Re: 100Mbps PCI NIC that does *not* bus master

Posted on 2021-07-16, 00:45

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I checked a card I remembered seeing "PIO mode ethernet adapter" screened on, but it was just another 8029. Perhaps if you fully broke the bus mastering the drivers would install in non-busmaster mode. This might either happen when installing in a 5th PCI slot, which in a lot of boards is master …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-07-15, 20:39

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aaronkatrini wrote on 2021-07-15, 20:29: Finally found one! S3 Savage 2000 with 64Mb of Video Memory 😀 Yay, now you can stick it to those TNT Rivas. 🤣

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Re: 100Mbps PCI NIC that does *not* bus master

Posted on 2021-07-15, 20:36

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Was skimming the linux ethernet howto because I thought that might call out some cards for being non-busmaster, but nothing obvious with PCI.... there was this tidbit though which might give you a clue about getting busmastering working... "One common problem people have is the `busmaster …

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Re: Flying Dutchmen, White Whales, the ghost HW that eludes you, lost & found.

Posted on 2021-07-15, 18:57

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A while back there was this humorous piece on a dude's personal webpage about quantum tunneling of macroscopic objects as he described how his CD collection kept losing items that turned up in unexpected places. I went looking for it to link it, but in a funny twist, documented quantum tunnelling of …

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Re: ECS P6VAP-A+ and Pentium III 1000 MHz compatibility problems

Posted on 2021-07-15, 15:26

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I just came across some capacitors last week, Gloria brand, that had straight sides, flat top, and had blown out at the bottom. It was very hard to see when they were installed, but if you inspect around bases very carefully and see any sign of anything that might be capacitor juice then change them …

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Re: 100Mbps PCI NIC that does *not* bus master

Posted on 2021-07-15, 14:36

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I checked a card I remembered seeing "PIO mode ethernet adapter" screened on, but it was just another 8029. Perhaps if you fully broke the bus mastering the drivers would install in non-busmaster mode. This might either happen when installing in a 5th PCI slot, which in a lot of boards is master …

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

Posted on 2021-07-15, 13:41

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Just my personal choice, but you would probably have had less headache flashing it using flashrom or Uniflash, assuming there isn't any flash protect jumper for the BIOS. Yeah maybe, not sure how limited an environment it is when you boot in bootblock recovery mode, so I wasn't gonna try anything …

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

Posted on 2021-07-15, 13:12

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Looks to me like he has a choice of using low profiles or maybe 3/4 profile cards that don't extend over top of normal bracket. OR finding a PCI riser card. But I'm thinking PCI doesn't work like ISA in that all signals for however many slots are on the bus, each slot has it's own 2 or 3 unique …

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Re: IBM PS/1 processor upgrade.

Posted on 2021-07-15, 02:49

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EDIT: It was suggested elsewhere that configuring the jumper to the "Pentium Overdrive" setting listed in the manual would reduce the voltage to 3.3v. Is that likely? I'am afraid there's nothing on that board that looks like a voltage regulator for 3.3V, even if they went sci-fi and rendered it in …

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

Posted on 2021-07-15, 02:41

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Because the mobo on my first full Linux box has turned up it toes I've decided to repurpose it's chassis. Did all the component location and figure out what needs a bit of a trim up for the PGA370 mobo and 155 watt psu has to go last night while whatching the telly. This morning it was straight in …

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Re: IBM PS/1 processor upgrade.

Posted on 2021-07-14, 23:16

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Different part numbers for different boards with different processors suggests each board was a one trick pony... https://eprm.ardent-tool.com/eprm/f108.htm

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

Posted on 2021-07-14, 22:48

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Thanks all for the well wishes, sympathy and support as regards the monitor problems. If it was lightning related last time, it nearly got to be again today, we had a storm blow in fast and there was a near miss, or near hit down the street this morning, felt the heat of the flash on my skin through …

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Re: Do you dislike the British?

Posted on 2021-07-14, 21:23

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Let us not forget though, that it's convenient to the foreign policy of Chinese and Russian governments to drive a wedge between Anglo-American and Anglo-European relationships, therefore apparent grassroots dislike/disharmony/division is quite likely to have been astroturfed by their respective …

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Re: Unease feelings on other forums visited ?

Posted on 2021-07-14, 19:20

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Something similar happened to me recently on Discord -- I would post replies or comments to people and the posts would get removed every once in a while and I would get warnings, even being banned from certain channels within the server. I kept asking what I was violating because I couldn't see any …

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Re: A "broad spectrum" 90s build?

Posted on 2021-07-14, 18:42

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Palomino downward unlock is done by fitting the pits cut in the bridges, because there's a ground plane under and they are active high, so just blodging something conductive on top does the wrong thing. So you fill pits with correction fluid or nail polish or something insulating, then join the dots …

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Re: Unease feelings on other forums visited ?

Posted on 2021-07-14, 10:51

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it's completely fine to ask the same question multiple times - technical or general, at different times different people ask and answer and different things come out, so its good and ongoing Some linux forums are terrible for that, you often need a less than 2 year old take/experience on a problem, …

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Re: Looking for advice: How to begin fixing a dead ISA sound card

Posted on 2021-07-14, 10:26

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However, if he had something good we'd be like "Practice on something worthless first" 🤣

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

Posted on 2021-07-14, 10:10

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That's just PC Chips being special, I think it goes right after you go into setup, save and reboot.

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Re: What do you regret throwing out?

Posted on 2021-07-14, 10:03

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Thankfully I didn't throw out much. The only things were my Atari 2600, Colecovision (well, didn't actully throw them away, but gave to a relative 30 years ago and never saw them again) I had 2 SNES 6 controllers, 40 games that kinda went the same way, (They were boxed together) was this century …

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

Posted on 2021-07-14, 02:47

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Victory number 2 and a half! There's life in the BX-6VP2 ... which isn't a BX... Via chipset, by Ford Lian/RedFox finally realised I'd missed some capless jumpers that I thought were headers, think with all the caps off it was trying to do 133 bus on a PII-266 and PC-66 RAM, finally found the right …

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