Silicon Image Sil3112 PCI SATA Controller - looking for old BIOS

Posted on 2018-09-14, 09:26

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Hi guys, I'm looking for an old BIOS version for the Silicon Image Sil3112 PCI SATA Controller card. Anything prior to 4.2.47, preferably 4.2.27 but anything will do I've looked everywhere to my abilities without success, both the current site https://www.latticesemi.com/Support/ASSPSoftwareArchive …

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Re: erek's Voodoo 5 6000 Thread

Posted on 2018-09-13, 10:05

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AtTheGates wrote: The 6000 has 4 GPUs?! Even wikipedia knows that 🤣

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Re: Should power supply fans push or pull

Posted on 2018-09-12, 15:35

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The same direction it originally had, which in 99,99% of the cases is pulling air out of the PSU.

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Re: Istalling and running older software on later windows OS

Posted on 2018-09-12, 12:37

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I'd first try compatibility mode and then a virtual machine

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Re: NDIS3PKT by Daniel Lanciani

Posted on 2018-09-10, 18:51

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Also it's a bit funny that half a day later in such a popular forum no one "in charge" ever looked at this. But yeah, back on topic, I guess it's ethical/good intentions but not legal.

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Re: Voodoo 1 issues!!

Posted on 2018-09-10, 08:04

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Try a DOS game to rule out the possibility of a Windows-related problem.

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Re: Scariest pc game you played

Posted on 2018-09-05, 20:05

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The first Alone In The Dark for me as well, not that it was that scary but mostly because of the timing. I was young when it came out and it was a new thing

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Re: Recommended vintage games for kids (4-years, 6-years, and 8-years)

Posted on 2018-08-31, 08:28

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I think those are too much for a 6-8 year old kid. Consider also nintendo stuff, either emulated of in the form of NES/SNES mini.

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Re: The dream of you all guys! a VLB 386! Say your opinion!!

Posted on 2018-08-30, 16:24

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Didn't change anything at all, just ran the game and moved a guy, so I guess it's "normal"? I'll give it a quick try and edit this post to let you know how it looks on fastest Edit: well no, I just saw that the default value is "fastest", this is what you saw. So what are your thoughts about it?

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Re: DOSBox 0.74-2 has been released

Posted on 2018-08-30, 16:19

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Qbix wrote: I forgot to add: We have saved all game fixes for the upcoming 0.75 release, which will enter regression testing soon. This release has been created so you can go back to 0.74-2, in case we happen to break your favourite game in 0.75. That's a very correct approach indeed.

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Re: The dream of you all guys! a VLB 386! Say your opinion!!

Posted on 2018-08-30, 16:15

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Here are the videos (kept the size really low since you're only interested in how fast that dude is moving): Filename warvideos.zip File size 2.3 MiB Downloads 46 downloads

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Re: The dream of you all guys! a VLB 386! Say your opinion!!

Posted on 2018-08-30, 15:49

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Re: Warcraft I footage on a smartphone camera -- yes, that would be plenty good enough. All you'd have to do is instruct a unit to move across the screen and show it happening so it could be timed. Believe me, the difference between what I'd see on your system(with the two different BIOS settings) …

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Re: The dream of you all guys! a VLB 386! Say your opinion!!

Posted on 2018-08-30, 15:30

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@Scali: NSSI reports "internal emulation", it's clear that the system doesn't think there's an FPU present @aquishix: First of all I'd like to make clear that all is good, I'm not trying to attack you or anything, hope it wasn't received that way. Genuinely trying to help. That said though, your …

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Re: The dream of you all guys! a VLB 386! Say your opinion!!

Posted on 2018-08-30, 12:57

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Will do. I think that last night, I tried 2-2-2-2 and it got past the POST screen, past the boot loader, and then crashed when DOS tried to process CONFIG.SYS. A bunch of ASCII garbage flew across the screen for a second or two and then it locked up. I'll verify this when I get home this afternoon, …

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Re: The dream of you all guys! a VLB 386! Say your opinion!!

Posted on 2018-08-30, 06:00

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It's dead simple: Unless you change your "Cache Read Wait State" to something that doesn't start with 3-x-x-x, you're stuck with low 30s in sysinfo. Yes, I'm 100% certain about this, just this setting and nothing else. And no, I don't believe that you tried 2-2-2-2 "but had no noticeable impact on …

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Re: Quickest/easiest way to clean a grubby looking backplate?

Posted on 2018-08-29, 18:53

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I suspect rust...

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Re: The dream of you all guys! a VLB 386! Say your opinion!!

Posted on 2018-08-29, 13:46

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Re: BIOS settings and getting 10-15% performance increase...no. I didn't bother to post the settings I tried last night, but I did get it to be stable with 0WS write and 0WS read, with 3-2-2-2 timing. The benchmark came in at ~31.5 instead of ~30.0, which is only a 5% increase. Games still ran like …

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Re: How to test an AT power supply

Posted on 2018-08-29, 05:33

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I just connect a failed-but-still-spinning hard disk

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Re: RAM on a 286 - EMS, XMS, UMA, HMA, WTF

Posted on 2018-08-29, 05:28

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nemail wrote: - Would EMS even be used by any software except games which specifically ask for EMS? Of course, by Lotus 1-2-3, some disk caching utility or a RAM drive 🤣

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Re: What brand / computer company used this logo?

Posted on 2018-08-28, 19:33

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It's most probably some local OEM/assembler, that's not the logo of any major brand, unless I'm missing some huge part of history. I suggest that you add your location in your profile and your first post, in case someone makes the connection and recognizes it.

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