Re: How to enable Agp 2x on P3B-F?

Posted on 2024-05-12, 05:18

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I'm sorry how can it be the P3B-F be an agp x1 motherboard? The 440bx supports agp up to 2x, how can the motherboard dictate to be agp 1x? From the manual of the Asus P3B-F: AGP Slot: Supports an Accelerated Graphics Port card for high performance, component level interconnect targeted at 3D …

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Re: How to enable Agp 2x on P3B-F?

Posted on 2024-05-12, 03:06

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IIRC the P3B-F is a AGP 1x board, not sure if it supported 2x on early revisions, what revision is your board ?>

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-12, 03:00

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Got this neat ISA extender/proto board off ebay. It has some interesting features: - hot swap ISA cards while PC is booted - set power limits for ISA card - power ISA card from external sources - software or manual control of the above IMG_2120.jpg IMG_2119.jpg Honestly I would buy this just …

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Re: Pentium PRO?

Posted on 2024-05-11, 14:11

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there was always a dedicated fanbase. the cards always commanded a premium on ebay. but the recent resurgence is just baffling. I can understand the PCI models getting a resurgence as they are fairly useful, the AGP models though .. Id rather have a nice Geforce 256 DDR over AGP Voodoo 5, unless …

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Re: Check this out!

Posted on 2024-05-11, 08:16

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Thats a true skunk works setup ! Way to go at getting that setup working, that Shuttle board is interesting though I wonder what sort of transfer speeds you get over Parallel port with such a setup.

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Re: What does "IOCHREADY" mean and what is its purpose?

Posted on 2024-05-11, 08:06

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Input Output Control Hub or the South Bridge in most cases controls access to all IO systems on the Motherboard from Serial through to Drives, pretty sure USB along with all other Input/Output systems are part of the south bridge in newer modern systems. In older boards USB/Firewire is controlled …

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Re: What does "IOCHREADY" mean and what is its purpose?

Posted on 2024-05-11, 08:03

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Input Output Control Hub or the South Bridge in most cases controls access to all IO systems on the Motherboard 386 is _way_ before any of those things. I'm using some ISA I/O+ATA controller in my old 386SX system and on its settings jumper are missing two pins corresponding to "IOCHREADY (Optional …

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Re: What does "IOCHREADY" mean and what is its purpose?

Posted on 2024-05-11, 07:28

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Input Output Control Hub or the South Bridge in most cases controls access to all IO systems on the Motherboard from Serial through to Drives, pretty sure USB along with all other Input/Output systems are part of the south bridge in newer modern systems. In older boards USB/Firewire is controlled …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-10, 07:44

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Picked up a pair of GPUs, Got a nice looking MX440 PCI and a X850 XT untested. The X850 is one of the PCIe models so hopefully it fires up ok, still looking at a board to throw it at, a Socket 754 setup should fit it well enough. MX440 PCI 128Mb 128bit.jpg Going to put this MX440 into my Dual …

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Re: The King has left the Building.

Posted on 2024-05-10, 06:32

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He seems to take pictures of his own hardware though. Is that within the capabilities of a bot? Yes it is, and we have no idea if its their own hardware or just pictures from an archive. Says Evil King V3 yet its a stock Voodoo3 Box I tried a few of them in reverse Google image search and nothing …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-10, 06:30

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Picked up a pair of GPUs, Got a nice looking MX440 PCI and a X850 XT untested. The X850 is one of the PCIe models so hopefully it fires up ok, still looking at a board to throw it at, a Socket 754 setup should fit it well enough. MX440 PCI 128Mb 128bit.jpg Going to put this MX440 into my Dual …

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Re: The King has left the Building.

Posted on 2024-05-10, 06:26

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Ensign Nemo wrote on 2024-05-10, 06:22: Could a bot rack up over 4,000 comments without being noticed by anyone here until now? Depends on how good that bot is at being human, Ive seen some pretty well programmed bots that fool 90% of the people interacting with them.

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Re: The King has left the Building.

Posted on 2024-05-10, 06:14

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Anonymous Coward wrote on 2024-05-10, 04:42: He seems to take pictures of his own hardware though. Is that within the capabilities of a bot? Yes it is, and we have no idea if its their own hardware or just pictures from an archive. Says Evil King V3 yet its a stock Voodoo3 Box

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Re: The King has left the Building.

Posted on 2024-05-10, 03:46

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Is this user really a bot ? My spidey senses are tingling.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-09, 05:59

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After being bombarded with CRT videos on YouTube, I couldn't take it any longer and "treated" myself to this - my first CRT monitor, which I got for a very reasonable 15€ + 40€ shipping. It's a generic 19" monitor with mediocre sharpness, but the tube is still nice and bright. And I have to say, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-09, 05:04

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Also you really dont want a super sharp CRT with retro stuff, it tends to make older games look awful, a bit of softness can produce a better quality gaming experience. That's definitely true. One thing I was really excited about was playing console games in true 240p resolution with scanlines, but …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-05-09, 04:46

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by Trashbytes

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After being bombarded with CRT videos on YouTube, I couldn't take it any longer and "treated" myself to this - my first CRT monitor, which I got for a very reasonable 15€ + 40€ shipping. It's a generic 19" monitor with mediocre sharpness, but the tube is still nice and bright. And I have to say, …

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Re: Windows XP 4GB GPU Issue?

Posted on 2024-05-08, 08:00

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Yep, before the time of resizable BAR, GPUs stick to the PCI standard of having a max of 256 MB mapped address space available. So Windows XP is technically fine with having more than 256 MB of PCI device memory because the standard doesn't allow for more anyway. However, it is the responsibility …

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Re: Windows XP 4GB GPU Issue?

Posted on 2024-05-08, 06:30

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I don't think 32-bit Windows XP can even address 4GB of VRAM? XP has no issues addressing 4Gb video cards, the only time it has issues is with more than 4Gb of system ram. Perhaps you are thinking of how it maps Vram into system memory, it will only ever map 256Mb of it at a time, this was the …

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Re: Windows XP 4GB GPU Issue?

Posted on 2024-05-07, 13:47

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I would be getting some Vram testing software to test that GPU, XP should have any issues with 4Gb cards. Since its a Quadro I doubt it will let you flash the Vbios with a fresh copy but if its an official signed one then perhaps it might, may be worth flashing the card with a fresh copy of the …

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