Re: The most coolest IDE hardrives....
Posted on 2024-03-29, 02:52
Miniscribe 20 MB https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xzEVNBZMSc Here you see the stepper motor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9qOkOvBUCI With stepper motor. I got a SCSI model.
Re: Benchmark SCSI vs IDE @ 386SX
Posted on 2024-03-28, 08:21
Marco wrote on 2024-03-27, 21:25: Comments are really very welcome Have you tried to burn a CD on that 386SX? I could burn with 2x speed without problems, however, my 20 MHz clocked system was just a tiny bit too slow for 4x. Adaptec 1542B, PlexWriter SCSI
Re: Creative Sound Blaster AWE64 CT4380 ram upgrade to 2Mb ?
Posted on 2024-03-27, 12:26
...but there are no "jumper" resistors near the memory chip. ... And it does NOT look like the 4380 has the required 2 extra contacts for the bigger RAM. Of course, I can change memory chip But the new memory chip has 2 extra contacts. They may be wired to the EMU but that will look ugly on this …
Re: Software to shadow BIOS option ROMs?
Posted on 2024-03-24, 18:22
Use EMM386 ROM=D000-D3FF Please define your specified address range.
Re: Need a Windows 3.11 driver for an Acer M3125 VGA card
Posted on 2024-03-22, 15:53
nezwick wrote on 2024-03-22, 15:19: And here you will see the LCD monitor informs us that the resolution being used here is 720x400 @ 70 Hz. I've never seen that resolution before. It's not like a normal 640x480 or 800x600. That's VGA text mode. VGA uses a 9x16 pixel font with 80x25 characters: 9 x …
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2024-03-22, 15:49
Edit: Sadly, the CDROM isn't reading disks (I disassembled it, no change), but the motherboard is working fine - I just installed Windows 2000 without any issues. I guess that isn't too surprising; my own experience and from what I've read of others, Intel/Intel motherboards are very durable. It's …
Re: Can someone pleas confirm the cache chios capacity on thuis board..
Posted on 2024-03-22, 15:44
Thank You i will play around with the values.. is there any option that could kill the board or cache chips? Or i am free to set these settings in worst case i just has to clear cmos? You don't need to clear CMOS because those settings are applied after POST. With 33 MHz FSB and those waitstate …
Re: Can someone pleas confirm the cache chios capacity on thuis board..
Posted on 2024-03-22, 14:31
Here are the images Oh, there are a lot of settings subobtimal. Just change 2-3 settings and run Quake/Doom from DosBench suite to basic test stability. Look to the memory chart and compare it to previous runs. - L2 Cache Tag Bits does not match to your Write Back selection. Pick 7+1 instead (Then …
Re: Can someone pleas confirm the cache chios capacity on thuis board..
Posted on 2024-03-21, 07:26
Hi i am not quite sure what you mean by post screenshot, this is my best gues xd.. anyway i rerunned the cache test as well with the new mobo.. i got quite the same resoult.. here are the pictures https://i.postimg.cc/jnTGqdCg/433695888-1224940808472326-6848090366137333320-n.jpg https://i.postimg. …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-03-20, 16:02
I have an ST318451LW (first series Seagate Cheetah x15) which was no longer spinning up. I've ordered an ST318451LW from Canada (for ~ 80€ including ship ping to EU), which was working properly. I've swapped the electronics from the Canadian HDD to mine. Mine was spinning up then, but the other no …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2024-03-20, 11:37
I have an ST318451LW (first series Seagate Cheetah x15) which was no longer spinning up. I've ordered an ST318451LW from Canada (for ~ 80€ including ship ping to EU), which was working properly. I've swapped the electronics from the Canadian HDD to mine. Mine was spinning up then, but the other no …
Re: looking a dos vertical scroller with planes
Posted on 2024-03-20, 10:08
Re: Can someone pleas confirm the cache chios capacity on thuis board..
Posted on 2024-03-20, 10:03
RagingSquirrel wrote on 2024-03-18, 16:02: Hey.. Finally i managed to get a motherboard with working com port.. so it seems everything works now.. so i wonder how could i optimize the cache ? Could you help me out with it? Sure. May you post a picture and a screenshot of the POST too?
Re: SSDs not working in any MW-DMA mode
Posted on 2024-03-10, 09:58
Forcing any MWDMA mode causes a freeze / crash. They all work in PIO and UDMA modes. After ruling everything else out the problem is with Sata SSDs. MWMDA works in all these systems and OSes using spinning HD, CF cards and SD cards. Has MWDMA modes been deprecated in SSDs (the range I tested are …
Re: Looking for a Windows 11 compatible sound card for an older computer
Posted on 2024-03-08, 09:21
Have you considered of having an USB based sound adapter? I'm still happy with my Sound Blaster Live! 24-bit External https://support.creative.com/Products/Product … l&CatName=Sound I use analogue 5.1 with this setup.
Re: new laptop hard drive
Posted on 2024-03-07, 23:13
Spinning rust or ssd? I have a 6+ year d Lenovo lt. It's not used that often. But everything dies. I get the impression the h/d is getting ever so slightly wonky. I could stick it out and see what happens. A 500gb disk is so cheap. I'm tempted to get another mechanical drive. What are the pros and …
Re: How to remove a FQFP CPU from the socket
Posted on 2024-03-05, 12:46
Kahenraz wrote on 2024-03-05, 06:55: What processor is that? A 286? I tried Googling "FQFP Intel CPU" but didn't get any image hits that were similar. 386 SX 16 ?
Re: Performance of IDE DOM partly worse than spin HDD
Posted on 2024-03-04, 21:49
Perhaps the DOM just can read 512 bytes at once. No multi-sector transfers. I have a SD card based DOM that has this issue. It is an ideal companion to my Tekram DC-680T VLB caching controller.
Re: My struggles building a 486 rig.
Posted on 2024-03-03, 19:34
The revision of that NB/SB is not that important. Does that BIOS also match to the I/O chip Winbond 83787F? Ye, seems like that.
Re: My struggles building a 486 rig.
Posted on 2024-03-03, 18:12
Basically 486 BIOSes must match: 1) Chipset: Northbridge 2) Chipset: Southbridge 3) Chipset: I/O chip They also should match to the PCI IRQ routing map, if it is a PCI board.
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