Re: Video Card prices

Posted on 2021-03-01, 16:51

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by y2k se

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What are your thoughts? What's going to happen? I sim-race as an alternative for not being able to physical-race and as a somewhat unfortunate matter of timing a 1080, 1080 ti and 2080 ti (all EVGA FTW3 hybrids) in the house. The prices these cards are pulling are crazy, but we're in a bubble state …

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Re: What old software do you still use daily ?

Posted on 2021-01-11, 14:36

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by y2k se

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Microsoft Money Sunset edition.

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Re: Getting current or recent games working in the future

Posted on 2020-12-31, 14:06

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by y2k se

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As for Windows 10, that's a bit trickier. The last time I installed that, it straight up required me to log in and activate it with a Microsoft account. Hopefully someone better versed than I can come along and tell me how you can get Win10 installed entirely offline without a Microsoft account. …

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Re: USB Force feedback Wheel Recomendations?

Posted on 2020-12-30, 19:31

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by y2k se

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Can you clarify your setup and if you're aiming at more simulation or arcade/simcade titles? I'm interpreting from your messages that you have two physical systems, one running 98 and the other running 7 (on which you run DOSBox and virtualized XP)? In my experience, there isn't really a good …

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Re: Powerleap PL-IP3/T & Windows 98 CPU ID

Posted on 2020-12-21, 01:03

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by y2k se

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I finally determined what was causing this. Its a Windows Update, Q272621, that fixes the shown free space on the Virtual Memory tab of System Properties when the hard disk exceeds certain thresholds of free space. So, at least I have an answer for my OCD. https://msfn.org/board/topic/159027- …

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Powerleap PL-ip3/T Bad Capacitors

Posted on 2020-12-19, 14:57

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by y2k se

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Last night, my Windows 98 PC started hanging during power-on sequence. On visual inspection, I noticed a couple bulging capacitors on the slocket. The system works fine with another CPU installed. So, I'm guessing these capacitors need to be replaced. They have 2200uF 10v printed on them; I can't …

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Re: Socket 370 with ISA best motherboard

Posted on 2020-12-15, 12:36

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by y2k se

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I have that Powerleap slotket with a 1.4 GHz Tualatin Celeron on a P2B (1.12 I think). You would need to run the 1014 Beta 003 BIOS and may need to patch in the CPU ID strings depending on the CPU stepping (IIRC, it doesn't have the B1 stepping identifiers in it).

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Re: Powerleap PL-IP3/T & Windows 98 CPU ID

Posted on 2020-02-25, 02:29

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by y2k se

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Tried that; it didn't work.

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Re: Powerleap PL-IP3/T & Windows 98 CPU ID

Posted on 2020-02-23, 17:22

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by y2k se

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PARKE wrote on 2020-02-23, 17:14: A Tualatin Celeron running at 2.048 core voltage ? My assumption is that's a reporting error. The PL-IP3/T doesn't have any jumper settings past 1.8v and mine is set at 1.55v (default).

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Tulatin Celeron on a ASUS P2B for Windows 98

Posted on 2020-02-23, 15:25

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by y2k se

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in Marvin \ System Specs

I just finished up some upgrade upgrades and OS reconfiguration on my retro PC. InWin A500 ASUS P2B v1.12 Intel Celeron 1.4 GHz on a Powerleap PL-IP3/T adapter GeForce 3 Ti200 64MB Linksys NIC SLI'd VooDoo 2 12 MB SB AWE64 Value + SimmConn adapter with 32 MB RAM Western Digital 80 GB IDE Hard Drive …

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Powerleap PL-IP3/T & Windows 98 CPU ID

Posted on 2020-02-23, 15:03

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by y2k se

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I just upgraded my P2B v1.12 from a Slot 1 Pentium III 1 GHz (Coppermine) to a Socket 370 Celeron 1.4 GHz (Tualatin, tB1 revision). I'm running the latest beta 1014.003 BIOS. The system appears to be working fine, except for one thing that triggers my OSD. The CPU details are not shown in the System …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2017-04-27, 18:42

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luckybob wrote: I think someone likes racing titles... Call it a hunch. Cheaper than doing the real thing!

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2017-04-15, 01:58

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Most 7700K are temperature-limited to around 4.8 - 5.0 Ghz and require delidding to get higher. I completed a 3570K to 7700K upgrade last month. I ran the 3570K at 4.5 GHz and my 7700K is temperature-limited to 4.9 GHz for non-AVX loads and 4.7 for AVX loads. It gets in the low 80's under non-AVX …

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Re: windows 3.11 share drive problems

Posted on 2017-03-10, 02:45

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by y2k se

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in Marvin \ Software

Ampera wrote: Try an FTP server. There probably exists a client for Win16. Samba didn't really do much until 95-98, and really was only good on NT5 up. ++ on using an FTP server to move files around. IIRC, the TCP/IP package for Windows 3 includes a FTP client.

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Re: KIDS: DON'T SELL OLD PCS WITHOUT PARENT'S PERMISSION

Posted on 2016-12-25, 09:24

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by y2k se

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was a tech at CompUSA when they were selling those things. They were junk.

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Re: Dual Booting DOS and Windows 95 with GRUB4DOS

Posted on 2016-12-21, 02:53

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by y2k se

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You don't have to move anything. At least for Windows 98 SE, the installer will let you install directly to another partition. On my system, I have a 2 GB FAT16 partition with DOS 6.22/Win3.11 and all the games/programs for it installed there. The rest of the 80 GB hard drive has a single FAT32 …

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Re: Fastest pc you have win98 on? (besides emulation)

Posted on 2016-12-18, 15:19

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by y2k se

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in Marvin \ System Specs

I run DOS 6.22/Win3.11/Win98 SE on the "Retro" machine in my signature.

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Re: Do you prefer "Objectively fast" over "Properly dated"?

Posted on 2016-12-09, 11:45

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by y2k se

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I prefer to play old DOS/Win95/Win98 games on my current systems (through updated source ports and/or DOSBox) but the old racing sims don't work well with my current controllers. So, I went "objectively fast" as my retro system is built for those old racing sims. Racing sims will take all the CPU …

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Re: Meanwhile on CNN

Posted on 2016-11-26, 12:36

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by y2k se

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It didn't happen. http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2016/11/25 … reads/94441324/

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Re: Build your XP Time Machines Now

Posted on 2016-10-07, 01:22

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by y2k se

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Now? I already did. Fastest Windows XP System

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