Re: GA-6BXE - Error 10 The BIOS tag is incorrect

Posted on 2020-06-17, 14:38

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by red-ray

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have 2 x Gigabyte GA-6BXD both with the BIOS V.F4b 12/18/00 which I must have flashed at lest 19 years ago, I don't recall any problem, but given the elapsed time I can't be sure. Looking at autoexec.bat it does flash851 6bxd.f4b /a, what does it contain on your system?

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-06-17, 08:01

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by red-ray

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Okay so I just reseated the memory over and over until all 12 GB were detected in both the BIOS and Windows. Memory slots might be going bad :( Thank you for the new report and I am pleased to hear you sorted out the memory. SIV said GDDR3 rather than GDDR4 so I plan to adjust this, but before I do …

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Re: Wondering if I should replace the thermal paste on a Pentium 3.

Posted on 2020-06-16, 23:15

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by red-ray

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I ran it for around 8 minutes and the monitored temperature went from ~30°C to ~42°C. Given it went up by 12°C I expect the reported temperature must be the CPU temperature so I adjusted the attached SIV32X V5.50 Temp-00 test SIV to report it as the CPU temperature. This also means it should now …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-06-16, 07:38

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by red-ray

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

SIV has trouble reading the GPU clocks, also it correctly figures out triple channel memory but doesn't realize there's 3 dimms. Thank you for the report and I will try and adjust SIV for the X1950. The reason SIV is only reporting two DIMMs is that the SMBIOS (see [Machine] ) is only reporting two …

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Re: Wondering if I should replace the thermal paste on a Pentium 3.

Posted on 2020-06-15, 05:57

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by red-ray

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

- There's a case fan but I think it might be directly hooked up to the PSU and not a fan header. - I did briefly run the stress test, but it didn't seem to increase the temperature any. So I'm assuming that's not the CPU temperature, but how long do I need to let that run before I'd notice? (I did …

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Re: Finding a Gateway OEM BIOS for Intel MS440GX

Posted on 2020-06-14, 22:07

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by red-ray

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wow! Thank you. That worked perfectly and now my board supports Pentium III Xeon (Tanner) CPUs! I also thought it would remove the 1MB L2 cache limit, but it looks like that’s still in place. 512K and 1M Xeons work fine, but 2M Xeons result in a cache disabled error. :dead: Interesting, I was …

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Re: Wondering if I should replace the thermal paste on a Pentium 3.

Posted on 2020-06-14, 21:07

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by red-ray

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I want to get a better PSU in there before I run the stress test, so I might have to get back to you on that (which... might take awhile, unless I settle on getting something used from eBay. New PSUs don't seem to be in stock anywhere right now!) OK, but please can you check that the temperature is …

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Re: Wondering if I should replace the thermal paste on a Pentium 3.

Posted on 2020-06-14, 15:51

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by red-ray

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looking at [SMB Bus] no ADM1021 get's reported so either the MP440BX does not have one or it's broken. I will wait and see what happens on other MP440BX systems. So it looks like the ADM9240 was giving me a reading of 29C when I took that. That also corresponds to what SpeedFan was picking up. This …

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Re: Wondering if I should replace the thermal paste on a Pentium 3.

Posted on 2020-06-14, 12:22

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by red-ray

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here you go! Thank you, it transpires that the Analog ADM9240 is not enabled by the BIOS so needs to be enabled by the monitoring software which is why such as Everest did not initially display any readings. I suspect I have adjusted SIV to enable then report the ADM9240 so please try the attached …

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Re: Wondering if I should replace the thermal paste on a Pentium 3.

Posted on 2020-06-13, 22:29

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by red-ray

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

These are the results I got from running SIV32X. I didn't have an SMBus page and I only saw the hard drive temperature. Great, please will you also attach G:\siv\SIV_GATEWAY_Tabor_C_Coppermine_MP440BX_(E-4200).dmi ? Zip it as you can't post .DMI files. This an a binary dump of the raw data that SIV …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-06-13, 20:00

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by red-ray

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Both issues are fixed now. But I noticed that in the BIOS it reports a stable CPU temperature. Thank you for checking and good, but the BIOS does not report Min + Max values :( Given both the BIOS and SIV see issues with the CPU Fan speed something is wonky with the hardware and I feel this can't …

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Re: Wondering if I should replace the thermal paste on a Pentium 3.

Posted on 2020-06-13, 19:40

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by red-ray

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It either says ADM9240A or ADM924DA . I'm running 98SE so I wasn't able to try SIV yet, but I ran SpeedFan 5.1 and it gave me a few more readings. One was for the HDD, which was reading 40C and matched what Everest gave me. The other two temperatures I got were 10C and ~36C. I didn't see anything …

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Re: Windows NT on Motorola Powerstack II

Posted on 2020-06-13, 19:28

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by red-ray

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Regarding porting SIV: That would be quite cool if you could pull it off. As far as I understand the most modern version is VC++ 4.1. It can be found here ( https://archive.org/download/ntrisc/powerpc/msvc/ ) Maybe you could try to get it working with the X86 version of VC++ 4.1 first and then try …

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Re: Wondering if I should replace the thermal paste on a Pentium 3.

Posted on 2020-06-13, 18:11

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by red-ray

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's an MP440BX, and I believe I tried using HWInfo, MProbe, and Everest. MProbe gave me a motherboard temperature reading. If it's running Windows NT/2K/XP try my SIV utility and if there is currently no CPU temperature post the two Menu->File->Save Local files I suspect I will be able to get SIV …

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Re: Windows NT on Motorola Powerstack II

Posted on 2020-06-13, 08:24

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by red-ray

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well done in getting it going, is there much/any software that runs in it? It's a shame it doesn't have x32 emulation like the DEC Alpha AXP has. I wonder if I could build a native SIV for PowerPC. I have MSVC 4 for PowerPC, but would need a system to run it on. I am also unsure if MSVC 4 will be …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-06-13, 08:01

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by red-ray

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In the meantime here's my HTPC, a Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3 reporting 5v as 4.1v (not reported in BIOS, but measures 5.1v). The PSU in this thing is a little sketchy so this was actually pretty concerning. Given the BIOS fails to report +5 then I suspect that +5 is not available via the SIO so SIV64X 5. …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-06-13, 07:27

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by red-ray

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

repaxan wrote on 2020-06-13, 06:36: They both report single channel. I think it's fixed in SIV64X 5.49 Beta-08, is it please?

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Re: Wondering if I should replace the thermal paste on a Pentium 3.

Posted on 2020-06-13, 07:21

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by red-ray

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you. Allow me to ask you another more software oriented question. Is the temperature value of the on-die diode on the P3 readable in a standard way, independantly of the temperature monitoring chip used on the mainboard ? No, that would make things far too easy :( In general the on-die diode …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-06-13, 06:50

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by red-ray

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

repaxan wrote on 2020-06-13, 06:36: Nope, I'll be using my X58 board, so Win7 64-bit. Good, I guess it has multiple PCIe x16 slots so please try with both installed at the same time. I guess you could make things even trickier for SIV by also having an NVidia GPU installed.

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Re: Wondering if I should replace the thermal paste on a Pentium 3.

Posted on 2020-06-13, 06:41

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by red-ray

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It says that there is a on-die diode in the CPU to measure junction temperature, but it also says you need to have a thermal sensor on the baseboard to measure die temperature. I'm not sure I see the distinction. Are these two different metrics ? Could you explain, please ? I am not a hardware …

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