Note to forced downgraders

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From Wladimir Bulchukey To All 14 November 2004

Hello(s), All...! The GeForce4 video card crashed. Instead I installed S3 Trio 64V+ PCI. In the BIOS, as expected, I changed the priority of launching video adapters to PCI. S3 Trio, which worked great on my iP166 MMX until its demise the last one was buggy on the Celeron 2000: single-pixel piercing images appeared stripes, sometimes the car (under W2K) hung when the mouse was touched. Then I forced the PCI bus frequency to 25 MHz in the BIOS. And everything worked. People, don't forget about the BIOS! With the best - Wlodek # wlblack(@)newmail.ru # http://wlodeks.narod.ru [ZX] [500:95/462@ZXNet] [2:5016 Forever] [Golyanovo] [Old Russians]

From Nik Aleksandrovich To Wladimir Bulchukey 18 November 2004

And how is your niche, Wladimir! I am writing to you from a burning tank... Sun 14 Nov 2004 18:20:37, Wladimir Bulchukey -> All: WB> People, don't forget about the BIOS! turn it off!!!!! %-))) Best regards, Niko Sun ATM-turbo rulezzz!!! mail: niko-sun@rin.ru Si yo leter, Wladimir ...

From Sergey Zotov To Nik Aleksandrovich 20 November 2004

A day has passed, and you are still alive! Nik! On 18 Nov 04, Nik Aleksandrovich wrote to Wladimir Bulchukey: WB>> People, don't forget about the BIOS! NA> turn it off!!!!! NA> %-))) New attraction? Open the BIOS and try to boot? %))) ZXNet: 500:8462/1 ~/ <~ http://zxnet.da.ru/ Fido: 2:5057/56 /_ _> SkyNet: 71:170/21

From Nik Aleksandrovich To Sergey Zotov 23 November 2004

And how is your niche, Sergey! I am writing to you from a burning tank... Sat 20 Nov 2004 23:57:51, Sergey Zotov -> Nik Aleksandrovich: WB>>> People, don’t forget about the BIOS! NA>> turn it off!!!!! NA>> %-))) SZ> New attraction? Open the BIOS and try to boot? %))) hmm do you think this will confuse the Russian people??? I'm sure NO..... put the ROM at 2 kilos and launch xp %))) or a stalker)))) Best regards, Niko Sun ATM-turbo rulezzz!!! mail: niko-sun@rin.ru Si yo leter, Sergey ...

From Sergey Zotov To Nik Aleksandrovich 24 November 2004

A day has passed, and you are still alive! Nik! On 23 Nov 04, Nik Aleksandrovich wrote to Sergey Zotov: WB>>>> People, don’t forget about the BIOS! NA>>> turn it off!!!!! NA>>> %-))) SZ>> New attraction? Open the BIOS and try to boot? %))) NA> hmm do you think this will confuse the Russian people??? NA> I'm sure NO..... NA> install the ROM for 2 kilos and launch xp %))) NA> or stalker )))) Actually, those who have an isa slot and a video card in it can try happiness, but I don’t know of any other precedents. ZXNet: 500:8462/1 ~/ <~ http://zxnet.da.ru/ Fido: 2:5057/56 /_ _> SkyNet: 71:170/21

From Kirill Frolov To Nik Aleksandrovich 25 November 2004

Press RESET immediately, Nik Aleksandrovich! On Tue, 23 Nov 04 10:13:47 +0300, Nik Aleksandrovich wrote: NA>>> turn it off!!!!! NA>>> %-))) SZ>> New attraction? Open the BIOS and try to boot? %))) NA> hmm do you think this will confuse the Russian people??? NA> I'm sure NO..... NA> install the ROM for 2 kilos and launch xp %))) A modern BIOS takes up more than 128KB. (hint: it is packed in ROM is stored, there are several files with a total size of ~200 kilobytes). -- Silent now...

From Kirill Frolov To Sergey Zotov 25 November 2004

Press RESET immediately, Sergey Zotov! On Wed, 24 Nov 04 20:24:23 +0300, Sergey Zotov wrote: NA>> install the ROM at 2 kilos and launch xp %))) NA>> or stalker )))) SZ> Actually, those who have an isa slot and a video card in it can SZ> try your luck, but I don’t know of other precedents. What should be on this floppy disk? Tried DOS 7.10 (from offtopic-95), config.sys without himem, autoexec with the prescribed Running "flashsomething.exe" does not help. It's up to autoexec It doesn’t even reach, it hangs after loading the boot sector. I think it is generally not ready to load DOS, or DOS is not the same. -- Silent now...

From Eugene Palenock To Kirill Frolov 26 November 2004

Hello Kirill! 25 Nov 04 00:59, Kirill Frolov -> Sergey Zotov: SZ>> Actually, those who have an isa slot and a video card in it can SZ>> and try your luck, but I don’t know of other precedents. KF> What should be on this floppy disk? Tried DOS 7.10 KF> (from offtopic-95), config.sys without himem, autoexec with registered KF> running "flashsomething.exe" does not help. Up to autoexec KF> doesn't even reach it, it hangs after loading the boot sector. In my opinion KF> it is not ready to load DOS at all, or DOS is not the same. I successfully loaded and restored the BIOS to 7.10. I remember, you just don’t need to write anything extra in config.sys and autoexec.bat, and Run the firmware with the keys so that there is no input from the keyboard. Best regards, Evgeniy.

From Nik Aleksandrovich To Kirill Frolov 8 December 2004

And how is your nothing, Kirill! I am writing to you from a burning tank... Thu 25 Nov 2004 00:25:10, Kirill Frolov -> Nik Aleksandrovich: KF> A modern BIOS takes up more than 128KB. (hint: in ROM it KF> packed KF> is stored, there are several files with a total size of kilobytes KF> in ~200). My mother has a 440BX chipset ROM of 128 kilo... A friend has eight hundred some...I don’t remember. Tama pzu for 256 kilos... current cars I’m not even telling... I’m sure it’s more nothing is impossible Best regards, Niko Sun ATM-turbo rulezzz!!! mail: niko-sun@rin.ru Si yo leter, Kirill ...