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Re: I think AOpen just nuked their FTP server

Posted on 2020-04-04, 13:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

oh damn. im so sad. i got a buch of aopen stuff, even avsoundcard. i hope you guys were able to make a full backup. its just horrible to have retro hardware and in the future not being able to download drivers and patches. A few people have mirrored the server (at least the server mirrors that had …

Re: I think AOpen just nuked their FTP server

Posted on 2020-04-02, 08:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Deksor grabbed a complete copy of their FTP server before my version finally finished; all within a few hours. Still have an archived complete (at the time) copy of it on my own web server, but it's not Internet-facing. I touched the .com one, and Deksor probably went to .com.tw. Wouldn't be …

Re: Looking for Abit AV4 BIOS image

Posted on 2020-03-27, 01:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Was taking a long break from doing some PCB work in KiCAD and saw this thread. I did find a ROM like that, but it had to be dug up from an old MAME 0.209-0.210 ROM update collection. Found using hex editor: 40-00AG-001247-00101111-060692-SIS3486 AV4 ISA/VL-BUS SYSTEM BIOS

Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2020-03-17, 23:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello all. Firstly, this is great work. Thank you to everybody who has contributed. I recently bought a cheap DH61WW to test out a batch of 2nd and 3rd gen processors I picked up a while ago, hoping that the BIOS would already have been updated and expecting it to be easy if it hadn't. No such luck …

Re: Fic FTP site is gone. We lost most of the drivers

Posted on 2020-03-17, 16:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I also have a (very incomplete) AOpen FTP mirror from the same year, but it's not much of a priority right now. there's a ton of stuff on the AOpen FTP, and it could go dark any day now - might want to back that one up too Yeah, my backup stops at /pub02/drivers/ somewhere and I stopped since …

Re: Fic FTP site is gone. We lost most of the drivers

Posted on 2020-03-17, 04:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The FTP archive is uploaded on the Archive here: https://archive.org/details/ftp.fic.com.tw-20151022 Why I archived it in the first place (and it's a weird one): I bought a FIC PA-2013 rev. 2.1 motherboard in 2014, got that, then downloaded some things for the board from their server. Before that, I …

Re: Fic FTP site is gone. We lost most of the drivers

Posted on 2020-03-14, 21:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, someone on Twitter told me today. I just located my compressed archive and I am going to upload the entire thing from October 2015 to the Internet Archive later this week. Same person also told me I am now the only one that has the directory. This is the entire FTP archive from late 2015. Some …

Re: Need help with broken AWE64 Gold CT4540

Posted on 2020-02-12, 21:36

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I own this card, so here are the cap values: C33 - 4.7uf 50V C58 - 1uf 50V C119 - 4.7uf 50V C122 - 4.7uf 50V

Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-09-19, 04:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Since I own a VS440FX and MU440EX and will try to DL all the "Legacy" last BIOS and post to usenet somewhere. I cannot find any of the BIOS thru their ftp so may not get all the old boards listed as will have to DL thru their support website. Good luck. I went after what was left of their Server …

Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2019-09-15, 08:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Unfortunately I expected this since last year, like the HP thing in 2017. Especially when they said they were revamping their site then, too. :confused: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=60219&p=672727#p672727 A lot of their older stuff was already gone before that as well. I only noticed …

Re: Was Win95B the best version?

Posted on 2019-09-14, 23:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I actually never ran into the automatic install of Win95C's Desktop Update. Had no clue it even existed until I browsed the CD for it. (And probably this thread a few years ago.) Then again, I always removed the CD after the final part of the initial install out of habit... Admittedly I used an old …

Re: AWE64 Gold CT4390 Firmware

Posted on 2019-07-05, 22:04

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I actually altered the Dell flash utility through hex editing to write my personal copy of the CT4390 config EEPROM last night since I own three AWE64 Gold cards (2x 4390 and 1x 4540), but I have no real way to test its flash capabilities other than the fact I didn't break the program. Never …

Re: What are IBM HDD "Deathstar" serials ?

Posted on 2019-05-27, 19:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Oh, I remember those, if I recall, there were two issues that were fixed in firmware. One was a corruption issue, and the other was to prevent the heads dwelling over the same track for long periods when idle https://web.archive.org/web/20041116230353/http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR …

Re: What are IBM HDD "Deathstar" serials ?

Posted on 2019-05-27, 15:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, it's the 75GXP (DTLA) series drives that had gotten the "Deathstar" moniker. Ran into 2x 15GB drives of that series a few years ago, I think 2014, when I was still buying vintage motherboards. They were barely used when I got them (less than 5 POH) and still functioned as normal, and I …

Re: Crystal Audio Chips.. any fans?

Posted on 2019-03-21, 20:24

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

This was my first FM chip, back when Dad bought our first computer in 1998, an Acer Aspire 2856. Contains a Crystal CS4237B chip, and is actually one of my favorite FM clone chips after hearing a few other recordings over time. System is out of commission after 20 years, as the proprietary power …

Re: Sound Drivers for a compaq deskpro en

Posted on 2019-03-18, 20:17

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I do have a version of these drivers in the old Compaq FTP mirror. Someday, I would probably create a database to organize these files, because it's tedious looking through all these directories. .TXT file for SP21180 as reference, and the P733 does seem to be listed in the document: http://cwcyrix. …

Re: MT-32 Service Notes 1st/2nd Edition

Posted on 2019-03-12, 22:18

in MT-32 General

in MT-32 General

OK, someone in this thread posted the 2nd edition but removed the link. I am looking for a schematic for the -01 revision PCB so I can see the changes of the NWI noise and PCM mods. I do have the 2nd Edition of these notes from that link, but it's not particularly readable in some sections (to me, …

Re: intel classic pci ninja bios update

Posted on 2019-03-09, 21:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, Intel pretty much purged a lot of older stuff over the years. It pretty much broke the archive section of the old Intel Download FTP server before it was finally taken offline. Some Google searching led me to stating that the BIOS format is 1.00.xx.AY0. Some of the BIOS updates are mirrored on …

Re: Trying desperately to buy a NEC usb-card, but failing miserably

Posted on 2019-02-26, 20:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have like three Belkin F5U220 USB 2.0 PCI cards: one Rev. 3, and two Rev. 6 (?) units. They all (should) have the NEC D720101GJ chip, and I would double check to confirm that, but... true to form, I misplaced the cards. :lol: They also don't make them anymore, so I should find them eventually... …

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

Posted on 2019-01-26, 20:43

in Milliways

in Milliways

Changed the battery in my younger sister's ASUS X555DA laptop. There was an earlier conversation that took place before even ordering the battery in the first place: *random chatter that I no longer remember, probably to do with her gaming 'cube' desktop, among other things, then...* Me: ...yeah. …

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