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Re: help identify mini 386 board/ PC lead extentions

Posted on 2023-05-30, 20:16

So, we started this project roughly 3 years ago... https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/inform … -it-am33-40-dlc It now has a full manual as well.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-30, 20:12

by evasive

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Aquired a new 486 motherboard with a 486SX and some ram today :) Broke the battery off first thing haha i cant believe it didn't leak. Got a 486 DX2 66 ready for this board :D Will make a good patner for my main 486. Want to LAN warcraft 2 between them lol. Looks to be this one: https://theretroweb …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-30, 20:07

by evasive

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is my first hardware purchase in maybe six months, mostly because prices on old hardware skyrocketed for no reason all of a sudden locally, and also because my attention shifted to other hobbies in the last few months.. But then I came across this listed as faulty for about 10 bucks and I went …

Re: MediaGX motherboard

Posted on 2023-05-29, 16:42

by evasive

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice!! They'd like nice pics to post. If you can take some good ones it'll be perfect. Thanks! These are ok, but I'm not great at taking pictures. They're better than the ones on TRW at least. They are, I can read the chip markings so I have added them to the page, together with your pictures. This …

Re: MediaGX motherboard

Posted on 2023-05-29, 16:11

by evasive

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi, I have a LITE version of the MediaGX board, which doesn't have the on-board audio/video. Is this needed? Here is the Info. However, the BIOS(ver 2.01) provided by this site has something wrong. When flashed the PS/2 mouse cannot be detected. I have the ver 2.0 one in my motherboard, which works …

Re: MediaGX motherboard

Posted on 2023-05-29, 12:51

by evasive

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@eesz34 Ok, this is a bit weird. the CX5510 chip is supposed to have audio internally. The driver disk contains drivers for the C-Media CMI8330. Is there a sound chip on the VGA/Audio add-in card? The bios has been added. As a result the page was renamed to DataExpert MGX7510 as they made the board, …

Re: Can someone identify this unknown motherboard?

Posted on 2023-05-21, 20:16

by evasive

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So. We have started the massive task of identifying and adding unicore-made bios upgrades that were released for the spectra333/spectra400 upgrade boards. We have a makers name for the P5 manufacturers code: Proect. https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/unknown-pm54cpa

Re: The Retro Web project - a better stason.org/TH99 alternative

Posted on 2023-05-04, 15:49

by evasive

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I wish there was a way to put a checkmark on a posting that it's done. Bios has been added. https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/msi-ms-6747-medion-oem Has version with 82801EB and no MiniPCI slot. Phone pictures, hope they're clear enough. Will dump its BIOS soon enough, came from a Microstar …

Re: BIOS image collection - requests, discussion etc

Posted on 2023-05-04, 14:48

by evasive

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Actually, your board is not missing any chips. I have renamed the page since we now have a manufacturer name https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/protech-suntac-286p

Re: The Retro Web submissions thread: suggest edits and/or add new boards here

Posted on 2023-05-04, 07:55

by evasive

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Then we fix that too 😀

Re: The Retro Web submissions thread: suggest edits and/or add new boards here

Posted on 2023-05-02, 16:11

by evasive

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Done. Info was there, picture I uploaded. Normally I would straighten it up a bit but since we have the promise of a better one.... 😁

Re: FIC PDA-2000 Socket 7 Cache Problem

Posted on 2023-05-01, 22:57

by evasive

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Unisys manual and Safari additional info manual added to the page

Re: Wyse Decision 386SX/16S HDD controller error [fixed]

Posted on 2023-05-01, 22:52

by evasive

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have added your picture to the page. And with that, an absolute load of chip info. Thank you.

Re: The Retro Web project - a better stason.org/TH99 alternative

Posted on 2023-05-01, 21:48

by evasive

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

>It is also marked wrongly as having a 440BX here https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/procomp-informat-b684 >While the alternate names kinda give it away it's indeed an 440LX Sadly its been 8 months since I asked for some way of letting people add data to the site and its still not there :( This …

Re: The Retro Web project - a better stason.org/TH99 alternative

Posted on 2023-05-01, 20:38

by evasive

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I dunno if that "2x floppy interface" is confusion creeping in from things that happened later but ended up causing questions about the past, like ATA was just ATA until serial came out and now it was PATA, (I can't find PATA port labelled in 486 manual! etc). In that from 1981 into early noughts a …

Re: Help me find a newer BIOS for this 486 Motherboard

Posted on 2023-04-21, 08:34

by evasive

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@aaronkatrini The manual lists both options so it is that same board. I cannot find any additions to the model name to tell if it's 2x72/4x30 or 4x72 memory.