Vintage VBIOSes needed

Posted on 2019-10-17, 11:50

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by Mumak

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I'm author of HWiNFO and currently working a lot on improving support of vintage hardware, graphics cards especially. For this I often need VBIOS images, which are quite difficult to find. To anyone willing to contribute and help, please provide any VBIOSes you have for vintage cards (ISA, VLB, PCI …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2019-09-29, 17:22

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WOW! That was fast! Yes startup problem is fixed. HW info in my case is showing up correctly. However it looks like it gets confused by my "SINTECHI HighSpeed SD to IDE" adapter. I'm running entire system off the SD card without physical HDD. In benchmark section my Disk bench option is disabled. …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2019-09-29, 14:22

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Tried on my w98SE rig. It crashes. At CPU detection it seems. I'm using latest beta BIOS so I can use higher clocked Coppermine CPUs Yeah I'm running my 650Mhz(100FSB) P3 at 133FSB speed, but it have been rock stable over 4 months. So it can't be the issue. Thanks. I think I found and fixed the …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2019-09-28, 22:48

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i7 965, wrong name ? HWINFO i7 965.png I added raport as well. PS. 7800 GTX has 16ROPs and 24 Pixel Shaders. Thanks. That's because of Win98. To identify a CPU HWiNFO doesn't rely on the CPU name string (which can be faked sometimes), but on certain factors. An since Win98 doesn't have MPS support, …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2019-09-26, 13:23

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In the hopes that is going to be useful: Thanks! Yes, it's useful, I haven't got such a report for pretty long time :) I see that SMBIOS DMI information is a bit messed up. Looks like the BIOS doesn't fill it properly and I need to workaround this. What is the mainboard model, according to BIOS ID …

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Re: Cirrus Logic Eagle II 8-bit VGA card

Posted on 2019-09-20, 07:14

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Oh, dear ! This was my first VGA card (CL-GD510/520) on my first AT 286-16 !

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Re: CPU-Z/HWinfo freezes windows

Posted on 2019-09-19, 13:11

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Viper87 wrote: i fixed this by editing cpuz settings, hwinfo still have the same problem i fixed both, SMbus detection caused problem If you send me the HWiNFO Debug File of the freeze, I can fix HWiNFO to skip the problematic part so that no disabling will be needed. Martin, HWiNFO author

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Re: Weitek Power 9000 - stable Windows 9x drivers ?

Posted on 2019-09-19, 12:54

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Hi, i`run a Weitek Power 9000 VLB, are there any Stable Windows 9x Drivers ? i have problems running winquake for example :) if i change resolution it will lookup. DESK.CPL keeps crashing when changing settings and other Issues.. Thanks Matthias Are you running Windows 95 only? In case you'd have …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2019-09-19, 12:44

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@voodoo5_6k And here's the new version: http://www.hwinfo.com/beta/hwi32_611_3922.zip My aim is to detect the 4 x VSA-100 config and show it as such including full memory size. Looking forward to the results... @Mumak I have tested it yesterday and PM'd you the results! And here just another build …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2019-09-19, 08:30

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@voodoo5_6k And here's the new version: http://www.hwinfo.com/beta/hwi32_611_3922.zip My aim is to detect the 4 x VSA-100 config and show it as such including full memory size. Looking forward to the results... @Mumak I have tested it yesterday and PM'd you the results! Thanks for the new test and …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2019-09-18, 06:54

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@voodoo5_6k And here's the new version: www.hwinfo.com/beta/hwi32_611_3922.zip My aim is to detect the 4 x VSA-100 config and show it as such including full memory size. Looking forward to the results...

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2019-09-18, 06:21

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Message for @voodoo5_6k: Unfortunately I cannot send PMs (apparently I'm too young at least on this forum to do so), so I cannot reply to your message and will to do so here. Thanks very much for your report! That's really an outstanding GPU :-) I have tried to fix some things, especially detection …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2019-09-17, 22:11

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Message for @voodoo5_6k: Unfortunately I cannot send PMs (apparently I'm too young at least on this forum to do so), so I cannot reply to your message and will to do so here. Thanks very much for your report! That's really an outstanding GPU :-) I have tried to fix some things, especially detection …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2019-09-17, 16:02

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CuPid wrote: A Cyrix 5x86-S 120 running at 100 MHz. Enjoy ! Thanks! Need to fix/adjust a few more things 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-17, 09:05

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That Jazz card is Voodoo Rush (AT3D + Voodoo1). For me it's very exciting as the detection/reporting (for HWiNFO) of its both components might be quite tricky. For those that didn't notice yet, please see my thread (need help with testing components for HWiNFO): https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-17, 08:13

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It's has been so long ago when I was running such things, I almost forgot how to deal with that 😁 So let the passion begin!

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-11, 21:07

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I had a dual P-III (Slot1) system in the past. Now I regret so much of letting it go off...

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2019-09-11, 14:37

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To prove that I haven't joined here just for fun (and to test HWiNFO), I just bough this new toy 😁 Now need to grab lot of auxiliary stuff to get it working...

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2019-09-09, 21:33

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CuPid wrote: P200 MMX on Matsonic MS-5025S. A nice oldie, thanks Franck ! I see that I need to fix a few things in HWiNFO for this system.

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2019-09-07, 15:15

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I see that we can get here really unexpected combinations 😁 Good to test our tools 😁

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