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Re: Which Athlon 64 X2 should I chose?

Posted on 2023-10-07, 05:10

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My guess is that AMD was under pressure to rush the 65nm lithography to compete with Intel. So silicon quality was overall mediocre. That also led to issues with first Phenom CPUs, which had the infamous TLB bug. Yeah, back in the days after I made mistake and "upgraded" from Windsor F3 to Brisbane …

Re: What kind of computer towers did you choose for your retro systems?

Posted on 2023-10-06, 13:58

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Beige 😀 A 90's classic.

Re: Which Athlon 64 X2 should I chose?

Posted on 2023-10-06, 13:45

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Windsor. Winter is coming... Thunberg will be mad at me (and you) roaring that we're all gonna die from "the global warming" :D Now seriously, I still can not understand why newer Brisbane is not better than Windsor even its energy consumption is significantly lower, leaving aside the twice smaller …

Re: Which Athlon 64 X2 should I chose?

Posted on 2023-10-06, 13:17

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks to everyone who commented for the tips! I appreciate it. You made me recall some of the features of these Athlon processors with Windsor or Brisbane cores. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately) the Brisbane 5400+ ADO5400IAA5DO (G2) was gone when I finally decided to buy it. But I found another …

Re: I disassembled an S3 Trio64 BIOS and am annotating it

Posted on 2023-10-06, 12:42

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

pan069 wrote on 2023-10-06, 08:22: https://github.com/riplin/hag/blob/main/resea … 86c764x.asm#L18 Thanks, I didn't read this. So, I think any (online) x86 disassembler will do the job.

Re: I disassembled an S3 Trio64 BIOS and am annotating it

Posted on 2023-10-06, 07:38

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Hi, riplin . Good job! Sorry that I can not help you with anything - I don't have S3 Trio cards, but I want to ask you something: Please, could you share, what tools and how you used them to obtain the assembly code out of S3 Trio's BIOS? I want to dig up deeper into buggy S3 ViRGE/DX/GX BIOS for so …

Re: The "Driver CD" for motherboards thread

Posted on 2023-10-06, 07:27

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

SETBLASTER , are you uploading to archive.org only CD-images which you're personally interested in? I'm asking this, 'cause I've couple of original mobo CDs which are still readable, but I have no account on the archive.org. I can make ISO-files and upload them to some free file sharing platforms ( …

Re: First computers you've used

Posted on 2023-10-06, 04:33

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It was around 1986 - some 8 bit Pravetz (Apple II clone) with CM630 and ROM BASIC and 5.25" FDD. It wasn't my own machine, but one at the children's after-school education center. My first own personal computer in mid of '90s was with AMD 386SX-40 soldered to PCChips mobo with 2 MB of EDO RAM (later …

Re: Tools needed to repair Old PC Hardware

Posted on 2023-10-06, 03:59

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Heat resistant (Kapton) tape is not in "advanced" but in "basic" category tools and supplies along with ordinary hot air gun.

Re: "Bios Patcher" questions

Posted on 2023-10-06, 03:32

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

-- So.. i used the version you provided + CBROM v2.08 (many thanks!), re-concocted a bios ROM using the same selective patching, and with the /L argument, flashed it, and the PC hangs at POST, displaying only the most upper, and most lower, lines of text. Luckily, there's the "-" key option to boot …

Re: "Bios Patcher" questions

Posted on 2023-10-05, 18:35

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

B24Fox , maybe it's not non-existing step, but rather some conformation bug using "/m" argument in 4.23 version. P.S. I've once tried to remove this stupidly annoying message manually by extracting all the modules (the original ones and those added by BIOS Patcher) from patched Award BIOS with …

Re: "Bios Patcher" questions

Posted on 2023-10-05, 18:31

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Many thanks for sharing. Will take a look to see if it has any improvement from older versions with respect to Award 6.0 BIOSes. You're welcome. I haven't noticed any difference specifically for patching Award/Phoenix BIOSes compared to 4.23 or 4.51 versions, but 6.00 alpha15 works on some AMI …

Re: Floppy Disks and Bad Sectors

Posted on 2023-10-05, 17:01

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bought a Dell D400 today, installed Dos 6.22 and have been running nformat (via USB floppy) and quite often after 2 or 3 formats the bad sectors have gone. The disks literally only had 1 or 2. Does this mean they are fine again now? Ta I'll give one trick that I use with NFORMAT to get rid from bad …

Re: "Bios Patcher" questions

Posted on 2023-10-05, 16:50

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you're trying to patch AMI BIOS, you can use version 6.0 alpha 15 and there is option to remove this annoying "www. ROM. by..." message. This is from "help": "/l - skip displaying www. ROM. by logo in BIOS (useful for some AMI)". But this doesn't work on Award/Phoenix BIOSes for sure. And not all …

Re: Which Athlon 64 X2 should I chose?

Posted on 2023-10-05, 06:09

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Depending on where you live you might have the perfect option: https://www.ebay.com/itm/113737803569?epid=1963871211&hash=item1a7b4d2731:g:xmgAAOSwKMJhv5QG&amdata=enc%3AAQAIAAAAwH4%2BzjzvlEuxZ7F15h92YhTUzWapMhw%2BT0HDDK6ZuB% …

Re: Which Athlon 64 X2 should I chose?

Posted on 2023-10-05, 05:53

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

1. friendly advice: You have an Abit board. Leave it at it is! Just put the latest BETA Bios if you want but don't mod it! I have all socket AM2/AM2+ Abit boards and they are great - no need for any modding and unnecessary risks. 2. Nforce4 SLI and Ultra are basically the same chipset - no …

Re: Which Athlon 64 X2 should I chose?

Posted on 2023-10-05, 05:14

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Don't mod it. It's a nice board for what it is. HTT/DDR2 calculator for AM2: http://downloads.pcrpg.org/comp/automemcalc.zip Thank you for this convenient little tool. At first I thought "WTF HTT (hypertransport bus) of 150 to 350 MHz?" , but then realized it is wrong and this is actually FSB . …

Re: Which Athlon 64 X2 should I chose?

Posted on 2023-10-04, 19:12

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Divide by 200. I.e. 2 or 2.66 or 3.33 or 4. FSB = 200 and RAM = 4*200=800 or =3.33*200=667 FSB = 240 and RAM = 4*240=960 or = 3.33*240=799 I'll rename this stupid fixed DDR2 frequency fields to FSB x 2/1, FSB x 8/3, FSB x 10/3 and FSB x 4/1, so it will be easier to calculate the resulting DDR2 …

Re: Which Athlon 64 X2 should I chose?

Posted on 2023-10-04, 16:43

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Then solve this situation in a stupid way. Download the BIOS, download the modbin (Award BIOS utility, does not work on 64-bit OS) and navigate through the BIOS menu. So far, so good... found working MODBIN6 version. Here's the result from latest non-beta BIOS ver.15: ddr2menu_no_div.jpg There're …

Re: Which Athlon 64 X2 should I chose?

Posted on 2023-10-04, 14:59

by analog_programmer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Then solve this situation in a stupid way. Download the BIOS, download the modbin (Award BIOS utility, does not work on 64-bit OS) and navigate through the BIOS menu. Actually this is very good idea. Tnahks! I think it's a Phoenix BIOS, have to see which MODBIN version will match. UPDATE: In the …

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