Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on Yesterday, 19:19

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GigAHerZ wrote on Yesterday, 18:26: No. This forum uses custom bitmap for cursor that does not scale based on operating system's settings. That is not true, the custom cursor does scale with the global scaling options on Windows 11, for example. 100% scaling: Filename Clipboard02.png File size 3.33 …

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2023-06-05, 17:36

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And it's only gotten worse, on 4k displays I can barely even see the cursor. Which is definitely a scaling problem with your operating system, because I can see it just fine on my 4K monitor (Chrome, Windows 11). Although I do agree that not having an option to use the regular system cursor is a …

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

Posted on 2023-06-03, 16:11

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Today I equipped my ThinkPad A22p with the best docking station there is - the IBM Thinkpad Dock II (Type 2877). The dock has one PCI slot for expanding the capabilities of this great machine. I put a Radeon 9250SE in it. Windows XP recognized it without a problem and it's a massive upgrade to the …

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Re: FAT16 to FAT32 conversion: Is it possible?

Posted on 2023-05-29, 23:13

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I recently did that on Windows 95C. Microsoft made a conversion tool (cvt.exe) that supposedly comes with Windows 98, and can also be used to convert Win 95 partitions. Instructions are here: http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~jeacocke/fat16to.htm

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Re: Less popular Youtube channels

Posted on 2023-05-28, 16:09

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Mr. Carlson's Lab - he is doing extreme deep-dives into old technology. You can learn a lot here, if you take the time. The Post Apocalyptic Inventor - while I don't neccessarily agree with his bleak world views, the repair videos are top-notch. BitBastelei - nice variety of technology-related …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-27, 11:15

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QDI P5I430VX-250 (Explorer) for 10€ in a broken state. Seller states every CPU only runs with 66MHz. This will be interesting to debug. The board works just fine. It has a really old BIOS from 1996 on it, though - so I guess it detects a lot of CPUs as a 66MHz 486 and that just confused the seller. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-26, 10:56

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QDI P5I430VX-250 (Explorer) for 10€ in a broken state. Seller states every CPU only runs with 66MHz. This will be interesting to debug. It can't be worse than my experience with the ASUS P/I-P55SP4, can it? 🤣 Filename s-l1600.jpg File size 520.14 KiB Views 213 views

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Re: Win 98 build drivers

Posted on 2023-05-18, 11:31

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Babasha wrote on 2023-05-18, 10:35: You can limit your RAM to 512MB with BURNMEM On my systems with more than 512MB it seemed like they got more and more unstable with every driver I installed. I now just use PATCHMEM from R.Loew, which makes 98SE rock-solid. https://archive.org/details/PATCHMEM

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Re: ASUS P/I-P55SP4 - GPU compatibility is atrocious

Posted on 2023-05-17, 19:26

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I've now received an old ball mouse that works fine on all my computers with PS/2 ports. On this Asus board, the machine still hangs when I move it around. I guess I need to give up at this point. Something on this board must be broken, maybe it's the AMIKEY chip or something else. If I ever get …

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Re: ASUS P/I-P55SP4 - GPU compatibility is atrocious

Posted on 2023-05-12, 23:46

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It is very important to get the ps2 config correct. I have fried that port before getting it wrong. I think I haven't fried the port, but fried my mouse instead. Because when I plug the mouse into my working VH6T board, it also hangs the system when I move it around. Interestingly, the mouse still …

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

Posted on 2023-05-12, 15:24

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I was finally able to create an SMB network share that works with Windows 98. When I upgraded my router I had to switch from Samba3 to Samba4 and couldn't get it to work anymore. So I tinkered around a bit today and tried various smb.conf options but they all didn't work - until I finally stumbled …

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Re: ASUS P/I-P55SP4 - GPU compatibility is atrocious

Posted on 2023-05-11, 21:05

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Good news! The Rage XL card indeed works, in both the converted 3.3V slot as well as on the 5V slots. I can't get my old Logitech PS/2 mouse (Mouseman Dual Optical) to work, though. I figured out the PS/2 header pinout, it's documented here: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=364839#p364839 I …

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Re: ASUS P/I-P55SP4 - GPU compatibility is atrocious

Posted on 2023-05-10, 17:25

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It does raise the question whether a BIOS update would help. There's a pile here: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/asus-p-i-p55sp4-rev-1.4#downloads I have already updated the BIOS to the latest version. Also, the 01/16/96 BIOS on that website is the one I dumped from my own board. :) I was …

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Re: ASUS P/I-P55SP4 - GPU compatibility is atrocious

Posted on 2023-05-09, 19:26

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Have you tried with a different power supply? Have you tried without even your keyboard plugged in? I tried that now and it didn't change anything. Even on a modern 1200W Corsair power supply the ATI cards don't boot. All of the graphics cards are fine - they work in my SS7 system (Abit VH6T). You …

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ASUS P/I-P55SP4 - GPU compatibility is atrocious

Posted on 2023-05-08, 23:08

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I got this board a few months ago and it's honestly driving me crazy. I wanted to build a nice Windows 95 machine with this and put an overkill graphics card into it. There are three PCI cards at my disposal and only the worst one of them all even POSTs. - ATI Rage 128 - black screen, board hangs - …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-14, 19:17

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Ah that's a nice one! I didn't remember that they produced Rage 128-based AIW cards. Do you actually plan to use this part of the card or is it just for the collection? I have the AGP version of that card, too. They are amazing with the latest drivers, really solid Win98 cards. This one was planned …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-14, 16:09

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Got an ATi Rage 128 AIW (PCI) shipped from the US to Germany: rage128-packaging.jpg rage128.jpg Despite the not-so-great packaging, the card seems to have survived. First, it didn't output any signal. Then I put it into my system together with a Rage 128 AGP . It was then detected by Windows 98 and …

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Re: Choose one of the three OPTI929A sound cards

Posted on 2023-04-12, 23:12

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Great choice of a card! Just throwing this in here, if you're not already aware of it: https://github.com/JKnipperts/OPTi82c929_Driver

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Re: Vintage Athlon XP 'gaming' laptops

Posted on 2023-04-12, 21:43

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Gericom made at least one Athlon XP notebook (Gericom Hummer Advance 2560XL). It even came with a Radeon 9600. I had one of these back in the day and if I remember correctly it was just a big hunk of hardware with Desktop SDRAM in it. I eventually threw it out, because it had a custom fan embedded …

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Re: Cursor size on Vogons

Posted on 2023-02-06, 21:21

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It was a problem with DPI scaling on Windows for a while and I remember Edge browser (the original one) not supporting cursor scaling properly. Those should all be things of the past now. Do you have any DPI scaling active? The cursor comes from these styles applied to various elements: @media …

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