S 478 MOTHERBOARD NEW ON E
Posted on 2021-07-22, 16:59
this stuff is a bit too new for me to consider it retro, but glad you're happy with what you got
Re: Microsoft disk bricking floppy drive
Posted on 2021-07-22, 16:58
The original MASM 5.1 Editor disk was the issue, but it wasn't a virus. The surface of the disk had failed and was depositing itself on the drive head. This caused excess friction which caused one side of the head to snap off its mount. Hmm. I wonder if this will become a more common issue as our …
Re: SCSI Adaptec AIC 7890 on Asus P2B-LS not detecting Fujitsu MO drive
Posted on 2021-07-22, 15:06
BitWrangler wrote on 2021-07-22, 14:28: Don't PCs expect a bootable HDD on ID 6 ?? no, they expect it on ID 0
Re: Socket 3 486 Award Bios Modding
Posted on 2021-07-22, 14:34
You need to use AWDBEDIT to manually edit the IRQ routing table Or you could just move the graphics card to another slot When I open the bios file in AWDBEDIT it didn’t seem to recognize much if anything to edit. I’ve also read you can’t save settings with AWDBEDIT, but maybe this info is outdated? …
Re: Where to start diagnosing a dead 3dfx monster
Posted on 2021-07-21, 14:51
at this point I'd say fuck it and grab an Extron VSW 2VGA A off ebay it handles the auto switching just like the factory passthrough would and gives much better bandwidth
Re: Socket 3 486 Award Bios Modding
Posted on 2021-07-20, 16:51
You need to use AWDBEDIT to manually edit the IRQ routing table Or you could just move the graphics card to another slot
Re: 386 mobo // external battery header pinout / help needed
Posted on 2021-07-16, 16:58
No problem. I recommend 3x Energizer Lithium AAs for the external battery pack
Re: 386 mobo // external battery header pinout / help needed
Posted on 2021-07-16, 15:24
The two pins in the middle are nothing, ignore those. Use a multimeter to see which of the other two has continuity to ground, that's your negative, the last is positive
Re: Riva 128 vs TNT vs M64 Pentium MMX
Posted on 2021-07-16, 04:18
"Next slowest" means faster
Re: Need an AT switch in an ATX case because AT cases are to expensive
Posted on 2021-07-16, 04:15
jakethompson1 wrote on 2021-07-16, 01:50: E-Switch TL2285EE Holy shit thanks for posting this. I went through hours of searching for a part number for a suitable replacement and ultimately failed. (The project only was completed since Eep386 sent me a used switch harvested from an old case)
Re: 100Mbps PCI NIC that does *not* bus master
Posted on 2021-07-16, 02:37
The only other PCI IDE card I have is a promise SATA-150. It has a bug in the BIOS that breaks DOS PS/2 mouse support when booting from the card which disqualifies it from ongoing use in the system, but I did test with it and got the same results. Stable with no NIC in system, unstable with NIC.
Re: 100Mbps PCI NIC that does *not* bus master
Posted on 2021-07-16, 01:25
In the past when I had a SiS 496 486 setup I found that Realtek 8139 and Linksys LNE100TX cards (Tulip compatible) worked well. I also remember at some point I had some kind of machine setup as a Smoothwall and had 2x Realtek 8139 cards in it because every other card I tried caused lock ups …
Re: 100Mbps PCI NIC that does *not* bus master
Posted on 2021-07-16, 01:18
Didn't seem to work, which is unsurprising since all the parameters in that key were laid out into subkeys and not just plain string values Is it the 3c59x or the 3c90x driver that you are using? Remember these are NDIS, so the same drivers are (usually) compatible between both NT and Win9x 3c90x
Re: 100Mbps PCI NIC that does *not* bus master
Posted on 2021-07-15, 22:07
I checked a card I remembered seeing "PIO mode ethernet adapter" screened on, but it was just another 8029. Perhaps if you fully broke the bus mastering the drivers would install in non-busmaster mode. This might either happen when installing in a 5th PCI slot, which in a lot of boards is master …
Re: 100Mbps PCI NIC that does *not* bus master
Posted on 2021-07-15, 20:26
Didn't seem to work, which is unsurprising since all the parameters in that key were laid out into subkeys and not just plain string values
Re: 100Mbps PCI NIC that does *not* bus master
Posted on 2021-07-15, 19:31
I found this also. I do have several 3c905 cards, but these instructions only seem to apply to NT4. Windows 9x does not have these keys in the registry On win98 these values seem to be in "Ndi\params", and where is that? On "HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\Class\Net\XXXX" where …
Re: 100Mbps PCI NIC that does *not* bus master
Posted on 2021-07-15, 14:16
Thanks for the additional information, but that still does not seem to help Windows 9x
Re: 100Mbps PCI NIC that does *not* bus master
Posted on 2021-07-15, 03:40
I've got a SiS 496 based system, with a UltraATA PCI controller installed. The chipset works just fine with a single bus mastering device, but when you add a second one to the system it becomes unstable. Therefore I'm looking for a NIC that either does not support bus mastering, or allows it to be …
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