Re: Flashing BIOS on a MSI K7T266 PRO2 VER. 2.0

Posted on 2022-08-01, 10:04

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by Ydee

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In the bios .exe file from the MSI websites, there is a guide "How to flash" as well as a flash program, follow the instructions and carefully check what variant of the board you have and choose the correct BIOS. MSI is making a terrible mess of it. You can have bios as well as flasher on floppy …

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Re: Sunbrighting a disgustingly yellowed keyboard: A Visual Experiment

Posted on 2022-08-01, 09:34

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by Ydee

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Yes, its looks better, but the question is: how long will it last? Compaq mouse, which I bleached with peroxide and sun, turned yellow again after a few months in the box, so I am little sceptical.

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Re: Need help with MSI MS-6309

Posted on 2022-08-01, 09:10

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by Ydee

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quicknick wrote on 2022-07-31, 16:52: Enjoy 😉 Wow, this is an amazing community here at Vogons! Thank you very much. There's always a member who can give advice and want help solve a problem, whatever it is. I know the website Elektrotanya, I got a CRT display schematic there once, but I didn't …

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Re: 440LX and Coppermine

Posted on 2022-07-31, 13:03

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by Ydee

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I am sorry, I have no time for extended testing and now is this mobo in paper box, but quick test I can make. Here you can see, how it boot up with P!!! 800 at 75 MHz FSB (slotket is Gigabyte GA-A7 simple passive slot1 to PPGA adapter, modded for Coppermine core) right now. Some months before I …

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Re: 440LX and Coppermine

Posted on 2022-07-31, 09:37

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by Ydee

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That's weird, I have a PC Partner with i440LX and in the modded slotket1 (Gigabyte) runs any Coppermine (Both Celeron and Pentium) even without the BIOS update. On the opposite, after editing the BIOS and adding microcode for Coppermines, I have only the black screen, although the board booted in …

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Re: Need help with MSI MS-6309

Posted on 2022-07-31, 06:59

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by Ydee

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Thank you for your answer, this one is even more trimmed V. 1.1 than my V. 1.0 (welcome in MSI world!:) ). Unfortunatelly, I need to know the value of the resistor R41x, that leads to the +12V pin of connector and maybe still R394, R395. Since I don't need to monitor the fan speed, I may not need to …

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Need help with MSI MS-6309

Posted on 2022-07-30, 11:05

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by Ydee

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I bought some kind of MSI MS-6309 (Lite or whatever?) a lot trimmed: no ISA slot, USB headers and connector for system fan. I soldered an ISA slot and can survive without USB headers, but I could use an SYS FAN. Could one of the owners of the fully populated board take a photo of which parts I'm …

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Re: Which of three FX 5xxx cards to choose from?

Posted on 2022-07-25, 10:42

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by Ydee

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Thank you for the info . nForce isn't really my thing these days as I like my Windows 9x builds to have good DOS audio capability and I'm also not a fan of Live!/Audigy SB16 emulation in general. For XP, I prefer much newer platforms . This info will be of benefit to others, however. Of course, …

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Re: Anyone know anything about a Dell Latitude LT?

Posted on 2022-07-25, 10:11

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by Ydee

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Here's a possible manual if they fit the specifications (P MMX, NeoMagic 2MB, 64 MB EDO?): https://www.manualslib.com/products/Dell-Latitude-Lt-System-4118.html Other mentions here: https://www.cnet.com/culture/dells-got-a-new-latitude/ If it matches, you may find drivers here, unfortunately in …

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Re: Which of three FX 5xxx cards to choose from?

Posted on 2022-07-24, 13:55

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by Ydee

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AlexZ wrote on 2022-07-24, 12:30: The main issue of a shared Windows 98/XP rig is vastly different memory requirements. For Windows 98 you want max 512MB RAM, while for Windows XP it can be great to have 1GB RAM. This can be easily solved with PATCHMEM by R.Loew or manual editing by Config.sys and …

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Re: Which of three FX 5xxx cards to choose from?

