Re: ABIT BH6, is it dead?

Posted on 2021-05-14, 17:35

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by retrogamerguy1997

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Btw. you said your original flashing of the original EEPROM went wrong and recovery failed as well. Putting the original EEPROM back in probably won't help you much in getting the board working again or figuring out wether the new one has the correct BIOS on it. yeah it doesn't matter whether I use …

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Re: ABIT BH6, is it dead?

Posted on 2021-05-14, 17:31

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by retrogamerguy1997

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You probably wouldn't feel it move with that small of a crack. I'm not putting too much hope into this but did you try it anyway? I attempted to, maybe I did it wrong but but my left hand in there and squeezing the corners to try and close two different cracks was challenging. But yeah, same result …

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Re: ABIT BH6, is it dead?

Posted on 2021-05-14, 17:26

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by retrogamerguy1997

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

reseated the cpu and same result. Btw. I vaguely remember having to deal with multiple BIOS versions when I got BH6 boards without EEPROMs. Could it be you got a wrong BIOS for your board revision? even with the original chip I got this problem after reseating it. The crack doesn't look too bad but …

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Re: ABIT BH6, is it dead?

Posted on 2021-05-14, 17:17

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by retrogamerguy1997

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Re-uploaded the image

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Re: ABIT BH6, is it dead?

Posted on 2021-05-14, 16:48

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by retrogamerguy1997

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I wasn't able to remove the cpu because one of the retention clips broke off years ago. Here's a picture I took of the socket area last night. Filename IMG_20210513_133637[1].jpg File size 183.74 KiB Views 306 views

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Re: ABIT BH6, is it dead?

Posted on 2021-05-14, 16:16

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by retrogamerguy1997

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What board revision are you using? What CPU are you using? Have you tried reseating the CPU? Is the EEPROM socket visually ok? I don't know the specific revision, but it's somewhere in the 1.0x range. The CPU I've been using is a pentium 2 350mhz I would attempt to reseat the cpu, but I can't …

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ABIT BH6, is it dead?

Posted on 2021-05-14, 14:58

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by retrogamerguy1997

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So this is has been an ongoing situation with my motherboard that all started with a sound card. I bought a sound card off of ebay some time back and well it worked but the DOS support wasn't working due to IRQ conflicts (was still good for Windows games). I was told to try to resolve it in the BIOS …

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

Posted on 2021-05-04, 16:00

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by retrogamerguy1997

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Found an IBM Aptiva E-series 175 outside, but it was heavily exposed to the elements because the case and cd-drive are rusted and the bottom of the case and are around the modem card was caked in leaves and muck. sounds like a good rescue story for the "i recently found this hardware" thread, are …

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

Posted on 2021-05-04, 14:35

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by retrogamerguy1997

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Found an IBM Aptiva E-series 175 outside, but it was heavily exposed to the elements because the case and cd-drive are rusted and the bottom of the case and are around the modem card was caked in leaves and muck.

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Re: Just got a AOPEN AW744L II, but having some issues

Posted on 2021-04-20, 18:04

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by retrogamerguy1997

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This is the error and there's no way to get into the bios and I don't have a floppy drive either. EDIT: I have no way of actually verifying the board version but one site I found says that the HN bios that was on there before was for the 1.0x boards Filename IMG_20210420_130123[1].jpg File size 324 …

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Re: Just got a AOPEN AW744L II, but having some issues

Posted on 2021-04-20, 16:54

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by retrogamerguy1997

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nope, still the same error. also tried removing the battery and having the system unplugged for a few minutes and it didn't help.

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Re: Just got a AOPEN AW744L II, but having some issues

Posted on 2021-04-20, 12:48

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by retrogamerguy1997

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And now my system is fucked. I flashed the bios in dos mode and now It's not booting properly. apparently the BIOS ROM checksum is bad now and wants to boot from A but there's no working floppy drive and I don't have one.

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Re: Just got a AOPEN AW744L II, but having some issues

Posted on 2021-04-20, 12:29

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by retrogamerguy1997

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in Marvin \ Sound

It seems to be the "HN" revision of the bios. my video card is the diamond media viper v550 Ok, good. That means we at least have the same revision series and our boards can take the same BIOS. I am running version SS. I would upgrade your BIOS to version SS if I were you. The version you have …

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Re: Just got a AOPEN AW744L II, but having some issues

Posted on 2021-04-20, 02:55

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by retrogamerguy1997

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It seems to be the "HN" revision of the bios. my video card is the diamond media viper v550

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Re: Just got a AOPEN AW744L II, but having some issues

Posted on 2021-04-20, 02:38

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by retrogamerguy1997

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I try to set it to manual in the bios but then I have no clue how to change anything. the manuals I've found are no help because despite the board being the same the bios screeens for pci pnp are totally different than what I see on my board. And the card is plugged into the slot between the header …

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Re: Just got a AOPEN AW744L II, but having some issues

Posted on 2021-04-20, 00:59

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by retrogamerguy1997

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so the issue I think is due to the fact that the IRQ as seen my dos games is too high. Thing is though, i don't know how to change the irq. I originally used the top most pci slot and the irq was 11, dropping it to the lowest one by the SB-Link header and isa slots only dropped the irq to 10. Even …

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Re: Just built a Pentium 2 system in 2021

Posted on 2021-04-19, 15:27

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by retrogamerguy1997

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Got my AOPEN AW744L II in the mail today which has an sblink header added to it and sblink cable

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Just got a AOPEN AW744L II, but having some issues

Posted on 2021-04-19, 15:22

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by retrogamerguy1997

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I just got a AOPEN AW744L II, but having some issues. So far in my testing, I have not been able to get sound effects in Ultimate doom. I'm running windows 98se and the driver cd installed the vxd drivers. opening up doom's setup.exe in a dos window I was able to set up MIDI fine but picking sound …

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Re: Finally got a Ryzen 9 5950x

Posted on 2021-04-17, 00:07

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by retrogamerguy1997

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I'm still mostly happy with my i5-4590S but a bit more power would be nice.

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

Posted on 2021-04-16, 20:04

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by retrogamerguy1997

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I played Ultimate Doom... with only PC Speaker sound and keyboard only Some people legitimately believe that the game was originally only meant to be played with a keyboard to this day. This is despite even Wolf 3D having native mouse support in DOS. yeah I don't get it either. I would've played …

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