Re: Fast/Modern Motherboards supporting ESS Solo-1 (ES1938S) Sound Card. VIA KT400?

Posted on 2021-05-23, 16:56

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by gmipf

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I have an Asrock K7VT6 and it is working with my ESS PCI card, but only tested Star Wars Dark Forces in pure DOS. My chipset is a KT600 and southbridge VIA 8237. This is my card but with wavetable connector: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/ess-es1938s-solo-1.html

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Re: Sound Blaster 16 with modifications?

Posted on 2021-05-21, 16:53

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by gmipf

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You could try to resolder the legs of that crystal and find the replacement for the ceramic cap on C2. At the left side of the C2 label is also maybe the trace damaged, so check its continuity too.

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Re: What do you do with ugly ass stickers on hardware?

Posted on 2021-05-18, 12:38

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by gmipf

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm using Goo Gone on stickers, afterwards wiping the stuff left off with isopropal.

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Re: So embarrassing..what's the default bios password for this PC Chips Cheetah 486 board v1.7 motherboard?

Posted on 2021-05-18, 01:14

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by gmipf

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With the message "cmos error press F1 or delete" the password should be deleted. Maybe the password is saved on some sort of nonvolatile SRAM, like on notebooks. You could also try to dump the bios using an EPROM programmer and check it with a hex editor.

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Re: Socket-775 Clock Signals

Posted on 2021-05-16, 15:28

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by gmipf

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It is working! First it wouldn't start, it was a combination of dirty socket pins and wrong RAM. As you said, the board is finicky about RAM, I have then found a 256MB single bank (8x soldered chips) RAM and cleaned the pins and it booted to the bios. The next step is to buy an X6800, but only at …

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Re: Socket-775 Clock Signals

Posted on 2021-05-10, 11:07

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by gmipf

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Are you serious? OK, I will only start it then shortly on an open bench.

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Re: Socket-775 Clock Signals

Posted on 2021-05-10, 04:33

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by gmipf

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Thanks for the advises. Then I have to find new RAM modules too. I still wait for the cheap CPU to arrive and to test the board. Of course you are right, this mainboard is much more expensive and rare compared to the CPU. I'm in fact pretty lucky after for long waiting and searching this mainboard, …

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Re: Socket-775 Clock Signals

Posted on 2021-05-08, 21:28

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by gmipf

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I have PMd you at the old-games.ru board. For the start I have bought a Pentium 4 660 for 10€ to be able to even start the board, I have no compatbile CPUs at the moment. I think the Pentium will arrive in 3 days. I will buy the X6800 CPU, if its the best, what the board can do. It is a little …

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Re: Socket-775 Clock Signals

Posted on 2021-05-08, 20:55

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by gmipf

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PARUS, thank you for the information. Soldering a wire is no problem to me. If you can tell me how the shielding is done in detail, I can do it too. The PM function isn't available to me at this forum, can I PM you at old-games.ru or modlabs.net? I have accounts their too. Thank you.

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Re: Socket-775 Clock Signals

Posted on 2021-05-07, 16:13

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by gmipf

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I just sent it in private message. The changes in this BIOS are: - edited for supporting all CPUs 65nm Conroe / 45nm Wolfdale; - ACPI moved from IRQ9 to IRQ10 (for use SoftMPU in DOS by IRQ2/9, otherwise with original BIOS there is a conflict); - edited ISA startup diagnose, detecting ISA PnP …

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2021-05-07, 10:53

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by gmipf

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vetz wrote on 2021-05-07, 10:50: gmipf wrote on 2021-05-06, 03:47: Hmm, sad. I will try archive.org then, thx. I'll fix it 😀 NICE, thx! 😀

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2021-05-06, 03:47

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by gmipf

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Hmm, sad. I will try archive.org then, thx.

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Re: 3D Accelerated Games List (Proprietary APIs - No 3DFX/Direct3D)

Posted on 2021-05-06, 03:28

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by gmipf

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Where is all green text for the exclusives? To me every entry is the same white.

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Re: The story of the QuForce FX 5800 Ultra...

Posted on 2021-05-05, 14:30

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by gmipf

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OK thanks for link. This was 10 years back cooling mod for daily using with 120mm fans - because noise from original cooler of course. Today I have several FX5800 cards but not planing any voltage mods, only tests or repairs. So hard find any piece today, voltage mod should make on FX5600/5700/5900 …

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Re: The story of the QuForce FX 5800 Ultra...

Posted on 2021-05-04, 01:00

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by gmipf

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I have finally got a Quadro FX1000 and want to overclock it to 500/500Mhz but need a good cooling solution before attempting the OC and bios mod to FX5800U. Can someone recommend a good GPU cooler which fits on this card? I have considered the Prolimatech MK-26 but I'm not sure if the screw holes …

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Re: Can't get my Voodoo1 on my socket A mainboard to work

Posted on 2021-01-25, 19:46

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by gmipf

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On my Asrock K7VT6 BIOS I can set the FSB as low as 50Mhz but below 63Mhz it will not post and only if I set the DDR memory to 400Mhz and multiplier to 10 it will post. If the CPU is below 600Mhz or the memory below 400Mhz it doesn't post with 63Mhz FSB. After boot in DOS or Win98 I can set the …

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Re: Can't get my Voodoo1 on my socket A mainboard to work

Posted on 2021-01-25, 16:50

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by gmipf

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So have tried some settings with setmul. Since I had unlocked my Athlon XP 3000+ to an mobile Athlon XP with unlocked multiplier several years ago, I could set the multiplier as low as 3x with an FSB of 63Mhz. With 189Mhz I still got artifacts on my Orchid Voodoo1. Then I have tried disabling the L1 …

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Re: Can't get my Voodoo1 on my socket A mainboard to work

Posted on 2021-01-19, 08:46

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by gmipf

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I wanted a voodoo1 for only some DOS games and best compatibility. Maybe I will buy later a PCI Voodoo3 or higher. I think I'm considering to buy a Pentium 4 industrial board with ISA slot. There are some sub 100$ ones on aliexpress. But don't know which ones to get. Heard most of them doesn't work …

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Re: Can't get my Voodoo1 on my socket A mainboard to work

Posted on 2021-01-18, 21:40

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by gmipf

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My Orchid card is the latest revision I think. Luckily I could verify that it is running on my very fast system (FX9590 at all core 4.5Ghz). The problem is, I don't want trial and erroring by buying a different mainboard every time. xD

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Re: Can't get my Voodoo1 on my socket A mainboard to work

Posted on 2021-01-18, 20:39

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by gmipf

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@Munx: Does this also apply to Athlon 64 754 & 939 socket boards/cpus too? I wanted to get another board/platform because of this and wanted to upgrade to an Athlon 64 4000+ singlecore. Maybe I should better go with Pentium 4?

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