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

Posted on 2021-09-25, 21:03

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Set up a much smaller MIDI controller just for the Roland SC-7 so I don't have to use the much larger Roland XP-80 (or even the Roland MT-32) as a MIDI controller. It is basically an Arduino Uno with a MIDI shield and the KonverterMidiUSB sketch compiled and uploaded to the Uno. I test projects …

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Re: Found the real manual for Atrend ATC 6240M motherboard with 440BX chipset.

Posted on 2021-09-18, 23:57

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Great find! I actually own that motherboard version, too! (Needs a bit of repair, though.)

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Re: PCB card-edge connector gold plating

Posted on 2021-09-03, 21:08

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, made a Snark Barker with HASL a few years ago, and it turned out fine to an extent. Added solder paste to the card edge connector and re-flowed it, though. (Still have three PCBs left, however...)

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Re: FTP is dead (in Mozilla Firefox v90)

Posted on 2021-07-26, 19:36

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by AmiSapphire

in Milliways

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I knew a few months ago, before v90 was even released. Icon layout for FTP was broken in Firefox for years, though. For browsing FTP servers, I use either Pale Moon (too lazy to remove it from the machine; uses very old Firefox release as base) or SeaMonkey (uses Firefox ESR release as base). I use …

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Re: HDD not detected by my BIOS... ARGH!

Posted on 2021-07-26, 13:07

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Apparently, the AWDFLASH version is 7.53. You can use the Windows 98SE boot disk for this process. (You may have to press F5 at floppy disk boot to stop memory managers from loading if this is the Startup Disk, however. The format a: /s system disk method does not need this.) Thanks for the help! …

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Re: HDD not detected by my BIOS... ARGH!

Posted on 2021-07-26, 11:57

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Which version of AWDFLASH should I use? There are so many: https://www.wimsbios.com/awardflasher.jsp Also, for the boot floppy, can I just use the one which came in my Windows 98 SE box? Or do I have to make a different one using DR DOS (I have been struggling to find any guides on how to do this). …

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Re: HDD not detected by my BIOS... ARGH!

Posted on 2021-07-25, 14:31

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That board's BIOS has a 32GB HDD limit (bug). There is a 128GB HDD patched BIOS on http://wims.rainbow-software.org, but I would back up your original BIOS in case something goes wrong. http://wims.rainbow-software.org/ajz/Tekram%20P6BX-A%28n%29.zip Edit: That BIOS is out of date (latest is v1.08), …

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Re: HDD not detected by my BIOS... ARGH!

Posted on 2021-07-25, 13:49

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

That board's BIOS has a 32GB HDD limit (bug). There is a 128GB HDD patched BIOS on http://wims.rainbow-software.org, but I would back up your original BIOS in case something goes wrong. http://wims.rainbow-software.org/ajz/Tekram%20P6BX-A%28n%29.zip Edit: That BIOS is out of date (latest is v1.08), …

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Re: Tyan Tiger MPX S2466. Any had experience with it?

Posted on 2021-06-23, 23:49

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

^ Pretty much my experience, not great. Didn't like certain Flash graphics, even with different GPUs (it was 2013; located and attached image, redacted usernames), and some programs would crash and burn upon attempting to run them... but I could run Youtube videos quite well back then, which nearly …

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Re: Firmware for Panasonic/ Matshita CR-583 8x IDE CD-ROM drive

Posted on 2021-06-05, 14:34

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Apparently this link should work: http://www.rpc1.org/farzeno/club-internet/firmware/583_107.zip 😏 RPC1 site didn't update the paths when they mirrored the original site. I did locally download the file to test it, though. Ouch, that means that the day that site goes down (hopefully never, but life …

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Re: Firmware for Panasonic/ Matshita CR-583 8x IDE CD-ROM drive

Posted on 2021-06-05, 05:06

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Apparently this link should work: http://www.rpc1.org/farzeno/club-internet/fir … are/583_107.zip 😏 RPC1 site didn't update the paths when they mirrored the original site. I did locally download the file to test it, though.

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

Posted on 2021-01-31, 22:05

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Went through one of my boxes of stuff that had some old hardware and found two semi-broken Promise RAID cards... in addition to the one working one. They are all Promise FastTrak S150 TX2 cards that I modded to be TX2plus units. Back then in 2011, the two were recognized when installed in a test …

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Re: Dell OEM S150 TX2 BIOS

Posted on 2021-01-30, 07:47

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

...I actually ran into that flash failure error message once, which may have prompted me to make my own boot disk and flash the card manually, which may have been dumb luck on my part. Looking back, I was also testing that card in different boards at that time, so it may have been a possible …

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Re: Dell OEM S150 TX2 BIOS

Posted on 2021-01-29, 10:58

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've done so way back in 2011, actually, but I will have to track down my notes for this. 😶 Since this was 2011, they will need to be rewritten again. It was when I was running an actual web server box at the time and wanted to use the (empty!) EIDE port on the card. Got the card for cheap and …

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Re: cannot find PC Chips M863G V5.1C board audio drivers

Posted on 2020-08-07, 01:05

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is likely on a PC Chips Driver CD starting from V8.11 or V8.12. Reference: https://web.archive.org/web/20020601103818/ht … .tw/driver.html They should be on this CD image: https://archive.org/details/CDV823A

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

Posted on 2020-06-29, 23:00

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Making a DIY AV cable for a Model 2 Sega Genesis console by cannibalizing an old portable DVD player TRRS cable that I had lying around. Didn't place an order for the DIN 5 and mini-DIN 9 stuff yet, however. (I also plan to make some MIDI cables.) I also own a Model 1 Sega Genesis console that I am …

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

Posted on 2020-06-24, 01:23

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tracking down misplaced old hardware (mostly peripherals, USB 2.0 PCI cards, storage controller cards, video cards and CPU coolers; sometimes RAM and CPUs). Almost none of it is organized. Retiring some very obsolete stuff, mainly not-so-great digital cameras (getting picture data off the units then …

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

Posted on 2020-06-02, 23:06

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Finally backing up Dad's old Acer Aspire Win98SE install from a year 1998 Maxtor 5.7GB HDD. The drive went into a clicking state in 2018 and 2019, but somehow in 2020 it lives again. There is some old data on that install that Dad still used until then. Too bad the custom wired PSU from the Acer …

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

Posted on 2020-05-23, 22:14

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My MCS-48/41 adapter for my Willem programmers just arrived and I managed to dump the data of an old American Megatrends keyboard controller IC. That and its corresponding BIOS HI/LO data dump are still on my EPROM burning desktop PC. I also have a Holtek HT6542B IC from a semi-dead PC Chips M520 …

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Re: Rant: stop linking to "Stason .org" for Total Hardware 1999 (TH99) pages

Posted on 2020-05-20, 23:05

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by AmiSapphire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, I'm going to agree here. (Though, I have a local copy of TH99 for my own personal purposes anyway...)

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