Re: Drivers for Compaq Remote Insight Lightsout Edition II?

Posted on 2022-10-02, 02:29

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by AmiSapphire

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The Compaq and HP stuff has a reference .txt file for some of the earlier SoftPAQ files (up to around 23000, though some of Compaq's stuff will need the site archive as reference), but for HP-era ones past that, you will need some archives of HP's website as reference regardless, as HP pretty much …

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Re: Drivers for Compaq Remote Insight Lightsout Edition II?

Posted on 2022-10-01, 21:11

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by AmiSapphire

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The card's firmware (and some other older server stuff) is on the known Compaq mirrors; my previous post now reflects that. I discovered this by accident while searching for some files and found my mirror in the process. This particular FTP archive needs some additional notes as it is missing …

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Re: Drivers for Compaq Remote Insight Lightsout Edition II?

Posted on 2022-10-01, 20:23

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by AmiSapphire

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Odd, all I found was the user manual, which has a date of May 2002 (but copyright is 2000): https://sndhm.net/docs/compaq/products/servers/Compaq_RILOE_II_User_Guide.pdf Keep finding references to both versions on the Compaq mirrors (utilities for them are present, but drivers were somewhere else), …

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Re: BIOS file/BIOS chip specs needed for DEC Digital Equipment Corporation PRIORIS MTE Socket 2 motherboard

Posted on 2022-09-29, 22:56

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by AmiSapphire

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Surprisingly, I seem to have found some info regarding the board! First, found a decade-old thread on VCFed: https://forum.vcfed.org/index.php?threads/a-few-questions-about-a-decpc-mte-mainboard.30354/ Pasted the support page into the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/ …

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Re: compaq 7792dmt !

Posted on 2022-05-27, 03:19

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by AmiSapphire

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HP's FTP server, assuming you have a browser that can view FTP servers (or use a real FTP client in the first place). ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/ Then you have to navigate the utterly confusing SoftPAQ layout that HP inherited (then adopted!) from Compaq themselves. There is an allfiles.txt from …

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Re: AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality

Posted on 2022-05-23, 23:08

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by AmiSapphire

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Amazing; congrats! Wondering if that card was going to be reverse-engineered.

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Re: Descent 2 3DFX Executable

Posted on 2022-05-13, 15:32

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by AmiSapphire

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valnar wrote on 2022-05-13, 15:00: Does anyone still have these patches? The links above do not work. The links worked for me, surprisingly enough. Either way, I mirrored them to my server. Primary: http://cwcyrix.duckdns.org/descent2/ Alternate: http://cwcyrix.nsupdate.info/descent2/

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Re: Weak hissy sound from Creative Vibra 16. any fix?

Posted on 2022-05-05, 05:56

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by AmiSapphire

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Someone else had this exact card and also mentions the noise issue (though hissing/ringing was present as well): http://dosdays.co.uk/topics/sb16.php Note: there are two variants of the CT2260: one with Line Out, one without. VOGONS pots: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=237044#p237044 …

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Re: Has anyone else tested hardware that seems defective but comes back to life on it's own?

Posted on 2022-04-11, 13:33

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by AmiSapphire

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I have this old Maxtor 5.7GB hard drive that came with the old Acer Aspire 2856 desktop tower PC (since 1998, so I am the original owner). At one point in 2018, it was just stuck, clicking, when powered on. For some reason, I kept the drive. Same thing happened in 2019. Then, in 2020, I tried once …

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Re: GUS ACE 1.0 reverse stereo fix

Posted on 2022-01-08, 19:10

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by AmiSapphire

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Such a fix is also done on Roland SCB-55 Rev00 sound daughterboards, even officially by Roland themselves in some cases. I see no problem with this fix.

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Re: Did Creative remove some legacy drivers from their website?

Posted on 2021-10-12, 02:48

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by AmiSapphire

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Just downloaded the NT4 and 9x drivers from there as a test. I guess we could archive them at some point. (Note: they're going to do maintenance on their site next week, however.)

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

Posted on 2021-10-08, 22:58

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by AmiSapphire

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Follow-up post of this: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=1004381#p1004381 I started from scratch on the Arduino serial MIDI sketch (which will stay internal for now) since I found out a simple Serial.begin(31250); starts MIDI, and I managed to code in a MIDI byte indicator LED. Then I was …

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Re: pc chips mainboard M573 resurrection

Posted on 2021-10-04, 00:52

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by AmiSapphire

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More complete BIOS list: https://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/archive/housto … m573/index.html There are three known releases, and the 4/30/1998 BIOS is the most recent one.

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Re: Looking for information on an A-Trend ATC6240V-01 with 440BX chipset

Posted on 2021-09-30, 15:11

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by AmiSapphire

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^ You're welcome. Now that I know that BIOS 3.0r05 unofficially supports 1GHz Intel Coppermine CPUs that use the 100MHz bus speed, that note has just been added to my A-trend ATC-6240 page.

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Re: Looking for information on an A-Trend ATC6240V-01 with 440BX chipset

Posted on 2021-09-29, 15:43

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by AmiSapphire

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It should presumably match this: BIOS info: 01/09/2000-i440BX-W977-62400000C-EC Sure enough, it does say "i440BX-W977-62400000C-EC" on post. Since it does say that do you believe flashing it with a bios for a "ATC6240M V3: PCB rev R06" would work rather than brick it? Thank you for pointing me in …

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Re: Looking for information on an A-Trend ATC6240V-01 with 440BX chipset

Posted on 2021-09-28, 15:52

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by AmiSapphire

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Um, weird. Searching that VER:1.0r01 WB1 string brings up conflicting info by itself. However, going through my A-Trend BIOS stash and reading them in a BIOS editor, the date on that screenshot seems to match the ATC6240M v3 BIOS version 3.0r02. It seems your board is actually an ATC6420M V3: PCB …

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

Posted on 2021-09-28, 01:47

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by AmiSapphire

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Partially recapped the Abit SR7-8X board some hours ago. The soldering iron I use had to be set to near max to remove and replace the caps (no surprise). But, I can't test the board. I misplaced the older Pentium 4 CPU cooler somewhere in my room. Before and after images provided. Before: 20210926_ …

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

Posted on 2021-09-26, 20:55

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by AmiSapphire

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That board was never used since I tested it in 2011, so this happened entirely in storage. Edit: Though the power supply part will be useful on boards I am still using, so thanks. :) Please thoroughly examine the "Nichicons" after you removed them, and open a thread if you find anything unusual. …

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

Posted on 2021-09-26, 20:04

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by AmiSapphire

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Yeah, I hate that. I have an Abit SR7-8X mainboard I got in 2011 that has some bulging Teapo and Nichicon caps, an issue I caught ~3 years ago: Teapo caps first, Nichicon caps second. Started with two, now it's nine (including one more Nichicon starting to bulge.) Hadn't bothered fixing it, either, …

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

Posted on 2021-09-26, 13:28

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by AmiSapphire

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So, today being Sunday I figured it would be a nice day to get rid of that hole in the back of my case where that IO shield is supposed to be and to my horror I discover leaky caps! I never had leaky caps on boards before. My common retro era is 286/386/486 so I guess boards from those periods …

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