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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-01-21, 12:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Started building a system around my Pentium VLB board. Found a case with a compatible Turbo button + LED - but of course the PSU was dead. No big surprise as it was one I found at the rubbish bins outside my house, and the motherboard was completely shorted out. Good I checked before hooking up the …

Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-01-21, 01:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Cleaned a bunch of floppy drive heads. Started to repair a 5.25" broken knob. And it's going to take a long long time...

Re: HD Full Bridge Power Amplifier burnt, need help locating a substitute

Posted on 2021-01-19, 12:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There is a reason it burnt. Maybe bad caps, bearings/motor failing, shorted heads or ?? drawing more power than the amp can supply. Need to find why it burned out. Old age I suppose. Just turned on the pc and it first clicked and then didn't work. Pulled out and replaced. Yesterday inspected it and …

Re: HD Full Bridge Power Amplifier burnt, need help locating a substitute

Posted on 2021-01-19, 12:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

quicknick wrote on 2021-01-19, 00:51: I doubt there is a direct equivalent for that. Maybe it would be easier to source an identical drive (or from the same family) and try a transplant. LE: it seems to be available on ebay and (maybe) UTsource. going to check utsource

HD Full Bridge Power Amplifier burnt, need help locating a substitute

Posted on 2021-01-19, 00:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I thought I had a bad case of click of death, but it was a burnt chip. Nice foul smell though 😀 This is the link to the chip: https://pdf1.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/v … /UC3173AQP.html I can't figure out what to replace it with. Any help is really really appreciated.

Re: How do your organise your DIGITAL game storage?

Posted on 2021-01-16, 16:05

in Milliways

in Milliways

I have an "archive" directory to store everything. Like an original to press vinyls. Next is the decompressed folder, if that's enough to launch otherwise I'll install the game and save the directory with the installed game. If a cd is required to play I'll try to find if there is a patch to avoid …

Re: PcChips M530 Bios - looking for a newer version

Posted on 2021-01-12, 14:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I patched the Bios but there is no difference with supported HD size. Probably the patch didn't work. I still have a beta and an alpha patch executables to try. Or just running the patch isn't enough. System works well as is and I'm in no 1999 need of a bigger hard drive 😀

Re: PcChips M530 Bios - looking for a newer version

Posted on 2021-01-07, 15:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@Nexxen, what do you use for storage in that mobo? I'been thinking in ditching the old ide drives for something more current. Maybe a SD to Ide + a Toshiba FlashAir, so I can share folders via integrated wifi in the card, faster than by ethernet. I use IDE drives because without LAN, antivirus and …

Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2021-01-06, 20:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hope it's useful.

Re: PcChips M530 Bios - looking for a newer version

Posted on 2021-01-05, 17:05

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I actually have the Unicore bios in my M520. It has the 32gb bug, but it does detect my K6-2+ fine (I'm using a poweleap). So yeah, probably best to patch according to your needs. Did you end up patching your bios? How did it go? Haven't yet. I need to put it on the gotek. Gonna do one of these …

Re: PcChips M530 Bios - looking for a newer version

Posted on 2021-01-04, 21:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For the unicore bios, try the password "otrebla" ? The archive was protected by that password so maybe the bios itself is using the same password ? I'll try that but I'm more on the "patch it" direction. Gonna get more HD support and I have no issues apart from that. Thanks and happy 2021! Btw I …

Re: Trio64V+ and Trio Virge issues on 440Fx

Posted on 2021-01-04, 16:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll try with a network card. If it's anything PCI related, what would it be? Is there a difference with PCI @30 or 33mhz from a card point of view? Problems should start if value is > 33 mhz? Both cards work perfectly. Tested and benchmarked. I think it freezes because of a wrong settings …

Re: PcChips M530 Bios - looking for a newer version

Posted on 2021-01-04, 16:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Flashed all the versions here, Unicore version has a BIOS password, and W98SE freezes - but pc boots and might work if reinstalled. Not tried anything to verify. 1997S - same issues - probably 98SE needs some fine tuning. I get XMS error and after the first splash screen - with corrupted colors - …

Re: Trio64V+ and Trio Virge issues on 440Fx

Posted on 2021-01-04, 12:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll try with a network card. If it's anything PCI related, what would it be? Is there a difference with PCI @30 or 33mhz from a card point of view? Problems should start if value is > 33 mhz?

Re: Trio64V+ and Trio Virge issues on 440Fx

Posted on 2021-01-04, 00:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

S3 Virge works without issues in another system. Testing Trio64 tomorrow, but porbably won't have issues either. Could it be that mixing EDO and Fast ram have been a problem?

Trio64V+ and Trio Virge issues on 440Fx [solved]

Posted on 2021-01-03, 23:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello, I have issues with these cards on a 440Fx chipset. At some point - usually at login in screen, with NT 4.0, W2k and XP sp2 (the os i tried it with), they freeze the system. It hangs as resolution goes more than 8 bit. First I thought a ram chip was gone, but two cards with one I used …

Re: Tyan Titan-Pro AT/ aka S1662

Posted on 2021-01-03, 18:53

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice build. I have a similar system with an Intel 440FX board running 2 Pentium II Overdrives, 512MB RAM and NT 4.0 SP6a and is currently my legacy file server and PDC for my Win3.x/OS/2/DOS systems. The thing runs like a champ! Nice build indeed but gonna store it until I get my hands on a cool …

Re: Tyan Titan-Pro AT/ aka S1662

Posted on 2021-01-03, 18:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll try another time but it keeps rebooting at some point. If you look at the last line of the .TXT file that should be the section being processed when there was the issue. You can skip that section by doing Menu->File->Save->Save Selected and deselecting that section before pressing [ Start ] . …

Re: Tyan Titan-Pro AT/ aka S1662

Posted on 2021-01-03, 18:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll try another time but it keeps rebooting at some point. Sending what it saved.

Re: Tyan Titan-Pro AT/ aka S1662

Posted on 2021-01-03, 17:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'll post a few pics of the menu. The thing works. Graphics sucks tho... I've seen in other pics that you have a menu, arrow on the right side (scroll menu), the arrow doesn't show in VGA, have to click on it o show menu

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