Re: 486-VIP-IO2: No POST: No video out

Posted on 2023-07-23, 11:57

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by Kasreyn

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for the info @evasive Sounds like this could be why it isn't working or a way to get it working again ! It spent the last decade untouched in my basement, as far as I know it's the original BIOS that I dumped, it's why I linked to it in my initial post. I didn't have access to a programmer …

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Re: 486-VIP-IO2: No POST: No video out

Posted on 2023-07-01, 14:20

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by Kasreyn

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have now re-tested this with an AMD DX2 66MHz + ISA GPU, but the issue persists, no VGA output. POST codes are either "09 08" or "C5 C1". It can end up at either after power cycle but usually it ends up at the former. I removed the cache ICs + tag, sprayed some contact cleaner + toothbrush, after …

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Re: got my ps/2 backplate... still no mouse working? ***SOLVED!

Posted on 2023-06-18, 17:00

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by Kasreyn

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks @chrisNova777 your picture was the final nail that solved it for me .. it made PS/2 mouse work on my ABIT AB-SM5 ! Big picture of the hidden (and misleading) silkscreen .. https://i.imgur.com/FUvSLaX.jpg .. same horse shoe style header but the pinouts in the manual can't be made sense of, …

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Re: Registry error! when i instal VIA 4in1 driver

Posted on 2021-08-14, 11:27

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by Kasreyn

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had both IDE channels disabled in the BIOS. That's because I'm using other IDE controllers. 4-in-1 will refuse to install if it doesn't find at least one VIA IDE controller. Applies also to HP-T5710 ThinClient even if it has no such options in BIOS. Registry error unless you first install Q245682 …

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Re: Promise SATA300 TX2 Plus versus Asus P5A On-board IDE

Posted on 2021-08-11, 12:26

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by Kasreyn

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

WinXP definitely is the better choice for a TX2plus. It raises the bar from UDMA 33 to about UDMA 100 on a 440BX ! Since it adds SATA, why not dual boot? Win98 can live on IDE while WinXP lives on SATA. Boot into WinXP for fast (around 10MB/s) transfers, however, my 450 MHz CPU is bottlenecking …

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Re: Promise SATA300 TX2 Plus versus Asus P5A On-board IDE

Posted on 2021-08-06, 11:17

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by Kasreyn

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

so to clarify with the drivers you linked above windows 98 will show the correct hardware under device manager? but it also works fine without them showing just a unknown device? I need to know asap cause I'm about to buy one of these and want to know if it works on window 98 I tested SATA 300 …

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Re: "FastTrak S150 SX4 Lite" PCI SATA control cards?!

Posted on 2021-08-05, 22:23

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by Kasreyn

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

SATA 300 TX2plus works great in KNOPPIX 7.2. Even though UDMA modes 100/133 are used respectively, these are both limited around 62MB/s. hdparm -tT /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing cached reads: 226 MB in 2.00 seconds = 112.75 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 188 MB in 3.00 seconds = 62.58 MB/sec hdparm …

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Re: "FastTrak S150 SX4 Lite" PCI SATA control cards?!

Posted on 2021-08-05, 21:47

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by Kasreyn

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I dumped the BIOS with pflash.exe and attached it, version 2.0.0.3 if anyone has a use for it. Next I'll upgrade the BIOS and see what happens then! WARNING: I tried downgrading back to this version. On my Athlon XP that resulted in a blinking cursor after POST, I had bricked the card. Relocating …

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Re: "FastTrak S150 SX4 Lite" PCI SATA control cards?!

Posted on 2021-08-05, 21:21

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by Kasreyn

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I picked up the second card today, the SATA 300 TX2plus. It's a little confusing because "FastTrak" variants of these cards have RAID and Win98 drivers, while the non-FastTrak variants are SATA controllers (only) and start support at Windows 2000. I made a driver floppy using the program from the …

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Re: Promise SATA150 TX2Plus: how to use + no CD-ROM?

