Re: SCSI pains - AHA-2940U2W doesn't detect Cheetah

Posted on 2018-03-03, 00:21

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The Adaptec AHA-2940UW are good cards but you need to flash them to the latest BIOS for them to be good. This should be a upgrade over a Motherboard that only has 33mhz IDE. or slower. The host bus must have its own ID it can't be the same ID as the HDD. What SCSI ID is your host bust controller? If …

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Re: AverMedia M1A2-E Dual capture card

Posted on 2018-03-02, 22:53

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That looks like a Avermedia Purity3D 500, It has a hardware encoder for PVR functions. Analog recording is actually a thing in some circles usually for things like laserdisc restoration or old VHS. Most people want a card that can do uncompressed analog recording with a 3d comb filter in a program …

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Re: best PCI sound card for win 98 and XP

Posted on 2018-03-02, 22:44

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External Hub thing no. You want a PCI card or a PCMCIA if this is a laptop.

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Re: Installing Windows 9x in 2018

Posted on 2018-03-02, 22:39

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ok. The hardest way to do this is also the most easyest way. Open up the computers that don't have cd rom or floppy. Either leave the cover off the PC and just plug a spare CD rom and floppy into the motherboards for the purpose of just formatting and copying over the files. Or just take out the …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2018-03-02, 19:49

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I wonder how much gold you could get if you melted all of those CPUs down.

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Re: a little help with a quadro4 700 xgl

Posted on 2018-03-02, 19:33

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I know they can be coaxed to work as you have proven this but Quadros are not very good for gaming. Try enabling application compatibility layer in windows 2000. You must have at least SP2. Click start then run and paste this in the run box. regsvr32 %systemroot%\apppatch\slayerui.dll restart the …

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Re: My very first Win 98 Retro Gaming Rig - Build Advice

Posted on 2018-03-02, 19:13

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Well, the thing is, that on today's market, you will most probably spend way more money on period correct Win 98 system, than on overpowered one. That is correct. I'm not interested in having all memory available for the OS to use, but it would be a good deal to be able to have it running in stable …

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Re: Squealing noise coming from PC

Posted on 2018-03-02, 18:50

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UPS only helps, if you have a Online UPS, those cheap small upses do not help with bad power, only with no power. I don't know about junky power supplys. Good normal UPS outputs 100% pure sinewave. It doesn't make a difference if the power is on or off. UPS should be always filtering the power from …

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Re: Does a TDP=9W processor need a heat sink ?

Posted on 2018-03-02, 07:38

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Put your finger on it if its only warm to the touch under full load it doesn't need any cooling. If it burns you it needs cooling.

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Re: The Tualatinator, a.k.a. Can a retro PC be still useful?

Posted on 2018-03-02, 07:34

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Useful can mean different things to different people depending on what their needs are. If your needs are very low it can be useful But for modern workloads a smartphone is more useful. Modern workload is like watch a youtube video at 1080 without stutter, while firing up skype so you can video chat …

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Re: *Solved - AGP PRO* Modern graphics slot advice for old dinosaur

Posted on 2018-03-02, 06:50

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Basically only really old AGP cards that were designed for like CAD and 3D modeling at the time. You would be better off with like the later Nvidia 8x AGP Quadro for the same programs that those cards were intended for..

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Re: a little help with a quadro4 700 xgl

Posted on 2018-03-02, 06:42

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Than you have to get the drivers elsewhere. I was going to take a look but you didn't say what driver you needed. This was literally the 1st thing that came up when i searched BING. ???????????????? forceware 43.45 for windows 2000 http://drivers.softpedia.com/get/GRAPHICS-BOARD/NVIDIA/nVIDIA- …

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Re: Dell E193FP 19" LCD - Buzzing / Smoking

Posted on 2018-03-02, 06:06

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Could be bad capacitors soldered to the PCB inside the LCD. Look for bulging or leaking capacitors.

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Re: Squealing noise coming from PC

Posted on 2018-03-02, 06:04

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Sounds like Coil whine. The squealing noise. That is. The Clicking noise sounds like a bad head on a Hard drive. Ya I would replace the powersupply and see if that makes a difference. It may not but its a good place to start. Also you should plug your computer into a UPS incase its just bad power …

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Re: Retro Rig Photo Thread

Posted on 2018-03-02, 05:58

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Lots of really nice rigs in here, I want to post mine but I don't have any pics yet. + it's pretty dirty.

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Re: My very first Win 98 Retro Gaming Rig - Build Advice

Posted on 2018-03-02, 05:47

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I understand that, but the point I was making for example is if I used HIMEMX I still can't allocate all of my ram. The point is making a system that is overpowered. If you want to allocate all of your ram on 98 cuz you got an OP system with 2gb or ram than theres only one way. If you have the money …

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Re: My very first Win 98 Retro Gaming Rig - Build Advice

Posted on 2018-03-02, 03:18

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You can do that but I didn't give any options, other than to install with 512 then patch then add ram. You can use HIMEMX to install, then patch and remove HIMEMX. But I don't see any good reason to just use HIMEMX and do nothing. To me the last doesn't seem like a good option for someone intending …

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Re: My very first Win 98 Retro Gaming Rig - Build Advice

Posted on 2018-03-02, 01:50

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Sounds like a good decision, Windows 98se can handle more than 512 ram, but you should not install more than 512 ram before installing the OS. You can patch the OS to handle more ram. Due to Bugs in the OS MS decided to shave some internal tables in the VMM rather than to actually fix the problem. …

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Re: My very first Win 98 Retro Gaming Rig - Build Advice

Posted on 2018-03-02, 00:27

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Hyperthreading is a virtual processor, Hypertrheading is 1 CPU and 1 virtual CPU that is exposed through the BIOS to the operating system as a logical processor. I have personally never heard of anyone having to disable HT. But I can believe that there is bugs in the implementation of HT that causes …

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Re: My very first Win 98 Retro Gaming Rig - Build Advice

Posted on 2018-03-01, 23:23

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That questions been asked so many times by so many people. If you generally want to know the answer multi core has no effect on 9x. The OS will only see 1 CPU. But anyone could tell you that I mean almost anyone knows this.

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