Repairing EDID info on a Viewsonic PF790

Posted on 2022-04-06, 05:09

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by mastergamma12

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in Marvin \ Video

So as the title says, My Viewsonic PF790's EDID info appears to be corrupt, Windows 98 defaults to 640x480 without any way of changing it outside Powerstrip, XP, 7 and 11 all show up as an "analog monitor" and have no monitor info or settings present. Changing the vga cable does nothing to fix it. …

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Re: The Final Lan Party (My Windows Xp/7 rig) (Core i7 980x, GTX 480,DFI Lanparty UT X58-T3eH8,)

Posted on 2022-04-05, 07:22

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by mastergamma12

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Finally updated the Windows XP/Windows 7 Aida64 screenshots.

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Re: Games for AMD K6-III+ with Voodoo-3 ?

Posted on 2022-04-02, 09:10

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by mastergamma12

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was there ever a dual agp mobo? This one time at a PC trade show, Micron demonstrated a motherboard chipset that permitted dual AGP ports: Micron SamuraiDDR. IIRC the board with that particular featureset was called Micron Madison. The Madison dual Slot 2 board would have basically used two North …

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Re: DDR2 System for Windows XP Socket 775 Xeon X5470

Posted on 2022-04-01, 23:39

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by mastergamma12

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Very nice, my 980x Lanparty rig has the same usage but I also got 7 on it for DX10 and early DX11 stuff.

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Re: Mystery "Aureal Vortex 3" Based Sound Card

Posted on 2022-03-31, 00:48

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by mastergamma12

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I'd be very curious to find out what that card actually is.

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Re: A graphics card I bought lasted only a few seconds before dying

Posted on 2022-03-30, 08:33

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by mastergamma12

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Don't remind me :( Last 9700 Pro I had died back in early 2020 all because I wanted to repaste it because I was worried it would die. Repasted it and it died.......... With stock cooler .... it died exactly because you repasted it :). Original TIM fills some space between die and heatsink. Paste is …

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Re: A graphics card I bought lasted only a few seconds before dying

Posted on 2022-03-30, 05:28

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by mastergamma12

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pancakepuppy wrote on 2022-03-30, 00:43: Was it a Radeon 9700 Pro? :p Yeah I've had cards die quickly. Such is life, some cards and chips just love to die. Don't remind me 🙁 Last 9700 Pro I had died back in early 2020 all because I wanted to repaste it because I was worried it would die. Repasted …

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Re: (The Tuala-Bus) Pentium III-S 1.4ghz, AWE64G+Audigy 2 ZS, Voodoo5 5500, Chieftec Dragon Rambus rig

Posted on 2022-03-26, 23:51

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by mastergamma12

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Tetrium wrote on 2022-03-26, 14:13: mastergamma12 wrote on 2020-11-20, 23:58: Here's a photo of the rig now. […] Show full quote Here's a photo of the rig now. What's the size of the case fans you're using btw? Should be 92mm IIRC.

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Re: Is there any Tualatin-compatible Socket 370 board that doesn't cost a million dollars?

Posted on 2022-03-24, 08:01

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by mastergamma12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I personally went with the Asus P3c-E with a Lin Lin + Slocket so I could use my 1.4S with an Intel Chipset + ISA.

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2022-03-22, 21:18

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by mastergamma12

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yep, it's definitely Rivatuner, I disabled it on my X570 FTW rig and no more crashes, also I updated MSI Afterburner (which includes Rivatuner) on my HTPC with a Z370 FTW and 9900kf and same thing happens on there now. Do you plan to report this bug in Rivatuner/RTSS? If they fix it I would be …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2022-03-22, 20:06

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by mastergamma12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I've been getting a weird issue with SIV where if I open it using Winrar Thank you for the report, but you should specify which version of SIV this is rather than making me guess. This time I tried SIV 5.64 Beta-00 and the WINDBG played ball. Does this only ever happen when you run SIV64X from …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2022-03-22, 18:22

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by mastergamma12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I've been getting a weird issue with SIV where if I open it using Winrar, I'll sometimes get a crash with my X570 FTW, this also happened a while ago on an X570 Aorus Elite that I sourced for a friend of mine Here's the link for the files that were created when SIV crashed [REDACTED]

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-19, 07:20

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by mastergamma12

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

GDDR3 or GDDR4 2900 XT? Unfortunately 512 Mb GDDR3. I think that the later models were 1Gb GDDR4. ( GPU-Z ) (All my parts are listed with doc/drivers/screenshots/pictures on my server (link in my signature) : https://retro.user-unfriendly.net ) You'd be correct, I've got a 1GB GDDR4 version.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-03-18, 21:56

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by mastergamma12

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

With the addition of an HD 2900XT and a Radeon 8500LE, i've almost completed my ATI collection today ! (At least for the era i'm interested in) A family picture to celebrate ! IMG_20220317_180928.jpg (And a close up montage based on multiple pictures here . Warning, the picture is > 20Mb) From top …

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Re: The Tuala-Bus (My 9x/Dos Rig) (Pentium III-S 1.4ghz, AWE64G+Audigy 2 ZS, Voodoo5 5500, Chieftec Dragon Rambus)

Posted on 2022-03-12, 21:59

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Snatched a sealed USB 2 card from Goodwill for $1.99, uses a Via Controller (5 port), seems to work fine and now I don't have to yank out my keyboard when I need to use a flash drive. 😁

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-03-11, 03:39

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by mastergamma12

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I honestly don't ever see me replacing the Corsair 760T my 5950x rig is in.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-03-11, 01:49

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by mastergamma12

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm in the same boat. I would really like one of these old Gateway 2000 towers, but I would have nowhere to put it. The fact that the one you've picked out has two 2.5" bays is very attractive. You can put dual floppies or a floppy and a card reader. vintage-gateway-2000-p5-133-gaming_1_ …

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Re: The Final Lan Party (My Windows Xp/7 rig) (Core i7 980x, GTX 480,DFI Lanparty UT X58-T3eH8,)

Posted on 2022-03-04, 04:52

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by mastergamma12

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Replaced my Crucial Ballistix kit with a XMS3 era Corsair Dominator kit.

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2022-02-20, 14:35

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by mastergamma12

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Here Thank you, all the names and values look good to me. Did you check the fan names with fans connected to the unused headers? I noticed the EV 3.29 3.27 1.10 1.36 5.01 1.80 12.16 3.29 1.81 0.91 1.21 0.89 0.95 1.20 0.69 2.53 0.96 0.97 3.32 1.73 0.69 0.68 was truncated and am wondering if it …

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Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2022-02-19, 22:08

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by mastergamma12

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looks good to me. Also the line thing didn't seem to work. Thank you and I just checked, the panel is 1103 pixels high and your screen is only 1080 when I had assumed it was taller. Looking at [ Status ] I spotted some issues which were down to typos which I should have fixed in the attached SIV64X …

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