Re: Lenovo Thinkpad R61I Installing Windows with 4gb causes BSOD's

Posted on 2024-04-24, 19:50

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by dr_st

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Only the T61 has the GM965 chipset, here are also more infos: https://thinkwiki-de.translate.goog/R61?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=eng&_x_tr_hl=eng&_x_tr_pto=wapp That's not strictly true, as far as I know. According to the hardware maintenance manual , many R61 also have GM965. R61 upgrades to 8GB have …

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Re: Lenovo Thinkpad R61I Installing Windows with 4gb causes BSOD's

Posted on 2024-04-24, 09:59

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by dr_st

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I wonder if something faulty on the board can cause memory corruption issues beyond 2GB, in a way that just happens to upset Windows, but not Linux. Did you try running Memtest with 2x2GB sticks installed?

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Re: Aladdin (DOS) music - SB16 vs. SBPro vs. WSS

Posted on 2024-04-22, 16:24

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Even after running xmsdsk 50000 /t /y command, ALADDIN shows the xms allocation error. Also I don't get why this 50 megs of memory gets assigned to the "Used" column as against "Free". The number after XMSDSK shows how much memory to use, not how much to leave free. In your case, since your HIMEM. …

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Re: My water cooled Windows XP machine.

Posted on 2024-04-20, 19:31

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momaka wrote on 2024-04-20, 17:30: Actually, silver cases and blue lights were more of a 2003-2006 thing. My Thermaltake Lanmoto exactly. I even replaced the regular fans with blue LED versions (only one fan was LED originally). 😁

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Re: Online copies of games are not owned

Posted on 2024-04-16, 11:30

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I am as big an opponent of online DRM as anyone - I only buy my digital games from GOG - but The Crew is a rather poor example, almost clickbait-grade in my opinion. Let's see. An online-only game, with no single-player content at all (per my understanding), which was from the day of its release …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-04-14, 19:06

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Today I tried two player split screen in Jazz Jackrabbit 2 for the first time, with my 5 year old. A lot of fun. Spaz and Lori make a good team. Nice! Split screen is actually how I played the first time, as a kid, with a friend. It was the original version, so only Jazz and Spaz. Which levels did …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-04-13, 12:17

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I'm trying to play High on Life (highly praised by a friend of mine, and is certainly a very fresh experience), in parallel with Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis (for DOS Game Club).

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Re: Is the core 2 extreme qx 6700 considered a collectable/rare cpu?

Posted on 2024-04-10, 16:53

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It's funny, because I have both a QX9650 and a QX6700, and I got them both for free. The Socket 771 Xeons which are equivalent to Q9650 (the multiplier-locked version of QX9650) are frequently available much cheaper and can run on some Socket 775 boards with simple(?) mods.

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2024-04-06, 19:14

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The case chassis suffered corrosion and internal fluid stains so, having a media blast cabinet, I disassembled, cleaned and painted it. It was a good time to modify the motherboard tray (removable on this case) to enable hiding some of the wiring. Looks weird, but I wanted the CF card out back so …

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Re: AMD K6-III+@550mhz., Voodoo-3-3000 (tower)

Posted on 2024-04-05, 20:20

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Very nice! My favorite retro generation. 😀

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Re: Config.sys and autoexec.bat for Dos 7.1

Posted on 2024-04-05, 13:55

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Uhm don't you need at least 3 configurations? Like: plain real mode, xms and ems? You can have both at the same time? XMS and EMS are not mutually exclusive. EMM386 (and similar tools) emulate EMS using XMS. Add sound, mouse and CD drivers - and you have everything you need in a single config. The …

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Re: Aladdin (DOS) music - SB16 vs. SBPro vs. WSS

Posted on 2024-04-05, 12:54

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MAZter wrote on 2024-04-05, 12:47: just use EATXMS program, to eat extra XMS over 32MB I think XMSDSK is better, because it can be unloaded, while EATXMS, AFAIK, is irreversible until reboot.

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Re: Are the Creative GigaWorks T40 Series II a good choice for a retro rig?

Posted on 2024-04-05, 12:29

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I've heard complaints, that due to some EU requirement they turn off after some minutes of inactivity and are slow to turn on again. This would cause issues with some older games that don't have a constant BGM or sfx playing, like Monkey Island 1 for example. This might be down to whether you get …

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Re: Config.sys and autoexec.bat for Dos 7.1

Posted on 2024-04-05, 12:22

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I used to believe you only need a single config, and all those menus are redundant. That's because I got 620K free RAM with XMS, EMS and all TSRs I wanted, in a single config. However, as was mentioned here, I later learned that a lot of success with UMBs and EMS depends on your system - chipset, …

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Re: Dosbox potentially affected by backdoor

Posted on 2024-04-01, 12:07

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Safe to file this as FUD as far as DOSBox is concerned. liblzma is not a direct dependency, and analysis has shown that the backdoor is targetted at sshd: In the malicious code, the library checks argv[0], which is the name of the program being executed, for /usr/bin/sshd . Additionally it seems to …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-04-01, 05:33

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I have never gotten around to actually playing Heroes 4 or 5, but from a basic glance and also based on some evidence - it seems that H4 tried to change the gameplay formula drastically. Some liked it, many did not, and therefore H5 largely went back to the gameplay mechanics of the original …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-03-30, 15:54

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The final mission, where you have both a Terran and a Protoss base, was pretty challenging, but not nearly as much as missions 7 and 8. I mostly used the Terran base for defense and mining, while I built up a fleet of 15 Carriers in the Protoss base. Again, I had to slowly expand and draw the …

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Re: Dune II Refuses to Run on Win98SE

Posted on 2024-03-29, 10:43

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There isn't any upper memory available in any of the screenshots I've seen so far. It might be something that can be solved with a simple addition of RAM parameter to EMM386. DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE RAM AUTO

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-03-25, 22:26

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Going randomly through episode 2 of Wolfenstein 3D , since it is game of the month at DOS Game Club. All the enemies are hitscanners and are lethal at close range. You must use gratuitous save/load or learn the levels by heart (which I have neither the time nor the interest to do). I recently …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-03-23, 07:42

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Going randomly through episode 2 of Wolfenstein 3D, since it is game of the month at DOS Game Club. All the enemies are hitscanners and are lethal at close range. You must use gratuitous save/load or learn the levels by heart (which I have neither the time nor the interest to do).

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