Re: ATI TruForm - all games, software that use that technology
Posted on 2023-09-19, 23:29
According to my notes, the last Catalyst driver with TruForm was 5.8 - so I guess that's August 2005. I have no idea about laptops though.
Re: multi part ISOs
Posted on 2023-09-19, 16:18
Which leads to a question - when exactly are keys stored in firmware. I had an old W7 restore disk from a different manufacturer. I tried installing it, and never askes for a key. Everything seemed fine until I noticed a 2x days to activate notification. Are keys only present in Wimdows 10 …
Re: MS Game Shop - Game programming in Quick Basic before QBasic ?
Posted on 2023-09-19, 04:23
I used QBasic but never saw QuickBASIC. I was never clear on the relationship between them, if any - the names just made me think they were related somehow. From that article I gather that QuickBASIC was actually older. For a while I remember wanting to track it down because it had a compiler. I …
Re: Intel 440BX (Asus P3B-F) and universal AGP cards don't get along
Posted on 2023-09-19, 03:56
I agree with rasz, try Win2k/XP if you have it. I ran a Ti4200 on a P2B-F under Win2k without issue. The 980XGL is higher end but it's still the same family of cards/GPUs. I don't think Win2k even needs a chipset driver for the 440BX, you can just install the nVidia driver and it should work. Also …
Re: Working K6-2+ doesn't work for me.
Posted on 2023-09-17, 00:31
The last official BIOS for the Tyan S1590 supports the K6-III, but not the "+" CPUs. The modded BIOS that adds support for the K6-2+ says something like version "J.2" on the POST screen. If that's the version you have then it should be working. I've used a K6-3+ with that BIOS, and I think a 2+ also …
Re: Which one of theese Pentium 1 motherboards would you recommend me to buy?
Posted on 2023-09-15, 22:30
Some of the boards you posted are Baby AT and some are ATX. Do you have an AT / BabyAT(BAT) case you want to use? ATX cases and power supplies are much more readily available. Older ATX cases can hold a BAT board, so this isn't a dealbreaker on using a BAT motherboard, but you still have to adapt …
Re: Unmarked socket 370 motherboard
Posted on 2023-09-15, 19:34
Some dual power boards do in fact draw power from the 3.3V pins of the ATX connector, and they don't all even need a jumper to do it. Yep, i.e. CUBX-L. :-) There not solder DC/DC and has 4 solder wire from ATX rail to matherboard 3.3V. Rumors that there are some special boards that determine …
Re: Unmarked socket 370 motherboard
Posted on 2023-09-14, 21:24
As I said, it depends how the motherboard is designed. They're not all the same, and we don't have his board in front of us to probe out with a meter. Some dual power boards do in fact draw power from the 3.3V pins of the ATX connector, and they don't all even need a jumper to do it. Obviously …
Re: Setting jumpers for a K6-2/550 on a Soyo 5SSB motherboard
Posted on 2023-09-14, 12:09
You seem to have a stability problem which you're operating on the edge of, depending how you set the clocks. Make sure the dividers are set correctly (so PCI is running at or close to 33MHz). If that's set wrong, PCI could be at 1/2 of FSB which would put it in the high 40s - which won't be stable. …
Re: Unmarked socket 370 motherboard
Posted on 2023-09-14, 11:54
Do you have a multimeter? If so, try checking the +5V and +12V voltages from one of the unused drive connectors. That's an unusual board. Not many socket 370 motherboards have AT power connectors. Those were obsolete when this board was new. They would have only been included to encourage upgrades …
Re: What modern PSU can be used with high end Athlon XP retro build ?
Posted on 2023-09-13, 22:18
A Radeon 9800 draws heavily from the 5V rail. afaik every 9800 has molex and draws power from yellow cable = 12V Apparently it's very different between the 9800Pro and 9800XT https://web.archive.org/web/20160331082016/https://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/graphics/display/ati-powercons_7.html The …
Re: What modern PSU can be used with high end Athlon XP retro build ?
Posted on 2023-09-13, 12:54
The video card is an important variable. A Radeon 9800 draws heavily from the 5V rail. I think the following generation X800/etc cards draw mainly from the 12V rail.
Re: Slot A: Aiming for the stars
Posted on 2023-09-13, 12:29
There probably aren't many people with a 1GHz Slot-A Thunderbird to compete for the highest scores - but there might be more participants with a lighter weight class. 😀
Re: GPU recommendations for Pentium 3 600mhz
Posted on 2023-09-12, 05:24
The MX440 would be a good choice, it's basically a high end Geforce2 and it's one of the more common and cheaper cards. Make sure it has 128-bit memory though (most do but some deceptive ones don't). But if you find a good price on a Ti4200 then I see no reason not to use that instead, unless you …
Re: List of VLB IDE Controllers
Posted on 2023-09-12, 01:22
1) An old .ZIP backup of the driver floppy ver1.1 from when the disk was still good. This is all you should need. Windows Defender thinks there is a virus in the driver zip file. Malware bytes doesn't find anything. [edit]Windows Defender says: Trojan:DOS/CMD640X This program is dangerous and …
Re: Intel i440EX board stuck at boot
Posted on 2023-09-12, 00:35
Yes, I agree about hangings of PIII on 440Lx mainboards. I've read it on forums. Supposedly the problem is SSE instructions which is feature of exactly PIII (not P2). 440Ex was presented later and the error was corrected Interesting. I didn't know the chipset had anything to do with SSE, but if …
Re: Question about morrowind elder scrolls + Geforce2 MX400
Posted on 2023-09-11, 12:46
Ahhh *light pops on above head* NOW that makes a lot more sense! lol Cool, well that's good to know. Is that because other hardware is limiting it? e.g the CPU? I actually thought the P4 1.6ghz might be better suited for running older games, being a slower CPU and perhaps closer to the performance …
Re: Intel i440EX board stuck at boot
Posted on 2023-09-11, 12:41
The BIOS is the latest. I suppose we discuss here PIII-500 Katmai not Coppermine. So maybe is not so bad about compatibility of the chipset and the CPU One of the video cards I tried on my LX boards was a Geforce2 MX AGP. They locked up with Katmai and Coppermine, but worked fine with Deschutes and …
Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2023-09-07, 22:01
That "Test Message for Ricardo" notification is a goof from Motorola themselves, showing on the Device Help app. (So... someone was testing in production...) Oddly enough, I have a Motorola smartphone but I never received that notification myself. Read about it during the August 25 power outage ( …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2023-09-07, 00:06
I was setting up a 1995 retro rig with dual sound cards. But I just could not get my non PNP sb16 to recognize its mpu port. I almost sure I had it working the other week... Tried for maybe two hours... Blamed the unisound drivers.. Then as a last try, I reseated the jumpers on the card and voila, …
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