Hardware

Fake ASUS P2B Rev. 1.04?

Some time ago, someone offered me six P2B motherboards for restoration. Since I got them for a relatively good price, I didn’t mind taking them off their hands. Unfortunately, I wasn’t immediately able to work on the boards due to other projects that I thought were more interesting. Little did I know that those six boards may be more interesting than I thought! Based on a…
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Sound Blaster 16: Fix the Hanging Note Bug

List of DRAM/Memory chips

Hardware

Sound Blaster 2.0 - C/MS Upgrade

A guide to upgrade the Sound Blaster 2.0 with chips that enable the Creative Music System (C/MS). Sound cards with ISA interface trigger that one nostalgic feeling in me and remain that one piece of technology I have fond memories of. That may be surprising since this was also the time when you had to constantly fight with resource conflicts: DMA, IRQ, and I/O ports are just a few of…
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Sound Blaster 16: Fix the Hanging Note Bug

List of DRAM/Memory chips