Posted on 2022-07-24, 08:37

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by Ydee

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Socket 754 board aren't too expensive yet, and Athlon 64s run Win98 really well while giving full DOS sound compatibility with a VIA board. +1 And, even on nForce chipsets, at least the substitute works in the form of SB16 emulation on Live! and Audigy cards. Sure, it's not much, but it plays and …

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Re: Which of three FX 5xxx cards to choose from?

Posted on 2022-07-19, 07:57

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by Ydee

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Socket 754 board aren't too expensive yet, and Athlon 64s run Win98 really well while giving full DOS sound compatibility with a VIA board. +1 And, even on nForce chipsets, at least the substitute works in the form of SB16 emulation on Live! and Audigy cards. Sure, it's not much, but it plays and …

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Re: FIC PA-2005 Help/Questions

Posted on 2022-07-18, 08:30

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by Ydee

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Question 1: The motherboard has a header for PS/2 Mouse Connector: MS_CON. Anyone know what kind of cable I would need to hook up a PS/2 Mouse? the connector looks like only 5 pins but really only has four actual pins. I cannot find out much about this online. Any other options for adding PS/2 …

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Re: ASUS P/I-P55SP4 question(s)...

Posted on 2022-07-18, 07:42

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by Ydee

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Unfortunately I can't help more, I personally have a 2x16mb edo dram with P133 on the board and use it mainly for MS-DOS and W3.1, so this size is quite enough for me. I don't have bigger modules available, so I can't test.

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Re: Trouble with Aztech AZT2320

Posted on 2022-07-17, 17:06

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by Ydee

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I don't know what happened before, but I tried one last time and now miraculously succeeded! I have the right drivers, two floppy disks directly for the SG Pro 16III (P1633D-1 and 2), but previously W98SE stubbornly refused to install me other than the WDMs they selected themselves. Lastly, I …

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Re: ASUS P/I-P55SP4 question(s)...

Posted on 2022-07-17, 14:09

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by Ydee

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I have the same board and I was changing asynchronous SRAM for synchronous COAST - all I did was shorted pins 2-3 at JP36 and JP37 to disconnect socketed SRAM. I have a COAST size of 256kB, so I left the jumpers JP10 and JP11 the same, you'll have to set them to a size of 512kB if you're going from …

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Trouble with Aztech AZT2320

Posted on 2022-07-17, 13:39

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by Ydee

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I wonder, if exist any option to reinstall the OS-imposed WDM soundcard driver with more suitable (for my purposes) VXD? The sound card (Sound Galaxy PRO 16III 3D PNP, Aztech 2320) is found after the start of the W98SE and its WDM drivers are installed without the possibility of user intervention. …

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Re: Gigabyte GA-6VXE7+ (rev. 3.0) and Tualatin CPU

Posted on 2022-07-09, 13:35

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by Ydee

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Then it's coppermine at best. I wouldn't want to mess with modding socket as it's irreversible and I haven't been able to find replacement sockets within EU, so I'm wary about drilling pin holes and generally messing with sockets. Thanks Tualatin based Celerons have been sold on Ebay for a couple …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-07-09, 13:19

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by Ydee

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I think it doesn't mean Golden Sample here, but GS as a model with NV42 GPU (110nm, 12pp, 5vs). The older NV41 was 130nm and used in the 6800. Both for PCI-E natively - for AGP was needed HSI bridge, natively for AGP was GPU NV40 (130nm, 16pp, 6vs). But I could be wrong. now i know why i couldn't …

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Re: Has anyone tried MegaImage32 sound card?

Posted on 2022-07-08, 13:56

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by Ydee

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2022-07-08, 13:45: If it only has Speaker Out, then the output will be noisier. If I can see, there is L-O, L-I and MIC, so i think SPK is missing (which is better option, than missing Line out IMHO).

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