put it in my current testbed, tried to flash it. it detected the nv chip itself, but not the eeprom. hooked it up to my tl866 with a soic clip and tried to read the chip contents. nope, it's dead, jim. just reads as dead shorted. if anyone knows of a cross compatible chip to an amtel AT25F512N (soic …

This is 64 bit type, FX5500 a cost reduced video card. The marking on the PCB: msi 8919 ver 210 is consistent with FX 5500 only. Cheers, i finally gave up and tried to poke MSI for a vbios file, hoping maybe they'd at least have whatever. its a 5200, got that confirmed at least, but MSI doesn't …

I've never seen another one of these, they aren't listed anywhere to speak of (aside from the rather vague FCCID page), and they don't 'exist' in any databases I've found for model #s. *-0018-* just doesn't appear to be a thing according to the collective knowledge of the internet, and yet.. here …

I've never seen another one of these, they aren't listed anywhere to speak of (aside from the rather vague FCCID page), and they don't 'exist' in any databases I've found for model #s. *-0018-* just doesn't appear to be a thing according to the collective knowledge of the internet, and yet.. here …

i've noticed that any of this style that were used for p2/3 systems (slot1, mostly), didn't tend to have the cage under the psu very often, since it tended to hit the cpu/cooler. much suck

i once again got very frustrated at a 486 that wouldn't work properly. much nostalgia. very sad.

i stick a flat head in the slight gap on either side and twist gently to pry it a bit. the lower edge can get crusty in some environments, leading to corrosion and its a realllllly tight fit. as for the screw, pliers, a bit of cloth/paper towel/etc, wrapped around it, rotate and pull a bit, should …

CoffeeOne wrote on 2023-04-24, 21:50: Did you try an ISA graphics card? the farenheit is an isa card.

alright so. i picked up one of those isa/pci diagnostic cards, as well as set up my benchtop supply to feed 3.3 to the pci slots (since otherwise you get no 3.3 to them, as thats fed through the aux power connector, and not anything else, apparently. or, it wasn't for me at any rate.) plugged in the …

Your scope is set up wrong. It is displaying two waveforms from two channels this is confusing. You need to separate them or probe with one waveform on and turn second channel off by turning off the channel 2 switch. Or rolling because trigger is set up wrong. Turn the trigger frequency (1/t) or …

so, no idea what i did, but i got everything but pin 17 (2xcpu) on the PLL chip rock stable at what the datasheets seem to say are the correct values with a 33 fsb speed set by the jumpers. still single beep, no video, no drive activity on a known working and booting dos drive. buuuut.. i probed …

Actually there is a bit of info: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/intel-classic-pci-ed-ninja#downloads which, since i pointed out i had the vcc, fsb set, and attempted to boot into recovery should indicate i found that listing as i've been crawling that site religiously going through all my …

and the errata for the 420ex chipset is seemingly unobtainium, so i can't really compare the signals off the chip itself to know if _that_ is doing what it should. it's quite vexing. This topic should be interesting for you. There is even i420EX datasheet there (uploaded by Tiido). https://www. …

the complete lack of info about this board is annoying AF hah. Actually there is a bit of info: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/intel-classic-pci-ed-ninja#downloads which, since i pointed out i had the vcc, fsb set, and attempted to boot into recovery should indicate i found that listing as …

okay. no idea whats going on. with ram in and no settings changes it now beeps. once. once shall the holy hand gren.. er.. computer beep, and no more, no less. pull the ram and is bpppppt's at me then beeps. no video, even with an isa card. regulator doesn't even get warm. do i need to worry about …

anyone with one of these boards (working) and an oscilloscope with digital readout bored enough to probe the avasem clock PLLs pins (all) and give me a reading of what its supposed to be outputting? i can't even get beeps, and there's a wildly fluctuating signal off pin2 (xtal out), but nothing off …

clean all the dust off with a soft toothbrush and alcohol, let dry, test. if still doing it; check the solder joints, maybe reflow, if you can do that fine of pin pitch. if that doesn't solve it, one of the chips (or several) may be bad, or traces broken that connect to the chips, which isn't so …

i'm not asking for recommendations though, i'm aware of its legacy (infamy?). what i _am_ asking for (help me oh vogons, my vogons), is a specific MSI agp vbios. or rather, two (though i'd settle for the one identical, if thats all thats to be had). since it won't let me post links yet, if you head …