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

Posted on 2023-02-02, 20:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

fool wrote on 2023-02-02, 19:06: Two days of depressing search for this Aztech I38-MMSN850 AZT2316 DOS config & drivers. Every time I get "Card not found" slap on my face. In other system running Win98 it works fine. I could try to set it on different IRQ once more... looks like my I38-MMSN824 …

Re: Pentium1 75/133 without L2 cache

Posted on 2023-01-31, 20:54

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PC with cache does not boot, disabling it works normally. I proceeded to uninstall the chips on the motherboard. Will the computer suffer as much in speed without L2? Or should I try to find a new one? Is there a way to test which chip is bad?? tnks Faulty cache chip, I had it many times. Unless it …

Re: Hardware recommendations to recreate Phils Computer Lab's 136 in 1 Build

Posted on 2023-01-30, 00:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That's a very solid SBPro and WSS compatible card. I use it with the drivers that I've posted in this thread and I find that they work quite well. Note that some Epic Megagames titles have compatibility issues with this card, but a fix can be found in that driver pack. Be advised that the Win9x …

Re: Getting a Non-Microsoft Mouse to Work with WfW 3.11

Posted on 2023-01-17, 23:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm trying to get a new-old-stock PS/2 ball mouse (specifically a HP branded Logitech mouse) to work with my DOS 6.22/WfW computer (a DX4-100MHz system) via a serial-to-PS/2 adapter. I am currently running a Microsoft basic serial ball mouse, but due to its age, it's quite flakey and doesn't always …

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

Posted on 2022-12-30, 04:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I can confirm that, for some reason, I've had very bad luck with some Yamaha DS-XG PCI cards in Windows. These cards can cause a bluescreen after installing drivers, no matter what I do. This problem seems limited to the VxD drivers, however. WDM drivers work perfectly. But then there is no Adlib …

Re: Advantech PCA-6157 rev. A2 anyone have this one?

Posted on 2022-12-30, 04:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is a SBC card: Advantech PCA-6157 rev. A2. Takes Pentium 75 through 200 due to single plane 3.3V VRM. Takes async SRAM cache only, and based on 430FX chipset. I'm trying to revive this card means needs missing bios firmware and keyboard controller replaced, manual for this card. Keyboard …

Re: Where can I find "AMIBCP" (for DOS) ?

Posted on 2022-12-30, 04:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

CachoAlpuy wrote on 2022-12-28, 15:35: This is the evaluation version of BCPW511, i dont know what are it's limitations. this is broken, it just shows Incompatible BIOS Header when loading a bios.

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

Posted on 2022-12-30, 02:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i was trying some PCI sound cards in my Pentium 3 PC Yamaha DS-XG YMF724 - makes Windows 98 unstable over time, hard locks when digitized sound is played in DOS applications, Adlib works fine C-Media CMI8738 - Seems stable, a bit on the quiet side, Adlib won't work, Digitized sound works fine in DOS …

Re: Choose the sound card for the 3PCs: DX4 - P60 - P200

Posted on 2022-12-26, 18:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

for my DX4, im using a sound blaster 16 CT1770 with the 4.05 DSP

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-26, 04:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought a Radeon HD 2900XT for $70. Not a mind blowing price but these are genuinely rare (didn't sell well, super noncompetitive compared to say, 8800GTX). Took me 2 years to find my 2900GT for $55 so I'm glad to finally have the real deal. I think it's a fair price. It took me a long time too to …

Re: MR BIOS Public Service Announcement

Posted on 2022-12-16, 16:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

any UMC 8498F MR BIOS?

Re: Bad PSU caps kill a pristine P4 motherboard

Posted on 2022-12-13, 14:49

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

RIP, never trust old ageing power supplies, their capacitors are generally on their last legs and they will go off and can cause the power supply to die and take other hardware with it.

Re: Swapping out a riser board out of my i486DX2 66

Posted on 2022-12-07, 03:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

that board looks exactly like the Packard Bell PB450

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-12-03, 05:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

A001 wrote on 2022-12-02, 15:53: Can I get rid of my proprietary Compaqs, or in other words, will these fire up without issues? Second question will be, is it a TC430HX and does it support MMX? 750.jpg the TC430HX does support MMX

Re: Socket 5 Intel Advanced / ZP (Zappa) will not keep BIOS settings

Posted on 2022-11-24, 01:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i had some different problematic Intel brand boards, one that doesn't post, one that has that same CMOS issue, and one that has no working IDE. i guess may be reaching the end of its MTBF. 2 are zappas and 1 is a thor ATX, the thor doesn't work at all, and 2 of the zappas have different issues, 1 …

Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2022-11-22, 17:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

or the Intel Overdrive chips, do those count as Rare? or the Intel 486SX 16 or 486DX 25?

Re: ASUS CUSL2 2nd RAM slot not working

Posted on 2022-10-08, 21:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

im happy with my CUSL2-C, may just use my regular CUSL2 as a scrap board.

Re: Socket 5 Intel Advanced / ZP (Zappa) will not keep BIOS settings

Posted on 2022-10-08, 21:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i had some different problematic Intel brand boards, one that doesn't post, one that has that same CMOS issue, and one that has no working IDE. i guess may be reaching the end of its MTBF. 2 are zappas and 1 is a thor ATX, the thor doesn't work at all, and 2 of the zappas have different issues, 1 …

Re: ASUS CUSL2 2nd RAM slot not working

Posted on 2022-10-05, 17:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i just ended up getting a new CUSL2, but it's the -C version, it works nicely and all the ram slots function.

Re: ASUS CUSL2 2nd RAM slot not working

Posted on 2022-09-28, 00:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

256 mb (2x 128mb) but only 128mb is working

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