Re: BIOS needed for Intel Intel Premiere/PCI motherboard (BATMAN)

Posted on 2015-04-23, 20:30

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by QBiN

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Good question @QBiN- well, if you look at the top of the motherboard, you'll see tree sets of twin jumper blocks - the ones closest to the ram slots are "reset cmos/normal operation" and "recovery mode boot/normal boot". When I set the batman to recovery mode boot, it will beep once, then read the …

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Re: Main rig upgrade with pics

Posted on 2015-04-23, 20:13

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by QBiN

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Lookin' good. I always like how clean the Corsair water cooling solutions look.

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Re: ATX Pentium i430HX Build in Modern Case

Posted on 2015-04-23, 17:48

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by QBiN

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Talk about weird PSU placement :D Think about it, though... In most newer systems, you wouldn't need -5V and could go with a modular PSU. In my current daily-driver PC (Core i7) I only use one external 5.25 for a DVD burner, even though it's a tower case. In contrast, you could get a really clean …

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Re: BIOS needed for Intel Intel Premiere/PCI motherboard (BATMAN)

Posted on 2015-04-23, 17:42

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by QBiN

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Its very likely the BIOS recovery requires a full boot disk with an autoexec.bat launching the flasher (that was the case with P4 era Intel boards). Intel should have instructions or includes an autoexec.bat to go with the flasher and BIOS image to put on a boot disk. The BIOS recovery block is …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-04-23, 17:39

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by QBiN

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Artex wrote: Nice score on the 5500! Indeed. Nice pickup, Mut.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-04-23, 17:37

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by QBiN

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creepingnet wrote: Worked on the game I'm creating some more last night, this time mostly drawing the "Rooms". Very cool, creepingnet. Are you writing your own game engine? Or using one off-the-shelf?

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2015-04-23, 14:08

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by QBiN

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A daughterboard would be just fine, IMO. With the ISA breakout pins, anyone who would want to could create a -5V module that attached via IDC ribbon cable as is. I'm just wondering if adding an additional header for a -5V daughterboard really saves shock much space & routing headache. That said, if …

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Re: ATX Pentium i430HX Build in Modern Case

Posted on 2015-04-22, 22:38

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by QBiN

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Very interesting and unique, never seen a case like that before. Does the LG CD-ROM have any way of keeping CDs from falling out? Yes, the CD tray has a pair of very slight tabs on both the left and right sides. It keeps CD's perfectly vertical and aligned in the tray when sideways. Interestingly, …

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Re: BIOS needed for Intel Intel Premiere/PCI motherboard (BATMAN)

Posted on 2015-04-22, 21:13

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by QBiN

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Just googling, I found at least three sites with downloadable AF1 BIOS packages for your board. (Search pages for "AF1") http://r3tr0.de/mirror/ftp.mpoli.fi/hardware/ROM/INTEL/index.html http://www.motherboards.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=9924 http://www.driverguide.com/driver/detail.php?driverid= …

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Re: ATX Pentium i430HX Build in Modern Case

Posted on 2015-04-22, 19:57

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by QBiN

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Nice build :) The case dosnt take up much space compared to a standard beige box. Yeah... I have to say, even though it's not retro, the case may be my favorite part of the build. With space being a premium for most people, this case would work for any full size ATX system and provide a …

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Re: ATX Pentium i430HX Build in Modern Case

Posted on 2015-04-22, 19:42

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cool rig and nice specs. did Win95 install without any problem on the CF? I tried on my machine a while ago but it didn't work. I didn't have any problems, no. I used a Lexar Professional 2Gig CF card. But I did make sure the CF was listed as ATA compatible and I made sure to manually put in the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-04-22, 17:10

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by QBiN

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The Athlon64-FX processor? That's about all I can discern without any better pictures.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-04-22, 17:05

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by QBiN

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I just recently finished a Win95c Pentium-200MMX build and did some limited testing on it. Cross posted from the System Specs section: ATX Pentium i430HX Build in Modern Case

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-04-22, 16:03

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by QBiN

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'route print' finally revealed that the problem was in the routing table. The PC has 2 network connections. The 10/100 goes to the LAN and internet, and the GbE leads to a file server. For some reason, both interfaces had gateway IPs assigned - the gateway on the GbE interface was a nonexistent …

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ATX Pentium i430HX Build in Modern Case

Posted on 2015-04-22, 15:54

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by QBiN

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I wanted to build a late 1996 to 1997 Win95 Pentium as a complete system. I wanted to make it mostly era correct with some liberties taken for convenience. I used a modern ATX case, but I tried to find the slimmest case I could find for a full ATX motherboard. The case is pretty unique as it hides …

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Re: hey network guru's question for you

Posted on 2015-04-22, 14:05

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by QBiN

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As a mentor long ago told me, "Never send in a server to do a router's job." A lot has changed since then, but the sentiment is still true. A dedicated router platform, even if it's built on PC hardware (like a pfSense box) would serve you better and be far more flexible and secure than Windows ICS+ …

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Re: hey network guru's question for you

Posted on 2015-04-22, 03:18

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by QBiN

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im trying to prevent other users not on my switch from browsing, ive got another IT guy that is renting a room in this house I am, and I've caught him inside my computer twice now, land lord doesn't care and I'm just generally annoyed. my Windows connection sharing firewall is not preventing him …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-04-22, 00:16

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by QBiN

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smeezekitty wrote: The unnecessary snap at the end of your post is what set him off. Exactly. This forum is all about sharing what we've done lately -- not about what you're unwilling to share. In that spirit, that last bit came across as unecessarily snippy.

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Re: Newly made Gravis Ultrasound compatible cards ... what's the degree of interest?

Posted on 2015-04-21, 22:31

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by QBiN

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shock__ wrote: On another note - I might be able to get a classic GUS for testing with quite a history, Abyss^FC is giving his original 1993 GUS away, which ran Second Reality before it was officially released 😀 That would be a pretty cool collector piece of computer history.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2015-04-21, 22:28

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by QBiN

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leileilol wrote: AND NO i'm never uploading it ever 😀 Just saving time for myself (and for emulator testing) Umm... ok. Not sure anyone was asking. But thanks for making your self-serving sentiment very clear for everyone.

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