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Re: Why is the Sound Blaster Pro 2 CT1600 so expensive now?

Posted on 2021-07-25, 09:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm Guessing its down to compatibility , the CT1600 isn't the greatest card of all time but from what I've seen it mostly works fine with everything at least from what I've played. Also it seems like all the old models of sound blaster : 1.0 , 1.5 , 2.0 , Pro 1 , Pro 2 and I need not mention the …

Re: Strange and Weird PC Problem

Posted on 2021-07-25, 07:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well I happened to have some extra Ram sticks and I swapped the Ram out just an hour or so ago and had the same problem so it doesn't appear to be the ram. I did a few tests in SB Diagnose and during one reboot and test the sound actually worked in the utility. But after I rebooted and tried Duke 3D …

Strange and Weird PC Problem

Posted on 2021-07-24, 19:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey anyone willing to help , So I'm in a bit of a pickle. I've run into snag with my MS-DOS PC that was running beautifully up until I ran into a really strange problem. Here's some idea of the system specs: OS : MS-DOS 6.22 with Windows 3.11 installed on top Motherboard: MS-5148 CPU: Intel Pentium …

Mpu 401 Crosswire

Posted on 2021-06-13, 11:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I've a tiny question to ask , I've been using my mpu 401 just fine since I got it but after doing some research I've noticed that the texelec wiki mentions that the cable needs pins 13 an 25 wired together. Is there any real practical reason for this? , the cables pins from both sides appear to …

Re: Motherboard BIOS Flash?

Posted on 2021-05-13, 15:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There wasn't anything obvious that I could make out.

Re: How do you get a serial mouse working

Posted on 2021-05-09, 12:57

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not sure I can , these switches seem pretty well hermetically sealed. I'm really annoyed because this is the second mouse that just decided to stop working properly. The other mouse , a genius PS/2 mouse , first started having responsiveness problems before deciding to become totally dead a day or …

Re: Motherboard BIOS Flash?

Posted on 2021-05-09, 12:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah so I swapped the bios with the duplicate motherboard after I got it. And no dice unfortunately. Pretty sure the non working board might be completely toast. Both chips work fine on the working mobo , so for now I think ill leave getting the rom flasher alone. But maybe in the future I'll get my …

Re: voodoo 1 capacitor broken off

Posted on 2021-05-09, 12:42

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Excellent , great to hear.

Re: Motherboard BIOS wont save

Posted on 2021-05-09, 12:40

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just a small update , motherboard seems to be working pretty well. I've installed all the expansion cards and other bits and bobs and tested some games. Very happy that the solution was a simple one in the end.

Re: Motherboard BIOS wont save

Posted on 2021-05-01, 14:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Okay so I managed to take off the battery holder and luckily there wasn't much going on only some corrosion on the via leading to the other corroded bit , I cleaned that up. So I soldered the holder back and then soldered a bodge wire on. It seems to be keeping the date now so hopefully it's all …

Re: Motherboard BIOS wont save

Posted on 2021-05-01, 10:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I did some more testing and found a main trace under the battery that had no continuity on the working board with the battery problem ,while the dead board did. After a temporary bodge wire up with alligator clips I connected in a battery and found the diode was now finally getting voltage but 0. …

Re: Motherboard BIOS wont save

Posted on 2021-04-30, 14:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah so I've been poking around a bit and can confirm it's not the bios , I swapped the bios with the duplicate board and had the same issue. I'm sure it's not the JBAT either since it wont boot if its not set properly. Two possibilities might be either corroded contacts , I've considered de - …

Re: Motherboard BIOS wont save

Posted on 2021-04-30, 02:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sorry i havent had time to pull the rig apart , heres a quick pciture of the board

Motherboard BIOS wont save

Posted on 2021-04-29, 11:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey all so I'm in a bit of a predicament , I ended up buying a duplicate motherboard of one I bought before , since the old one was DOA. Which was fun because I had to wait 3 months for it to post from Russia. The new one was 2 months from Germany. The board in question is a MSI MS-5148. So here's …

Re: How do you get a serial mouse working

Posted on 2021-04-14, 04:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

https://archive.org/details/mitsumimouse This is the driver I've been trying to use.

Re: How do you get a serial mouse working

Posted on 2021-04-14, 04:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah the mitsumi driver happens to have a demo program that runs in DOS , it shows a 2d mouse, and yeah same issue , no right click. I've opened it and cleaned it , funnily the left button is worn down but works (its a bit dull to the press), the right is still pretty crisp and clicky but refuses to …

Re: How do you get a serial mouse working

Posted on 2021-04-14, 03:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey sorry to hijack the thread but I've been having issues of my own with a serial mouse , the mouse in question is an old Mitsumi and everything works except for the right mouse button no matter which drivers I use even the official ones , any ideas?

Re: Motherboard BIOS Flash?

Posted on 2021-02-28, 19:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks for all the help so far guys. After going through all the posts I'm leaning towards biting the bullet and getting the proper Tl866 II plus programmer.

Re: Motherboard BIOS Flash?

Posted on 2021-02-28, 11:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Would something Like this do the trick?

Re: Motherboard BIOS Flash?

Posted on 2021-02-28, 11:02

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

majestyk wrote on 2021-02-28, 10:56: Why not consider having a reliable flash-service get the job done for a quid? I mean I would if I knew where.

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