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

Posted on 2021-11-18, 15:50

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I knew that NT 3.1 is a no go... but I was curios. Yes, I have a 64bit running on this Ryzen machine, actually I have all Windows versions installed, including 1.0 and a fully functional 3.11 which works on enhanced mode with sound, video (the same Voodoo 3 PCI) and gigabit networking using Intel …

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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 2021-11-18, 12:26

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

1.Wow! SIV 32O version works fine on NT 3.51, no startup errors and even it can display itself perfectly with available fonts. I copied all the files into fresh separate folders, and NO errors/hangs after closing and reopening SIV32O&5.61. (didn't check on NT4) SIV_32O_NT_351.png There is an error …

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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 2021-11-17, 10:30

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, NT 3.51 and 4.0 are running directly on hardware, with sound (M-Audio Delta Audiophile PCI), video drivers (Voodoo 3 3000 PCI) and networking. SIV 32O is looking for some dll so it doesn't start. I have attached the .txt file generated with 5.61 if it helps. SIV_32O_NT_351.png Back to the the …

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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 2021-11-16, 20:38

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You have to deal with 2 error messages (see below), but the latest version definitely works on NT 3.51 installed on new hardware. Filename SIV_NT_351_Ryzen9.png File size 31.86 KiB Views 418 views Filename SIV_NT_351_Ryzen9_GDI32.png File size 28.87 KiB Views 418 views

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-11-08, 15:46

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This AMD 386 board with no liquid damage. (thanks to GS Saft "Sealed NiCd battery") Standby Mode (Am386SXL/SXLV Only) The true static design of the Am386SXL/SXLV micro- processor allows for a Standby Mode. At any operating speed, the microprocessor will retain its state (i.e., the contents of all …

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Re: PCie-to PCI, PCI to ISA, # of slots multipliers - bridges, risers, backplanes, research, especially for DOS, WIP.

Posted on 2021-11-05, 10:55

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So far, I had a good experience with PCI-E to PCI in Windows. It works. I installed different video, network and sound cards in 3.11*, NT3.51/4 & Win 95/98 on X470 motherboard with 2 PCI slots ( Asmedia bridge chip). As a bonus, this motherboard has some basic settings in BIOS for the PCI slots. You …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-11-04, 10:02

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

An ESS AudioDrive 1869F with FM addon... I don't find a single match on google images: "ESS ES1869f FM" so I guess I will have some hard time to make that FM chip work. Filename ess1869F_with_fm.jpg File size 553.01 KiB Views 528 views Filename ess1869F_with_fm_antena.jpg File size 235.09 KiB Views …

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Running NT 3.51 on modern hardware (Ryzen 3900x)

Posted on 2021-11-04, 09:37

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What do you know... Windows NT 3.51 can be convinced to work with modern hardware like Ryzen 3900X! (First, I had a similar talk with NT 4.0 ) I. Make NT 3.51 great again bootable: UniATA v. 0.46e8 seems to be the perfect version for NT 3.51 and SATA drives. On my machine, it boots and 3 SATA drives …

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Re: Sound card for Windows NT 3.51

Posted on 2021-11-03, 16:48

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in Marvin \ Sound

Check this out... M-Audio Delta cards (1010 and Audiophile 24/96) do work on NT 3.51! I just installed drivers for Audiophile 24/96 in NT3.51 SP5 and after restart :"Ta da"! (This is not the case with shitty drivers available for ESS1938 and Ensoniq/Creative ES1371 - I think these drivers will never …

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Re: Windows NT 4.0 running on real new hardware (Ryzen 3900x)

Posted on 2021-10-30, 08:00

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Update: I was able to install it directly on SSD using F6 and VIA RAID driver. On my machine, USB floppy can be used as a regular floppy because it's detected in the DOS also in DOS part of the NT 4 setup. To install a new PCI device you have to manually specify its bus number. I was able to install …

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Re: Windows NT 4.0 running on real new hardware (Ryzen 3900x)

Posted on 2021-10-29, 16:39

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So far, doesNT work with multi CPU... It was OS loader 4.0 because at some point I begun a new installation, which did some overwrites. But I manually replaced the files, and still no luck with OS loader 4.01. Both multi & ACPI hals in the end give the same error: (to make it work... I renamed hal. …

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Re: Windows NT 4.0 running on real new hardware (Ryzen 3900x)

Posted on 2021-10-28, 19:41

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multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partiton(1)\WINNT="Windows NT Workstation Version 4.00 HALMPS NTKRNLMP" /hal=halmps.dll /kernel=ntkrnlmp.exe Tried just once with proper files from SP6 and inaccessible boot disk saga continues... I will install UNIAta.

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Re: Windows NT 4.0 running on real new hardware (Ryzen 3900x)

Posted on 2021-10-28, 17:11

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Update: Now it's booting from SSD on the newer configuration. The SSD is some WD 120GB SATA3 drive. When I put back this SSD on the older machine (K6), where it worked before, I got the same error message "Inaccessible boot drive", then I rebooted in VGA mode, then it worked flawlessly on both …

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Windows NT 4.0 running on real new hardware (Ryzen 3900x) [updated]

Posted on 2021-10-27, 17:21

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I was convinced that Windows NT 4.0 is way too picky to run on new modern hardware. But that's not exactly true... Now I have a fully functional NT 4.0 on my Ryzen 3900X machine! ( *this post is updated after a weekend of trial and error) NT4_sound_net_video_info.png First, I installed NT 4.0 on a …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-28, 16:24

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This Soyo Super Socket 7 board which looks like new: Should be a nice board! What CPU did you get with it? Well, the CPU is from another movie... a Pentium-S 100 Mhz. (And I had a K6-2+ 550Mhz (with 128K on chip cache) I gave it for free....) Meanwhile I tested the board - everything works fine... …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-28, 15:17

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This Soyo Super Socket 7 board which looks like new:

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-16, 15:40

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Lovely motherboard! It's probably 2048KB but 384KB are reserved for the system or something so the BIOS decided to not include it in the startup screen. My Schneider 386SX is the same. It shows the RAM as 640KB Base + 384KB Hidden + 1024KB Extended. Hmm... it looks that this SIMMs are equipped with …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-16, 13:22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

@chrismeyer6 - will do. 😀 @ CMB75 - Yep, this board will go in some tiny barebone case. I have also to clean up those simms, didn t check their capacity but for sure there can t be only 1664kb.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-16, 12:52

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This goodie, which looks good and works. But I can t find my PS2-AT keyboard adapter and I'm really pissed off.. 😐

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-06-13, 14:24

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PS2 mouse from 2000s. Works great in Windows 3.11, better than emulated gaming USB mouse which has tendency to `jump`.

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