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

Posted on 2023-07-25, 19:01

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Minutemanqvs wrote on 2023-05-05, 05:39: That's a super amazing project indeed! I hope it works in the end 😀 Sorry for necroing one of your old replies, but I'm unable to respond to private messages. Too new on the forum. 😀 Suffice to say, I'm interested! PM me an email address if you want and we …

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, P3V133, CUBX, CUBX-E/L and P3C-E

Posted on 2023-07-25, 16:58

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I was running a memtest and suddenly the program started stuttering and I was hearing high pitched beeping from the speaker and the power led was flashing. This lasted less than a minute and then it stopped. [...] About those voltages, I'm using a brand new EVGA 100-W1-0500-KR 500 W1, 80+ White …

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

Posted on 2023-07-25, 07:44

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by riplin

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Had the same issue with my Rev 1.06 P2B-DS, managed to grab 2 Abit Slotket III cards which work fine with dual Coppermines, Soltek also make a Slotket that supports dual cpus SOLTEK SL-02A++ IIRC is the model. How long ago was this? I've been trying to get another Abit Slotket III and can't find …

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

Posted on 2023-07-25, 07:00

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by riplin

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I finally mustered up the courage to solder the interposer onto my Tualatin 1.4Ghz CPU. And it worked! Purring like a kitten in an Asus P3B-F motherboard! 😀

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, P3V133, CUBX, CUBX-E/L and P3C-E

Posted on 2023-07-25, 02:15

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by riplin

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Sorry for the n00b question. I was running a memtest and suddenly the program started stuttering and I was hearing high pitched beeping from the speaker and the power led was flashing. This lasted less than a minute and then it stopped. The memtest itself was still running fine, no errors detected, …

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Clang/LLVM port for dos 32bit?

Posted on 2023-07-23, 21:44

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Hi folks, Is anyone aware of any project(s) of getting Clang / LLVM to generate DOS 32-bit executables?

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Re: Less popular Youtube channels

Posted on 2023-07-23, 04:06

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by riplin

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I quite enjoy this channel: https://www.youtube.com/@rehsd He builds his own motherboards from scratch. He recently finished a 286 motherboard and got FreeDOS to boot. He is now working on a 386SX upgrade for it and also started designing a 386DX motherboard. And then there's also: https://www. …

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, P3V133, CUBX, CUBX-E/L and P3C-E

Posted on 2023-07-19, 21:19

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by riplin

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I installed this bios on my P3B-F and it’s working like a charm! I do have one question. I’ve got a Promise SuperTrak SX6000 installed and it has a rather beefy rom sitting at C0000-D0000. The bios doesn’t cover the first part of the C0000 range so I can’t shadow this rom. Are there any …

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

Posted on 2023-07-16, 21:48

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My retro activity for the day has been arguing with an eBay seller. He is of the opinion that a motherboard with non-functioning ps/2 and COM ports and a barely functioning keyboard counts as fully functional.

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FIC 486-VIP-IO2 Problem with PS/2 mouse port. Measuring only 10 ohm of resistance between the data pin and power

Posted on 2023-07-13, 06:38

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by riplin

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Hi folks, I'm trying to get the PS/2 port of a FIC 486-VIP-IO2 motherboard working. I started off with updating the BIOS to the latest version, confirming in MODBIN that PS/2 support was enabled and when that didn't work, I installed an external keyboard controller chip (it was using an internal …

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, P3V133, CUBX, CUBX-E/L and P3C-E

Posted on 2023-07-08, 16:29

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by riplin

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Mega stupid question, are there any secret memory settings hidden from the user? 124 MHz - work fine, 133 - or errors immediately, or just 768 MB are detected. Maybe some "command rate = 1" by default or so? Do you have registered memory installed? If not, then that can very well be the problem …

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Populating the PS/2 port on a SOYO SY-4SA2

Posted on 2023-06-21, 02:31

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by riplin

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Hi folks, I want to populate the PS/2 mouse port on my SOYO SY-4SA2 motherboard. I'd seen a thread on here a while back but for the life of me can't find it anymore. Does anyone know the components needed (type, value, size)? This is what the unpopulated area looks like: https://i.imgur.com/KPebIXM. …

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Re: Soyo 4SA2 only goes up to 64MB memory (16MB per slot)

Posted on 2023-05-29, 06:49

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by riplin

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I had a look at your specs post and I see you're using those SIMMs in your 486 build. Your system has 2 RAM slots though, so I'm guessing the board behaves differently with those.

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Re: Soyo 4SA2 only goes up to 64MB memory (16MB per slot)

Posted on 2023-05-29, 06:40

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by riplin

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The chip id's are the same, so I'm guessing that they'll probably behave the same.

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Re: Soyo 4SA2 only goes up to 64MB memory (16MB per slot)

Posted on 2023-05-29, 04:36

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by riplin

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Those look identical to the ones I currently have and they only register as 16MB. 😀

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Re: Soyo 4SA2 only goes up to 64MB memory (16MB per slot)

Posted on 2023-05-29, 03:30

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Ok, so 16 chip, does that mean double sided? Something like this? https://www.ebay.ca/itm/165910045277

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Re: Soyo 4SA2 only goes up to 64MB memory (16MB per slot)

Posted on 2023-05-29, 03:27

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by riplin

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Thanks for the response Horun, I wanted 256MB because I thought the board supported it. :) No other reason. Ok, so given that the board only has 4 slots, that limits me to 128MB. I'm guessing since that jumper thing that I read about and tried didn't have any effect, double sided pretty much isn't …

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Soyo 4SA2 only goes up to 64MB memory (16MB per slot)

Posted on 2023-05-29, 00:24

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by riplin

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Hi folks, So I have a Soyo 4SA2 motherboard and the manual states that it has support for up to 255(?) megabytes of memory, however, later on in the manual it only lists memory configurations up to 64MB. Another document describing this board gives a huge list of memory configurations up to 256MB …

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Re: DreamBlaster X16 + X16GS Release

Posted on 2023-05-11, 07:11

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I know I'm just a newbie here so I'll just wait my turn until the general release, but that GS version looks very appealing! Do you have any indication when it will be available? Q2, Q3? This year, next year?

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