Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2021-04-05, 02:58

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So... The laptop that stopped powering up last night was working again this morning. Yeah, that’s the symptom of a failing AD3421 chip - your power circuitry will not fire up after a period of usage, but after a day or 2 it’ll come back to life. Unfortunate the chip will eventually degrade and the …

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Re: Vintage Hardware Wallpapers

Posted on 2021-04-04, 18:19

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ATI Rage 128 wallpaper - "The Power of Speed" Filename ati_rage_128.jpeg File size 163.05 KiB Views 108 views

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Re: How many working computers do you have right now?

Posted on 2021-03-30, 22:53

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- Thinkpad T21 - Thinkpad A22p - ThinkPad R52 - ThinkPad X201 - Thinkpad L390 Yoga - Fujitsu Stylistic 2300 Windows 98 Tablet PC - Windows 98SE desktop machine (Tualatin 1.4GHz, Radeon 9600XT) - Windows XP desktop machine (Q9550, 2x GTX570 SLI) - Windows 10 main gaming machine (dual Xeon 24 cores, …

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

Posted on 2021-03-26, 18:44

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I finally got my 1000 watt power supply and tried to run two GTX570's in SLI mode on Windows XP (32bit) and 7 (64bit). Since I own a board with an X38 chipset (Asus P5E3 WS) the NVidia drivers need to be hacked to display the SLI option. NVidia and their "certified chipsets" nonsense...it's all just …

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

Posted on 2021-03-14, 18:13

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I have two GTX570's here and want to do something with them. So I spent an awful lot of time today researching what I would need to run them in SLI - just for fun. Turns out that the official way is getting an nForce motherboard, but the chipsets are supposed to be buggy garbage and running very hot …

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Re: Problems Getting AGP and PCI Ports To Be Recognized In Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2021-02-23, 01:45

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According to the manual the board uses a "Springdale-PE" chipset, which is the Intel 865PE. There are drivers for that one here: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/intel-chipset-drivers.html (2003 and 2004 drivers). Maybe installing those will get those cards recognized properly.

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Re: What made you join VOGONS?

Posted on 2021-02-23, 01:28

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found vogons while deliberately searching for forums about old pcs and lurked for several years on and off Same for me. I had known this forum for quite a while, because I was always interested in retro hardware. When I finally decided to build a full Windows 98 PC and needed some help, I joined. I …

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Re: Retro confessions. What are yours?

Posted on 2021-02-21, 11:51

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I also despise the XP theme, I always turn it back to classic when I have to use one. The "Toys'R'Us" theme has aged horribly, that's true. Many years ago I discovered an unofficial dark theme for Windows XP, called "Paint it Black" and I usually install this after patching the uxtheme.dll. I also …

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Re: Wierd Radeon 9800 Pro by Palit - What am I dealing with?

Posted on 2021-02-21, 02:37

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Ah, that makes sense. :) I ran GPU-Z on Windows 10, where you can see the whole version string: r9800-win10.gif Also dumped the BIOS, if someone wants to take a look at it. R350.zip Edit: Ran some more benchmarks on a Core 2 Quad Q9550 - this 9800 Pro is actually quite a bit faster than my 9600XT ( …

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Re: Wierd Radeon 9800 Pro by Palit - What am I dealing with?

Posted on 2021-02-21, 01:53

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I have the exact same card down to the model number. It also reports 256MB of memory and the chips have "HP25D256163CE-4 16Mx16 DDR" imprinted on them. There are 8 chips, which would result in 128MB, which is odd. I also can't find out anything about those memory modules online. A while ago I …

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Re: looking for x1300 win 9x/ME driver

Posted on 2021-02-20, 00:46

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Did that really ever exist? I don't think so. That Readme even says that the driver is for 2000 and XP. As far as I know, the last ATI card that runs on Windows 98 is the X850.

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2021-02-15, 02:02

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Just started playing Anachronox. It's a really nice RPG using the Quake 2 engine. Love the combat and the weird and funny quests.

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Re: newest web browser that will work on amd k6 III+

Posted on 2021-02-11, 02:24

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You're pretty much out of luck on prebuilt browsers, I think. There is a fork of Palemoon, called "New Moon" that could work without SSE if you build it yourself. I think the binaries provided only do SSE1 at the minimum, though: https://o.rthost.win/palemoon/ So you need at least a Pentium MMX and …

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Re: S3 Unichrome IGP (P4M890) and linux experts question

Posted on 2021-02-04, 03:13

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Also, DRI1 in xorg-server had been broken for years and was only very recently fixed: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1107#note_720229 So in order for it to work you either need a really old xorg version or wait for the next release. In current Linux kernels DRI1 support has to …

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Re: Happy New Year 2021!

Posted on 2020-12-31, 22:18

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Happy New Year! Thanks to COVID, homeoffice and cancelled business trips I've had much more time for tinkering with retro machines this year. So in the end, this year turned out pretty well after all...

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-12-20, 19:34

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The "more kosher" way of doing it is by using an ephemeral server, that is, one that you only spin up when you absolutely need to with SMBv1/NTMLv1 support Or you just use smb.conf options like these which allow for SMB1, 2 and 3 simultaneously: [global] min protocol = CORE max protocol = SMB3 I …

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Re: Let's talk about our hated trends

Posted on 2020-12-17, 20:28

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cyclone3d wrote on 2020-12-15, 15:45: Voxels . They sucked then and, unless something has changed, they still suck. Cloudpunk is doing them pretty well. Voxels in a beautiful Cyberpunk neon-world. So simple, yet so beautiful. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDEDICQEze0

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-12-13, 23:23

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Let us know how it goes as you progress 👍 I am now 35 hours in and I really love the game. It's got a really slow start, though. I didn't like the gunplay at first, because all of the weapons were weak as hell. But the world really opened up in Act 2 (after 7 hours for me). Once I got more features …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2020-12-12, 21:09

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I am currently 27 hours into Cyberpunk 2077 and so far I really love the game It's a little glitchy, but still very playable.

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Re: Early 2000s tat-off: let's see your colored translucent plastic things

Posted on 2020-12-07, 20:55

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Got this weird Zalman fan controller a while back. It's a bit dusty and the knobs need some polishing. Filename zalman_cooler.jpg File size 156.76 KiB Views 173 views Looks like it was released in 2003. I have it hooked up to four Noctua fans, the red controls are just for show and do nothing at …

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