Re: Assistance with Socket 370 Motherboards Please.

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A couple of thoughts 1. (This won't be popular on Vogons) Via Apolla Pro 133A boards are fine and you shouldn't be afraid to build with one of them if it meets your needs. Something like an ASUS CUV4X might be fun to work with. 2. While you have rightly pointed out that the 133MHz FSB variants of …

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Re: My experience returning to Win98 after 25 years

Posted on 2024-05-15, 00:12

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Windows 98 is just a nostalgia machine, IMO. I started out with it when I got back into vintage computing, but the bugs and stability issues are just obnoxious. Eject a CD? Nah, Windows 9x is still randomly locking onto it--blue screen. Put the CD back in, hit enter, and then eject it again. It's …

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Re: My experience returning to Win98 after 25 years

Posted on 2024-05-14, 01:14

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Windows 98 is just a nostalgia machine, IMO. I started out with it when I got back into vintage computing, but the bugs and stability issues are just obnoxious. Eject a CD? Nah, Windows 9x is still randomly locking onto it--blue screen. Put the CD back in, hit enter, and then eject it again. It's …

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Re: Texture filtering - yay or nay?

Posted on 2024-05-11, 22:30

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IMO, "period correct" was experimenting with driver-level (global) settings for your specific setup and deciding what you liked (taking into account the performance impact). Having someone tell me what the "correct" way to play a game is distasteful. "You need a PVM to play console games." "You need …

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Re: what do you think is the best 440bx mainboard in the world?

Posted on 2024-05-09, 02:52

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4 RAM slots; buffers for RAM (as seen in BX6r2) configurable VIO

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Re: Geforce4 Ti4200 - Black screen

Posted on 2024-04-24, 01:12

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Out of curiosity, which power supply are you using with that system

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Re: Simcity 2000 won't start with logitech mouse driver

Posted on 2024-04-03, 03:04

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Have you gone through the readme for that game and made sure you follow all of the recommendations? I haven't played it in 30 years, but I seem to recall using a boot disk back in the day for some reason, leading me to believe that it is picky about your config or has some kind of issue with one of …

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Re: Interact HammerHead FX (SV-262E) and SB Live! (SB0100)

Posted on 2024-03-31, 03:07

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I've used mine with a CT4760, which is similar to your card in Windows 98SE and in Windows XP. Make sure you're using the right driver version SV-262A or SV-262 (http://falconfly.3dfx.pl/hammerhead.htm)

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Re: A Mystery, hoping someone can solve for me

Posted on 2024-03-31, 03:00

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I'm pretty sure I have that motherboard at my father's house and it has an AMD 386 soldered onto it where yours is missing. I found it at Christmas last year and the board was totally annihilated by the Varta battery (worst I've ever seen). I don't know what to do with it, but I told him not to …

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Re: Lin-Lin adapter documentation

Posted on 2024-03-28, 22:29

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That requires a custom BIOS image

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-25, 21:25

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Heh, if we're honest, we've all seen worse cable management. I think people cared less before PCs had side windows. I'm going to need a PS/2 PCI card. The DIN adapter I have works fine with a PS/2 keyboard, but my mouse + serial port adapter doesn't work in the serial port, it lights up so I know …

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Re: GTA I - FreeDOS 1.3

Posted on 2024-03-20, 01:58

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Just for clarity, have you tried this in DOS 6.22?

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

Posted on 2024-03-15, 01:30

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More testing of the DFI G7S620-N motherboard. Ran into an issue using CF cards. I'd previously been using them with an adapter that plugs directly into the IDE slot. That always worked fine. However, when connecting an adapter with a ribbon cable I started having issues with the cards not booting …

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Re: How well do old PCs keep time?

Posted on 2024-03-04, 23:49

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Thanks for the replies. It's not something I'll likely mess with in the near term, but I think I know where the oscillator is that you're talking about. It's a BX6r2 and I seem to recall a cylindrical oscillator near the battery. Maybe someday I'll buy a cheap scope and test it.

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How well do old PCs keep time?

Posted on 2024-03-04, 03:02

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I have noticed that the clock on my Pentium 3 PC has gained 13 minutes over the past 6 months. Now, I have some clocks in my house that are as bad as this (my microwave clock, for example). I don't remember this ever being a problem on PCs when I was young. Is this normal, or am I experiencing a …

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Re: What to do? Slot 1 vs Socket 370

Posted on 2024-03-02, 03:41

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Slot1 is nice for swapping CPUs out for testing, since you are taking the heatsink and fan out all on the same cartridge. It's like swapping out a Nintendo game (except the plastic is so brittle after all these years that you will probably explode your retention bracket swapping the CPU out). But …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-02-24, 00:41

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Shadzilla wrote on 2024-02-23, 13:02: New. Old. Stock. You love to see it 😁 And my nForce2/Athlon XP build will love it too. I bought those exact sticks from Newegg in 2002 for my Athlon XP build and I had to RMA them because they wouln't hit CAS2 for me. Newegg sent me a matched pair that said …

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

Posted on 2024-02-24, 00:39

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LCD panel transplant - the original looked like the LCD layer was delaminating so has these weird squiggles at the edges of the display: IMG_3010 (Custom).JPG I went into my parts bin of LCDs and found a similar lq121s1lh02 - 800x600 LCD that runs at 3.3v, the laptop gives 5v to the LCD. I tested …

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Re: Consequences of accidentally shorting a mosfet

Posted on 2024-02-21, 00:44

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from p2 onward it was VID pins on cpu all the way to some late i3/5/7 chips there wont be any voltage without cpu in socket How does that work? I'm an amateur, but looking at the VRM 8.4 spec, it looks like if your VID pins are all pulled to ground, it should provide a 2.05V core. Am I thinking …

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

Posted on 2024-02-17, 04:19

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All that work and there were still plenty of games that would only work if the game disk was inserted into the primary disc drive in the system. It was always a great feature when it was possible to load up multiple drives and have the game find the discs automatically instead of having to swap …

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