Re: Intel i945/GMA950 GPU

Posted on 2024-01-10, 15:57

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by ediflorianUS

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I'm getting an old Dell D430 working for some projects, and I'd also like to know if anyone has a version of GMATweaker? The site was never archived and no longer exists. The GMABooster app is also date limited and it doesn't seem to be possible to get a serial anymore. I did all of that back 10 …

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Re: Minimum hardware specs to enjoy Doom and Doom2

Posted on 2023-11-14, 15:44

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by ediflorianUS

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wasn't CL settings of the MB and Write trough that made the DOOM slow on DX2? I use to play on the 486... seemed fine

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Re: PCChips M396F instable start

Posted on 2023-11-14, 15:24

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by ediflorianUS

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Does that happen when you have a battery in it? (did you properly clean the board? alcohol or contact/brake/multipurpuse cleaner ?) did you check with a magnifiyng glass for cracked solder spots/joints? Although I’m not so bad at cleaning leakage, broken tracks, etc and have a whole barrel of …

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Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades

Posted on 2023-11-14, 15:18

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by ediflorianUS

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oim37 wrote on 2023-11-08, 10:52: Or this must be work https://www.pccables.com/Products/6FT-NEC-MUL … 15-Male-Monitor ? I think it's fine , just recheck the pins and pin orders and evrything if it's not working you have to "edit" it. *EGA

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Re: Gona's PCI and AGP video card DOS compatibility chart

Posted on 2023-11-14, 15:10

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by ediflorianUS

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I never had issues in loading dos on any GPU , is this exclusevly for gaming(chart?)

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Re: PCChips M396F instable start

Posted on 2023-11-14, 15:04

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by ediflorianUS

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Does that happen when you have a battery in it? (did you properly clean the board? alcohol or contact/brake/multipurpuse cleaner ?) did you check with a magnifiyng glass for cracked solder spots/joints?

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2023-11-14, 14:30

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by ediflorianUS

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The yellow stuff you can make white (snow-white) with a UV lamp + watter&bleach/peroxid (let it sat for a few hours or overnight).

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Re: Any Asus P4VP-MX , VT8235+VIA VT8751 (P4M266) Experts around?

Posted on 2023-11-14, 14:17

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by ediflorianUS

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LE. someone suggested on the forum " On my MSI K8T Neo2 board the negative 5V rail provided by older ATX PSUs is mandatory. Using a newer ATX PSU without -5V results in no POST, no picture, dead as a stone. I've found on the net that the MSI K8N seems to have the same issue, maybe that's true for …

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Re: Asus A8n-sli premium won't post

Posted on 2023-11-14, 14:05

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by ediflorianUS

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On my MSI K8T Neo2 board the negative 5V rail provided by older ATX PSUs is mandatory. Using a newer ATX PSU without -5V results in no POST, no picture, dead as a stone. I've found on the net that the MSI K8N seems to have the same issue, maybe that's true for your board as well? Do you have an PSU …

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Any Asus P4VP-MX , VT8235+VIA VT8751 (P4M266) Experts around?

Posted on 2023-11-14, 13:48

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by ediflorianUS

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As subject title suggests , I have a Asus P4VP-MX ,mb /motherboard , with VT8235+VIA VT8751 (P4M266) Via Chipsets on it. The board is a salvage , trying to fix her, had a blown Realtek ALC655 chip , I disoldered the chip, Power led is on , fan spins , gpu slot get's power , new 3v battery. IT won't …

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Re: Toshiba T5200 mods and upgrades

Posted on 2023-11-03, 22:31

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by ediflorianUS

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Hi all. Recently I remembered about an old laptop and decided to start it up; for about 5 years it just sat there and before that it worked well, played Duke Nuke on it. But now when I turned it on I saw that the screen was flickering in a strange way. You can barely see what's written there at all …

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Re: GPU upgrade...or not... Legacy Nvidia G80 8800 GTX topic fix or not.... repair data in topic

Posted on 2023-11-02, 16:39

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by ediflorianUS

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shevalier wrote on 2023-11-02, 16:32: ediflorianUS wrote on 2023-11-02, 15:58: How do I check if it's a ram module? or the GPU ? https://github.com/ihaque/memtestCL Works great on Radeons. At nVidia - it should be too, besides there is a CUDA version. tnx I wil try-it

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Re: GPU upgrade...or not... Legacy Nvidia G80 8800 GTX topic fix or not.... repair data in topic

Posted on 2023-11-02, 15:58

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by ediflorianUS

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"Finaly found a upgrade GPU for the old Dell Precision 490" update , I buyed sunday a (partially)broken Quadro K4200 , 4gb gddr5 ,however, it gave a code 43 on the gpu under windows , and some horiz lines(after driver install) .... Cleaned the whole thing , after dissasambly , then hot ironed …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-11-02, 15:45

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by ediflorianUS

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update , I buyed sunday a (partially)broken Quadro K4200 , 4gb gddr5 , it gave a code 43 on the gpu under windows , and some horiz lines(after driver install) .... Cleaned the whole thing , after dissasambly , then hot ironed evrything (gpu+ram chips) but had no effect , no progress was made. …

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Re: EZ-Drive Dynamic Drive Overlay

Posted on 2023-11-02, 15:29

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by ediflorianUS

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Luzemario wrote on 2023-10-27, 20:24: PhilsComputerLab wrote on 2015-01-20, 07:18: Download it from here: http://www.philscomputerlab.com/ez-drive.html This link is broken. The result is an HTTP error 404. or more here : REMOVED (look over the REMOVED , there are more overlay apps there also).

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2023-10-26, 16:48

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by ediflorianUS

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I found a big box of CPU's. A big sturdy box with MSI on the side, but it smelled like basement & death, so I emptied and discarded it as quickly as possible. Do not discard the fans that are attached to the Overdrive CPUs, even if they are seized. The bearing is removable and can be completely …

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Re: EZ-Drive Dynamic Drive Overlay

Posted on 2023-10-26, 14:44

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by ediflorianUS

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Is it possible to make a bootable floppy disk that loads the EZ drive int 13 extensions? it should be , EZ drive read from floppy , is just be a few files on top of the stock DOS disc... my EZ or other overlay tool asks for the dos disc so it can boot from dos disk (1.44) then enter with C: to the …

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Re: Unable to boot Dell to windows ,or re-enter manufactureing mode any expert on new-er systems out there?

Posted on 2023-10-25, 17:02

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by ediflorianUS

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and printscreen with last updates that slowed everything down.... I will also trow in a current test for comparison.

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Re: Unable to boot Dell to windows ,or re-enter manufactureing mode any expert on new-er systems out there?

Posted on 2023-10-25, 16:56

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by ediflorianUS

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Scores before installing any special drivers from kingstone or anything Scores on slot4 (pcie) - some bios intel function deactivated. Scores on slot5 (pcie) (and some initial PCMark8 scores before and after driver updates)

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Re: Unable to boot Dell to windows ,or re-enter manufactureing mode any expert on new-er systems out there?

Posted on 2023-10-25, 16:33

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by ediflorianUS

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Everything is correct. You need the storage in GPT for UEFI booting to work. Convert the primary storage without losing data. I done this few times in past. What you are trying is you are missing a requirement that SSD or hard drive has to be in GPT instead of MBR for UEFI to work. Boot the win 10 …

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