Re: AGP GPU to pair with 2.8Ghz P4 + 2GB PC133

Posted on Yesterday, 04:53

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by Repo Man11

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I've a 6800 Ultra paired up with a Pentium M 780 overclocked to 2.6 GHz, typical 3D 01 score is 27,000, and Half-Life 2 set to 1280x1024 (with all of the settings to high but no anti aliasing) still gets choppy in a few spots. My Win98 P4 system has a 2.8/512/533 with DDR and a Radeon 9800 SE …

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Re: A surprinsigly expensive LGA1336 motherboard. What alternatives are out there.

Posted on Yesterday, 02:20

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I had a Dell Studio XPS 435T that I bought and parted out - I was hoping for more, but the motherboard only sold for $26.00 plus shipping. So that might be a good candidate for an inexpensive 1366 motherboard.

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Re: CD-Rom drive disappeared

Posted on 2023-05-28, 21:07

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This site lists 1.04 BIOS: https://www.sandyflat.net/digerati/ast486/drivers/d-bios/index.htm If that's newer than what you have, there's a good chance it will give you the option of booting from the CDROM. That BIOS is from "LC" series mine is "MS 5166". Probably it would work correctly ? I don't …

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Re: CD-Rom drive disappeared

Posted on 2023-05-28, 18:25

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This site lists 1.04 BIOS: https://www.sandyflat.net/digerati/ast486/dri … -bios/index.htm If that's newer than what you have, there's a good chance it will give you the option of booting from the CDROM.

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Re: Windows 2000/XP refuse to run

Posted on 2023-05-27, 16:57

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I've tried disabling what you suggested Meatball, now it's back to the original error. I can't revert to another BIOS because the one one there is the only one that supports >32GB disks and fits on a 1Mbit EPROM. Repo Man11, I don't think the timings are suspect. Even if it's pulling straight from …

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Re: Windows 2000/XP refuse to run

Posted on 2023-05-27, 04:19

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I've had issues with XP refusing to work on computers that I'd thought were running fine with Windows 98; I found that the tight memory timings I had set would not work with XP. They actually didn't work with Win98 either, but I had blamed the instability on the OS. I would try running Memtest86 for …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2023-05-26, 03:52

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After completing Half-Life several times, I decided to go from Normal to Difficult, and it certainly is harder. Both head crab zombies and head crabs got me a few times because I was having a hard time getting used to how much harder they are to kill.

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Re: Brand NEW nVidia Geforce FX5500 256MB

Posted on 2023-05-25, 23:24

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I had one of these - it worked, that's about all there is to say about them. I found a few of the sort of AGP cards I really wanted, and then sold this one on Ebay.

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Re: Taking an Intel Advanced/ML (Marl) about as far as it can go

Posted on 2023-05-25, 02:05

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I've an Evergreen Spectra 400 that I'm using in a PCChips M520 motherboard. It came with a K6-2 400, and I swapped that CPU for a K6-3+ 400 1.6 volt chip that is running at 450 MHz at 2.0 volts. I've had no issues with mine.

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Re: No MP3 background music in Half-Life in Windows 98

Posted on 2023-05-22, 15:45

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There are details in this thread about how to set up MP3 playback with Half-Life: Half-Life 1280x1024 in D3D

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Re: Using Windows Update on 2000, XP, Vista in 2022

Posted on 2023-05-21, 17:08

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On a couple of vintage systems where I've done the updates there will be a very annoying lag on startup - you get to the desktop, but the network icon for the system tray takes forever to appear, and the system is basically locked up until it does appear. This is the cause:

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Re: Awdflash gives 'The program file's part number does not match with your system' error with any .bin

Posted on 2023-05-17, 02:52

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Jan's link to the old Wim's site is broken, but here's a Wayback link to that page: https://web.archive.org/web/20051105011452/ht … ex.php?count=-1 If you have a 256k BIOS chip you should be good to go.

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Re: Awdflash gives 'The program file's part number does not match with your system' error with any .bin

Posted on 2023-05-17, 00:28

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by Repo Man11

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Maybe compare it to the one on Jan's page? I notice that the one Jan has is an .exe; maybe it includes the proper flash utility? http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm

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Re: Awdflash gives 'The program file's part number does not match with your system' error with any .bin

Posted on 2023-05-16, 23:43

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I'd try Uniflash in a case like this. https://www.download3k.com/System-Utilities/O … d-UniFlash.html

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Re: Half-Life - CD music stuttering

Posted on 2023-05-15, 23:09

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This thread might be of interest. I just installed that patch, and I can now select 1280x1024. Half-Life 1280x1024 in D3D Edit: that thread mentions the stuck in an elevator bug so I had some hope that a fix was included in that patch, but it persists.

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Re: SUCCESSFUL K6-2+ to K6-3+ Full Cache Enable Mod

Posted on 2023-05-15, 21:57

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One of the 570 CPUs I did this to had that happen, but it still worked and overclocked to 600+ MHz. I thoroughly tested it, thinking that it would surely have some sort of issue, so I was pleasantly surprised that it didn't.

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Re: Half-Life - CD music stuttering

Posted on 2023-05-15, 21:53

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I've a favor to ask; I recently played the original Half-Life (patched to 1.1.1.0) on a P4 system with Windows 98, and there's a bug where you will get stuck on elevators. I'm curious to know if you have the same issue on this PC. I experienced this once in Xen, with those "elevator" spire things. …

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Re: Half-Life - CD music stuttering

Posted on 2023-05-15, 21:47

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I've a favor to ask; I recently played the original Half-Life (patched to 1.1.1.0) on a P4 system with Windows 98, and there's a bug where you will get stuck on elevators. I'm curious to know if you have the same issue on this PC. Judging by this old ArsTechnica thread , it was a common bug. I got …

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Re: Half-Life - CD music stuttering

Posted on 2023-05-15, 12:56

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I've a favor to ask; I recently played the original Half-Life (patched to 1.1.1.0) on a P4 system with Windows 98, and there's a bug where you will get stuck on elevators. I'm curious to know if you have the same issue on this PC.

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Re: Tyan motherboards wants bios chip

Posted on 2023-05-14, 06:19

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I was lucky enough to pick up a Tyan S1854 as part of a lot I purchased for $50.00. When it didn't POST, I took the BIOS chip out and reflashed it in my programmer and it worked fine - I guess maybe it had a bad BIOS flash and ended up being stowed away.

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