Re: SS7 and V2 build - choosing parts

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by chinny22

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Banshee has pretty good 2D already, why you adding the S3? Would give 2 screen support in Win9x if you wanted that. The 233 has high end dos PC written all over it. It's a hard call but I'd probably go with the less common Banshee and switch to a the S3 + V1 if i hit any compatibility issues

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Re: NT3.51 Just turned 25 Today!

Posted on Today, 11:45

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by chinny22

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Great so the site I got my info from was BS! You know of a good site on early Proliant's? Finding info on the range before they changed to the ML/DL xxx Gx convention is really hard.

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Re: Graphics card advice needed for Gateway 2000 Kadoka system w/1 GHz slot A Athlon

Posted on Today, 11:39

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by chinny22

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Most my rigs are Intel/Nvidia/Creative So I'm planning on rebuilding my own Slot A as the "Alternate A list PC" AMD/ATI/Aureal Vortex Still new to Slot A, does this have buggy AGP like early chipsets?

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Re: SimRefinery has been found, apparently!

Posted on Today, 11:23

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by chinny22

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How long to LGR does a review. He does love his Sim games. SimHospital was kind of interesting for a bit, so happy this is out in the wild

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Re: MS-DOS DoubleSpace and DriveSpace, anyone use it?

Posted on Today, 10:55

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by chinny22

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appiah4 wrote on Today, 06:37: It's hard to understand today, looking back.. Yep. I compressed a 420MB drive with the version that came with Win95 Plus! as an archive drive. late 90's, High school student with no income, 1GB HDD primary drive. Disk space was always tight. Performance hit was worth …

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Re: Master/Slave option for modern storage

Posted on Today, 10:36

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by chinny22

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[qGoing for at least 3 1/2" Floppy, 5 1/4" Floppy, CD Drive and "modern day storage" of some sort, so at least 4 devices total. Hang on, the 2 Floppy drives are completely different bus. As long as your M/B has 2 IDE connectors you can put the HDD on one and the CD on the 2nd. In this setup both …

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Re: Working on a 98 SE build, I have no PC speaker, nor anywhere to hook it up.

Posted on Today, 10:15

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by chinny22

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What motherboard do you have? It's very uncommon for one not to have any internal speaker option either a header or a built in piezo. Win98 era hardware would even say could be both. Know the option of hooking up the internal speaker to the sound card was common on ISA cards but don't think it …

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Re: Does anyone know a good cooler that I can still buy today new for 775?

Posted on 2020-06-03, 10:55

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by chinny22

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Noctua I had to provide a receipt (got mine new from Amazon) and picture of the motherboard and they shipped the mounting kit for free 😀 https://noctua.at/en/products/cpu-cooler-retail/socket

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Re: finding a working IDE DVD drive

Posted on 2020-06-03, 10:48

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by chinny22

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You could also try CD/DVD burners you would hope they could read a RW disc! although I'd also expect DVD drives to be able to read RW disc just fine as well, I think you have just been unlucky.

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Re: Windows 9x 'overkill' machine

Posted on 2020-06-03, 10:41

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by chinny22

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Only overkill part of the build is the RAM and CPU which is going to held back by the graphics card anyway. It'll be much more fun then an overkill system anyway. My "overkill 98 box" with a 6800 Ultra never gets much use anyway. Older games have compatabiity issues and work fine on order hardware, …

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Re: CDR101 error with a burned CD-RW disk?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 15:56

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by chinny22

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Nah dos is to dumb to even care :) You wont be able to read DVD's but as drives are backwards compatible as far as dos is concerned it's just a CD-ROM Dos to Win10 (well dos to anything) is tricky to network easiest way is to use ftp https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgATAo9WVHs Win98 to Win10 can be …

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Re: SS7 and V2 build - choosing parts

Posted on 2020-06-02, 14:36

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by chinny22

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Depending on which Win9x games you intend for this PC I'd maybe pair the Voodoo's with a Nividia card for stronger D3d support and still has good dos compatibility. The Matrox will be more fun in dos as you can mess round with the few 3D titles that support the MSI API List can be found here: …

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Re: NT3.51 Just turned 25 Today!

Posted on 2020-06-02, 10:20

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by chinny22

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I think it's only right that I fire up Windows NT 3.51 on my dual P3 Epox machine. Twin 500mhz processors and 1GB of RAM will result in instant performance. I will contemplate today's software and how dog slow it is. Agree it IS only right. It's already pretty damn quick to boot on the 200's and no …

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-06-02, 10:04

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by chinny22

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Maybe just swap out the drive... or I bet if you take those 2 screws out, that little back cover comes off and the weird proprietary adapter comes off as well and then drive may actually use the standard style connector underneath.. such as this adapter: https://www.ebay.com/itm/IBM-49P2738-CD-ROM- …

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Re: My 15+ year adventure with the K8N Neo3 (MS-7135)

Posted on 2020-06-02, 09:54

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by chinny22

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You have actually done really well getting that 7950! These are the last cards to support quad SLI in XP. Challenge will be finding another now at a good price, mine cost closer to $50 each from memory. Did you say that was the original case as well? Always like seeing hardware from someones past …

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Re: CDR101 error with a burned CD-RW disk?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 09:34

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by chinny22

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I don't know why but failing CD drives always got me more angry then floppies back in the day. Unless your going for period correct build I'd actually avoid a period drive, as darry said the earlier drives have trouble with burnt discs, plus general wear and tear on older drives. DVD drives or even …

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Re: AGP and WinXP - Any Real Advantage?

Posted on 2020-06-02, 09:16

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by chinny22

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Kinda agree with the above. AGP and even IDE "feels" right for WinXP However PCI-E and SATA are the better options in the real world.

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Re: CDR101 error with a burned CD-RW disk?

Posted on 2020-06-01, 16:20

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by chinny22

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Windows 10 defaults to UDF format which isn't compatible with dos and unfortunately the inbuilt burning program doesn't give you the option to change the format. You'll need to install a burning program that supports ISO9660 Just about all of them do, including free ones like ImgBurn The Win98 iso …

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Re: NT3.51 Just turned 25 Today!

Posted on 2020-06-01, 13:01

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by chinny22

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Wow NT 3.51 is 25 boy has time flown by. I remember when I was in third grade my elementary School had gotten a new server in the computer lab and it was running NT 3.5. This has brought back some great memories of mine. That's pretty impressive. We had bunch of 486/33's running Windows for …

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Re: NT3.51 Just turned 25 Today!

Posted on 2020-06-01, 12:38

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by chinny22

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Exchange 4 is actually the first version, it just carried on the numbering from the completely different MS Mail product. Setup is a bit tricky if not paying attention. You will be asked for a organisation and a site name. Organisation will become your domain and site will become a sub domain so in …

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