Re: Resurrecting an old IBM Valuepoint 486 machine. How can I get it to contribute to World Community Grid?

Posted on 2020-09-09, 08:56

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by Viserion

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Thanks a lot for the pictures. Just ordered 2 of the 15 ns tag ram chips (one as a spare). The other 9 I hope I already have the correct type of, but will save your pictures in case it is not so. Again thank you very much, as I have spent way to much time trying to get information on what chips to …

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Re: PIII Win98SE DirectX problems

Posted on 2020-08-03, 18:04

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I got it to work. I installed Win98Se again, and installed first DX7, and then DX8.1. Used drivers 40.71 as this was the earliest I didn't get an error when installing(earlier versions complained there was no Nvidia chip detected). I have not installed the Voodoos back in again, as indeed one of …

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Re: Resurrecting an old IBM Valuepoint 486 machine. How can I get it to contribute to World Community Grid?

Posted on 2020-08-03, 11:57

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by Viserion

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Thanks a lot for the pictures. Just ordered 2 of the 15 ns tag ram chips (one as a spare). The other 9 I hope I already have the correct type of, but will save your pictures in case it is not so. Again thank you very much, as I have spent way to much time trying to get information on what chips to …

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Re: PIII Win98SE DirectX problems

Posted on 2020-08-03, 11:36

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by Viserion

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I tried directX 9 from 2004, and now the Geforce card has 2079mb ram according to dxdiag. It fails all tests from Direct3D 7,8 and 9. I tried to uninstall the drivers using Add/Remove programs, but get an error saying program has preformed an illegal operation, and will be shut down. Looks like I …

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Re: PIII Win98SE DirectX problems

Posted on 2020-08-02, 23:19

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I did upgrade Win98 with everything some time ago, with a package I found online. There I did update to DX9c with the same problem. I did have the same problem, but did not notice if there was only 2mb ram or not. This is why I reinstalled the OS. I did start with an older driver, can't recall which …

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PIII Win98SE DirectX problems

Posted on 2020-08-02, 20:14

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Been fidling with my PIII - 1400MHz Tulatin system, and have come across a problem I have never encountered before. It consists of a: PIII 1400MHz Tulatin Soltek 65KV2 motherboard 512mb ram Geforce 4 4200 TI D-Link 528 network card (Not connected to anything at the moment) 2x Voodoo2 SLI Promise …

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Re: Resurrecting an old IBM Valuepoint 486 machine. How can I get it to contribute to World Community Grid?

Posted on 2020-08-02, 19:47

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by Viserion

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Here's the machine I am working with, looks like an Opti 82C802G chipset. Need you guys' help though! The installed chip is apparently a 486DX4-100 (per the sticker on the side). Now, this machine came with a DX2-66, so I know it originally was set up for 5V operation. I am concerned I will fry …

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Re: Building a SBC system

Posted on 2020-02-22, 16:20

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by Viserion

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NT4 is a good choice for the Socket 5 system but wouldn't waste the voodoo on it. the Cirrus Logic will probably be enough. You also have NT3.5, kinda interesting as its got the 3.11 feel drivers are the main problem BeOS, OS2, Netware also support 2 CPU's I will probably go for NT4 and maybe also …

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Re: Building a SBC system

Posted on 2020-02-22, 16:18

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[...] There is the trouble of finding an AT case localy as I haven't seen many for sale. Small case would also be an advantage, as I have too many other computers. I didn't actually think of it, but it has 9 slots. 2 are however very close, so doubt both can be used at the same time. Even if it is …

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Re: Building a SBC system

Posted on 2020-02-22, 16:06

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Ok, I just got an Advantech PCI/ISA backplane that I was planning on using for a 486 SBC build. Already have a different backplane by a different company and a case that it fits in but the SBC was only showing 3 of the 4 PCI slots in the BIOS. I think it may actually be because the onboard Tseng …

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Re: Building a SBC system

Posted on 2020-02-19, 23:15

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Ok, I just got an Advantech PCI/ISA backplane that I was planning on using for a 486 SBC build. Already have a different backplane by a different company and a case that it fits in but the SBC was only showing 3 of the 4 PCI slots in the BIOS. I think it may actually be because the onboard Tseng …

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Re: Building a SBC system

Posted on 2020-02-19, 23:12

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I have some SBCs that I wanted to use for a project. I got a Advantech PCA-6108P6 Rev.B1 passive back plane with both isa and pci slots. The thing is that I don't have a free case, so what sort of case I should get for this. Don't know if this will fit a standard ATX case, or if it will fit some …

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Building a SBC system

Posted on 2020-02-19, 18:11

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by Viserion

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I have some SBCs that I wanted to use for a project. I got a Advantech PCA-6108P6 Rev.B1 passive back plane with both isa and pci slots. The thing is that I don't have a free case, so what sort of case I should get for this. Don't know if this will fit a standard ATX case, or if it will fit some …

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Re: Tie Fighter install problems

Posted on 2019-09-04, 21:48

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I have tried that, but as there is no folder with Tie fighter installed, it fails. TIE.CD is present when I copied cd drive to hdd, to get FakeCD to work. It is not an install, and it was the same behavior before I copied it over as well. Will google about hidden folders, don't remember dos that …

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Re: Tie Fighter install problems

Posted on 2019-09-04, 08:36

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Tried both possible solutions. Install crashed when trying FakeCD both with oak and native cd driver. Installing from cd-rom with oak, I get the the same errors. One thing I noticed now, is that there is an uninstall option that cAn be clicked, so apparently installer think it is already installed. …

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Re: Tie Fighter install problems

Posted on 2019-09-03, 21:24

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Only have a C drive, and as mentioned before, both Dark forces and X-wing installed no problem. It's an Ibm Valuepoint 6482 with a Intel 486 DX4 100Mhz processor. Integrated S3 graphics which I have upgraded from 1 to 2mb Doesn't have any L2 cache, as I can't find correct chips to use. Those I have …

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Tie Fighter install problems

Posted on 2019-09-03, 15:45

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Not sure if this is the correct to post this, but could not find appropriate place, as others deal games trouble with dosbox. Chose this because of what I think may be the problem, and it is hardware related. Got my 486 DX4-100 up and running, and when trying to install Tie fighter collector cd-rom …

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SCSI GEM318 (Superscam942)

Posted on 2019-08-21, 12:55

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I've been using GEM318 (Superscam942 pcb) scsi harddrive bay for 1 of my retro computers. Advantage is that I can take out and swap hdd after what operating system I want to boot. I had this in storage for a while, and when I started up again, I went from a Super socket 7 K6-II 500Mhz system to a …

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Re: 486 cache woes

Posted on 2019-07-19, 15:31

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I did end up buying one of the IDT6178S I found on ebay. It did not work, and as long as it was installed, the computer refused to boot.

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Re: P3 booting problems.

Posted on 2019-06-26, 16:30

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Could not set it to 66MHz, as that is auto config, but by setting dip switches to 7.5, it now boots at 1GHz every time. I had set it to auto. Works fine with 2x256mb ram as well. So can finally continue with my build 😀

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