Re: Modern GPU with VGA for CRT

Posted on 2020-03-20, 17:25

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by Doornkaat

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what about this adapters? or is it better to use a native VGA Card with native VGA like 980 Ti ? Variant 1 (Delock 85262, USB-C DP ALT Mode, ITE IT6516BFN + Cypress) :https://www.delock.de/produkte/865_USB-C--Stecker---VGA-Stecker/85262/merkmale.html Variant 2 (Delock 62967, DP 1.2 -> VGA, Analogix …

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Re: Voodoo 2 preventing PC from POSTing

Posted on 2020-03-10, 22:38

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by Doornkaat

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Oh and yes, going in near the solder pads where the legs are still seperate and carefully moving up to separate the pins sounds good from the looks of your picture. Just remember you don't need much force.

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Re: Voodoo 2 preventing PC from POSTing

Posted on 2020-03-10, 22:27

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by Doornkaat

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Yup, if I remember correctly one of those is a reset line. Just very carefully insert a needle tip or fine blade between the two pins. The bent one gets bent outward, the other one gets bent inward ever so slightly. You don't need much force. Just make sure to stop once they're safely separated and …

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Re: Voodoo 2 preventing PC from POSTing

Posted on 2020-03-10, 12:10

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by Doornkaat

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Check for bent pins on the chips. Especially on the FBI shorted pins can cause permanent reset etc.

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Re: PSU Power Supply, will it work on Pentium 1/2...

Posted on 2020-03-02, 07:23

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by Doornkaat

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Assuming the mainboard has a standard ATX connector the 700W PSU will work fine (and as you said will be absolute overkill for either machine), only problem might be it doesn't supply -5V and your motherboards may give a warning. Also some few ISA sound cards won't work correctly without -5V. The …

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Re: Trouble installing Windows 98 on formatted HDD

Posted on 2020-03-01, 20:11

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by Doornkaat

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Thanks for the snark, it's really helpful. I do have a legit Windows 98 CD, as I said, but it's not working and I dont have the floppy. I'll seek help elsewhere. Don't take it personal, I don't think he can help it.😉 There are multiple reasons to not have the original boot floppy avaliable and even …

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Re: Advice on making a stable VLB build

Posted on 2020-02-27, 14:05

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by Doornkaat

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having any system I own crash twice in 48hrs is a level of "stability" I do not tolerate, even in retro hardware Yeah dude, me neither. Not today. But this was cutting edge technology back then. Often driver or BIOS updates would dramatically increase stability later on and you'd be wise to use …

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Re: Need help with the performance of Adaptec 1540CF

Posted on 2020-02-27, 10:56

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by Doornkaat

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It's a Gateway2000 486DX2-66v which DOM is directly connect to onboard IDE port. So... local bus IDE vs. ISA SCSI Sorry, there's no way for SCSI to be the winner here. 1 MB/s indeed seems somewhat slow, but can't expect it to be faster than about 3 MB/s - https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p= …

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Re: Advice on making a stable VLB build

Posted on 2020-02-27, 10:27

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by Doornkaat

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This is a curious topic for me, because VLB was never very stable, even when it was brand new. It was a stopgap between ISA and PCI, only lasted a couple of years, and none of the cards for it were very good. So a thread asking about a stable VLB setup is very odd. I can not relate to this opinion …

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Re: Need help with the performance of Adaptec 1540CF

Posted on 2020-02-27, 08:37

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by Doornkaat

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Again, I'm sorry I can't help you with your main issue, but maybe I can help you with an alternative if you don't succeed in getting it running snappy: If you're already using a network card with empty EPROM socket in that machine you might be interested in XTIDE universal BIOS . This helps you run …

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Re: List of motherboards with SB-link (PC/PCI) header

Posted on 2020-02-27, 06:48

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by Doornkaat

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truemaster wrote on 2020-01-31, 09:13: found another board that propably have pc-pci although it says sur cen instead of pc-pci. its a gigabyte p4 titan 533 SUR CEN is most likely a header to connect a breakout cable for stereo surround and mono center audio channels.

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Re: Need help with the performance of Adaptec 1540CF

Posted on 2020-02-27, 06:35

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by Doornkaat

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Sorry, this isn't an answer to your question, but what performance benefits did you expect going SCSI? Assuming you're using DOS or Win3.x with your DX2 and assuming you've got at least 16MB of memory I don't think a SCSI solution will yield any noticeable performance gains in games compared to a …

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Re: Black screen ebay Matrox G550 PCI ?

Posted on 2020-02-27, 06:07

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by Doornkaat

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I don't know about S7 motherboard compatibility of the PCI G550. It is keyed for 3.3V compatibility which indicates PCI 2.2 compliance. But that does not necessarily rule out backward compatibility. I'm not saying you absolutely need WinXP. I was suggesting Win2k/XP because they're contemporary OS …

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Re: Advice on a reliable Windows 98 setup

Posted on 2020-02-27, 05:52

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by Doornkaat

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Eh, you did say “reliable”, right, and probably mostly period-correct? Probably something like an Abit BX6 R2, any coppermine P3/Celeron, 2-4 sticks of PC100 from the same stock, an nVidia TNT2 AGP, a decent mSATA-to-IDE adapter, a small mSATA SSD (no one should deal with a 20 year old hard drive), …

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Re: Asus txp 4 anyone know of a custom bios?

Posted on 2020-02-27, 05:33

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by Doornkaat

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Jan Steunebrink is doing us a great favour by creating and hosting those BIOS, for free even! 👍 Spread the word.🙂

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Re: Black screen ebay Matrox G550 PCI ?

Posted on 2020-02-27, 05:28

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by Doornkaat

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Are you getting any beeps when only using this card? What if you're using the card as a secondary graphics card in an AGP Win2k/XP systen? Is it recognised in device manager? Can you install drivers and will it output video once the system is booted?

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Re: Power supply for 6800 Ultra OC AGP?

Posted on 2020-02-27, 05:12

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by Doornkaat

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cde wrote on 2020-02-26, 10:13: Doornkaat wrote on 2020-02-26, 10:09: Glad to be of help! 😀 That single 12V rail 5000W EVGA PSU is more than adequate. 😁 Looking forward to your report! So many watts! Not quite over 9000 though. 😉 5000W? Who said anything about 50000W? I certainly didn't say …

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Re: Power supply for 6800 Ultra OC AGP?

Posted on 2020-02-26, 10:09

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by Doornkaat

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Glad to be of help! 😀 That single 12V rail 5000W EVGA PSU is more than adequate. 😁 Looking forward to your report!

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Re: Advice on making a stable VLB build

Posted on 2020-02-26, 05:18

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by Doornkaat

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This is a curious topic for me, because VLB was never very stable, even when it was brand new. It was a stopgap between ISA and PCI, only lasted a couple of years, and none of the cards for it were very good. So a thread asking about a stable VLB setup is very odd. I can not relate to this opinion …

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Re: Cloning old 486 HD to CF or SSD

Posted on 2020-02-26, 04:21

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by Doornkaat

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Sorry for the necropost, but it's on topic... I am trying to do this, but it's for a laptop and I don't have a second IDE port. I have a desktop with single IDE HDD connection in it that I can use. My plan was to copy the HDD to my windows 10 machine and then get it onto the CF card over the same …

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