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

Posted on 2020-03-31, 02:09

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by aha2940

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Today I played a bit with my DOS/Win311/Win98 PC. I configured the soundcard for Win311, installed a driver for the voodoo3 card (win311 @ 1280x1024 looks awesome) and tried to run Quake in pure DOS. I don't know if I am doing something wrong, or if it's simply the way it is, but despite this …

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

Posted on 2020-03-31, 00:07

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by aha2940

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Today I played a bit with my DOS/Win311/Win98 PC. I configured the soundcard for Win311, installed a driver for the voodoo3 card (win311 @ 1280x1024 looks awesome) and tried to run Quake in pure DOS. I don't know if I am doing something wrong, or if it's simply the way it is, but despite this …

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Re: How easy to change a cap?

Posted on 2020-03-29, 19:47

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by aha2940

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Just to be clear here: where are you getting these numbers from? I ask because 3000°C is extremely high temperature, it's almost twice the melting point of titanium and platinum, and near the melting point of tungsten (3422°C), which is the highest melting-point metal on Earth, so that can't be …

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Re: How easy to change a cap?

Posted on 2020-03-29, 15:19

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by aha2940

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Well guys, I gave it a go anyways. I set the iron to 300oC and put some flux on both pins. Just to be clear here: where are you getting these numbers from? I ask because 3000°C is extremely high temperature, it's almost twice the melting point of titanium and platinum, and near the melting point of …

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Re: Getting a 3COM Fast Etherlink XL 10/100Mb TX (3C905-TX) Card to run in DOS?

Posted on 2020-03-29, 15:07

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by aha2940

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I'm getting closer. Someone sent me what I believe is the correct driver for my card. I got the driver to see my card and install software for it. Now I need to figure out how to set up MTCP. I can't figure out how to set up the packet driver. I need an address but I'm not sure what it is. My card …

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Re: Ports problem in socket7 board

Posted on 2020-03-29, 14:49

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by aha2940

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Auto and disabled isn't same. With auto bios try to assign free resources to active devices and looks like windows interpret it as you described. Or you have a modem... Disable it if you don't need it and anything related to auto allocation and switch PnP to bios instead of OS. Something i think i …

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Re: Ports problem in socket7 board

Posted on 2020-03-29, 14:26

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by aha2940

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PNP settings in bios and "auto" means you have it enebled for Windows 98. And mobo (hardware in general) model is a good starting point for asking questions. OK, the hardware is a motherboard TMC AI5TT, using an Award BIOS 4.51G. Pentium 233MMX, 64 MB RAM, it boots DOS 6.22 and Win98SE. I know what …

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Ports problem in socket7 board

Posted on 2020-03-28, 17:34

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by aha2940

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Hi guys I am having a strange issue with my socket7 motherboard, and I'd like to know if any of you has seen something like it, and how (if) you solved it. Basically, the problem is that my motherboard does not seem to honor the COM and LPT ports settings in the BIOS: - If I disable them, Win98 sees …

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Re: Vogons members average motherboard collection size

Posted on 2020-03-28, 03:49

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by aha2940

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I am nowhere near these numbers, here are all the systems (not single motherboards) I have: - Laptop IBM Thinkpad 360Ce (486 DX-50, 20MB RAM, 380MB HDD, DOS / Win 311) - Desktop based around a TMC AI5TT motherboard (Pentium 233MMX, 64MB RAM, 4GB CF card HDD, voodoo 3 2000 video card, ESS1688F …

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Re: Issue with Slot 1 Soyo SY6BE+ (440bx)

Posted on 2020-03-28, 02:28

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by aha2940

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So, the computer powers on fine from cold boot, but when you reboot it just stays there, with a black screen. Now, are you sure the PC is not powering on? couldn't it be that the OS is hanging powering off and that's the black screen you keep seeing?

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Re: Help me build a 233mhz computer.

Posted on 2020-03-27, 21:22

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by aha2940

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Okay, What Video card do I want ? I assembled a PC just like yours (Socket 7 motherboard, Pentium MMX 233, 64MB EDO RAM) but used a voodoo3 PCI. I know that is not period correct, but the thing can run Quake II, Half-Life and even Unreal, which seems "unreal" to me. In your case, for period-correct …

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

Posted on 2020-03-26, 02:11

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by aha2940

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Today I brought back to life my Pentium retro PC, since yesterday I broke it: Help needed, broken Socket 7 board BIOS

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Re: Planning to install SSD in my Windows 98 machine. Help, advice, suggestions, etc.?

Posted on 2020-03-25, 13:30

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by aha2940

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I know that people have been succesful using SSDs with old systems but there seems to be a lot of negative opinions about it, although most of them are in the lines of "NOT WORK FUKC SDDz UZE PERRRIOD CORECT HEARTWEAR HERRRB DERP...". So if your advise is to use a spinning hard drive, don´t bother …

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Re: Any point keeping a Dual Socket 5 server?

Posted on 2020-03-25, 13:23

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by aha2940

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A few years ago I got a pile of good hardware for free, including a Dual Socket 5 server. It has a huge 430NX motherboard equipped with two 100MHz Pentiums, SCSI hard drives, a tape drive with a bunch of casettes, caddy loading CD-ROM, etc. All packed in gourgeous (and bulky!) Intel Comlubus …

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Re: Help needed, broken Socket 7 board BIOS

Posted on 2020-03-25, 13:13

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by aha2940

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Hi guys Just to let you know that I fixed the board. It turns out I had two issues: - The original EEPROM is not correctly written, for whatever reason one byte stays always at FF, which means it's blank, so it fails the LHA compression checksum (which Award uses with its BIOS) and therefore the PC …

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Re: No Video from Socket FM2+ Motherboard

Posted on 2020-03-25, 03:46

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by aha2940

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I know this is pushing the limits of old hardware, but I have a motherboard from around 2013 that I can't get to display any video upon bootup. It's an Asrock FM2A88X-ITX+ with CPU and fan already installed. It came in a mixed lot of older tech, and I'd like to get it working. Here's the product …

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2020-03-25, 03:44

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by aha2940

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Anyone know if this board's bios was scraped: Intel D850MV? Yep, all the home motherboards' files were deleted. However there are some places where the files can be found, any specific file you need? BTW: Nice board the D850MV. I had a D850EMV2 many years ago, which sadly I gifted to a cousin, who …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-25, 02:25

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by aha2940

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HWINFO requires something like 550K, correct? I only have 484K free, that explains why it won't run. There is simple solution edit msdos.sys add here Bootmenu=1 and reboot, select Command line only (it will bypass of loading of driver which im otherwise fill conventional mem).. after that navigate …

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Re: Intel to remove all BIOS updates on November 22nd, 2019 from their website

Posted on 2020-03-25, 02:13

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by aha2940

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Anyone know if this board's bios was scraped: Intel D850MV? Yep, all the home motherboards' files were deleted. However there are some places where the files can be found, any specific file you need? BTW: Nice board the D850MV. I had a D850EMV2 many years ago, which sadly I gifted to a cousin, who …

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Re: 386 PC with both diskette and floppy drive

Posted on 2020-03-24, 22:46

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I am trying to get both my 1.44 diskette drive and floppy drive (I think it is a 320kb) to work in the same system. I never actually did this before. I just connected the floppy ribbon cable from the controller card to both drives and attach power to both. The floppy drive is first on the cable …

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