Re: Help identifying ram
Posted on 2021-01-25, 01:57
Thank you
Help identifying ram
Posted on 2021-01-24, 22:35
Greetings fellow Vogons I've got some 72pin ram I might buy for my 486 but I can't determine if it is EDO or FPM ram. I've attached a picture. Anyone know how I can find out? The seller has no idea. Thanks
Re: True Roland MT-32 music in X-Wing CD... possible?
Posted on 2020-12-13, 04:16
Bump. This would be great.. I have an MT32 and both versions of the game. Would love to hear the MT32 compositions on the CD version.
Re: Space Quest 4 + SB16 PnP + MT-32 = :(
Posted on 2020-12-09, 04:25
I was having this issue with my MT32 and an AWE32 PNP CT3990 Your fix solved the problem for me too Thank you!
Re: Cache woes. Is it Faulty or is it the Motherboard being spastic?
Posted on 2020-11-27, 02:15
It’s a pretty clean board to be honest. No signs of oxidation or corrosion. I’ll clean it some more regardless 😒 An external programmer is way out of my league at this point in my retro career. Maybe in a few years... Does anyone know how to ascertain what KB size those 25 chips will be? There is no …
Re: Cache woes. Is it Faulty or is it the Motherboard being spastic?
Posted on 2020-11-26, 23:15
Ok so I rebooted 10 times. The 10th time it booted fine. All other times I got the XMS errors with the following addresses (in order) 00166794h x3 001663d4h 00166310h x4 00166190h x2 When it does boot successfully and I run cachechk I get these results:
Re: Cache woes. Is it Faulty or is it the Motherboard being spastic?
Posted on 2020-11-26, 22:58
OK I reinstalled the cache. I seem to be frequently getting the XMS error at boot. Initially it was loading dos fine, other times it will error out..
Re: Cache woes. Is it Faulty or is it the Motherboard being spastic?
Posted on 2020-11-26, 22:31
Thank you good sir! I put a jumper over the turbo pins and what would you know....cachechk is looking much better! Now ill add the cache chips back in and see what happens!
Re: Cache woes. Is it Faulty or is it the Motherboard being spastic?
Posted on 2020-11-26, 02:54
Thanks. The ram SIMMS are definitely all the same type (even when I swap them all out for another brand). I'll give the sockets all a good soaking with ISO Alc. The 386 cache chips which I was considering using as replacements are 25ns but the onces I removed from the board appear to be 15ns. Will …
Re: Cache woes
Posted on 2020-11-25, 23:04
The turbo headers have nothing attached at the moment. I'll double check the bios, but I am pretty sure having the turbo enabled/disabled has no effect. Also, I tried disabling the internal cache and the "RAM at megabyte #3 is REALLY slow" cachechk message went away... Is this motherboard spitting …
Re: Cache woes
Posted on 2020-11-25, 22:37
OK so I've removed all the cachechips and still getting the slow RAM at megabyte #3 message. However, when I enabled the external cache in the bios and rebooted it is now saying I have 512KB installed after post!? (prior it was 256KB, when enabled)
Re: Cache woes
Posted on 2020-11-25, 22:14
I am getting a shockingly bad CPU score in speed sys too
Re: Cache woes
Posted on 2020-11-25, 22:03
OK so I just ran CacheChk with my external cache disabled and internal enabled. Why would it not pick up my L1? Also is the "It looks like RAM at megabyte #3 is REALLY slow!" message to do with my external cache? I tried swapping out all the ram modules and got the same result. Cheers
Cache woes. Is it Faulty or is it the Motherboard being spastic?
Posted on 2020-11-25, 21:10
Hi Vogons I've been tried to get a new motherboard purchase up and running. After much testing and troubleshooting I have determined the cache is faulty. I have some chips I have pulled from a dead 386 motherboard, and was hoping to use these. However I am unable to find any information on them …
Re: Motherboard Jumper Settings
Posted on 2020-11-07, 06:53
http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/1043 This looks like it! Thank you 😁
Re: Motherboard Jumper Settings
Posted on 2020-11-07, 06:49
Sorry not familiar with the TH99 search.. Chipset is 82C895A
Motherboard Jumper Settings
Posted on 2020-11-07, 06:06
Hey there Vogons I have recently acquired a OPTI D2F VLB motherboard. Can’t seem to find any manuals for it online. Just wondering if anyone knows how to determine how to set the jumpers so I have the right settings for my CPU (DX-66 Overdrive) Cheers
LOUD ASUS QuieTrack CRW-5232AS
Posted on 2018-02-22, 07:47
Hello fellow Vogons I recently picked up a ASUS QuieTrack optical drive to upgrade my bland 24x drive. Articles and PR tout the QuieTrack as being "calm and quiet", but so far it is just as noisy like any other jet powered cdrom unit. Does anyone else have one of these and if so, how does it fair? …
Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread
Posted on 2018-02-22, 07:24
Rig 1: https://i.imgur.com/n7JBmjD.jpg CPU: Slot 1 Pentium III 800Mhz 100FSB Motherboard: Intel SE440BX-2 Ram: 256MB Video card: Geforce2 GTS 32MB (Soon to be upgrade to Geforce2 Ti with Zalman passive heatsink) Video card: 2x Voodoo 2 8MB in SLI NIC: Intel Pro 1000 Sound: Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold …
Re: 9 AGP cards for 1$
Posted on 2018-02-19, 21:22
The RageII is two full generations older than what you're comparing it to there, so no wonder it scores badly. It's a chip from 1996, so a fair comparison would be against the Voodoo 1 and the S3 Virge. The only reason it was stuck on an AGP card was to give ATi a low-end option and shift some …
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