Re: Issues with ATI Rage coupled with Voodoo 1

Posted on 2018-02-15, 19:35

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by Ozzuneoj

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It could be related to the combination of video card(s) and monitor. If you're using an LCD, older cards often have quirks in some situations. Using the Voodoo's passthrough could be compounding the problems as well. Try playing a non-3dfx game that gives you tearing with the monitor connected …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2018-02-15, 19:26

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by Ozzuneoj

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Best card that works out of the Box is a GTX 960. If you modify the last official Geforce drivers for a 960 you can install a GTX 970 and or a 980. These are the best GPUs you can get for XP. Op makes the case about you shouldn't pick the fastest card becasue of CPU bottle neck. But that is cherry …

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Re: Deciphering SDRAM speeds

Posted on 2018-02-15, 17:37

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by Ozzuneoj

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Thanks for the info guys! I looked up lots of datasheets but I found very very few for SDRAM chips. For whatever reason, its much easier to find datasheets for EDO and FP RAM chips. I'll have to sort through my chips a bit more thoroughly at some point. I actually have several -7 rated sticks, so …

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Deciphering SDRAM speeds

Posted on 2018-02-15, 01:17

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by Ozzuneoj

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I've been sorting through my huge pile of SIMMs and DIMMs. Many of the sticks aren't labeled with their speed or capacity, so I'm attempting to identify them. The SIMMs are generally easy to figure out... its the 168pin DIMMs that are quite baffling. I'm finding a surprisingly wide range of speed …

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Re: Need help with my first 486 boards.

Posted on 2018-02-14, 20:53

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by Ozzuneoj

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Woo! Found another controller, a standard "Amikey", in an incredibly corroded 486 board. The board was so corroded in one area that the "clamps" (for lack of a better word) inside the keyboard controller socket actually came out easily with the controller chip. I brushed them off into the trash, …

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Re: Need help with my first 486 boards.

Posted on 2018-02-14, 19:19

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Okay, I've made some progress! I recently received a bunch of 486 boards. Sadly almost all of them were severely damaged by battery corrosion from long term storage. I managed to salvage some components from the boards though. One was an "American Megatrends" keyboard controller... a bit older than …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-02-14, 15:21

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by Ozzuneoj

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ABIT VH6T is working. Now I'm a happy owner of 2 good tualatin motherboards. do I use the MSI 694T or the Gigabyte GA-6OXT MSI have ISA (usually) and more space between AGP and PCI. That ASUS board is really strange, the place of the socket and the memory it reminds me of S939... Preproduction …

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Re: Best WinXP Video Card

Posted on 2018-02-14, 14:46

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by Ozzuneoj

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My point of view on this thread : From the launch of Windows XP until its end of support in 2014, there's an ultra wide variety of video cards that were designed for this OS. A majority of graphic cards from 2002 (beginning with ATi Radeon 9700 Pro) until 2014/2015 (which are the Radeon R9 270 (and …

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Re: Windows2000 or WindowsXP for a dual P3 1Ghz (Coppermine), 2GB of ram, Geforce 6800+voodoo2 SLI ?

Posted on 2018-02-14, 00:03

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by Ozzuneoj

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I've tried three Voodoo 2 cards now, all with the same weird symptom. They work fine on other systems. I'ce ran voodoo2 video cards before under windows xp with no problems, so i'm not sure if this is another motherboard chipset issue or not... For testing purposes i'm running a Voodoo 3 AGP now on …

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Re: Windows2000 or WindowsXP for a dual P3 1Ghz (Coppermine), 2GB of ram, Geforce 6800+voodoo2 SLI ?

Posted on 2018-02-13, 21:58

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by Ozzuneoj

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Back at you guys, sorry for only awnsering now. I went with XP. The motherboard i'm using is a Gigabyte GA-6VXDC7 that i recently recapped with nichicon caps around the power supply area. But this board has been giving some grief mostly because of it's chipset, a VIA Apollo Pro VT82C686 and it's …

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Re: Windows XP gaming cpu.

