I've met some guys at a Spanish retrocomputing forum and I'll finally end up with an EEPROM programming. I think it's the best option to recover the BIOS without damaging anything else. I think the hot-swap procedure is too risky unless both systems are very similar, which (I think) it's not the …

I've met some guys at a Spanish retrocomputing forum and I'll finally end up with an EEPROM programming. I think it's the best option to recover the BIOS without damaging anything else. I think the hot-swap procedure is too risky unless both systems are very similar, which (I think) it's not the …

Because of this issue, I always connect the CD-ROM to the motherboard’s IDE port unless I do not have DOS installed. If you need to have the CD-ROM on the PCI card for use in DOS, then use Adaptec SCSI cards. Thanks for the advice @feipoa but now I face another problem. I read your profile and …

Ha! https://web.archive.org/web/20040717020517/http://it.promise.com/marketing/datasheet/file/U100_TX2_DS.pdf see *2 on page 2 ATAPI devices not supported in DOS or Windows 3.1x. Hi, thanks ! Interesting point, now I understand why my other setup (Epox MVP3G-M SS7 board, Promise Ultra1333 TX2 …

Hi all, I'm having a bit of trouble trying to get my CD-ROM drive working with a Promise Ultra100 TX2 controller in a 486 setup (FIC 486-PIO2 motherboard). CD-ROM drive is a Creative CD2422E (24x) CDROM (IDE interface) and was working fine before I decided to install the controller. It was set up as …

I would say Voodoo 3. It is the more period correct board, and i had that kind of setup with K6-3 450 (upgrade from previous K6-2 350 oc to 400) at the time (along with a DXR2 board for decoding DVD because the Voodoo 3 was weak at this task - who cares now?). This setup was later upgraded to …

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I would say Voodoo 3. It is the more period correct board, and i had that kind of setup with K6-3 450 (upgrade from previous K6-2 350 oc to 400) at the time (along with a DXR2 board for decoding DVD because the Voodoo 3 was weak at this task - who cares now?). This setup was later upgraded to …

Thanks everybody for your interesting replies. Turns out I did have another agp card in storage, an ATI Radeon 9250 SE (x8) that seems to be universal AGP 3.0 according to this link : http://www.playtool.com/pages/agpcompat/agp.html And indeed it has been recognized at first attempt by BIOS (which …

Hi all, I have an AMD K6-III retro build which runs pretty stable but, when it comes to the graphics card... I've ecountered some issues so I would appreciate a bit of advice. My system has the following specs : Epox MVP3G-M motherboard with 384 Mb RAM (100 Mhz) and a K6-III 400 Mhz processor. …

newtmonkey wrote on 2023-01-20, 10:05: Welcome Manel! I look forward to reading about your builds. I'll leave a post in the Marvin section as soon as possible because I need advice about acquiring a video card for my K6-III build so, yes... I'm afraid you'll read a new post from me very soon. …

Tetrium wrote on 2023-01-20, 12:10: Welcome aboard! 🙂 Thank you very much, Tetrium 😉

Buenos dias Manel and that is about all of my poco vocabulary in Espanol. As you may have noticed, most of us hardware folks are chilling in the Marvin sections, will hope to see details of your builds in there. Among my machines is also an A1200 which is currently in storage, and an Armada E500 …

Hi, I don't know whether this is the proper subforum for introductions, so I apologize in advance if I'm not posting in the right place. My name's Manel, I'm from Barcelona, Spain. I've been visiting this site, reading quite interesting posts and also downloading software from Vogons driver library …