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Re: PCI cards don't fit, different PCI thickness?

Posted on 2024-05-25, 18:01

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've had some cards that needed a v-shaped form on the connector in order to be able to slot them down; some cards were simply cut off flat at the bottom of the connector, and were too hard to insert without filing off a bit on each side of the edge connector. There is also some leeway in spacing …

Re: Bios needed (ECS AL486 VIO-U3/VIO-I or MiTAC/Trigon MSC-246 or MiTAC/Trigon MSC-242)

Posted on 2024-05-21, 22:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There is this bios: https://archive.org/details/ecs-al486 I'm not sure if it matches your board though?

Re: IDENTIFY MOTHERBOARD thread - if you don't know to identify motherboard, post here

Posted on 2024-05-21, 19:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/80387/IIT-3C87-25.html I'd expect that pin 1 would be indicated with the little corner stud, by the sticker. And the silkscreen on bottom right matches the PGA holder, so you may be right that it is misaligned - maybe broken, if powered on in that position...try to …

Re: Video Card for a Shuttle XPC Pentium 4, 200 Watt PSU

Posted on 2024-05-20, 12:10

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Hmm...I guess the XPC family has several members then. Mine are XPC SB52G2 (and they have 2x PCI, not just one as I remembered) https://www.anandtech.com/show/1081/7

Re: Video Card for a Shuttle XPC Pentium 4, 200 Watt PSU

Posted on 2024-05-19, 23:42

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

That one has an onboard Intel video card, the one add-on slot is pretty slow PCI/33 Mhz I think. (I have a couple of those machines, no frills).

Re: IDENTIFY MOTHERBOARD thread - if you don't know to identify motherboard, post here

Posted on 2024-05-19, 23:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Perhaps Opti's Local Bus, seeing the chipset is theirs. Not much standard back then. (I recall a friend imported some local bus mobos + local bus video cards from the same chinese company, and then they didn't work together. When he asked about it, he just got a 'sorry, hope it's not a problem for …

Re: Absolute best, Most reliable fans

Posted on 2024-05-14, 19:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Over the top design: Heat pipes on massive cooling blocks as 1st line buffers, heat transfer to some larger liquid tank as secondary buffer - you have cooler nights I assume, when you can get rid of the heat outside...unless you also need to hide the heat signature, then instead dig down & find an …

Re: Jumperless, non-PnP ISA sound cards and Windows 95 hardware detection problem

Posted on 2024-05-12, 13:36

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I don't know this board, but it looks like this one from Addonics: https://hw.fagear.ru/yamaha-ymf701-s-addonics-a151-830/ You picture is a bit gritty, but there may be some stray solder around the empty socket, and maybe in other places...it may need some clean up.

Re: Max Payne 1 on voodoo 3 3000 error "FPU precision assumed to be 53bits"

Posted on 2024-05-08, 22:47

in Windows

in Windows

Curiously I found a similar question about Max Payne 2 in an archived post at 3DRealms forum: https://web.archive.org/web/20140602173318/ht … read.php?t=6844 for more FPU stuff: http://stereopsis.com/FPU.html

Re: 8-bit ISA Game Card pinout question

Posted on 2024-05-08, 22:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Perhaps then some legacy non-std pinout on a stick they wanted to support? There were some non-pc 'joypads' (I never had one) that might apply. Some pinout variants: https://allpinouts.org/pinouts/connectors/inp … ck-pc-gameport/

Re: Tex Murpy Overseer DVD Edition Being a Pain

Posted on 2024-05-08, 21:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does it have any extras making it worth playing on the DVD, other than not having to swap CD:s? (I have the CD version only, but I've seen you can combine them into a DVD for ease of use - but I figure it's not the same as the bundled DVD)

Re: 8-bit ISA Game Card pinout question

Posted on 2024-05-08, 08:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think the two-port cards like that were intended for either two joysticks with 2-axis and 2 buttons each, the sticks attached to one connector each, or a single joystick with 4 axis and 4 buttons, attached to either one *or* the other connector.

Re: Speed sensitive games suggestions to test throttling methods?

Posted on 2024-05-07, 18:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

One game I could not get to work at all using DOSBox on a P4 was a freeware, it was found in one of my 50+ DOS games CD:s, called 'Find Felix the Cat', and it had issues with fast computers, also according to the developer who I got in contact with. It was made to run on old 8088 PC:s and DOSBox …

Re: Im unable to add network Card to 486 Siemens Nixdorf Scenic 4L

Posted on 2024-05-06, 12:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do you have all voltages needed for that card on your ISA bus? Not sure what version you have of that card, TP or Coax? check e.g. https://www.arstech.com/install/cms-display/s … upplyneeds.html

Re: Im unable to add network Card to 486 Siemens Nixdorf Scenic 4L

Posted on 2024-05-04, 16:26

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Since (what I understand) this motherboard uses a riser slot for the two ISA cards, there could be some issues with poor/bent connections on the riser board itself?

Re: Plastic gotten sticky around laptop keyboard.

Posted on 2024-04-22, 17:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had a sticky plastic/rubber surface on one similar keyboard (not the keys themselves) and after ordinary cleaning failed, I just applied some potato starch to the surface, and it seems to have worked out for me.

Re: Tie Fighter Collectors Edition - only works from C

Posted on 2024-03-28, 13:15

in DOS

in DOS

I have some notes for that release printed out; one thing that LucasArts support document says is that an incomplete installation or installation on multiple locations will give this effect that the game start will only open the installation menu. What I then wrote from my own tests: if installing …

Re: How to build a new EISA CFG file?

Posted on 2024-03-25, 13:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This range can depend on how the address decoder is implemented; often the decoder has a larger range that is limited by the number of address pins used on the decoder chip, in this case it could be implemented in the FPGA which allows for more granular resolution. Since it emulates other older …

Re: Things I learned about fans

Posted on 2024-03-16, 20:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I used to be able to follow the boot-up sequence of a (fanless) computer system developed at my workplace, just by listening to the power supply whine (about 18-20kHz) changing with load. Tinnitus from some too close noisy hard-drives fixed that eventually.

Re: Things I learned about fans

Posted on 2024-03-15, 08:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

FWIW, back when noisy PC:s were the norm, all the PC:s at my workplace got put in very efficiently silenced padded boxes (with internal fans & long folding air-vents); expensive but that was a cost neccessary to be able to think. And it was not only the fans back then, but also hard-drives that …

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