Re: SATA HARD Disk in 286/386 Mobo: Is it possible?

Posted on 2022-12-03, 12:42

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by RayeR

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Well, I replaced the buffer but it didn't change anything. Here's below is shown how the POST screen is broken with Samsung mSATA SSD. It's interesting that not only whole characters are missing but also font is broken, I wonder how this can happen when the font is in ROM used by font generator. …

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Re: SATA HARD Disk in 286/386 Mobo: Is it possible?

Posted on 2022-12-02, 22:37

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by RayeR

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Get ready for the buffer...

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Re: SATA HARD Disk in 286/386 Mobo: Is it possible?

Posted on 2022-12-02, 17:59

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by RayeR

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You had a good luck with your SATA-IDE adaptor.

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Re: SATA HARD Disk in 286/386 Mobo: Is it possible?

Posted on 2022-12-02, 16:42

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by RayeR

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Hm, according to his name seems to be a man from my country but I didn't know him. I also have a bunch of PDF with ATA specs and I readed some parts as I programmed my SMB tool that can also send ATA commands to drive. I don't remember there would be something weird about identify cmd. I still have …

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Re: SATA HARD Disk in 286/386 Mobo: Is it possible?

Posted on 2022-12-02, 14:00

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by RayeR

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I digged another 386 MB. It's highly inregrated with VGA ET4000 and onboard IDE, FDC, a ports bu only 386SX 20MHz. It has some VLSI chipset. I don't have a manual, theres no visible partnumber, just BIOS prints a string NetMate. Onboard BIOS support HDD autodetection and it detected that 10GB …

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Re: SATA HARD Disk in 286/386 Mobo: Is it possible?

Posted on 2022-12-02, 07:54

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by RayeR

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rasz_pl wrote on 2022-11-30, 13:05: Good news is your card also has provision for second 245 buffer, here a populated one Oh, you're right. Mine has 33R resistors there. So I will suck off the solder and put a buffer there if it changes something... Here's better photo before the mod.

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Re: Custom interposer module for TI486SXL2-66 PGA168 to PGA132 - HELP!

Posted on 2022-12-01, 21:31

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by RayeR

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Congrat... Could you give a link to pins/headers that you used to mate with MB socket?

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Re: Geforce 7 series backwards compatibility

Posted on 2022-12-01, 18:16

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by RayeR

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Nice tool, I never used ATI on desktop so didn't approach this. I used UniRefresh in CRT age until my GF4MX440....

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Re: Windows XP how many people still use for it their MAIN OS?

Posted on 2022-12-01, 16:46

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by RayeR

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I'll post it later. Do you think that D3D is broken itself? I wonder why didn' see such bsod with games or other 3d software, just the mypal...

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Re: Geforce 7 series backwards compatibility

Posted on 2022-12-01, 16:38

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by RayeR

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Ok, dynamic loading is fine. And is there some tool to mod vbios refresh rate? Or did it already someone hacked manually? How the data structure in vbios looks? Yes probably we need real 7900GS for further tests. I will try on 7600GS but will not 99.9% work. I don't see much cards arround, also a …

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Re: SATA HARD Disk in 286/386 Mobo: Is it possible?

Posted on 2022-12-01, 15:47

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by RayeR

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I found another spare ISA IDE controller. There's a difference that Samsung mSATA SSD doesn't hang the POST but it's not detected anyway, like the Transcend IDE. So it might be some issue at electrical level but there's another problem. I also tried to put SSDs in one old 486 machine with similar …

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Re: Windows XP how much people still use for MAIN OS?

Posted on 2022-12-01, 15:35

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by RayeR

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mockingbird wrote on 2022-11-30, 17:44: gfx.blacklist.layers.direct3d9 layers.acceleration.force layers.acceleration.force-enabled I checked this settings but it's disabled by default. Even when I enabled it I cannot trigger the BSOD. About the PLL, it was you, sorry not yet, a lot real-life things …

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Re: Geforce 7 series backwards compatibility

Posted on 2022-12-01, 01:51

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by RayeR

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OK, I just tested your found vbios: https://www.techpowerup.com/vgabios/20457/20457 and doesn't work too on 7900GT (3GB, no signal in any gfx mode). It differs only in a few bytes from mine found verison. I didn't find same version for Inno 3D 7900GT, the closer I found is ver 5.71.22.29.00 : …

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Re: Geforce 7 series backwards compatibility

Posted on 2022-12-01, 00:41

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by RayeR

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I don't know if there is some freq. table that is used by vbios during init. But even if yes, it would not be good idea as many LCDs can't sync over 60-70Hz and you can get a WTF moment after some years you will forget that you did that mod :) I looked at GPU table and all 7900 GS, GT, 7950GT should …

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Re: Geforce 7 series backwards compatibility

Posted on 2022-12-01, 00:21

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by RayeR

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Ok, I give a try during weekend, I have 1 PC with 7600GS, maybe it would be better compatible than GT.

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Re: MyPal is dead

Posted on 2022-11-30, 16:46

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by RayeR

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I just tested latest Mypal 68.12.5 beta and I have problems with BSOD in win32k.sys. It triggers quite easily after a few minutes of browsing, always at the same address. According to suggestion of other user at MSFN I disabled multiproces in about:config so only one instance of mypal.exe is running …

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Re: Windows XP how much people still use for MAIN OS?

Posted on 2022-11-30, 14:24

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by RayeR

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mockingbird wrote on 2022-11-22, 00:02: 360Browser has a memory leak and MyPal BSODs with layer acceleration is enabled. what option disables the mentioned layer acceleration?

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Re: Windows XP how much people still use for MAIN OS?

Posted on 2022-11-30, 13:37

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by RayeR

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Hi, I'm still on XP as main OS on my home PC (also online everyday). I just tested latest Mypal 68.125 beta and I have problems with BSOD in win32k.sys. It triggers quite easily after a few minutes of browsing, always at the same address. According to suggestion of other user at MSFN I disabled …

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Re: SATA HARD Disk in 286/386 Mobo: Is it possible?

Posted on 2022-11-30, 12:32

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by RayeR

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But is it real problem on cca 30cm cable with a single drive? There are buffers on MB-ISA and IDE sides...

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Re: SATA HARD Disk in 286/386 Mobo: Is it possible?

Posted on 2022-11-30, 07:23

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by RayeR

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It's quite a common controller, any low-cost noodle like there. Chipset is Acer M5105 + some buffers and PALs. I'll take some better photo later...

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