Re: Voodoo4 M4800

Posted on 2025-06-11, 06:39

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by kagura1050

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Hello! I always enjoy seeing the progress of your project. I'm sorry this is off topic, but I'm more interested in the PCIe x1 to MXM carrier than the MXM board itself. Are you planning to open source the design data for the carrier board?

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Re: PCA-6276VE without backplane, strange behavior

Posted on 2025-05-23, 00:07

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by kagura1050

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I finally contacted support yesterday. I asked to be provided with the BIOS file, but was told that it no longer even exists at their headquarters. I think I'll put the board away or sell it. Thank you to everyone who helped me so far.

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Re: MSX owners - thinking of finally getting one, some doubts

Posted on 2025-05-14, 03:44

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I think an MD pad to MSX pad adapter can be made somewhat cheaply from a DB9-RJ45 adapter like this: https://ja.aliexpress.com/item/32998825926.html Just buy a pair and combine them with a LAN cable of about 0.1m.

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Re: Pico or small AT PSU options?

Posted on 2025-05-05, 07:29

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I bought a 120W (red 20 pin ATX connector) fake Pico PSU from RGEEK with reference to https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=81647 and it is working fine with VALUESTAR NX VE35D/67C (PII-350, RIVA 128 onboard). Given the components installed, it should be able to handle a 5V line load of about 50W …

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Re: What is the general opinion on all-in-one computers?

Posted on 2025-04-29, 10:38

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At the very least, I think AIO PCs with video inputs are good (though the majority don't have them...). A few years ago, I found an AIO PC with an N4100 in a store in Osaka's electronics district that looked nothing more than a 24-inch FHD IPS monitor. It had an HDMI input, and was advertised as …

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Re: Linux kernal going to drop i486 support

Posted on 2025-04-29, 09:54

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Does that distribution use the latest kernel? Roughly latest. (Based on Yocto Kirkstone, 6.1.80. Next release will be based on Scarthgap and use the 6.6 kernel.) And if it does - can you see any advantage of using latest kernels on a 486 ? New kernels allow new software to be taken advantage of …

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Re: Linux kernal going to drop i486 support

Posted on 2025-04-29, 07:59

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I'm helping a friend develop a Linux distribution for i486 (in fact, I'm testing the latest nightly build on HOT-433 right now). Well, I feel like the time has finally come... The concept of the distribution is "use and preserve 486", so somehow I feel like I've lost the battle.

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Re: dISAppointment - LPC to ISA adapter - ISA on modern motherboards

Posted on 2025-04-25, 05:46

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by kagura1050

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I found a (possibly complete) schematic for a simple PCI-ISA adapter using the IT8888F on an old website of a Taiwanese prototyping board company. Creating a clone of this circuit might be a good starting point. https://www.costronic.com/Ev71pkit.htm https://www.costronic.com/SH8888.pdf

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Re: Best Socket 7 CPU, cards for Biostar MB-8500TTD?

Posted on 2025-04-24, 07:09

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Mind you, I would actually like to try running a *nix on this board. It'll need memory. If so, you might want to buy a Cyrix MII. It's Family 6 (i686, with CMOV), so you might be able to run modern Linuxes like Debian Bookworm or openSUSE Tumbleweed (but you might not be able to boot it with 256MB, …

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Possibility of true 133MHz FSB on Aladdin V

Posted on 2025-04-23, 01:34

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I was a bit curious after reading https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=106078, so I looked into it and found some interesting information in the Aladdin V datasheet (as far as I could find, no one had mentioned this). The image is the PCI Clock Control register (8Dh) in the Aladdin V datasheet. ( …

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Re: Success: Adding a PS/2 mouse port to the Shuttle HOT433 (using a dedicated keyboard controller chip)

Posted on 2025-04-17, 00:17

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feipoa wrote on 2025-04-16, 12:57: Has anyone has tried this mod on the v4 boards yet? The layout for the strapping resistors looks identical to v1-3 boards. I think it will be after next week, but I will try it.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-04-07, 02:54

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This weekend, on a silly whim with a friend, we went to a thrift shop in a city 500km away (I don't have a driver's license, so he drove everything! I can't thank him enough). Result: Big harvest! The things I bought are mostly in the picture (some things are not in the picture because I left them …

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Re: PCA-6276VE without backplane, strange behavior

Posted on 2025-04-04, 13:51

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スクリーンショット 2025-04-04 223938.png J1 seems to have been correct. I tried removing it, but the operation remained the same. I tried the trick of shorting the address pins, but accidentally shorted WE and A17, which (probably) corrupted the ROM data (a long 2-second beep was repeated many times). It …

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Re: PCA-6276VE without backplane, strange behavior

Posted on 2025-04-04, 05:14

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I found it did not like having the CMOS clear jumper (J1) unpopulated, which looks to be the case in your photo. I would jumper pins 1 and 2, if that hasn't been done already. I don't remember trying this, so I'll try it The only way I was able to get it to complete the boot process was to go …

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PCA-6276VE without backplane, strange behavior

Posted on 2025-04-03, 14:26

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(This is my first question since coming to VOGONS. I'm using Google Translate. Sorry if there are strange sentences) A while ago, I received an Advantech PCA-6276VE Rev:B1 from an internet friend. It doesn't work properly. There are probably quite a few things wrong with the current build: 1. I …

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Re: Win98 freezes with new cpu, irq conflict?

Posted on 2025-03-25, 07:27

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Vio voltage may be unstable due to TC17. The nearby AIC1084CM is a 3.3V linear regulator. Looking at the board image, there is nothing else that seems to be generating the Vio voltage.

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Re: Best gaming CPU for LGA 775 + Windows XP

Posted on 2025-03-21, 03:50

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I used to be into overclocking on the LGA775 platform. In my opinion, for this purpose ASUS It is better to use mobo (preferably X38/48 DDR3) and E8500 (E8600 is too expensive in most cases, but E8500 is not. Also, even if you have a limited budget, it is better to avoid Q8xxx/E7xxx, because the TIM …

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Re: Searching for Insyde ExpressRom BIOS dump for AMD Geode LX/CS5536

Posted on 2025-03-12, 12:47

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I'll try dumping the BIOS when I get home. Well, it took me almost half a year to get home... Sorry, I completely forgot. I finally dumped the BIOS and CMOS of my Nexterm RT-500. I hope it helps in some way. P.S. There was a clock setting menu in the BIOS, so I tried underclocking, but it would not …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2025-03-10, 00:27

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I received this two days ago. It's a Trident 8900D-R 1MB, my first ISA VGA. It's unused (with nice box and Windows 3.1 driver floppy) and I bought it on Yahoo! Auctions for 4500 yen (about $30). I'd been keeping an eye on auction sites for about two years, hoping to find an ISA VGA for under 2000 …

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Re: What are your great games found by accident or second chance?

Posted on 2024-12-16, 09:39

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Accident #1: YSFLIGHT I think it was 2009 or 2010. I was in elementary school then, and I found a book with a freeware CD for Windows XP in a used bookstore, so I bought it. YSFLIGHT was there. It was my first time using a realistic simulator, and I had a hard time even taking off at first, but once …

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