Re: Video memory upgrade

Posted on 2009-11-26, 22:34

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by GL1zdA

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As far as I can remember those tiny memory chips can be found in a IBM PC-730. Update: it is even more weird. There are regular size SOJs for the S3 864 and small size SOJs for cache - probably the hardest cache to find.

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Re: Maximum PC mag back issues on google

Posted on 2009-11-25, 11:51

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by GL1zdA

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

InfoWorld Graphic cards comparisons: > EGA/VGA Comparison (1987) > Should contain VGA comparison but pages jumbled with another issue, found here! > VGA Comparison (1988) > Video Seven Fastwrite and V-RAM > 16-bit Video Boards (1989) > More 16-bit Video Boards (1989) > Displays > VGA Comparison ( …

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Re: AMI Enterprise III

Posted on 2009-11-21, 15:31

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by GL1zdA

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

OK, I managed to boot the floppy after disabling write back and external cache (odd?). There is one problem. The adapter is recognized as FUS5211 instead of the expected BUS4201 (can't even find what company used the FUS abbreviation). I forced the ECU to install BUS4201 for the slot in which this …

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Re: AMI Enterprise III

Posted on 2009-11-20, 22:26

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by GL1zdA

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just acquired a BT-742A EISA SCSI controller (AFAIK the manufacturer is Mylex, now LSI). It also has a FDD controller. http://img689.imageshack.us/img689/2085/bt742a.th.jpg Although LSI does have lots drivers for it, they don't have the CFG files. But it seems here are some I could use. For the VLB …

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Re: Building 2D/3D transition PC - looking for advice

Posted on 2009-11-19, 22:34

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by GL1zdA

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you just satisfied with running the game, using Glide wrappers is OK. But if you a purist like me, you probably would like to run Glide games on real Voodoos (they do look a bit different on real Voodoos). Personally, my choice is a BX based PII with a Voodoo 1 (for the stubborn games) and a …

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Re: How to Enable Hidden BIOS features?

Posted on 2009-10-22, 06:26

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by GL1zdA

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If it's a flash BIOS, then there is a utility called Modbin, which can edit the ROM file and possibly unhide hidden settings. There's also Award Bios Editor, but I haven't used it.

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Re: AMI Enterprise III

Posted on 2009-10-08, 13:58

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by GL1zdA

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think I found the EISA CFG files you need: ftp://ftp.bluefeathertech.com/computing/hardware/Mainboards/legacy/EISA/AMI/Enterprise3/ There is also a user manual in that directory (EXE format). It should tell you what kind of TAGs you need. They're probably 64kx4 24pin type. Unfortunately the exe …

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Re: Building a really fast Win98 rig...

Posted on 2009-10-08, 10:20

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by GL1zdA

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As far as the hardware itself, it's decent, there's not much I can say beyond that. GL1zdA, your problems with the memory probably aren't the fault of the board, I bet you have an old Winchester core A64, which only supports DDR333 speeds with 4 DIMMS. A newer chip with the revised Venice core …

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Re: AMI Enterprise III

Posted on 2009-10-08, 08:08

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by GL1zdA

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Amigaz wrote: So far I've been lucky with the dallas chips still holding the charge on the several Eisa mobo's I have...seems like they're not drained of their juice as much on regular mobo's Could list your EISA motherboards? Just curious 😀

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Re: AMI Enterprise III

Posted on 2009-10-08, 06:41

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by GL1zdA

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

nice mobo :happy: the eisa cards are setup thru the eisa config util made for this mobo together with the correct .cfg files for the mobo and particular eisa cards you plan to use and set the correct resources for the mobo The util is missing from the AMI website, but it seems I found the AMI EISA …

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Re: Building a really fast Win98 rig...

Posted on 2009-10-07, 21:40

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by GL1zdA

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a Gigabyte K8NS-939 as my primary system 😀 (same as K8NS, but Socket 939). It's nForce 3 based and there are no W98 drivers for it. I use it with a A64 3000+. It's not the best quality motherboard - it won't allow me to run 4 DIMMs at full speed (400 MHz DDR) - only 2 will work fine.

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AMI Enterprise III

Posted on 2009-10-07, 21:28

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by GL1zdA

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ami068a.JPG Just acquired this motherboard. I haven't tested it thoroughly, but it allows me to enter the BIOS at least. It only complains about an improper configuration for adapter in Slot 7, but think it's some old EISA config, though I can't find any EISA related settings in setup. Can anyone …

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Re: Rendition Verité Speedy3D/RRedline games & stuff

Posted on 2009-10-05, 12:39

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by GL1zdA

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Are the V2x00 boards compatible with games written for the V1000?

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Re: What does one do with a SDRAM P4 Willamette 1.5 GHz ?

Posted on 2009-10-02, 07:31

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by GL1zdA

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ih8registrations wrote: Melt it down for precious metals. Yeah, definitely the best option 😀

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Re: Really late model 386 motherboard

Posted on 2009-09-22, 08:25

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by GL1zdA

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have one of this AMD 386/40 + 486 boards, but never tried to boot it. Mine has even VLB slots. Here's the old topic: Hybrid 386/486 motherboard? with some benchmark scores.

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Re: A question about speed

Posted on 2009-07-02, 10:08

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by GL1zdA

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Most programs are speed insensitive. Being speed sensitive is considered bad programming. I've never seen a list of games contain this bug, but maybe we should make one. Maybe someone could start a wiki for Marvin?

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Re: Fun with ASUS TUSL2-C

Posted on 2009-07-02, 06:25

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by GL1zdA

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do you really need over 512 MB with a P3?

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Re: Intel-built 486/Pentium/PPro/PII motherboard guide

Posted on 2009-07-01, 06:41

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by GL1zdA

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

IMO the built in Intel Graphics was just very slow. With a GeForce 1 it worked flawless.

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Re: Intel-built 486/Pentium/PPro/PII motherboard guide

Posted on 2009-06-30, 21:32

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by GL1zdA

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I owned an i815 (ASUS CUSL-2, very durable, after I upgraded my PC my friend got my mobo and uses it until today - 8.5 years!) and it didn't even had enough power to play DVDs fluently with a P3 700 and 384 MB RAM (it was very, very near fluent, but once per few seconds it dropped some frames and …

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Re: Intel-built 486/Pentium/PPro/PII motherboard guide

Posted on 2009-06-30, 18:15

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by GL1zdA

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm pretty sure the i810 and i815 are i740 based.

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