Trident 9440-3, is it rare?

Posted on Yesterday, 15:21

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by waterbeesje

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In the bottomless box of interesting untested stuff I found a shiny little pearl: a PCI VGA decelerator with the Trident TGUI 9440-3 chip on it. I like Trident for no obvious reason, so had it for a little run on a Celeron board and it seems to work fine. A little internet search gave me the obvious …

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Re: Windows 2000 on P100 vs Win98

Posted on 2024-05-26, 19:07

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If I'm not mistaking, Windows 98 and 2k have different memory management. Cache works from down to top: the first X MB until the limit are covered. Ram above is not covered and you're losing performance there. Win 2k works that way too. It fills ram that's covered by cache and is indeed fast. As …

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Re: Booting 386 from DOM or CF card.

Posted on 2024-05-26, 16:48

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I ended up ordering an XTIDE card. Right now the CF card doesn't boot all of the time and I have to keep resetting until it decides to boot. It's pretty annoying. Also, I couldn't use the DOM. Hopefully the XTIDE will solve these issues. That would be a fine solution :) If the bios file in that …

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Re: Booting 386 from DOM or CF card.

Posted on 2024-05-25, 21:28

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Have you got a network card that supports a boot rom? You may stick a rom in thats loaded with xt-ide and set the hard disk to none in your bios. Xt-ide should be able to auto detect the dom/cf on your regular ide port. In fact, I've used it to boot windows 98 from a 2GB drive on a 486 that has the …

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Re: Picking PCI Video Card for ~1995 Win 95 Machine

Posted on 2024-05-25, 18:15

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Honestly, I'm a fan of the SiS 6326 chip. In 3D it does not compete to the big boys but it sure isn't useless (like pretty much the Virge is for 3D except a few titles) Also I found the 2D support is quite strong with it. But as you said, it's mainly used for 2D titles, and there the S3 Trio64 and …

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Re: UMC and PIC IDE controllers

Posted on 2024-05-22, 21:12

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You're right UMC designs end fabricates it's own chips. And they do lots of OEM stuff as well. Mostly they're pretty rock solid as well. This makes the idea of the relabeled UMC very much possible

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Re: What is this adapter?

Posted on 2024-05-22, 20:59

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by waterbeesje

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Indeed there's missing a rom chip, so I was a little confused about how this works. Maybe it is a custom circuitry indeed, and users may not know what they supported on to connect the right data lines or something. In this case it can literally be the key to 'any' software that uses such a key...

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What is this adapter?

Posted on 2024-05-22, 11:28

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Got this with some other stuff, but no idea what it is or what I can do with it... Ok, it's a hardware key to something... But there's no other marking (bottom included). Is there a way to see what it's for? IMG_20240522_130937~2.jpg IMG_20240522_130953~2.jpg IMG_20240522_131408.jpg There's no …

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Re: PC Chips M726 - bios chip

Posted on 2024-05-20, 10:56

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Thanks! Gonna try a 29c010 then 😀

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PC Chips M726 - bios chip

Posted on 2024-05-18, 13:09

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by waterbeesje

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Hi everyone Some of you might be read my previous post about the missing bios chip. Here's another one. I've got a PC Hips M726 motherboard which is missing all jumpers and the bios chip. The board is on theretroweb and had bios files available. https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/pcchips-m726 …

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Re: Tyan motherboards wants bios chip

Posted on 2024-05-14, 20:32

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It's a workey! I've put in the Mendocino 433 and it boots right to the CF card. Mission accomplished!

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Re: Software defined hardware graphics card?

Posted on 2024-05-13, 21:11

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Instead of emulating a Voodoo, would it be more feasible to create a novel GPU that acts like one instead? Basically, something new that provides compatibility and glide support. That would be a great solution. Technically the challenges would be solvable and you may even get licenses for the …

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Re: Tyan motherboards wants bios chip

Posted on 2024-05-11, 17:58

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Maybe, thats something to put on the list :) I think I have a 433 or 400 Mendocino in the box to try. Just read the manual and it shows Celeron compatibility only, while theretroweb states it supports coppermine as well, so that's why I've put in the 733. Yes I know the garbage collection from good …

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Re: Tyan motherboards wants bios chip

Posted on 2024-05-10, 22:20

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Little update after a year. The board has been laying in a box, stored away because of other projects. I got a 29c020 chip and used uniflash om another board to hotflash the most recent bios. Uniflash succeeded, the other board sort of tried to boot with it (semi-success because of wrong bios for …

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Re: RAM Issue DELL 425s/L

Posted on 2024-04-27, 16:27

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EDO, FPM... Those can be confusing. Lots of sellers even don't know exactly which they sell. You could try to zoom into the ram chips and search the part no datasheet. This will tell you which it is. My preferable method is just to stick it in a S7 machine with 72p slots, and it will tell me it it's …

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Re: Someone with cx5x86 here?

Posted on 2024-04-26, 10:27

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Cyrix 5x86 100GP here. Motherboard Aquarius MB4DUV (UMC UM8496/8498) 32MB fastpage 60ns 256kB cache Diamond Stealth Trio32 VLB Quantum Bigfoot 4,3GB Ms Dos 7.1 (from Windows 98SE) Some Cyrix program to enable hidden switches Ran Phil's dosbench suite. Pc player 320x240: 13,1 fps Doom 640x480: 2126 …

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Re: What does it take to replace an Intel 10 MHz 286 with a Harris 12 MHz 286? Hopefully... nothing?

Posted on 2024-04-13, 09:09

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by waterbeesje

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You'd have to replace some crystal too. Also, this system was designed with 10MHz in mind, so all components are rated 10MHz. Overclocking to 12MHz (20%) Will put more stress on the other components as well. This may ruin them hotter than intended and probably cause instability. The 8530-286 was …

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Re: ISA vga card works only in 8-bit mode

Posted on 2024-04-07, 17:54

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Some variants of the notoriously slow Trident 8900B have the same issue. There may be a jumper for 8/16b operation, but the 16b setting actually triggers an auto detect system that isn't very great at it. So it always remains in 8b mode. Looking at your card, the 100ns ram does not help a lot as …

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Re: Voodoo 3 3000 agp or agp card + voodo 2 pci

Posted on 2024-04-01, 19:31

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In my opinion the V3 bottlenecks the P3-1000. But since you've got all the stuff already, you can try it out yourself 😀 Yes I also read that 1ghz is too much for voodoo 2 or 3 . But many people have used that configuration with no problem . To be honest I just finished the replacement of …

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Re: Voodoo 3 3000 agp or agp card + voodo 2 pci

Posted on 2024-03-28, 16:52

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The MX440 is a very capable card as well. It matched the GeForce 2 GTS in performance under certain conditions. You may try to cope this with the V2. In my opinion the V3 bottlenecks the P3-1000. But since you've got all the stuff already, you can try it out yourself :) Of and the second V2 does no …

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