Re: Missing chip on this mobo (386 NEAT sx ?)

Posted on 2021-01-31, 15:54

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by majestyk

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See the parrallels with this one? https://www.ebay.com/itm/dtk-PPM-1630C-Intel- … AT/324463315982? Might be a DTK board. The two missing DIL20 chips have probably white stickers with something like "U-XYZ" written on them 🙁

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Re: Anyone Know Why in the Case of My Asus P4C800-E Deluxe, There Are Vcore Limitations in Place in-BIOS?

Posted on 2021-01-31, 15:22

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by majestyk

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I can think of two reasons for this - assuming ASUS did this intentionally. 1. To protect certain CPUs from being damaged by any Vcore too far out op specs. 2. To protect the Vcore voltage regulators on the ASUS board. Since Prescotts had high power consumptions (> 130W), when Vcore (U) is incresed, …

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Re: Missing chip on this mobo (386 NEAT sx ?)

Posted on 2021-01-31, 10:34

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by majestyk

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The one between PSU connector and ISA slots is for the keyboard controller, the "Hi and Lo" ones are for the BIOS chips, the brown socket is for NPU (not needed to get the board running) and the lot of 4 x 9 sockets are for RAM. Below there are also 4 additional sockets for SIPP RAM sticks. There …

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Re: Help Needed - SMC WLAN PCMCIA Card Not Detected by Win98SE

Posted on 2021-01-30, 18:58

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by majestyk

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If the SMC card is a 32 bit Cardbus card for 3,3V and the PC-Card slot of the Notebook has a 16 bit PC-Card slot with 5V only there can be problems. But in this case, because there are keys at the sockets, it should not be possible to insert it. You could try with a Linux live CD if the combination …

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Re: FIC-PA2010+ UDMA headache

Posted on 2021-01-30, 17:45

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by majestyk

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Being forced to PIO4will cause some additional CPU overhead, but as long as it does not slow down the system too much, why not live with it.

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Re: Dual CPU Socket 5/7 Boards

Posted on 2021-01-30, 08:37

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by majestyk

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It used to work perfectly when I acquired it about 15 years ago. However, the Dallas Clock battery (date code 1995) will probably be EOL by now. I need to fit in a DIL socket and replace the "DS17487-5" which is still being produced and available. If features 4KB of extended NV-SRAM for EISA …

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Re: AST Power Premium motherboard

Posted on 2021-01-30, 08:12

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by majestyk

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Does this thing have a backup battery somewhere? Can´t find one onboard, maybe its an external one.

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Re: Dual CPU Socket 5/7 Boards

Posted on 2021-01-29, 22:11

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That´s dual voltage -> Socket 7. There are no 30-pin Sockets, they´re all 72-pin SIMM, but the lower four slots provide a 45° position for the RAM sticks. And you are right about HX! If memory (sic!) serves me right you need a v.3 (or higher) COAST stick for this board. I have a 512KB stick for this …

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Re: FIC-PA2010+ UDMA headache

Posted on 2021-01-29, 20:30

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by majestyk

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I didn´t install many of those controllers back in the days, but a Promise SATA I (150) should be supported well under Win98.

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Re: FIC-PA2010+ UDMA headache

Posted on 2021-01-29, 19:27

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by majestyk

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My system ran Win2K, so that might be a Win98 (98ME?) issue indeed. A PCI-SATA controller running it´s own BIOS might have the best chance to work around this.

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Re: Dual CPU Socket 5/7 Boards

Posted on 2021-01-29, 19:19

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Will do, but don´t expect that to happen anytime soon 😉

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Re: Another Blue Lightning 25/50MHz 2168 salvage IBM PS 1000 - Giving up on the SXL?

Posted on 2021-01-29, 19:15

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by majestyk

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Be careful, when it comes to LPX riser cards, vendors tend to produce their own proprietary pinouts. Compatibility is an exception.

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Re: Definitive list of all socket 5/7/SS7 cpus

Posted on 2021-01-29, 18:47

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by majestyk

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My 450Mhz one runs fine at 600Mhz too, but we are looking at official specs here because otherwise they could probably be considered to be the same cpu no matter what the official mhz rating is. I´m quite sure all the chips came from the same production, the same wafers. They got tested for …

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Re: FIC-PA2010+ UDMA headache

Posted on 2021-01-29, 17:12

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by majestyk

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I had installed this board with a (fast) PATA drive at the onboard port once - no issues at all. So I would suspect your PATA->SATA adaptors are the problem. Depending on the chip they use they might work in another system perfectly but not in this one. To veryfy this there will be no way around …

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Re: Dual CPU Socket 5/7 Boards

Posted on 2021-01-29, 15:00

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This is one of the first Dual S7 boards I got: Filename ASUS_P_E-P55T2P4D.JPG File size 1.96 MiB Views 1700 views In the flesh it´s quite huge.

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Re: Definitive list of all socket 5/7/SS7 cpus

Posted on 2021-01-29, 08:19

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Sphere478 wrote on 2021-01-28, 18:59: Baoran wrote on 2021-01-28, 18:51: There are 400Mhz 450Mhz and 500Mhz version of K6-III+ There is no 550Mhz version. That is just overclocking if you run one at 550Mhz Lol. I own one. Yes there is haha Adding those Yep, I own two of them, running 100% stable @ …

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Re: AST Power Premium motherboard

Posted on 2021-01-28, 18:34

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by majestyk

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I agree, first of all you should take a closer look at the PSU. If not all voltages show their nominal value, Just open it, clean it and take a picture of the PCB. It´s the #1 suspect. Further I would temporarily remove the 4 additional Video-RAM chips and test if there´s some reaction. Depending on …

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Re: Asus P2B and Adaptec AHA-1542B floppy controller problem

Posted on 2021-01-28, 12:12

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by majestyk

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Did you reflash the BIOS? Or tried an earlier version?

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Re: Asus P2B and Adaptec AHA-1542B floppy controller problem

Posted on 2021-01-28, 09:18

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by majestyk

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It might be worth trying to remove the Adaptec ontroller, then reset BIOS to defaults completely (clear CMOS jumper), then turn on, enter BIOS and just disable onboard Floppy controller, power down, insert the Adaptec controller and restart. If there´s no solution, why not live with the onboard FDC? …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2021-01-28, 09:14

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by majestyk

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On many mainboards the CPU is constantly under 100% load while in BIOS.

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