Posted on 2018-02-13, 01:35

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This thread is really making me want to install XP on a 64GB SSD I have laying around and use it on my main system. This has to be fairly close to the fastest system that would actually have Windows XP drivers for everything: MSI P67A-G43 i5 2500K @ 4.2Ghz 16GB DDR3-1866 1.5v GTX 970 (cooled with an …

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Re: 9 AGP cards for 1$

Posted on 2018-02-12, 20:45

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by Ozzuneoj

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Hello fellow Vogons I wanted to share a rather fortuitous purchase of video cards I made on the weekend. All for 1$. There were 9 in total orgianllaly, one being a Geforce 4 MX which I decided to biff because of swollen caps (I kept the heat-sink however). The rest appear to be in good condition …

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Re: Windows XP gaming cpu.

Posted on 2018-02-12, 20:01

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by Ozzuneoj

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Ok everyone have their own opinions, ideas and style. Still why the f**k then many of you build old machines, if they are not for old games, zero sense........ Then just dump, or sell all the old hardware, as the new GDDR5 GPUs, the 800W PSUs, the DDR4 memory will run all games on 200FPS and 4K …

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Re: Windows XP gaming cpu.

Posted on 2018-02-12, 04:28

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by Ozzuneoj

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I can definitely see some use cases for a top of the line CPU from 2007 like a Core 2 Quad QX9650 in Windows XP, and I have done the Xeon 771 mod myself many times and never had any problems at all. I don't see the point in playing later DirectX10 games in XP since you're missing out on graphical …

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Re: Old hardware you didn't take or buy... but might still want?

Posted on 2018-02-12, 04:03

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by Ozzuneoj

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Okay, who won the brand new, sealed in box 1Ghz 100Mhz FSB Pentium 3 Slot 1 CPU on Shop Goodwill? Speak up, it had to be a Vogoner... I bid but $55+$13 shipping is a bit too high for me, despite the fact that it'd probably sell for three times that much easily.

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Re: AOpen AX59Pro mainboard dead... how to diag?

Posted on 2018-02-10, 22:46

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by Ozzuneoj

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I have one of these boards myself and it does the SAME thing. Using a 4-digit POST code testing card I get - - - - on the display, no matter what I do. No beeps, nothing. I can run the system with all the components or run it without anything else connected at all (just the board and PSU, no CPU) …

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Re: Sony ending downloads for anything prior to Windows 7

Posted on 2018-02-10, 05:13

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by Ozzuneoj

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This sounds like a job for WinHTTrack (or something similar): https://www.httrack.com/page/2/ I've used this program a couple times and I have entire copies of valuable websites with downloads. Hopefully the Sony site is laid out in such a way that it would work with programs like this.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-02-10, 05:05

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by Ozzuneoj

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Found this (semi-)local. Could not resist, since I have the matching motherboard :) http://i.imgur.com/ERxzVbil.jpg?1 http://i.imgur.com/2fTuuH3l.jpg Wow, those must be rare. I could never understand how it made any business sense for a company to spend time and money on proprietary add-on …

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Re: What is the Shortest Voodoo 1 Card?

Posted on 2018-02-10, 04:57

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by Ozzuneoj

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Every time I look at the AT motherboard layout with the CPU to the right of the slots, I wonder what they were thinking. They KNEW how big ISA cards had been, how big they still were and how big early PCI cards were, and yet they designed boards in such a way that a CPU heatsink basically always …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-02-09, 06:11

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by Ozzuneoj

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Wow, that sounds like an awesome DOS laptop. Hopefully the Rage card doesn't give you any trouble. I have a feeling ATI's poor DOS support is blown out of proportion a bit by the famous DOS vga compatibility chart that shows lots of red boxes and not many green ones for all ATI cards, but I haven't …

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