Re: Blood on a Voodoo2

Posted on 2021-02-24, 00:52

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Oetker wrote on 2021-02-14, 16:47: Mvickers03 wrote on 2021-02-14, 16:40: This thread is very old. And the OP was last active in 2005, I'm sure he'll be right around to answer your question. You’re his father aren’t you.

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Re: Blood on a Voodoo2

Posted on 2021-02-14, 16:40

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Wow. This thread is very old. Did you achieve your goal? I’m at this exact spot

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Re: Sound blaster 2.0 (CT1350B) in 486 machine

Posted on 2021-02-01, 15:24

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Haha! love the scenario Yes. It must be bus speed. Normal ISA clock speed is 8MHz I remember. How about 486 system? If the bus speed of 486 system is the same as 8MHz, the bus speed will not be a problem for SB 2.0 in the 486 system, isn’t it? ISA is 8MHz, period. (Plus/minus a fraction depending on …

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Re: Help identifying Socket 3 motherboard.

Posted on 2021-01-18, 10:34

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First they take your cash.... then they take your cache. It’s terrible isn’t it. But yeah! Like I said, apart from being horrendous thieves, it’s a really nice board. This is a late revision of the board according to the notes, as the fake cache chips are totally missing. It’s nice and stable, runs …

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Re: Help identifying Socket 3 motherboard.

Posted on 2021-01-17, 18:19

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Well like I said it's a COAST module but despite having the same form factor as COAST modules on pentiums, this one is specific to this board and using a pentium COAST module in it or using this COAST module in a pentium would destroy both. Yes get that, thanks very much for the info, Found a ton …

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Re: Help identifying Socket 3 motherboard.

Posted on 2021-01-17, 15:59

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Thanks both No way! I’ve read about this board. I won it recently in an auction. Was about £70 for the fully working PC from Poland. I did wonder about the card, I assumed it was cache but didn’t understand why it was different to my other socket 2/3 boards. Apart from PC Chips being robbing gets, …

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Help identifying Socket 3 motherboard.

Posted on 2021-01-17, 12:03

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As the title suggests I would like some help identifying this Socket 3 motherboard. It’s a very versatile board, I’ve currently got an AMD 5x86 133 CPU installed with 32mb of EDO memory. Also has a 3.4GB Quantum hard drive installed too Nice machine, anyway I would like to find a manual for the …

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Re: VLB OD6500A Multi IO IDE Controller Card Bios Chip

Posted on 2021-01-04, 16:17

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That looks like a UMC UM82C480 chipset -- http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/1263 There's a decent chance that the MR-BIOS from this board will work-- http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/5409 In order to backup or program bios for a motherboard that age, you usually need a burner . I …

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Re: VLB OD6500A Multi IO IDE Controller Card Bios Chip

Posted on 2020-12-22, 19:01

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douglar wrote on 2020-12-22, 16:58: What motherboard are you using? Maybe I can help you find a rom image. It's this one. Chicony CH-486-33/50P: Someone on here advised I dump the BIOS on it for the archival purposes.

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Re: VLB OD6500A Multi IO IDE Controller Card Bios Chip

Posted on 2020-12-22, 15:31

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My board doesn't have onboard IDE, it's on the separate controller and doesn't its own boot ROM installed yet. If your controller was something proprietary, you would need to find a very specific BIOS for your card, but your controller looks like a bog standard, hardware compatible IDE controller, …

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Re: Show us your IBM Compatible PC games collection

Posted on 2020-12-20, 13:22

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My small but humble collection. Working on getting all of the Lucas Arts classics.

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Re: Best CPU for Socket 2 motherboard.

Posted on 2020-12-19, 09:45

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Most bits are here now. Just waiting on the HDD and VLB cards. It’s a painful wait. Some pics of progress so far. Bye bye evil barrel battery.

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Re: VLB OD6500A Multi IO IDE Controller Card Bios Chip

Posted on 2020-12-18, 19:01

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XTIDE is OK. It's nicer than disk overlays most of the time. Might be the best you are going to do on something that's a 286 or older. However look around to see if you can find an MR Bios for your mobo. That's the way to go. It's the premium ride. I have an FIC PT-2003. The old bios was fussy, …

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Re: VLB OD6500A Multi IO IDE Controller Card Bios Chip

Posted on 2020-12-18, 18:24

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XTIDE is OK. It's nicer than disk overlays most of the time. Might be the best you are going to do on something that's a 286 or older. However look around to see if you can find an MR Bios for your mobo. That's the way to go. It's the premium ride. I have an FIC PT-2003. The old bios was fussy, …

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Re: Best CPU for Socket 2 motherboard.

Posted on 2020-12-17, 20:01

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It's funny how much each individual part costs these days, but you can pick up a complete functioning system & with a case & PS for less than the price of the motherboard if you are patient and not too picky. When I started playing with my retro parts, I needed a stable system with a floppy drive …

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Re: Best CPU for Socket 2 motherboard.

Posted on 2020-12-17, 19:04

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Sounds like a really good machine you won there. Even better that it comes with a coin battery instead of those leaky barrel batteries! Congrats. Thank you mate. I agree. Doesn't need anything doing to it really. Nothing that I don't already own anyway. I've probably spent 300 on the build in this …

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Re: Am386DX/DXL not posting

Posted on 2020-12-17, 18:41

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Neolyum wrote on 2020-12-16, 22:04: I removed the battery, I just layed it upon the board to have it on the photo! I will upload a photo tomorrow! 😀 Good man! I'm rooting for ya!

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Re: Best CPU for Socket 2 motherboard.

Posted on 2020-12-17, 18:16

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Thanks all. I'm too deep into the build to stop now. But not going mad with. Going to keep this one moderately specced out and keep it for really old DOS games. I just lucked out on eBay and got a full system for £70. It knocks spots off the one earlier in this post. Specs of the one I just won are …

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Re: VLB OD6500A Multi IO IDE Controller Card Bios Chip

Posted on 2020-12-17, 17:55

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douglar wrote on 2020-12-17, 14:26: Are you looking for something like this? http://www.xtideuniversalbios.org/ Thank you very much. I think this is what I am looking for. This era is all very new to me. So if I come across uneducated, it's because I am. Ha Working on that though 😉

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Re: Am386DX/DXL not posting

Posted on 2020-12-16, 19:37

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Sounds like you will get this running with a full bank, you don't seem to have cleaned up the leakage enough. That battery will continue to damage things until you remove it, The acid literally emanates from the battery until it's removed.

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