Re: MS-6168 freeze during partition

Posted on 2023-12-30, 16:04

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by nizce

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rasz_pl wrote on 2023-12-30, 00:36: for hdd size limits/problems I always start with biospatcher from rom.by Thanks, haven’t tried that, will look into that. Actually stumbled upon next problem, seems that if i align the partitions according to what seems to be SSD standard, XFDISK bugs out. Gonna …

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Re: MS-6168 freeze during partition

Posted on 2023-12-29, 17:54

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by nizce

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Update: Managed to partition the disk by using xfdisk to create two primary partitions and setup a boot menu, the extended/logical I created on my modern PC via 3rd party tool and a usb enclosure.

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Re: MS-6168 freeze during partition

Posted on 2023-12-26, 22:52

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by nizce

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I have the same board (also Award BIOS 1.3), running with PIII 700, 256 MB RAM and 120GB Crucial BX500 SSD. The SSD is connected to the onboard IDE controller using one of the cheap bidirectional IDE <-> SATA adapters. At the moment there is 6 GB partition for win98 and 84 GB partition for games. …

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MS-6168 freeze during partition

Posted on 2023-12-26, 12:49

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by nizce

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Hi, Got a Packard Bell with a ms-6168 rev2 motherboard. It comes with AMI bios as standard but reflashed it to the latest Award bios i could find, v1.3. However I’ve got no clue how big HDD it supports, more than that the v1.3 MSI award bios changelog states: “-Fixed system hang when IDE HDD size …

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Re: MS-6168 rev 2 - Vram upgrade

Posted on 2023-12-14, 21:48

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by nizce

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Memory from Matrox G400 cards should be compatible, I already did a few attempts but I find it very tricky. That's because of lack of soldering experience of course. ;) Don't forget to relocate the tiny resistors after you succesfully replaced the VRAM. My next try will succeed! :P I'm sure you'll …

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Re: MS-6168 rev 2 - Vram upgrade

Posted on 2023-12-14, 21:47

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Just done the mod on my 6168 revision 2 board. In my case I used an Ati Rage Pro Turbo 16MB with 4x SGRAM chips - the Samsung K4G323222A-PC60 chips. They're 512k x 32-bit x 2-banks for 32 megabits or 4 megabytes per chip. Essentially, any SGRAM with similar voltage and address line configuration …

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MS-6168 rev 2 - Vram upgrade

Posted on 2023-12-13, 17:58

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by nizce

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Hi! Just bought a Packard Bell 6600 which has a MSI with integrated Voodoo 3 2000 with 8MB of video ram. I’ve read that it’s upgradeable to 16MB. Anyone know which 4MB chip models I should look out for that’s compatible? Would these work? KM4132G112Q-6 QFP

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Re: Voodoo 2 - "best" reasonable picture quality

Posted on 2023-11-06, 23:23

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There are definitely crap passthrough cables. I have some good ones and some awful ones. Good resource: https://www-3dfx-cz.translate.goog/articles/loopback_f.htm?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=de&_x_tr_hl=de EDIT: in the image below, the top one is garbage; ghosting and color distortion; I …

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Re: Voodoo 2 - "best" reasonable picture quality

Posted on 2023-11-06, 23:20

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by nizce

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Thank you all! I think I'll go with a passthrough cable, and gladly skip all the peripheral! 😀 If you have any amazon or eBay link in the EU to known good cables it'd be appreciated. Found a possible good one in Sweden(where I'm located) for approx. 20EUR, but hoping to pay a bit less... 😀

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Voodoo 2 - "best" reasonable picture quality

Posted on 2023-11-06, 22:07

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by nizce

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Hi! Just got me 2x Voodoo 2. Powercolor Evilking(I think, they have memory chips(1MB) only on one side and made mid-99) But now I'm figuring out how to get a good picture quality out of these. I'll probably won't use both in SLI in this build however. I've read that using a pass-through cable from …

