Re: Question about Win2k on a Modern Motherboard Error

Posted on 2025-03-12, 11:16

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by bakemono

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The problem could be related to MPS if it affects 2000 and NT but not 98. You might want to seek out the ACPI 2.0 driver that was posted on discord, and then try running 2000 with ACPI HAL instead.

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Re: Question about Win2k on a Modern Motherboard Error

Posted on 2025-03-10, 08:53

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by bakemono

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Out of curiosity, are you using Standard PC HAL, MPS, or ACPI?

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Re: which 16bit isa cards are faked from vga chips with 8bit bus?

Posted on 2025-03-07, 12:52

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by bakemono

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Looks like there is partial support for 16-bit access on WD90C00. I have one of these cards in my 286 and it benched at 3MB/s in mode 13h

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Re: speedsys clcmos (software cmos clear?)

Posted on 2025-03-06, 09:56

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by bakemono

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fabiensanglard wrote on 2025-03-06, 02:26: I thought one was supposed to use jumpers or remove the battery to clear/reset the CMOS. Is there a software way to do that or speedsys command is mislabeled? Yes, software can read and write the CMOS RAM, it's pretty simple. I/O port 0x70 holds the index/ …

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Re: Miss Laptop-vote for most beautiful laptop(opinion poll).

Posted on 2025-03-02, 14:30

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by bakemono

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Bunch of hot links which may or may not work: https://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/2003/1105/hotrev01.jpg http://sibaten.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/imgp5769s.jpg https://www.hyperlab.jp/img/item/mob/vy10f/DSC01054a.jpg https://www.hyperlab.jp/img/item/mob_os/vy10fbhr_xp/DSC08217a.jpg It's so …

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Re: Nvidia Maxwell mobile XP 32bit drivers

Posted on 2025-02-27, 15:56

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by bakemono

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Desktop GTX 950, 960, and Quadro M2000 are officially supported. It's known that 970 and 980 will run if you edit the INF file to allow the driver to install. It's possible that a mobile GPU would work with an edited INF file, but I don't know if anyone has tried. Add your device ID into nv4_dispi. …

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Re: What Is Your Favorite Operating System(opinion poll):

Posted on 2025-02-27, 15:47

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by bakemono

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Windows 2000 is the best. Mobile OSs are pretty meh. Multitasking OSs without memory protection are also kind of meh. The DOS category is full of things that do their job well enough that it's hard to say which is really better. I've mostly used MS-DOS 6.0, but DR-DOS, FreeDOS, DOS/V, Human68K, and …

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Re: What Is Your Most Hated Operating System(opinion poll)?

Posted on 2025-02-27, 15:32

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by bakemono

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Microsoft Bob was 16-bit. Just throwing that out there.

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Re: What's the most advanced Nvidia graphics card that supports screen modes 12h (640x480x16) and 13h (320x200x256)?

Posted on 2025-02-09, 18:00

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by bakemono

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I wonder then what it is that I'm overlooking...perhaps it's more of an issue with NTVDM itself, than with the cards? It depends on the video drivers, the language mode, and probably some other things. With US codepage, the text screens of QBASIC and QuickBASIC work for me both in a window and full …

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Re: What's the most advanced Nvidia graphics card that supports screen modes 12h (640x480x16) and 13h (320x200x256)?

Posted on 2025-02-08, 08:41

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by bakemono

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All those cards can do modes 12 and 13h. I can do it on a GTX 660. Doing it in QBASIC inside NTVDM is a different question. I think you need to clarify your requirements. What language version of Windows are you running and do you want DOS programs to run full screen or in a window? Running QBASIC …

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Re: What is the simplest way to write an IMG file to a IDE hard drive?

Posted on 2025-02-05, 12:37

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by bakemono

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Roadkil's Sector Editor (Windows) or Norton Disk Edit (DOS) would be two options

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Re: Has anyone here had issues with Aliexpress?

Posted on 2025-01-31, 10:58

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by bakemono

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I tried and failed to buy something on aliexpress. First I added items to the 'shopping cart' but no matter how many times I did that, it showed the cart as empty. I thought maybe I needed to register an account first, but it was not clear how to do that. By chance I discovered that if I put a wrong …

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Re: do these cards support 800*600*256c mode? (all with 512kb)

Posted on 2025-01-30, 18:55

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by bakemono

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256 KB is enough for 640 x 400 x 256. VGA can do 640 x 400 x 16 @ 70 Hz, using the 25.175 MHz pixel clock. But it can't do 640 x 400 x 256. That's probably the easiest way to tell apart 4 bits/cycle chips from 8 bits/cycle ones... If it can do 640 x 400 x 256 @ 70 Hz, it must be 8 bits/cycle. If it …

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Re: CPU Accelerators - Why not put SRAM on them

Posted on 2025-01-27, 19:12

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by bakemono

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IIRC the Cyrix upgrade chips with on-chip cache also snooped IO port access so they could invalidate the cache if it looked like software was doing a DMA transfer. SRAM has never really been fast+big+cheap all at the same time. Hence it was usually used as cache instead of RAM. The NeoGeo CD console …

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Re: is swapping ramdac feasible?

Posted on 2025-01-27, 18:49

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by bakemono

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It would most likely need some video BIOS hacking, unless your video BIOS already allows you to set 16bpp modes (which would display incorrect colors with an 8-bit DAC). Although I wonder if UniVBE has some way of automatically detecting the type of DAC.

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Re: do these cards support 800*600*256c mode? (all with 512kb)

Posted on 2025-01-27, 18:28

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by bakemono

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A (CRT) monitor that handles 640x400 can handle 1280x400 just fine if the only difference is the dot clock. The requirement for a 'multi-sync' monitor is a result of non-VGA horizontal frequency. *to generate vga signal, the ramdac must keep reading video ram for all time, which takes up much of the …

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Re: Warcraft 2 on 486 66Mhz animations lag

Posted on 2025-01-16, 18:12

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by bakemono

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Are you playing the campaign or custom maps? Campaign should be fine on a DX2, but custom maps with tons of units running around could bring faster machines to their knees. The worst was when an AI player would get their peasants into a 'traffic jam' trying to get into their gold mine...

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Re: 22MB/s LAN transfer speed slow? WinXP ASUS P5Q3 Intel QX6850 SATA300 HDD

Posted on 2025-01-06, 04:41

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by bakemono

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

With Win2000 and onboard Realtek Gb ethernet I get around 40MB/s. With Realtek Gb ethernet on a PCI card I get 25MB/s. Not sure if the NICs, the switch, or the SMB version 1 protocol itself is more of a limiting factor. I used to have a better switch but it died in a power outage. Tweaking registry …

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Re: Did you manage to adjust to various generations of video games?

Posted on 2025-01-06, 03:59

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by bakemono

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Analog sticks were crap on the Atari 5200 and they are crap now. :) The last great console controller was on Saturn. I gave online gaming and DRM platforms a chance, but gave up on them permanently in 2011. There are other sectors of the games industry now which are similarly unappealing. (Despite …

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Re: 3Dmark 2001se and 2003 340 result - strange difference!

Posted on 2025-01-05, 02:47

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by bakemono

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My guess is you have maxed out the video card, and CPU is no longer a limiting factor. What were the CPU scores in 3Dmark '03?

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