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Re: Is Jan Steunebrink still around?

Posted on 2021-01-17, 07:19

Does Jan mention he has done these particular mods on his website for other boards? If not, you are probably asking for too much from someone who helps out in his spare time without asking for payment. The email I sent him was thanking him for helping me 15 years back and telling him how i was …

Re: Evergreen 486 SuperChip - settings for DIP switch?

Posted on 2021-01-17, 07:04

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Question, from reading this thread it almost sounds like the settings you expect those switches to control are unlikely to damage the cpu if set wrong. If you can’t figure out a setting or just want to make sure you may be able to try them one at a time and record results shown in a cpu analizer …

Re: What would you stick in this dual socket board?

Posted on 2021-01-17, 04:40

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If either of you guys still have this board I’m wondering if it may be one of the older ones that may work with this. Dual AMD K6 computer (If it’s even true) which I’m hoping one of you guys may be able to test.

Re: Dual amd K6 computer

Posted on 2021-01-17, 04:21

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

May have been using an interposer to allow for socket7 on socket5. I think such a non-Intel dual socket 5/7 example would need to have some proprietary SMP controller, like those found in those dual 486 type boards. Everything I’ve read seems to point to exactly this. I think they used the …

Re: Is Jan Steunebrink still around?

Posted on 2021-01-17, 02:18

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can you elaborate a bit, what would you need customized? If it's something minor, with GUI tools it can be quite easy. Just clickety-click here and there and hey presto, you got yourself a custom BIOS. But ofc it depends heavily on what exactly needs to be altered (and also on the kind of BIOS you …

Re: Dual amd K6 computer

Posted on 2021-01-17, 02:13

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The original poster there, Hat Monster, is still active on Ars Technica. You could probably make a post there asking him (or others) to clarify. I’m. Not on the group. And it sounds like he didn’t actually own the unit. Rather that it was a customer of his nearly 20 years ago. If you are on there …

Re: Dual amd K6 computer

Posted on 2021-01-17, 02:12

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Calling bullshit. K6/K6-2 chips didnt work with the intel SMP protocol because of patents. The K6 had its own SMP protocol but a chipset was never made for it! The more I look into this and I’m no expert it seems he may have used a early dual socket 5 board which apparently had a on motherboard …

Re: Is Jan Steunebrink still around?

Posted on 2021-01-16, 23:26

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can you elaborate a bit, what would you need customized? If it's something minor, with GUI tools it can be quite easy. Just clickety-click here and there and hey presto, you got yourself a custom BIOS. But ofc it depends heavily on what exactly needs to be altered (and also on the kind of BIOS you …

Re: Dual amd K6 computer

Posted on 2021-01-16, 23:19

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

feipoa wrote on 2021-01-16, 21:40: I've personally had K6-2s running in old TX motherboards but the board identifies them as K6 rather than K6-2 Wasn't the 430TX single processor only? Is that quote from the first link? Yeah, I think so. Maybe they typoed. Maybe they meant hx.

Re: Dual amd K6 computer

Posted on 2021-01-16, 20:46

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

According to this some early boards had their own multi processor controllers which may explain how the system this guy found was working. http://www.vcfed.org/forum/showthread.php?737 … mook-s&p=608177

Re: Dual amd K6 computer

Posted on 2021-01-16, 20:01

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here is the short condensed version of his replies for those on the run Guys, I'm in a fix. I've a guy coming here tomorrow wanting his NT4 system upgrading to Win2k and all relevant drivers applied. So far so good. Then he tells me it's a dual K6-2. I ask him if I heard that right. I did. It used …

Dual AMD K6 computer

Posted on 2021-01-16, 19:51

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Found a post where a guy claimed to see one in the wild, evidence is low but he claims it was a dual socket 5 or 7 AT board using socket adapters with k6 450s in it running at 400 66x6 I assume. The motherbord reported them as unknown but the operating system showed two graphs in task manager. Neat …

Re: Is Jan Steunebrink still around?

Posted on 2021-01-16, 19:46

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

gex85 wrote on 2021-01-16, 19:39: Well, the easiest way to find out would probalbly be to send him an e-mail to the address provided at the very bottom of his website, wouldn't it? I did about two weeks ago 🙁 no response.

Re: looking for a sata 300 pci card that works with windows 98

Posted on 2021-01-16, 19:12

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Doornkaat wrote on 2021-01-16, 16:43: If you get the card working on Win98 do you have a Win98 compatible 66MHz PCI mainboard to test it with? I'd be curious to know how fast it can be with an SSD. My pci may be overclocked some but not 66mhz I will post benchmarks even if not on 98

Is Jan Steunebrink still around?

Posted on 2021-01-16, 18:15

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Or anyone else around here doing bios mods? Jan Steunebrink Did the website http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm

Boot loader advice.

Posted on 2021-01-16, 07:32

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Okay, so I’m gonna have an interesting setup on my new build. Many of you are already familiar with the specs I’m building but here are relivant details for this question. 1999 bios on a 430tx chipset. My boot drive will be either a compact flash on the mainboard ide or on a add in ide card (that …

Re: Admin request: Tapatalk support

Posted on 2021-01-16, 05:50

by Sphere478

in Milliways

I can’t seem to find this group on taptalk I was wanting to try it cause the web interface keeps logging me out and making me type in the 99 character password again Also, can we relax the password requirements my password is nuts 🤣

Re: Fastest socket 7 build on a 430tx chipset

Posted on 2021-01-16, 04:43

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

🤔 anyone know how to add a hardware sleep button? I’m gonna have four lights and four switches to plug in but seems I can only find a use for three buttons. Buttons: power reset cmos, lights: mobo hdd,card hdd, power, turbo Mobo has no header for turbo switch but does for turbo light lol Will …

Re: looking for a sata 300 pci card that works with windows 98

Posted on 2021-01-16, 02:56

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've been using my RC-212 with my old operating system experiments for a couple of years now. I haven't had any of those issues so far. The tricky part is getting the OS to recognize the card and load the drivers. This is the only native SATA card I've heard of that will work with NT 3.51, but I …

Re: looking for a sata 300 pci card that works with windows 98

Posted on 2021-01-16, 02:33

by Sphere478

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Try a Rosewill RC-212: https://www.ebay.com/itm/Rosewill-RC-212-SATA-Ultra-ATA-Raid-Controller/184234358310?epid=1600595320&hash=item2ae5393626:g:xSIAAOSwfF1ef-rV You will need the Windows 9x driver for the Via 6421 from here: http://toastytech.com/files/w95stuff.html I have one that I use with …

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Boot loader advice.

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