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Re: P/I-P55T2P4 RTC replacement

Posted on 2023-11-02, 22:19

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by nizce

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Good work! SMD soldering of any kind can be challenging to newcomers. Oh no, I didn't mean to imply that I assembled the necroware RTC. 😓 That, I bought pre-built off eBay, much like I imagine the OP has. No, the only soldering I did was just getting things in and out of the motherboard. I haven't …

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Re: P/I-P55T2P4 RTC replacement

Posted on 2023-11-02, 22:06

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by nizce

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I’ve added some pictures of the ODIN, PIN number one is the top right one on the last picture. So 2,3,16,20,22 is “removed”. This doesn’t match up with the necroware which states the following pins should not be used: 2,3,16,20,21,22. It should be fine. Pin 21 is the RCLR# pin, used to wipe the …

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P/I-P55T2P4 RTC replacement

Posted on 2023-10-30, 21:43

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Hi! My P/I-P55T2P4 has a dead RTC. It’s a ODIN OEC12B887A. After hours of de-soldering I finally managed to remove it. I had ordered a necroware nwX287 on eBay, but just saw I ordered the one with bq4285S so it’s the wrong one :/ I’ve now ordered one with bq3287 instead which according to what I’ve …

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Re: Super slocket-iii and Tualatin p3 1.4 SL657

Posted on 2023-10-07, 08:59

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I'm surprised of all the problems you have with Tualatin P3s and slotkets. Modded a few Tualatins, Celerons and P3s by isolating one pin and then the bridge. No problems with any of my Slot1-boards: two different Asus P3B-F, Abit VT6X4 and Abit BF6. Slotkets are MSI MS-6905 and some others. Only …

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VIA C3 support

Posted on 2023-09-21, 17:50

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Hi! I’ve found this motherboard for sale: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/pcpartner-mvp3bs7-954-35-8954-00-01#downloads Have a couple of questions if someone could help me to decide wether this is a good motherboard for my needs. I do have a PIII 650 with a Voodoo 3 2000 which works great. …

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Re: PicoGUS: ISA sound card emulator with Raspberry Pi Pico (Gravis Ultrasound, AdLib, MPU-401, Tandy, CMS)

Posted on 2023-09-13, 22:50

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Probably a stupid question, but would it be technically possible to run MPU-401 emulation and GUS emulation at the same time?

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Re: Monkey Island 1 & 2 Ultimate Talkie

Posted on 2023-09-06, 19:50

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The ultimate talkie might be hardcoded to use DMA 1 for speech. Sound Blaster should be using DMA 1, GUS can use High DMA 7 and it will be fine 99.9% of the time. Thank you, I now have mt-32 music and working speech ! Swapping the picogus and the SB DMA worked! So monkey island needs the SB to be …

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Re: Monkey Island 1 & 2 Ultimate Talkie

Posted on 2023-09-06, 15:16

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carlostex wrote on 2023-09-05, 22:42: The ultimate talkie might be hardcoded to use DMA 1 for speech. Sound Blaster should be using DMA 1, GUS can use High DMA 7 and it will be fine 99.9% of the time. Thanks, i’ll try chansning the SB to DMA 1. Can only set picoGUS to either DMA 1 or 3 so I’ll try …

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Re: Monkey Island 1 & 2 Ultimate Talkie

Posted on 2023-09-05, 18:29

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Seems some people have had trouble with the game freezing due to mouse driver versions, but can't find anyone with the same problem with the "missing" speech. Yea, I figured out that that system had stability issues, so I don't know if it was in fact the mouse drivers (probably not). What sound …

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Monkey Island 1 & 2 Ultimate Talkie

Posted on 2023-09-04, 23:51

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Hi! I just bought Mi1 and 2 special edt. on GOG and tried to build the talkie edition for DOS. Both games starts fine and I do get music(tried both Adlig and Mt-32) but I get no speech. Tried everything I can think of but can't seem to solve it. Seems some people have had trouble with the game …

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