Re: What to do when Windows 7 support ends in a few weeks time?

Posted on 2019-10-23, 08:34

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by chinny22

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Much like everyone else, Win 7 still has some life left in it if your sensible. What stopped me using XP was when software dropped support. In my case main stream browsers, that was a good 2-3 years after it went EOL I'll do the same with 7, keep it up to date, change to some free but decent …

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Re: SCSI or IDE on Win98

Posted on 2019-10-22, 16:05

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by chinny22

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Even SATA HDD is better then SCSI. If it was me though I'd just get some of those SATA to IDE adapters that let you use SATA HDD or SSD's off the inbuilt IDE controller which Win98 will understand nativly

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Re: Ideas for my best windows 98se build

Posted on 2019-10-22, 15:44

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by chinny22

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I wouldn't let the cap plague scare you off 478. I've 2 that do have a few swollen caps but still run fine. (I don't care enough to recap one and the other I may do at some point, neither are used often) I also have an identical PC that's fine and most importantly the motherboard I actually paid …

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Re: For *only* 2002-2006 era games any benefit to Win Xp 64-bit over 32-bit?

Posted on 2019-10-22, 13:57

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by chinny22

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Ohh the 8800's, I say do it! For a while I had Quad SLI with a pair of GeForce 7950 GT2's (last duel GPU card to support SLI in XP) on my Asus P5N-D. Performance wise it was holding the machine back, but personal satisfaction 10 times better then a single card setup.

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Re: LGA 775 CPU compatibility

Posted on 2019-10-22, 12:33

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by chinny22

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Don't forget about the LGA 775 Xeons, X3000, 3100, 3200, 3300 CPU's have a very good chance of been supported out of the box if the motherboard supports the Pentium equivalents. (confirmed on my Asus P5KPL-AM and Asus P5N-D Rev 1.02G motherboards) If no direct equivalent exists it will come down to …

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Re: My Socket 775 system revival story with pics

Posted on 2019-10-22, 11:47

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by chinny22

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Why you running Vista? or is that the whole point of the build? I get that 775 is new enough that it can be considered boring but I have a soft spot for the it. Can be made to run Win98 (which I still need to try) Make great WinXP machines and not quite old enough to be written off as a daily driver …

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Re: Sound Blaster Audigy Rx...oppinions?

Posted on 2019-10-22, 11:21

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by chinny22

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Procyon wrote: I see thanks. Though EAX should work with this card for old games right? Even if it's just emulation how does it hold up? Still cant beat the real thing but if you don't want a dedicated XP box I guess its ok https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLj9obfMppk

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Re: Help with Windows 95 Boot Disk not recognizing IBM PC

Posted on 2019-10-22, 10:08

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by chinny22

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wait i want that ISO... pls archive.org it This is an Australian edition so the English will be a bit off. A lot of s's instead of z's. so, correct ;) I grew up with Windows 95 and 98 so I've never had need to use Dos, so all the logic and commands just don't exist in my brain. I need to find a …

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Re: Help me build a top of the line PC circa 1998

Posted on 2019-10-22, 09:54

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by chinny22

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If it was me write down a list of the main games you want to play. 1) Check the recommended system requirements of the most demanding games. This will decide your hardware for you. 2) Double check if any of your games are effected by speed issues. https://www.vogonswiki.com/index.php/List_of_CPU_ …

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Re: Deskpro XL 590 restoration - questions

Posted on 2019-10-22, 09:31

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by chinny22

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If you want to avoid buying yet another CF card you can get another card reader, just as long as it has a jumper to set it to primary or slave. It's just the OS that needs to be installed on a bootable card. Games, programs, etc wont care. also if your duel booting between W98 and 2k i'd keep c:\ at …

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Re: For *only* 2002-2006 era games any benefit to Win Xp 64-bit over 32-bit?

Posted on 2019-10-22, 09:12

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by chinny22

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xjas - not made of money, just well into adulthood and still not married. It doesn't bother me at all that in my main rig the 2nd graphics card generally does nothing... I combined dr_st's advice and bought the best single GPU (in this case a Titan RTX), and since there still isn't a single more …

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Re: HP Omnibook XE3-GC (Win98SE/Win2K): First foray into dual-booting

Posted on 2019-10-22, 08:49

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by chinny22

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P3 should be fine to play your dos games from within windows, wouldn't call it a deal breaker Ok so you cant mess around with hardware but plug a keyboard/mouse/screen into it and then you have a retro machine that takes up no space and just as good 90% of the time. Tip from someone who's duel …

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Re: Help with getting Windows 98SE install to see my optical drive

Posted on 2019-10-22, 08:33

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by chinny22

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tails wrote: Does that max of 4 drives include partitioned hdds? Nope, limit is on physical drives only.

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Re: Dell Studio XPS 9100 project maybe?

Posted on 2019-10-17, 14:45

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by chinny22

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This computer was what I used at work 6 yrs Totally get this, sentimental reasons are valid reason to go above economical costs I really liked win7 whereas I abhor win10 Also get this cheapskate Yep so am I, and that's where the problem is. You can "rip yourself off" and spend the $300, justifying …

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Re: Help with getting Windows 98SE install to see my optical drive

Posted on 2019-10-17, 11:13

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by chinny22

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Floppy disks were always unreliable even back in the day A Gotek floppy emulator is a good thing to have if you think you'll be using them often and are cheap on ebay. Looking at P 3-20 your manual you can get around needing raid drivers https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/support/865PE_Neo2V#down- …

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Re: Why is Windows install ScanDisk lying about an error on my HDD?

Posted on 2019-10-17, 10:31

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by chinny22

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What software are you using to partition the drive? I find fdisk is best. yes it's not very smart but either is windows so at least you know windows will understand the disk layout. With disks larger then 64GB you need either fdisk included with WinME or the updated Win98 version(which is getting …

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Re: Ess es1868f or Soundblaster awe64 value ct4380

Posted on 2019-10-17, 10:11

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by chinny22

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Nah questions are good, we all have to start at some point. So the quick and dirty history of dos game music. - First you had PS speaker, which is... your internal PC speaker - Then you had Adlib, this is done by a Yamaha OPL chip or clone of said chip that is on your sound card. - Next came MT32, …

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Re: Dell Studio XPS 9100 project maybe?

Posted on 2019-10-17, 09:29

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by chinny22

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Agreed, I'm in the market for a LGA-1366 system but prices haven't dropped enough yet. They may be in the old category but not obsolete. I'm hoping when Win7 goes EOL next year kill's the value of this era hardware.

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Re: storage of vintage hardware

Posted on 2019-10-17, 09:21

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by chinny22

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Store them like you would a gun. Bit extreme, I wouldn't trust my kids messing round with my pc's ;) As everyone has said if you can control the extremes then great. I've got a bit too much to do that. For hardware I thinks valuable or fragile I keep in a container in my house, not ideal but at …

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Re: Conserving Dallas RTC chips

Posted on 2019-10-17, 09:05

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by chinny22

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interesting! My very first PC from 95 still has it's original Dallas chip working well, and not really looking forward to the day I need to do the coin battery hack. If this puts that job off for another year or so I'm a happy chappy

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