Posted on 2021-08-05, 20:27

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by Kasreyn

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi, FAQ mentions ATAPI support, this is from "2_SATAII150-300_TX_Series_User_v1.5.pdf" downloaded directly from https://www.promise.com/support/downloadcenter : Can I use ATAPI devices on the SATAII150 or SATA300 Controller card? Yes. The SATAII150 and SATA300 Serial ATA Controller cards support …

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Re: "FastTrak S150 SX4 Lite" PCI SATA control cards?!

Posted on 2021-07-28, 14:20

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by Kasreyn

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I deleted the partition and started over, Win98 still hangs with the new BIOS. Conclusion: S150 SX4 is not good in Win98 ! It's probably better suited for a WinXP machine, this goes for other SX series cards too, right? TX series looks more promising, for Win98 at least, but I'm still waiting for …

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Re: "FastTrak S150 SX4 Lite" PCI SATA control cards?!

Posted on 2021-07-28, 11:53

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by Kasreyn

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No problem updating the BIOS to version 2.0.70.24, however, since I had (erroneously) installed TX series drivers, Win98 now hangs during start. It booted up fully with the old BIOS just as non functional PCI in device manager, lesson learned I guess. Booting to safe mode the following is displayed: …

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Re: "FastTrak S150 SX4 Lite" PCI SATA control cards?!

Posted on 2021-07-28, 11:25

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by Kasreyn

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I recently picked up a FastTrak S150 SX4 (no "Lite"), Win98 was installed without issues to a JBOD drive, but booting up performance is slow with some blue screens, power cycling the computer seem to fix it though. Unfortunately there is no Win98 driver under "FastTrak S150 SX4" @ https://www. …

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Re: Expendable (by Rage) bump mapping issue

Posted on 2021-07-25, 16:22

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by Kasreyn

in Windows

in Windows

I did some tests on my Win98 PII 450 using different GPUs (I don't have a Matrox card.. yet) the only way I could get the patch to work was on my FX 5600 Ultra with DirectX9. Performance is much better on the MX 400 though and I wouldn't want to play the game on the FX5600. It starts on MX 400 but …

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Re: 440BX memory detection / SPD hacking

Posted on 2021-07-19, 21:06

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by Kasreyn

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I wanted more RAM for my Pentium II and it happens to be a SE440BX motherboard .. The new sticks don't work at all, no beep or VGA if the only stick. With 256 MB in slot 0 and 512 MB in slot 1 the system boots, sizes are correctly detected and added up but then fail badly in memtest86+ 5.0 (and …

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Re: Need help identifying extra socket on 486 SX and posible upgrades.

Posted on 2021-07-16, 18:38

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by Kasreyn

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Actually I may have wrongly identified, C4 without the /33 looks the closest: https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/I/ICL-486-ERGOPRO-C4-D4-V-SERIES.html These are close but C4/33 has more RAM slots and E250 has a battery that isn't mounted on the plain C4: https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/ …

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Re: Need help identifying extra socket on 486 SX and posible upgrades.

Posted on 2021-07-16, 18:32

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by Kasreyn

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I also have one of these ICL Ergo Pro C4/33 slimline computers, and no, there was never a cache module installed. Bit of a shame since it could be a nice upgrade path with a DX2 66 MHz. This is it:

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Re: 486-VIP-IO2: No POST: No video out

Posted on 2021-06-19, 11:18

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by Kasreyn

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for replies! Did you try a ISA graphics card? I only have the VLB ISA card at the moment, I'll order one :) I think the Trident can't be configured to run off the ISA bus so maybe it's VLB only. Did you try a 5V CPU with the VRM module removed and 4 jumpers set instead? Yes, I tried it today …

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486-VIP-IO2: No POST: No video out

Posted on 2021-06-18, 23:59

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by Kasreyn

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi all, I'm trying to bring an old 486 back to life that's been sitting in our basement, please help! It just doesn't want to output anything over VGA, I've tried with either PCI or VLB ISA, "S3 Trio64" and "Trident TGUI9400CXi PM-V551 REV A" The Trio64 tested OK in a MSI AGP system but the Trident …

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