Re: No CDROM Drive Detected on Windows 2000/XP on SS7 Machine
Posted on 2025-02-08, 00:11
...but my electromigration hypothesis doesn't explain why the secondary IDE channel works well in Windows 9X. I don't know. Just do what works and have fun.
Re: No CDROM Drive Detected on Windows 2000/XP on SS7 Machine
Posted on 2025-02-05, 13:28
My guess is that your motherboard's second IDE channel suffers from a partial intermittent failure due to electromigration, for which there will be no reliable configuration using the second IDE channel. I recommend that you enjoy using the PC in the one configuration that works now and treat the …
Re: No CDROM Drive Detected on Windows 2000/XP on SS7 Machine
Posted on 2025-01-31, 16:04
Try connecting both the HDD and the optical drive to the primary IDE channel, and don't use the secondary IDE channel. You'll loose a little bit of throughput, but that's OK if the optical drive works again reliably.
Re: Integrated graphics good enough for windows 98?
Posted on 2025-01-10, 12:36
Sorry for this almost non-answer. It depends on the game, the resolution that you want to play at, the FPS that you consider sufficient and the CPU & RAM. For example, I found that Flight Simulator 2004 played smoothly at 1024×768 on a laptop with Intel Extreme Graphics 2, a Mobile Pentium 4 2.4 and …
Re: Dual monitoring issues (Voodoo 3 and Riva 128)
Posted on 2024-11-30, 13:12
Sorry for the necro, but it is justified to prevent xkcd 979. KB205933 records an incompatibility between the RIVA 128 and Windows 98's multi-monitor feature.
Re: Netburst: Aiming for the Stars
Posted on 2023-11-21, 19:43
The Asus P4T has overclocking options in the bios un less its an HP oem version. Its manual describes options for setting the FSB, Vcore and multiplier . Wow, I didn't know of any Pentium 4 motherboard that allows the multiplier to be changed! How does one overclock a laptop I wonder? Would my 9100 …
Re: Netburst: Aiming for the Stars
Posted on 2023-11-21, 18:55
waterbeesje wrote on 2023-11-21, 08:44: ...Asus P4T...No OC effort 😀 supercordo wrote on 2023-11-21, 14:00: ...Stock benchmarks will no longer be accepted. Put some effort into overclocking the system. Overclocking this board should be easy with CPUFSB. With a little FSB overclocking, you'd qualify …
Re: Slot1 -> Sockel 370 Adapter help!
Posted on 2023-11-14, 21:49
...First question can i run with a adapter a 133FSB CPU at 100FSB?... I own 2 Slot-1→Socket-370 adapters. They both work with a 1.1 GHz Coppermine Celeron (100 MHz FSB). Neither of them works with a 1.0 GHz Coppermine Pentium III (133 MHz FSB). Only one of them, pictured here , works with a pin- …
Re: Aiming for the Stars, Next platform?
Posted on 2023-11-03, 15:59
I don’t really see the point in that.... Ha ha, if you don't like my first idea's restrictions, then you'll really dislike my second idea: Pick a specific computer parts magazine issue. Allow any CPU, video card, motherboard (or equivalent with the same processor socket, chipset and video card slot …
Re: Aiming for the Stars, Next platform?
Posted on 2023-11-03, 04:22
I think it would be fun to pick a specific issue of Computer Shopper (available on archive.org) and declare a competition's rules to be, "Use any CPU and video card that are for sale in this issue. Highest 3DMarkxxxx score at the end of this month wins."
Re: About NVIDIA TNT2 M64 (and other graphics cards)
Posted on 2023-10-27, 23:12
songoffall, you're going to ask which driver to use for your graphics card. Here's the answer: /viewtopic.php?f=63&t=66296
Re: Video card for a Pentium 60
Posted on 2023-10-25, 23:11
AlessandroB wrote on 2023-10-25, 19:10: I have these arrows to my bow, what do you think? do you see a suitable one? Not the SiS 6202. /viewtopic.php?p=823911#p823911
Re: Slot A: Aiming for the stars
Posted on 2023-10-25, 21:44
...Not sure why it shows as socket A in CPUz.... ...my 900MHz SLOT-A machine (also reports as Socket A in CPU-Z)... CPU-Z misidentified my Athlon as a Socket A CPU too, so I tried WCPUID, and WCPUID correctly reports that I have a Slot A CPU. CPU-Z also misreports my Irongate north bridge's …
Re: Video card for a Pentium 60
Posted on 2023-10-25, 14:22
I had good luck with an ET4000/W32p and a Permedia 2 (PCI version) when my family had a Pentium 100. Matrox cards weren't "low" compatibility. They just had issues with some older games like Commander Keen 4-6.... I've read that there are new patches for this Commander Keen 4-6 screen refresh issue. …
Re: About NVIDIA TNT2 M64 (and other graphics cards)
Posted on 2023-10-25, 04:55
...So likely a high PII/low PIII, like a 440BX-based system, right? Yes. Your motherboard chipset will depend on what you have for CPU and RAM. The 440BX is legendary for Pentium III CPUs, but Intel's 815 is also a good common AGP chipset. If you use a Pentium II, then the 440LX would be an option. …
Re: About NVIDIA TNT2 M64 (and other graphics cards)
Posted on 2023-10-24, 19:10
I have a TNT2 M64. It's very compatible with Windows 95 OSR2 through Windows XP. It works in AGP 2X and 4X motherboards, so it's a good card for determining if an AGP motherboard is functional. It supports 32-bit color and is fun for playing Windows 9X 3D games up to DirectX 6 (as long as 640×480 is …
Re: Slot A: Aiming for the stars
Posted on 2023-10-22, 19:51
...What Nvidia driver version did you use? 30.82 Can you please add screenshots using the print screen button? I ran the benchmarks again to create full-screen screenshots and got slightly higher scores. 3dMark2000 6849 with GF2U 3082.png 3dMark2001 4936 with R9000.png ...I wanted to try my GF3 but …
Re: Slot A: Aiming for the stars
Posted on 2023-10-21, 03:53
Here are my final scores. (The 900 MHz Slot A Thunderbird CPU, HP-branded Asus K7M mainboard and 512 MB of PC100 memory are the same as they were on October 14, 2003.) 3dMark2000 with GeForce 2 Ultra.gif 3dMark2001 with Radeon 9000.gif I was surprised by CPU-Z Legacy's lack of detail about these …
Re: Win98 SE and Via 4in1 = Impossible installation!
Posted on 2023-10-20, 14:59
DosFreak wrote on 2023-10-20, 12:38: Don't forget the multimeter. Right. Maybe 2 multimeters to monitor voltage and current simultaneously. And 2 interns to watch the 2 multimeters. Plus a manager, because this is a team now. _StIwY_ wrote on 2023-10-20, 11:00: ...No the HDD have his own cable.... …
Re: Win98 SE and Via 4in1 = Impossible installation!
Posted on 2023-10-20, 11:50
The modem was an external USB one. So, the rock star engineer would have needed a PCI protocol analyzer and a USB protocol analyzer. Maybe you would have needed 2 rock star engineers, one for each analyzer. I like those suggestions from marxveix and Garrett W. You can still download the 4.35 driver …
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