Re: hdd replacment - sd card, cf card or scsi

Posted on Today, 03:28

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by Horun

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A retro PC without spinning rust is an abomination unto the machine god. Keep your Seagate, keep it hunnid I'm switching to SSD and CF for all my retro systems, and SSD only for later systems. I am primarily a collector of graphics cards and CPUs, as well as a range of motherboards to cover all x86 …

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Re: hdd replacment - sd card, cf card or scsi

Posted on Today, 03:17

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by Horun

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Yes a good 486 without a true mechanical HD is like throwing a new crate motor in a 1970 Chevelle. Some things are better with closer to original equipment than some new tech stuff. I will never replace the mechanical HD or floppies in my Laser Turbo XT/3 with SD card HD/Gotek floppy but that is …

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Re: DTC1181 BiOS Adapter 1998 Pre XTIDE Adapter Info and Rom

Posted on Today, 00:57

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by Horun

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Just found my jumper set old NICs (8bit ArcNET cards w/BIOS socket) will give it a try asap.

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Re: Do I really need a floppy drive?

Posted on 2020-11-23, 06:02

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by Horun

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Depends on what you are thinking of putting it in. If an XT, 286, 386 or early 486 then yes you will most likely need one. A Pentium or P2 you could go Gotek or floppy even if you think you can get by with just a CDROM. Thumb drives just do not work well in most anything below a P3 from my …

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Re: Any Tips for installing a replacement Creative Sound card?

Posted on 2020-11-23, 05:49

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by Horun

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Never had a problem with Win9x and Soundblaster drivers. With XP and above there is a file usually called CTZAPXX.exe that will be on the original CD or in your Windows folder somewhere, if you run that it usually removes all the SB drivers. When I moved from a cheap PCI-128 to a SB-Live under XP …

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Re: DTC1181 BiOS Adapter 1998 Pre XTIDE Adapter Info and Rom

Posted on 2020-11-23, 00:08

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by Horun

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Yeah somewhere is my stack-o-crap have a few ISA jumper set old NIC's, think the BIOS might work in one of those but probably not in a software programmed one. I will find a flash chip and burn the rom for my DTC1181 some time soon

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Re: DTC1181 BiOS Adapter 1998 Pre XTIDE Adapter Info and Rom

Posted on 2020-11-22, 21:48

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by Horun

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Thank you ! added: the ROM file looks good. Contains DTC LBA BIOS EIDE22A 04/02/98, and DTC YEAR 2000 (Y2K) Management BIOS Y2K13A 05/17/99. The PAL may be tricky to dupe but the 27C256-15 EPROM and 74LS245 are common, might be possible to build one by some reverse engineering. Am still trying to …

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Re: Looking for Olivetti M380 XP1 setup floppy

Posted on 2020-11-22, 17:28

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by Horun

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crvs wrote on 2020-11-22, 16:38: Here it is, if I'm not mistaken. Good find ! That is same file found in the Olivetti archives http://web.archive.org/web/20150608153917/htt … etti/m380/docs/

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-22, 04:43

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by Horun

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I got this kinda cool card, I put it in my 486 and it instantly worked. It is like XTIDE except it's OG XTIDE from the 90s before XTIDE existed. Also it fixed y2k bug. It detected my 32gb CF and let me format 32gb. no compatibility issues with my VLB Adaptec IDE controller. It also cost me way less …

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Re: 5.25" Floppy drive support.

Posted on 2020-11-22, 04:03

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by Horun

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Would anyone happen to know any socket 939 motherboard that would support dual floppy drives? I have a good socket 939 build and I could just switch the motherboard if I found such. Ha No ! Have one and has no floppy support at all. Not even a floppy header for one drive but guess that depends on …

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Re: PVI-486SP3 1.22 Post Error

Posted on 2020-11-22, 03:18

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by Horun

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Very odd that even going back thru Asus.com on Archive.org does not explain jumpers for using a standard 5v DX or DX2 very well except in table form. Did go thru a bunch of web pages/archives and Am guessing that when set as a Intel 80486SX, 80486DX, 80486DX2 or 80487SX that it bypasses the VRM and …

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Re: Obscure Foxconn SIS board

Posted on 2020-11-21, 20:24

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by Horun

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Many Foxconn boards were built for OEM market or specific for a retail company, have a few HP, Dell and others built by them. Finding good info on true Foxconn branded is very hard ! After digging thru Foxconns website, the only SIS chip socket 478 boards with SATA are the SiS655FX + 964 series ( …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-11-21, 03:32

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by Horun

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This ultra-cute 386SX system, with cute 9" monitor and some additional stuff. Needs some repairs as the pins in the PSU socket are broken. Perhaps needs new PSU too. Shouldn't be too much of a problem. I bought it mostly for the ST351A/X XTA compatible HDD which seem to be hard to find nowadays. …

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

Posted on 2020-11-21, 03:06

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by Horun

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One last question: Can Slot 1 motherboards boot up with an ISA-type video card installed? Or do they only accept PCI/AGP? Yes. I generally go with the lowest form of slot for video if testing a board. Have yet to see a Slot 1 not boot up with a good ISA video card (have never seen a Slot 1 with out …

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Re: 3d printed Heatsink&Fan Mount for Socket 3/5/7 ?

Posted on 2020-11-21, 02:09

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by Horun

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This is interesting, particularly for those boards that do not have any of those socket tabs at all (early s3 CPU sockets). I'm not sure if the board pictured here is the board you are trying to create this fan mounting printed assembly thingy for, but even with just the 2 tabs (1 each side) and …

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Re: 386 motherboard repair - CH-386-25D/33A

Posted on 2020-11-21, 01:44

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by Horun

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Hi, Hoping someone can give a lead on find the schematics for my old 386 motherboard I found. Unfortunately it looks like battery leakage took out some traces and there's a small blown ceramic capacitor I can't get a part number off of. The motherboard info is: Model: CH-386-25D/33A P/N: 001-00386- …

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Re: Soltek Motherboard Start, Post, then stop. Can you help me ?

Posted on 2020-11-20, 23:37

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by Horun

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Are you connecting both PSU connectors ? 20pin + 4pin ? Also: some boards will not boot without a good battery, it is rare but I own a few, most are OEM styles of a retail board.

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Re: PSU Wattage/Amperage Help

Posted on 2020-11-20, 23:30

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by Horun

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Anyone know if the Sound Blaster 32 CT3600 ISA soundcard needs -5V? It’s similar to the awe32 and awe64 so I’d bet it is the same as those, so if you don’t know about the ct3600, anyone know if the awe32 or awe64 need -5V? If yes for any of these, any idea on the amperage on the -5V needed? If it’s …

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Re: I thought Fat 32 was 32gb max

Posted on 2020-11-20, 03:29

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by Horun

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32GB was just an artificial limit imposed by WinXP because MS wanted you to use NTFS. The official excuse is that FAT32 starts to become slow and inefficient with larger partitions, e.g. because of larger cluster sizes. Yeah XP can work with bigger than 32GB FAT32 partitions but it will not allow …

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Re: MX86010 VGA card

Posted on 2020-11-20, 02:40

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by Horun

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I see, well, did some more searching and I think I found it, see attached. Great find ! I did a quick search and on Octeks HK site there is no reference to that video card/driver. Seems they only included the recent stuff from early 1990's. Here is the link in case anyone needs it: http://web. …

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