Re: 486 in ATX from trash

Posted on 2014-07-17, 14:24

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by sunaiac

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CL5429 ISA graphics card... in a slot with that VLB just waiting to be filled... My first PC had a CL5428 VLB - and in the era before 3D accelerators, it wasn't bad (looking from a windows angle, it had hardware cursor and hardware blitter). If you have a stable full of systems, maybe line up a VLB …

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Re: 486 four-eighty-six or four-eight-six?

Posted on 2014-07-17, 12:34

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by sunaiac

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tincup wrote: sunaiac wrote: In france we have it simple : "Quatre cent quatre vingt six" : "Four hundred four twenty six" 😁 Why not just "Quarante Huit Six" That's what I would have said if I had still lived there then! I never met anyone saying it this way 😀

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Re: Sunaiac's VLB 486 : Writeback DX4, VLB SCSI, ET4000/W32p

Posted on 2014-07-17, 12:02

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by sunaiac

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Ok, I understand. previously I used a simple filezilla on windows. I recently switched to some ftp server on my linux NAS directly, it must be behaving differently 😀 Thanks for the input.

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Re: Sunaiac's VLB 486 : Writeback DX4, VLB SCSI, ET4000/W32p

Posted on 2014-07-16, 19:15

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by sunaiac

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Hint for others : type "image" in mtcp ftp client to avoid the ascii mode screwing everything ... I tested sio many hardware setups just because of a configuration proclem ... :( Well at least it's done :) Sorry, but that is a classic FTP user error - transferring things in ASCII mode instead of …

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Re: 486 four-eighty-six or four-eight-six?

Posted on 2014-07-15, 22:58

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by sunaiac

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darksheer wrote: sunaiac wrote: In france we have it simple : "Quatre cent quatre vingt six" : "Four hundred four twenty six" 😁 correction : "four hundred eighty six" in english 😁 That's belgian : quatre cent octante six 😀

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Re: Video card for Athlon XP?

Posted on 2014-07-15, 19:59

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by sunaiac

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Yea the 6800GT was a beast when it came out. It put Nvidia back into pole position after they struggled a little with the FX series. No. http://www.hardware.fr/medias/photos_news/00/07/IMG0007763.gif You have to wait for 8800 to have nVidia back on top. Except if you choose your game subset really …

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Re: Sunaiac's VLB 486 : Writeback DX4, VLB SCSI, ET4000/W32p

Posted on 2014-07-15, 19:40

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by sunaiac

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Well I find it much more practical actually. I don't have a sound card in the pc yet nor a cdrom compatible IDE controller anyways, so network is the way to go. I use it on my 3 vintage computers with no pb (now :p) I can't really spend my time copying stuff on 15 floppies or burning CDs when …

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Re: Sunaiac's VLB 486 : Writeback DX4, VLB SCSI, ET4000/W32p

Posted on 2014-07-15, 14:10

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by sunaiac

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Hint for others : type "image" in mtcp ftp client to avoid the ascii mode screwing everything ... I tested sio many hardware setups just because of a configuration proclem ... 🙁 Well at least it's done 😀

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Re: 486 four-eighty-six or four-eight-six?

Posted on 2014-07-15, 10:07

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by sunaiac

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In france we have it simple : "Quatre cent quatre vingt six" : "Four hundred four twenty six" 😁

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Re: Sunaiac's VLB 486 : Writeback DX4, VLB SCSI, ET4000/W32p

Posted on 2014-07-15, 09:46

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by sunaiac

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Found the problem ! After a complete reinstrall, most things were working and some other still not. I'm on the DX2, so not a WT/WB problem. Actually, the things not working are the ones coming from the network !!! Whenever I get something from the ftp with mTCP, it's screwed on arrival. Be it an exe …

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Re: Sunaiac's VLB 486 : Writeback DX4, VLB SCSI, ET4000/W32p

Posted on 2014-07-13, 16:59

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by sunaiac

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Memtest fine on my HOT419 R3 with BIOS on failsafe and on optimal with a DX2 66. I'll reinstall DOS after testing the whole hard drive with a low level format by the controller. I still have no explanation as to why I was unable to start a whole bunch of programs when others work flawlessly ... …

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Re: Sunaiac's VLB 486 : Writeback DX4, VLB SCSI, ET4000/W32p

Posted on 2014-07-12, 14:21

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by sunaiac

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darksheer wrote: Memtest86+ 4.00 should work fine because keropi used it for an older motherboard here : How to enable L2 cache on a VI11 486 mobo? Working ! (at least on that DX2-66 setup) Thank you 😊 Now on to testing my DX4 100 setup 😀

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Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!

Posted on 2014-07-11, 10:45

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by sunaiac

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There is quite a bit of data out there which indicates the Intel DX4's having a clock-for-clock advantage over the AMD DX4/X5's. Reminds me that the first 486 cpu I tested was an IT's ST DX2 80... At that time I was like "damn what a piece of crap, 486 processors can't even keep up with games of …

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Re: Sunaiac's VLB 486 : Writeback DX4, VLB SCSI, ET4000/W32p

Posted on 2014-07-11, 10:40

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by sunaiac

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Do you remember what you used ?

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Re: Sunaiac's VLB 486 : Writeback DX4, VLB SCSI, ET4000/W32p

Posted on 2014-07-10, 22:04

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by sunaiac

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tried memtest86 4.3 and memtest86+ 5.1 😁

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Re: Build 486's And They Will Come! Suggestions please!

Posted on 2014-07-10, 18:37

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by sunaiac

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ElectricMonk wrote: Kinda surprised you didn't use an AMD DX4-100. Those outperformed the intel DX4-100s, and even some of the early Pentiums, at a much cheaper price point (back in the day). They certainly did not, and there's no mileage variation in that.

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Re: Sunaiac's VLB 486 : Writeback DX4, VLB SCSI, ET4000/W32p

Posted on 2014-07-10, 18:35

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by sunaiac

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OK, funny thing : put a different CPU (DX2 66), different MB (486SLE chaintech), different memory (4x4MB 30pins), and different Ctrl (some goldstar VLB ctrl), and the thing still reboots on memtest86 and memtest86+ launch :D I'll try another PSU and another floppy, and then i'll have tried 2 …

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Re: Sunaiac's VLB 486 : Writeback DX4, VLB SCSI, ET4000/W32p

Posted on 2014-07-08, 07:46

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Ok, there is no DDO :) It's a 5GB HDD, running on a tekram DC680T which can see all the capacity. I did not activate LBA in the bios (I actually forgot) before installing MSDOS so I have a 500MB partition only. Anyway, since I have the problem with only a floppy and memtest, I guess the HDD is not …

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Re: Sunaiac's VLB 486 : Writeback DX4, VLB SCSI, ET4000/W32p

Posted on 2014-07-07, 20:46

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by sunaiac

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darksheer : DDO ? I tried memtest, with only the tekram (cache off), a ISA GL5429, and one 16MB stick : reboot when memtest starts :( edit : same with 1 4MB stick. with EDO, there's no boot, so it's not because i put wrong memory. So either I have a bad jumper setting, or my motherboard has a …

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Re: Sunaiac's VLB 486 : Writeback DX4, VLB SCSI, ET4000/W32p

Posted on 2014-07-06, 21:33

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Ok, this thing is driving me mad ... After a long pause (moving into a new appartment, working on the P133 and the Athlon 700), I decided to get back to that 486. It just doesn't want to work. Currently, it will run several programs with no pb (himem, my packet driver, all from mtcp, all basic msdos …

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