Re: Super Socket 7 motherboard stuck at Verifying DMI pool data...

Posted on 2013-08-22, 20:21

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by Shodan486

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Since the onboard devices are not working, try something ''external'' I see you have ISA and PCI besides AGP on the board. Try out those slots using VGA cards - that gives you the first impression that the local buses at least work. If any of those slots won't work, I think you'll lose more time …

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Re: Owners of the Highend 486 Systems - Please Advise

Posted on 2013-08-06, 17:10

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by Shodan486

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Is the system stable if you drop the bus speed to 33 MHz? It has been all the time until this very summer hell on 40MHz. Played the whole Diablo & Hellfire on it for a few weeks, which is a pretty demanding game in the last stages of it - no errors. It, of course, came up to mind just test out the …

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Re: 486 motherboard schematics

Posted on 2013-08-06, 16:36

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by Shodan486

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May I ask what is it you seek in a human language? :D No no, just kidding, but I partially understand and partially don't. Please clarify, because I'm surfing the net for drivers and many thing related to 486 technology these days, may bump into something you need. You never know what you may find …

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Re: Owners of the Highend 486 Systems - Please Advise

Posted on 2013-08-06, 15:22

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by Shodan486

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Well... I was wrong with the memories - they're 60ns. As for the cache, please clarify. It's 256KB (4) 64K x 8. http://imageshack.us/a/img823/4326/80wk.th.jpg http://imageshack.us/a/img821/8018/5q5k.th.jpg I will take a better look on the power plug on the HDD, but if the HDD was problematic, I …

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Re: Owners of the Highend 486 Systems - Please Advise

Posted on 2013-08-06, 14:23

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by Shodan486

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OK, I'd rather verify whether I got 70ns or less since ya'll point at the memory timings. Just gimme a sec. Feipoa - I've read about your experience thoroughly months back, just in the time when I was inspired by using a SCSI. Yes, the drive is running pretty hot, thus I think the heat is being …

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Re: Owners of the Highend 486 Systems - Please Advise

Posted on 2013-08-05, 23:39

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by Shodan486

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So I turn on the PC, ran that DOS game installation, went through. Then (again) played SC1 for an hour (with my bro also playing his 3D intensive games), followed by few files copy and some win95 games installation and their testing - NO error, NO crash, NO inappropriateness. Then I came back to the …

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Re: Owners of the Highend 486 Systems - Please Advise

Posted on 2013-08-05, 16:51

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by Shodan486

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NJRodafan - Did you also put a 15k SCSI right under under an SCSI Magneto-Optical drive in those days also? No irony in here, but can you imagine the heat generated by this drive in such case? These drives run pretty hot, I guess we all know that, and as you can see on the pictures, the heat …

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Re: Owners of the Highend 486 Systems - Please Advise

Posted on 2013-08-05, 00:32

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by Shodan486

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OK, so it seems, for now, that it is the cache - no errors at the possible lowest settings. But as I said, I'm gonna wake up tomorrow, run the installation and it will give me no errors at the possible highest settings (because of the cooldown). But this test is ruined by the good weather, so it is …

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Re: Owners of the Highend 486 Systems - Please Advise

Posted on 2013-08-04, 21:13

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by Shodan486

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I don't think so guys, because it pretty much works in the beginning, it takes time to spot the first CRC errors, nevertheless I am conducting a test that could prove us right or wrong: Am playing SC1 now. It's been like an hour, this should be sufficient to give me like 6-7 errors, am going to try …

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Owners of the Highend 486 Systems - Please Advise

Posted on 2013-08-04, 15:17

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by Shodan486

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Hi all after long pause of mine. Been doing some modern stuff now like virtualization, networking etc., but "The itch of retro" has stroke me once again (to be honest, my friend just gave me 5 boxes of old HW - Sound cards, NICs, VGAs, even PCI and ISA SCSI controller board - plus couple of old …

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Re: MS-DOS PCI SATA Controller - Weird issue

Posted on 2013-06-04, 00:08

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by Shodan486

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No, it was implemented just because there were more and more types of devices and more and more people wanted to have all the multimedia stuff in their PCs and the 0-7 IRQs with integrated devices in it was just not enough. But your theory is interesting, if you could please elaborate, never heard …

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Re: My 486 Optimization

Posted on 2013-03-01, 18:05

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by Shodan486

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The CDROM (and accidentally also the HDD) problem is resolved & againg workarounded by disabling the onboard IDE and hooking it up to my soundcard - I was surprised I was seeing my HDD also in WIN (not dos), because I was lead to believe that these are not 100% IDE compatible controllers, but rather …

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Re: My 486 Optimization

Posted on 2013-03-01, 13:49

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by Shodan486

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Really? Well, if you could point me to some direction or just provide some links / searchwords etc., I'll definitely take a look at it. But I'd rather stick to win95 and, again, workaround this problem by acquiring a SCSI CDROM drive and burn my images onto CDs. It's not the speed I'm concerned with …

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Re: My 486 Optimization

Posted on 2013-03-01, 11:09

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by Shodan486

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d1stortion - Nope, works smoothly without the SCSI subsystem - it's probably because all the Image managers are recognized as SCSI devices - this makes some sort of conflict with the overall system, but since the device in the Device Manager is a pure driver, you cannot change anything there, thus I …

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Re: My 486 Optimization

Posted on 2013-02-28, 20:25

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by Shodan486

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Finding daemon tools lower than v3.47 is quite tricky, anyways I used som windows 95 supporting version of alcohol and that gave me the results mentioned above, but nevertheless I am going to look for more drivers...

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Re: My 486 Optimization

Posted on 2013-02-28, 18:16

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by Shodan486

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So it was due to image managers - namely Daemon tools, Alcohol 120% just proved my theory - hangs up during boot-up process. But I'm kinda left with nothing in regards to image managers, do you got any ideas? The second problem is being verified still...

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Re: My 486 Optimization

Posted on 2013-02-27, 15:35

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by Shodan486

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I think I got it guys...actually I've got two, not one, problems, but seem to be resolved (workarounded). Verifying...

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Re: My 486 Optimization

Posted on 2013-02-26, 15:01

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by Shodan486

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Okay guys, I'm really at loss here (again)... So I tried everything that I posted above. I even swapped the memory modules, same behavior, and I'm 100% sure the single module would make no difference. Set the memory timings to auto - no change. Disabled both caches, nothing. Using only the SCSI and …

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Re: Old fart topic: What was your hardware specs in 1992?

Posted on 2013-02-26, 14:40

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by Shodan486

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Amiga500, I was a kid back den, barely 5, so can't tell you the specs, but can tell you the games :D Anyways besides the A500 (w\ FDD & w\o HDD) and its generic monitor I had many joysticks, because I was lead to believe that playing games is to be done with these accessories, and of course they …

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Re: My 486 Optimization

Posted on 2013-02-24, 11:52

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by Shodan486

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Referring to Feipoa -Will do this, it´s definitely better way to insert, install and test it immediately afterwards, to scope the real issue. - Irrelevant - Irrelevant - Thought this also could be irrelevant in my case, because I have got two of two of those HDDs which display the same behavioral …

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