Re: Windows XP. Pentium4 vs Celeron 420

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by VivienM

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What motherboard are you running, and what CPUs (especially Conroes or newer) does it support? Gigabyte GA-8I865GME-775, Celerons are on the list of supported CPUs A rev 2 or newer, I hope? (it seems there are at least 4 revisions of this board, 1.x is HotBurst-only) What I was going to suggest is …

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Re: Windows XP. Pentium4 vs Celeron 420

Posted on 2024-05-15, 19:33

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by VivienM

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What motherboard are you running, and what CPUs (especially Conroes or newer) does it support?

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Re: ASUS CUSL2 1.02 and Tualatin. My Journey (so far).

Posted on 2024-05-14, 03:02

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by VivienM

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Anyone have pictures of the D820LP motherboard from the Dell XPS B series? The Retro Web doesn't have one and I'd like to see the VRM. No listings I can find for just the motherboard -- I'd have to buy the whole PC to harvest the mobo. The predecessor to the D820LP (the VC820) has pretty much the …

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Re: ASUS CUSL2 1.02 and Tualatin. My Journey (so far).

Posted on 2024-05-14, 01:05

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by VivienM

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What about looking for a Dell XPS B series? My guess is that Dell sold way more RDRAM i820 systems than anybody else... and especially the enthusiasty/clone shop Taiwanese mobo guys. Now, the XPS B series will have the proprietary PSU pinout, but I think how to deal with that is well-documented by …

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Re: Windows 98 SE install - How do I target installation on D: ?

Posted on 2024-05-13, 22:31

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by VivienM

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It had no impact, but here's a detail I can't quite explain. I first prepared the CF card from FreeDos by creating a single active partition with fdisk, then copying a minimal system with format /s onto the FAT16 volume. And I couldn't boot from this CF card. It only worked after writing a …

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Re: ASUS CUSL2 1.02 and Tualatin. My Journey (so far).

Posted on 2024-05-13, 22:13

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by VivienM

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I'm drawn to the 820 because I don't have any other systems with RDRAM -- but those motherboards seem really few and far between. I might like something like the Asus CUC2 -- except they are unobtanium. Anyone know of any 820 motherboards that are actually common? What about looking for a Dell XPS …

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Re: Intel wants to drop 16/32bit. A possible opportunity...?

Posted on 2024-05-13, 02:34

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by VivienM

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Windows on ARM was Microsoft's attempt at forcing a clean break from legacy, but we all know how that went. Corporate customers rejected that. They want x86 and legacy apps. Not sure what non-corporate customers reacted any better. How would you feel if your grandmother got a Windows-on-ARM device …

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Re: Intel wants to drop 16/32bit. A possible opportunity...?

Posted on 2024-05-13, 02:26

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by VivienM

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The next step after Intel bails from 32bit support is all newer 64bit OS from MS will no longer be 32bit backward compatible....first the platform then the OS... Maybe in about... 20... years? A lot of productivity software barely supports x64, e.g. Adobe Acrobat was only available in 32-bit form …

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Re: Intel wants to drop 16/32bit. A possible opportunity...?

Posted on 2024-05-13, 01:15

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by VivienM

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All in all, the Zilog way of putting a legend to rest is more elegant, I think. It has more class. No drama, no exploitation of its anniversary, no sensationalism going on. Just a respectful press release about the upcoming discontinuity. I didn't really think Zilog 'put a legend to rest'; aren't …

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Re: Intel wants to drop 16/32bit. A possible opportunity...?

Posted on 2024-05-13, 00:28

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by VivienM

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So it would be nice if Intel would let x86 rest in peace, at least. In dignity. Making a clear cut and creating a new architecture under a new name would be wiser, more mature. By that logic, IBM should also make a clear cut and move away from the System/360/370/390/zArchitecture. Isn't that …

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Re: Intel wants to drop 16/32bit. A possible opportunity...?

Posted on 2024-05-12, 16:38

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by VivienM

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Even if they did kill 16/32 bit in modern CPUs, Intel will continue selling 32-bit x86 for embedded/industrial use until the bombs drop. Could some of those somehow turn up in hobbyist retro projects? Isn't that basically what those 'new' 386 laptops with that ALi SoC-type thing are doing? Intel …

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Re: Intel wants to drop 16/32bit. A possible opportunity...?

Posted on 2024-05-12, 12:54

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by VivienM

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kingcake wrote on 2024-05-12, 03:20: Even if they did kill 16/32 bit in modern CPUs, Intel will continue selling 32-bit x86 for embedded/industrial use until the bombs drop. Could some of those somehow turn up in hobbyist retro projects? Isn't that basically what those 'new' 386 laptops with that …

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Re: Windows 98 SE install - How do I target installation on D: ?

Posted on 2024-05-12, 12:53

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by VivienM

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Can you boot Win98 DOS from something that would get A/B letters Apart from the floppy drive physically connected to the motherboard, do you have in mind any other device that would do this job? Would a USB-booted CD-ROM be indexed by the BIOS under a letter other than C: for instance? I think the …

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Re: Windows 98 SE install - How do I target installation on D: ?

Posted on 2024-05-12, 00:11

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by VivienM

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I wouldn't try to do that - the registry and everything else will be written with D:\ paths, when you switch the order in the BIOS, you're going to have a disaster on your hands. Can you boot Win98 DOS from something that would get A/B letters and start the installation from there with C being the …

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-05-10, 21:07

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by VivienM

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do you recall anyone who purchased a voodoo card ( voodoo 3-4 or 5) during the time nvidia was beginning to take over the 3D market regret their decision not investing in an nvidia tnt, tnt2, geforce 256 or geforce 2 card? I think you've have to look at the calendar as well... using launch dates …

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-10, 20:53

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by VivienM

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If you need a wider range (98SE/2k/XP/7/10), Core 2 Duo E4600 on a 965 mainboard at best. Don't go further. Why? I wonder if that was a typo and PcBytes meant an E4600 on a 8 65 mainboard. That would make sense for a 98SE machine - the E4600 is 800MHz FSB which is ideal for the 865, and it's a 65nm …

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Re: Windows XP 32-bit (x86) on X79 in AHCI mode

Posted on 2024-05-10, 20:49

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by VivienM

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TL;DR - need a modified driver, preferably already integrated. You will need it in any case, because Intel dumped official AHCI support on Windows XP pretty much from the start - only ICH6/ICH7 are supported. Huh? I must be misunderstanding something, because I've installed XP with AHCI on ICH10R …

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Re: is seeking out a slot 1 celeron worth it?

Posted on 2024-05-10, 11:59

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by VivienM

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In a pre 3D era. It really did not matter, if you had card or integrated video. Sometimes even integrated was better. Because they usually used somethin cheap and compatible like a Cirrus. And they always had local bus connection, so they were fast. Loved my small desktop IBM PC 330 486DX66 and my …

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Re: is seeking out a slot 1 celeron worth it?

Posted on 2024-05-10, 00:46

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by VivienM

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[...] Never new 3DFX made integrated chips. They didn't, it's just a regular V3-2000 AGP soldered onto the motherboard together with 8MB SDRAM. Motherboard is an MSI MS-6168 (rev 2), one of two boards with Voodoo3 onboard. I wonder if that would have been one of the last examples of soldered-on …

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Re: Trying to build a retro DOS/Win98 computer.

Posted on 2024-05-10, 00:41

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by VivienM

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Thin clients are another option. Some of them will run DOS and Windows 98 natively and can be found for fairly cheap. Now, they have some limitations, as you're not going to fit a Voodoo into them or a Sound Blaster 16. Nonetheless, I think they are a great option for someone looking for a little …

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