Re: The Ultimate 486 Benchmark Comparison

Posted on 2020-07-09, 01:41

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by darry

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I've had the ESA-486 industrial motherboard for a few years now and don't think I've posted Speedsys for it. It uses an SoC with a Cyrix 486DX4 core. As you can see, there is no L2 cache. It does have 128MB of onboard PC100 SDRAM. These hard drive numbers look pretty bad, don't they? Not sure why …

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Re: [SOLVED] Asus P3B-F 1.03 with PowerLeap IP3/T and 1.4GHz 512K Tualatin very unstable/intermittent POST .

Posted on 2020-07-09, 00:07

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by darry

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VRM on my Asus P/B-F 1.03 is a HIP6020ACB . Anybody ever try running of those with a modded slotket while using the board's VRM to output 1.5V ? EDIT: YOLO! I ordered one of the modded CPUs from the dude in Korea and I will test it .

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-08, 23:07

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There are also those collectors who have no intention of proposing a side deal but message the seller out of spite: "The item you just sold for $30 is worth $250." The seller then has to decide if they will honor the original deal, and they do sometimes back out, as people have experienced. I have …

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Re: Asus P3B-F 1.03 with PowerLeap IP3/T and 1.4GHz 512K Tualatin very unstable/intermittent POST .

Posted on 2020-07-08, 22:55

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What do you think has better performance on for a 100MHz FSB board, a Tualatin Celeron 1.4 or the P3-S @ 1050MHz? I'm not sure which one to buy. The P3 will be nice if I ever upgrade to a 133MHz board and maybe running it at 100MHz (+ undervolt?) will mean a lower TDP than the Celeron. I already …

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Re: Problem with DosBox Flickering screen

Posted on 2020-07-08, 22:33

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by darry

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Mark_81 wrote on 2020-07-08, 18:04: Windows 10 Pro Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 ti Sorry, I just saw you had already posted that info . Is Monkey Island the only game with the issue ?

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Re: Asus P3B-F 1.03 with PowerLeap IP3/T and 1.4GHz 512K Tualatin very unstable/intermittent POST .

Posted on 2020-07-08, 17:45

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by darry

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I'll just say this: oof! Good luck, I've sold my Ms6905 MASTER, and really regret doing that, as it is easily moddable for Palpatine! If worse comes to worse, I could probably just order a modded Tualatin 1400 512K from the dude in Korea and use it with my Asus Coppermine slotket . That could be an …

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Re: Asus P3B-F 1.03 with PowerLeap IP3/T and 1.4GHz 512K Tualatin very unstable/intermittent POST .

Posted on 2020-07-08, 17:41

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by darry

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Seventeen minutes of Prime95 on the Tualatin 512K passed by without issue . I tried cleaning the contacts on the PowerLeap and also tried a Tualeron 1300 I managed to find on the PowerLeap and, with both Tualatin CPUs, I get the same bogus temp and voltage values . I put back the Coppermine and CPU …

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Re: Problem with DosBox Flickering screen

Posted on 2020-07-08, 16:48

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by darry

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I would say that the last test would exclude the monitor as a possible culprit . What OS and video card are you running . Maybe it is some kind of driver bug .

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Re: Asus P3B-F 1.03 with PowerLeap IP3/T and 1.4GHz 512K Tualatin very unstable/intermittent POST .

Posted on 2020-07-08, 16:44

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The 512K PIII-S chips are much harder on aging VRMs than Coppermine and even Tualatin-256 chips. I had the exact problem with an Abit Coppermine board years ago. It worked fine with Coppermine chips, even at 150MHz FSB. It could also run a PIII-1200 and Celeron-1400 (both Tualatin-256) fully stable …

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Re: Asus P3B-F 1.03 with PowerLeap IP3/T and 1.4GHz 512K Tualatin very unstable/intermittent POST .

Posted on 2020-07-08, 15:24

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by darry

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I have put back the Coppermine 1000EB on Asus Slotket and everything is stable again. The only recent modification to the system, other than the CPU change was the Promise Ultra133 TX2 . I had previously been running a SIL3114 with no issues and then a Promise SATA150 which died (which is why I had …

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[SOLVED] Asus P3B-F 1.03 with PowerLeap IP3/T and 1.4GHz 512K Tualatin very unstable/intermittent POST .

Posted on 2020-07-08, 06:31

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Subject resumes it clearly. What I am looking for is suggestions before I dig out one of my Biostar M6TBD boards (which worked fine with same PowerLeap adapter but different 1.4GHz Tualatin 512K) for a test . Here is some more info : -PSU is known good Enermax EG465VE-P -All tests are at 100Mhz FSB …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2020-07-07, 23:23

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by darry

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All circuit breakers went >poof< when I tried to start my Soyo 019R1 Ti 486DLC/E system. I hadn't tried it in ages, and when pressing the power button all went dark. I did see the segmented LED light up and show "20", before darkness engulfed the house :) I'll need to change PSU's and hope nothing …

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-07-07, 20:46

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by darry

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The menu looks the same with me. But as I wrote, changing these options does nothing. The image is still cut off. The "SIZE" setting has nothing to do with it, because it is only an adjustment of something like aspect ratio/image aspect ratio. "OUTPUT" is only a digital output image resolution that …

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Re: PS/2 Keyboard Cable

Posted on 2020-07-07, 19:32

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by darry

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Ah no I mean I'll ignore the PS/2 port and use a USB to PS/2 adapter on the keyboard's USB cable to allow me to connect it to the KVM. That's what I meant too. The keyboard will likely not work with a common USB to to PS/2 adapter because the USB keyboard mechanism and internal PS/2 to USB adapter …

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Re: PS/2 Keyboard Cable

Posted on 2020-07-07, 18:18

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by darry

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Ah well that's probably what it is! Thanks folks! Hopefully a USB to PS/2 connector will work and I can still use the KVM. Pretty certain a standard passive USB to PS/2 adapter will not work . If that is a PS/2 mouse port, that means the keyboard has an active PS/2 to USB converter for the mouse …

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Re: Problem with DosBox Flickering screen

Posted on 2020-07-07, 18:14

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by darry

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Does it only flicker in fullscreen mode ? Is it Ok in windowed mode ?

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Re: PS/2 Keyboard Cable

Posted on 2020-07-07, 18:02

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by darry

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If that keyboard is anything like my Wyse branded Chicony USB keyboard, that female PS/2 connector is for plugging in a PS/2 mouse .

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Re: Good PCI Controller to use with SCSI2SD?

Posted on 2020-07-07, 04:51

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by darry

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Then again, why limit yourself to SCSI2SD's throughput when you can use an inexpensive PCI IDE controller with and IDE to SATA converter or even a PCI SATA controller along with any modern SATA SSD ?

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-07-07, 04:46

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by darry

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I always thought that auctions that had ended were not a problem, but my understanding may be incorrect. I must admit that I had not considered the scenario described by boxpressed . One way around that issue when, for example, discussing availability or pricing of a type item would be to make sure …

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Re: Good PCI Controller to use with SCSI2SD?

Posted on 2020-07-07, 00:23

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by darry

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Adaptec 2930 or 2940 variant

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