Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee
Posted on 2022-12-08, 08:52
@Paul_V Oh OK, I thought the VGA BIOS would be on it's own chip. So you think there is enough spare room on the SoC BIOS for the 64KB Volari BIOS?
Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee
Posted on 2022-12-08, 06:02
@rasteri Just out of curiosity - Do you know where the Volari Z9 BIOS is located on the board? and if so what size the ROM chip is? If it's 32KB they wont fit but if it's 64KB in size I think it should be possible to flash a Volari V5 BIOS or an SiS Xabre BIOS onto it to possibly get some 3D …
Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee
Posted on 2022-12-08, 00:59
Would we still have to use the Volari Z9? or can we look at using a different GPU for this?
Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee
Posted on 2022-12-04, 22:04
I'll describe in detail what I did. 1. I downloaded TBPLUS and WeeCee3D. 2. I copied the TBPLUS files to C:/Windows and ran the install.bat file. 3. I restarted the computer. 4. I entered the BIOS to set the IDE from Legacy to Native mod. I saved it and rebooted. 5. I installed the XGI driver via …
Re: PCI Passthrough for PCI audio card
Posted on 2022-12-04, 16:43
@OasysPCI I'd say for the virtualization route the best option would be to use KVM + QEMU through a linux distro, I only have a surface level understanding of it though but there are youtube videos on the subject.
Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee
Posted on 2022-12-04, 14:05
Vridek wrote on 2022-12-04, 13:04: My hardware is SOM304RD52VINE1 and it's not working. Can you give some more information please? IDE or XGI driver? If IDE, is it giving an error message at boot? or in device manager? If XGI, do you get a display output? does 3D work?
Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee
Posted on 2022-12-04, 08:27
Since I'm still waiting on my WeeCee to arrive I figured whilst I wait I'd post some drivers early for anyone who wants to test them. rloew's TBPLUS - link: attached Extract then run INSTALL.BAT C:\WINDOWS Reboot then go into BIOS and change OnBoard IDE Operate Mode from Legacy to Native mode then …
Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)
Posted on 2022-12-02, 15:07
@deksor I think that's what rasteri's HIDman is for.
Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards
Posted on 2022-12-02, 14:48
I mainly want to repack the contents back into an installable executable just like NUSB 3.6 - I'll see if making an SFX archive does the trick to make it installable, thanks for the tip. It seems that swapping drivers with known working XP SP1 driver versions is insufficient - I think perhaps that …
Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards
Posted on 2022-12-02, 08:57
So I noticed that NUSB 3.6 does not like my 10-port USB hub. But XP SP1 works just fine with it. I used Walter Oney's WDMCHECK to see if there were any missing imports for XP SP1's usbehci.sys usbd.sys usbhub.sys usbccgp.sys usbport.sys all seems OK according to WDMCHECK So I thought I'd try making …
Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards
Posted on 2022-12-01, 17:12
I see My PCI-E USB 2.0 card with a 10-port USB hub connected to it behaves just fine in XP, but nothing is detected when I boot 98SE on the same QC6000M system, so there's definitely some unresolved bugs in NUSB 3.6 Anyone interested in helping me port XP's USB 2.0 drivers back to 98SE? There are …
Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee
Posted on 2022-11-28, 17:52
I noticed something whilst setting up my ASRock QC6000M build earlier today. In my case 98SE refused to install at all until I set the LBA flag on the BOOT partition. I don't know if this applies in the case of the WeeCee, but has anyone tested to see if setting that flag makes a difference? The …
known good working XGI Volari V3 BIOS?
Posted on 2022-11-25, 16:25
If anyone has a known good working XGI Volari V3 BIOS could you upload it here please?
Re: USB issues on ECS nForce3-A
Posted on 2022-11-23, 14:58
Unless someone else has some other ideas then, yeah recap the board and hopefully that helps.
Re: USB issues on ECS nForce3-A
Posted on 2022-11-23, 14:15
That's very strange, could possibly be a hardware issue like a leaky capacitor or something?
Re: USB issues on ECS nForce3-A
Posted on 2022-11-23, 13:38
Are the USB Controllers showing up in device manager?
Re: TinyLlama (Vortex86EX SBC)
Posted on 2022-11-22, 13:07
@tabmode bad PSU maybe?
Re: Tiny Vortex86-based DOS gaming PC - weeCee
Posted on 2022-11-19, 18:03
@Vridek 1. On this point I agree, a DC power jack would be a much better choice, more amps and more solid connection too. It was rasteri's choice to use it as it's what the raspberry pi uses. 2. rasteri wanted to save even more space from his earlier wee86 build, but needed to have the connectors, …
Re: Solo1 sound card Dos on Windows 98 SE
Posted on 2022-11-19, 17:55
Re: Personal ultimate retro gaming pc
Posted on 2022-11-18, 14:58
@tiemen I believe so yeah, Someone please correct me if I'm mistaken, it's something to do with how win98 handles drives larger than 137GB is broken and needs patching, I recall XP RTM had a similar issue that wasn't fixed until XP SP1. Microsoft never released an official patch for win98 though, so …
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