Re: Gigabyte GA-6OXT POST Problem

Posted on 2019-04-17, 22:22

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by appiah4

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

After replacing the PSU, CPU, unlugging everything and even trying turning the PC on without a CPU I gave up and removed the motherboard, deciding it is faulty.. Then on a whim I tried booting it on the bench and it booted. So I reinstalled the motherboard into the case, and it just worked. I guess …

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Re: ESS Edison Gold 16 IDE setup (help me troubleshoot)

Posted on 2019-04-17, 12:16

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by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@appiah4 Thanks for the info, much appreciated. I've checked JP6, JP7 and JP8 and they are set exactly to your cards settings, JP6 = IRQ11, JP7 = DACK 3 and JP8 DRQ 3. However, the silk screen also states: JP3 IDE IRQ when selecting pin 2-3 its set to IRQ15 (Secondary), which I have. What's the …

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Re: The Grand OPL3 Comparison Run!

Posted on 2019-04-17, 06:15

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by appiah4

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in Marvin \ Sound

Here are recordings of how the Fortemedia FM801 chip's FM synthesis sounds: https://soundcloud.com/user-470084971/sets/te … 01-fm-synthesis

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Gigabyte GA-6OXT POST Problem

Posted on 2019-04-17, 06:13

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by appiah4

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I finally put together the P3 system in my signature: Gigabyte GA-6OXT Pentium III 1200 3x128MB PC133 RAM MSI GeForce 3 Ti 200 Diamond MX300 10/100Mbit Ethernet Every part aside from the GeForce 3 in this system is tested to work in another PC, and I have no reason to believe the GF3 is faulty, …

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Re: ESS Edison Gold 16 IDE setup (help me troubleshoot)

Posted on 2019-04-17, 05:56

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by appiah4

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

... I can't see what JP6 JP7 and JP8 (IRQ, DACK, DRQ) are set at for the CD-ROM interface; they may be in conflict with the card itself (IRQ and DACK/DRQ should not be 5 and 1 if they are 5 and 1 for the sound card) I have no information on JP6, JP7 and JP8. The sound (digital/FM) seems to work …

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Re: ESS Edison Gold 16 IDE setup (help me troubleshoot)

Posted on 2019-04-16, 13:25

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by appiah4

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have successfully used (a different revision of) this card's IDE controller with nothing but normal ATAPI DOS drivers in the past. ES688 requires nothing special. Make sure you have no other secondary IDE controllers working in the system. There are no jumpers for setting the DMA and IRQ on my 688 …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-16, 12:08

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by appiah4

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The Joystick DB15 to MIDI adapters? Bought one a long time ago and it has a DB15 port that allows me to hook up my joystick to my computer whilst playing MT-32 games on my Socket 7 (this was before I bought an MPU-401 clone card) and I still have the cable for testing the sound card's GamePort for …

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

Posted on 2019-04-16, 07:23

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by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have been working on getting a classic 486, the DX2-66 with local bus, up and running. It has not exactly been smooth sailing, however. I'm having trouble setting up the mouse, of all things. Ctmouse installs the Mouse Systems/COM port driver, but the machine hangs as soon as it receives any …

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

Posted on 2019-04-15, 10:10

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by appiah4

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tried to get my Dell GX110 working. It did not work. Fans spin for a moment, then stop; no beep codes, front panel flashess yellow yellow green and dies. Tried running the system without any IDE drives or PCI cards, tried switching the CPU, same deal. I tried looking at the PSU but it's very …

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Re: Vogons Video Announcement Thread

Posted on 2019-04-15, 10:06

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by appiah4

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I put together a review of Planet X3: https://youtu.be/7oZMxcKCCLM Thanks for the review; you did a great job covering most technical sides of it. For future videos, going into a bit more depth about game mechanics would be useful. I have watched several videos on this game now, by the creator and …

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Re: DUDE, show me your Dell!

Posted on 2019-04-14, 20:55

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by appiah4

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Help me troubleshoot a GX110 Vogons? Dell Optiplex GX110 Slim Desktop, P3 733. When I plut it in, the CPU fan spins for a second, then stops - everything is dead. The AUX PWR light stays on, as does the green light on the riser card. The front panel led flashes yellow yellow green. I have unplugged …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2019-04-12, 22:07

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by appiah4

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I’ll check and post on Sunday or Monday.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-04-12, 12:32

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by appiah4

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Non-PnP Vibra with OPL3 = WIN

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Re: Baby AT mobo slightly out of line of standoffs - is it safe to just rest it on them?

Posted on 2019-04-11, 07:28

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by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The leftmost screw hole on most AT motherboards is not round but elliptic and that allows for adjusting the orientation via shifting and rotating so that the other screws align with the holes; have you looked into this? I would wager that your case and not the board is the one out of spec here, …

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Re: Trying to re-install DOS 6.22 and Win3.11:

Posted on 2019-04-11, 07:27

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by appiah4

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Kudos to you for actually reproducing the BIOS screen on Paint rather than snapping a photo with our phone; you got a good chuckle out of me when I was least expecting one.

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Re: 3D Sound 230X-3 ESS Audio Drive ES1868F low volume

Posted on 2019-04-10, 15:05

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by appiah4

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in Marvin \ Sound

Image you linked to is on computer-retro.de so I assume you linked a stock photo? Post an image of your card so we can inspect it for any visually obvious failed or missing components.

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Re: BlasterBoard 2.0 : A modern SB 2.0-compatible ISA sound card

Posted on 2019-04-09, 23:37

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by appiah4

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in Marvin \ Sound

Still havent built the adlib or snark barker so I cant justify the cost here but it is an amazing project...

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Re: Soundblaster AWE32

Posted on 2019-04-09, 20:34

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by appiah4

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

IRQ conflicts with the LPT never cause issues in my experience.

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Re: Curious Crystal 8-bit ISA midi card, help identifying?

Posted on 2019-04-09, 08:52

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by appiah4

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

pullasuti wrote: Yes, the card has line in, line out and spk out. Very loud by default, and somewhat noisy. Don't know if there has been software to control these. You definitely need some kind of software driver for that I would think.

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Re: Curious Crystal 8-bit ISA midi card, help identifying?

Posted on 2019-04-09, 07:40

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by appiah4

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I was somewhat confused by 'MIDI card'. I suppose you mean it contains a wavetable synthesizer, and I assume it would be compatible with the (dumb) MPU-401 interface. It seems like this uses components commonly found on WaveBlaster boards (Dream MIDI synthesizer and effects processor), such as the …

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