Re: Asus P5A SS7 Mobo - Stable w/ Pentium CPU, Unstable w/ K6-2's ???

Posted on 2022-10-29, 21:11

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by the3dfxdude

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Can you swap in the k6-2+ into the unstable system, and see if becomes stable? I haven't checked the board you have is voltage compatible. But this is the next step really.

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Re: Lynx w. tls on 386SX (or really 286 PS/2)

Posted on 2022-10-29, 20:25

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by the3dfxdude

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What is the full pkunzip command you used?

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Re: Last Linux version possible for legacy hardware

Posted on 2022-10-29, 20:09

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by the3dfxdude

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If you are thinking of an old kernel for running on a 386, I checked my current glibc 2.33, and the minimum kernel requirement is 3.2, which still supported the 386. gcc still supports the 386 today (hopefully they don't break it accidentally again). So based around that, if you carefully select …

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Re: Lynx w. tls on 386SX (or really 286 PS/2)

Posted on 2022-10-28, 20:43

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by the3dfxdude

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What version of pkunzip?

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Re: Last Linux version possible for legacy hardware

Posted on 2022-10-28, 15:19

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by the3dfxdude

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PS The AMD K6-2 is a i586 class CPU According to Linux anyway (CMOV). It's a strange paradox when a Cyrix 6x86 is more i686 than a magnitudes better CPU for the same socket while there's also the early 6x86 time when it was considered a 486 by most 1996-98 games/software. :P It's not a Linux thing, …

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Re: Last Linux version possible for legacy hardware

Posted on 2022-10-28, 02:42

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by the3dfxdude

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AOSC OS Retro This, tbh. More info if you’re interested.. https://wiki.aosc.io/aosc-os/retro/intro/ From the site: Extra packages, such as Firefox and more feature-complete desktop environments will be available from the community repository, however, hardware requirement checks will be enforced …

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Re: Last Linux version possible for legacy hardware

Posted on 2022-10-27, 23:26

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by the3dfxdude

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Eh, if you aren't going to recompile firefox, then my answer is Slackware 14.2, but then you can't use the latest Slackware firefox patch and you can't download and install firefox from mozilla because you will hit the same issue. This distro originally comes with firefox 45, which I think is before …

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Re: Last Linux version possible for legacy hardware

Posted on 2022-10-27, 19:46

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by the3dfxdude

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I would suggest Slackware 15.0, since it is still on i586 officially. But I have to mention, the big issue in the web browsers is they force SSE2+ on when they can on the host machine that compiles the browser, and this is what is kind of wrong with distros these days that pretend to be lightweight. …

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Re: New Crazy Idea: Build a slot1 pcb for 2 cpus

Posted on 2022-10-25, 17:17

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by the3dfxdude

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Back in the Windows 2000 days I was running a dual slot 1 board (or was it NT4.0?) I noticed how the slower slot 1 clocked processors actually felt faster than higher clocked single CPU P3/P4, which to me then, was a reason to go to NT and use this system as a daily driver, as NT supported this and …

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Re: New Crazy Idea: Build a slot1 pcb for 2 cpus

Posted on 2022-10-22, 19:54

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by the3dfxdude

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Should he run Vista?

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Re: [Help!] Monitor going to sleep upon reboot when multiple PCI cards are installed

Posted on 2022-10-22, 19:37

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by the3dfxdude

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I have a 500 MHz K6-2 and a 500 MHz K6-2+. The board came with the 500 MHz K6-2, which did not work correctly, but worked in every other processor I tried (from dual voltage P-MMX 233MHz, K6-3 333MHz). So I thought it was the processor. Hard to believe it is a specific voltage -- I think I remember …

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Re: DOS 3.3 use with larger than 32MB HDD

Posted on 2022-10-18, 18:40

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by the3dfxdude

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32MB was the DOS 3.x maximum partition size. In DOS 3.3, just create multiple extended partitions. The software probably was just a partitioning tool, in case they didn't have FDISK with multiple partition support.

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Re: What era of computers do you draw the line at collecting and/or using?

Posted on 2022-10-18, 17:12

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by the3dfxdude

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While there are alot of great non-IBM PC compatible x86 systems, it's hard to beat what you can do with the PC architecture. So what I will about to say about PC architecture, you can find non-PC gems in the same time-frame, and really nothing at all after that I'd bother with. So there are a few …

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Re: Commander X16 of The 8-Bit Guy, can it be considered as the most nonsense neo-retro computer of all times?

Posted on 2022-10-14, 15:15

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by the3dfxdude

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The most interesting part of this design is the vera chip for having analog graphics output. From what I remember, there was no original chip to output analog graphics that the 8bit guy could use or wanted to design himself. So I think he found something already being worked on and then integrated …

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Re: Cheap IDE hard drives on Ebay - Worth trying?

Posted on 2022-10-13, 18:24

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by the3dfxdude

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I have a new old stock scsi drive that is 25 years old, sitting on the shelf, never used. Might be a good experiment to check if it works someday. In my experience for certain drive manufacturers, if the drives sit and age that way, they'll just be dead. Of course this is with spinning drives. SSDs …

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Re: [Help!] Monitor going to sleep upon reboot when multiple PCI cards are installed

Posted on 2022-10-11, 02:42

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by the3dfxdude

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So I fired up my SY-5EMA PRO, because I do know it has an issue. Well, all I can tell you for mine is that it might be sensitive to either the memory installed or the voltage regulation coming from the power supply. But it seems to be mostly pointing something connected to the memory. I don't think …

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Re: SY-5EMA PRO and AMD K6-2+ (plus version)

Posted on 2022-09-30, 02:30

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by the3dfxdude

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It's on the soyo driver cd: https://archive.org/download/20010501/2001050 … Fm5emapro10.pdf

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Re: SY-5EMA PRO and AMD K6-2+ (plus version)

Posted on 2022-09-29, 00:28

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by the3dfxdude

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I have a SY-5EMAPRO. The setting for 2.0V is just not printed on the silkscreen. It's in the manual though. It's the last version of the SY-5EMA from what I remember. JP11 is another jumper required to select 83mhz FSB, along with JP8-JP10. Make sure it is set to pins 2-3 for all other frequencies. …

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Re: Intel closes Celeron and Pentium brands

Posted on 2022-09-17, 02:03

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by the3dfxdude

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What about Xeon?

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Re: Zip, Jaz, Bernouilli and other similar storage systems - can you determine how many hours of duty do they have?

Posted on 2022-09-10, 20:45

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by the3dfxdude

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If you can buy a bunch of these kinds of drives and disks for pennies from some old stock, then they could be "quick" use media for moving things around. I have used Zip and Jaz back and the day, and they had their issues. And if any have survived to today, I wouldn't trust it with important stuff. …

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