Re: Mystery "Aureal Vortex 3" Based Sound Card

Posted on 2022-04-02, 17:16

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by BootROMError8046

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Hi everyone, sorry I didn't get to update you all, I had some real life stuff. Anyways, just like I thought this "aureal vortex 3" is a remark (duh 😉 ). It's in truth a creative chip. Why did they even bother to remark them? Doesn't make much sense, even more so when the vortex 3 doesn't exist.

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Mystery "Aureal Vortex 3" Based Sound Card

Posted on 2022-03-30, 07:02

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by BootROMError8046

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So I acquired this chesp looking pci sound card, and the IC says "Aureal vortex 3", the model is "AU8850" and the date code of the IC is the 36th week of 1999. The card also has a realtek ALC650 and the date code of the pcb is the 43th week of 2010. It's 99.99999999% not a vortex 3 because iirc it …

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Re: Information On Modding Your Slot 1's BIOS For Pentium Pro Slotkets

Posted on 2021-09-04, 15:24

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by BootROMError8046

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More Screenshots:

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Re: Information On Modding Your Slot 1's BIOS For Pentium Pro Slotkets

Posted on 2021-09-04, 15:23

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Information On Modding Your Slot 1's BIOS For Pentium Pro Slotkets

Posted on 2021-09-04, 15:21

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by BootROMError8046

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Hi there! So Like the title says I've got some info on patching your mobo's BIOS for Pentium Pro compatibility. First of all I wanna say that all the info was provided by @DenizOezmen , so thank you very much!! I wanted to write a tutorial on how to do that but due to some real life stuff I …

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, CUBX and CUBX-E/L

Posted on 2021-06-21, 05:29

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by BootROMError8046

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Hi DenizOezmen, I've seen and read your DM and would love to discuss further about documenting everything, but I cannot send DMs because I've not participated in enough discussions. May you provide me with your email address?

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, CUBX and CUBX-E/L

Posted on 2021-06-20, 20:16

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by BootROMError8046

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Aight, a breakthrough (kind of): I managed to get properly- modified bioses for the asus p3b-f and for the asus p3v133 from the slotket's creator and he said he usually ships one bios per slotket. Ah, glad you got a working BIOS. (I had already begun to write the patch code, but testing would have …

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, CUBX and CUBX-E/L

Posted on 2021-06-20, 05:10

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by BootROMError8046

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Aight, a breakthrough (kind of): I managed to get properly- modified bioses for the asus p3b-f and for the asus p3v133 from the slotket's creator and he said he usually ships one bios per slotket. I'll upload the bioses here since I want this kind of stuff to be open source and available for free …

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, CUBX and CUBX-E/L

Posted on 2021-06-19, 21:52

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by BootROMError8046

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Well, it doesn't work unfortunately. But I found an old Russian article about running a ppro in a 440bx board, so I'll have a read. Really appreciate your help bud/maam!! Good Luck, I hope you find more information! I found at least three MSR uses in the P3B-F BIOS that are seemingly not adequately …

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, CUBX and CUBX-E/L

Posted on 2021-06-19, 21:11

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by BootROMError8046

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Actually someone else ran a ppro on this board! Maybe with a different modified BIOS? By a quick check, the P3B-F BIOS uses tons of MSRs that are specific to Pentium II and above. I'm not sure if the calls are protected against being used on older CPUs. (Found an article that seems to talk about it …

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, CUBX and CUBX-E/L

Posted on 2021-06-19, 20:30

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by BootROMError8046

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Actually someone else ran a ppro on this board! Maybe with a different modified BIOS? By a quick check, the P3B-F BIOS uses tons of MSRs that are specific to Pentium II and above. I'm not sure if the calls are protected against being used on older CPUs. (Found an article that seems to talk about it …

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, CUBX and CUBX-E/L

Posted on 2021-06-19, 20:00

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by BootROMError8046

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Thank you soooo much, will update you for sure!! Also the board doesn't post at all with the slotket as of now. I feared that. Give it a try, but that behavior is unlikely to by changed by a microcode update. It's more likely to be a wrong L2 cache initialization, use of unsupported processor …

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, CUBX and CUBX-E/L

Posted on 2021-06-19, 19:31

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by BootROMError8046

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Hi there!! I use your bios on my p3b-f with a tualatin @ 1.4ghz and it works great! Buuuut I got a slotket8 recently and I need to add the ppro's microcode to your bios. I have some experience in bios editing but cbrom shows your bios's microcode as "0000" on everything, so my patched bios with the …

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, CUBX and CUBX-E/L

Posted on 2021-06-19, 16:46

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by BootROMError8046

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Hi there!! I use your bios on my p3b-f with a tualatin @ 1.4ghz and it works great! Buuuut I got a slotket8 recently and I need to add the ppro's microcode to your bios. I have some experience in bios editing but cbrom shows your bios's microcode as "0000" on everything, so my patched bios with the …

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Re: Dual Pentium Pro Build Thread

Posted on 2021-06-18, 13:33

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by BootROMError8046

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Do they work in dual CPU mode? I think test runs in single CPU mode, but WinXP is definitely SMP-capable. The memory bandwidth Gain is the result of SDRAM overclocking to 146 MHz 2-2-2-6 and 2-way interleaving ON. There are the results of the same test with single CPU(512k) @ 95 MHz with Asus P3V4X …

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Re: AWE64 Value CT4520 Missing Cap

Posted on 2021-05-05, 09:14

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by BootROMError8046

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Thank you very much!

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AWE64 Value CT4520 Missing Cap

Posted on 2021-05-04, 03:59

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by BootROMError8046

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in Marvin \ Sound

Hi there! I've got a partially working creative awe64 value CT4520 (no GM) and after some inspection of the card it seems that there's a broken cap near the bottom left of the ram chip (C7). Can someone with an identical card measure its value for me? Thanks in advance!

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Help Finding a Missing Resistor On MS-6119

Posted on 2020-08-10, 17:52

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by BootROMError8046

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Hi! So I received a MSI MS-6119 1.1 BX 2 and while doing some soldering I accidentally knocked off a SMD resistor (R165, it's between the CMOS battery socket and the IDE connectors). Can someone with a similar board measure its value for me? Thanks in advance!

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Re: Program a DIP-32 BIOS IC?

Posted on 2019-07-05, 18:58

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by BootROMError8046

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Yup, and I'm located in Israel, but my broken mobo has a 29C020. If you are experienced can you tell me if it will fit too?

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Re: Program a DIP-32 BIOS IC?

Posted on 2019-07-05, 17:35

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by BootROMError8046

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Thanks for your reply! Unfortunately I can't order stuff in the web because I'm too young to have a credit card, but is it theoretically possible to flash the wrong bios on purpose on the broken board if I'll be able to fix it (needs a recap but I know how to solder) with the image I want, then …

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