Re: weird DOS install issue on my 486 DX2-66

Posted on 2015-01-04, 22:07

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brostenen wrote: Might be a long shot, but..... How about getting a HDD and "shrinking" it, so the system thinks that it is a 2 gig or smaller one? 425mb perhaps? (just to be on the safe side) you mean like with seagate disk wizard? doesn't it only support seagate disks?

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Re: weird DOS install issue on my 486 DX2-66

Posted on 2015-01-04, 22:03

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unfortunately the bios does not support boot from cd. i have created and formatted a partition with the win95 boot floppy and dos still didn't install...

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Re: weird DOS install issue on my 486 DX2-66

Posted on 2015-01-04, 21:57

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the weird thing is that it was working with that samsung hard drive all the time! also the format and fdisk on the win95 start floppy work (when i start from it) without a problem. right now i unfortunately don't have a hdd smaller than 2gb handy...

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weird DOS install issue on my 486 DX2-66

Posted on 2015-01-04, 21:00

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by nemail

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Hi I'm having a weird problem reinstalling my 486 desktop with Dos 6.22 (german). DOS floppy boots, then it asks me to confirm that I want to format the disk and immediately after I do that, it says it encountered an error accessing the disk and exits to DOS prompt. It doesn't matter if i then first …

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Re: access network shares from windows 98se computer

Posted on 2015-01-01, 16:44

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thanks, so i'd have to enable ntlm1 and create a user like i'm logged on on the win98se machine? i'll give that a try!

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Re: The end of the road?

Posted on 2014-12-31, 01:59

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kill that with ssd pooowaaaaarrrrr

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Re: The end of the road?

Posted on 2014-12-30, 20:15

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reagarding windows xp security: oh my, so many people are crapping their pants because of that. it is ridiculous. every windows (and every other OS) has and will have security related bugs. absolutely nothing can replace common sense when using computers. as it has been stated earlier: - watch out …

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access network shares from windows 98se computer

Posted on 2014-12-30, 16:56

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Hi does anyone know what i have to do to be able to access network shares on a windows 8.1 computer from a windows 98se computer? I'm able to access a share which lies on a 98SE computer from a computer with 8.1 but not the other direction. win98se asks for a password for the IPC$ share, it seems …

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Re: which vga/3d card for Pentium 1 233MMX?

Posted on 2014-12-29, 15:44

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hey all it appears that i managed to get the voodoo 2 to work normally. i've used the creative driver now and downclocked it from 93mhz to 90mhz. so far all games were working and no more freezes or crashes. even need for speed porsche runs well at 800x600. neither my P1 233MMX nor my P2 333MMX box …

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Re: which vga/3d card for Pentium 1 233MMX?

Posted on 2014-12-28, 18:26

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ok thanks, will check that too - currently giving the voodoo 2 another chance 😀

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Re: which vga/3d card for Pentium 1 233MMX?

Posted on 2014-12-28, 18:16

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It sounds like driver issues to me, the drivers are probably overclocking the cards. At least I think this is what is happening to the Voodoo Rush. but why should the reference drivers overclock the cards? Back then reference drivers did lots of stuff we would not accept today. Perhaps the exact …

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Re: which vga/3d card for Pentium 1 233MMX?

Posted on 2014-12-28, 18:09

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Skyscraper wrote: It sounds like driver issues to me, the drivers are probably overclocking the cards. At least I think this is what is happening to the Voodoo Rush. but why should the reference drivers overclock the cards?

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Re: which vga/3d card for Pentium 1 233MMX?

Posted on 2014-12-28, 18:02

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ok is there an alternative to 3dfx cards? turns out that my voodoo 2 seems to be faulty, as well as my hercules stingray 128/3D the V2 just disappeared from dxdiag (only s3 is shown now) and also 3dmark 99 doesn't see it, although i can see it in the device manager. that happened during the system …

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Re: which vga/3d card for Pentium 1 233MMX?

Posted on 2014-12-28, 14:53

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cool thing, but unfortunately my only system which compares to your test system is occupied by my voodoo 5 and its kind of "finished" so i don't want to mess around with it too much...

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Re: Matrox G45+ and G55+ usable?

Posted on 2014-12-28, 14:50

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great, thanks for that!

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Re: which vga/3d card for Pentium 1 233MMX?

Posted on 2014-12-28, 14:28

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whoa huge difference between the cpus... as i have more than one retro gaming rig i decided to use my voodoo 2 + s3 virge 325 in my pentium 233mmx box (which card would you recommend instead of the S3 or is it ok?) and to use my voodoo 3 pci in my p2-333 rig as it doesnt have an agp slot (hp vectra …

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Matrox G45+ and G55+ usable?

Posted on 2014-12-28, 14:24

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Hi, i found 2 Matrox G45+ and one G55+ (i guess they are G450 and G550?) in the basement - are they any good for retro gaming rigs? to which other vga cards of that era are they comparible? I remember once playing counter strike with a matrox card and for whatever reason no textures at all where …

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Re: which vga/3d card for Pentium 1 233MMX?

Posted on 2014-12-28, 01:22

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About the CPU limitation of Voodoos: Voodoo Graphics / Rush -> Pentium 166 Voodoo2 / Banshee -> Pentium 2 400 / K6-3 500 Voodoo2 SLI -> Pentium 3 800 / Athlon 800 Voodoo3/4 -> Pentium 3 1000 / Athlon 1000 Voodoo5 -> Pentium 4 3GHz+ / Athlon XP 2GHz+ With these CPUs 99% games in the given time frame …

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strange l2 cache on fic pt-2007

Posted on 2014-12-28, 00:42

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hi currently i'm playing around with my socket 7 fic pt-2007 board which has 512kb onboard pipeline burst level II direct-mapped write-back cache according to the manual and according to the chips i can see on the mainboard. now the strange thing ist, i get only barely different results in 3dmark 99 …

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Re: which vga/3d card for Pentium 1 233MMX?

Posted on 2014-12-27, 23:20

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ok thx, i'll think about it!

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