Re: 600MHZ Gaming PC - Complete Rebuild
Posted on Yesterday, 13:35
nice troll
Re: Seekink Compatible Quantex Pentium II Shell Replacement
Posted on 2023-09-06, 19:01
If it was mine, knowing that I would never find the shell in the wild. I would buy some sheet metal and bend my own to fit the case and spray paint it white. Of course I wouldn't be able to replicate all of the tabs that hold it on. But I bet I could do a good enough job that if its just sitting on …
Re: Cleaning CDs
Posted on 2023-09-06, 04:25
But isn't this "Jet Dry" some kind of dish washing liquid/soap? no its a drying agent. Do you know what's the equivalent of this "Simple Green" cleaner in Europe or what's the approximate chemical composition? It's distributed in UK and northern Ireland it seems. Maybe you can order it from a …
Re: Cleaning CDs
Posted on 2023-09-04, 14:47
Don't use toothpaste its abrasive and will ruin your CDs. The over the counter ISO alcohol leaves behind a residue and Most dish soaps leave behind a residue. However you can just mix some distilled water and over the counter ISO alcohol and add a couple squirts of jet dry to a spray bottle and this …
Re: ESS1868F ISA card, can't make wavetable sound work
Posted on 2023-08-31, 15:03
look at the card and see if there is silkscreen numbers indicating pin 1. on the picture above i lcearly see the numbered pins 25 and 26 so pin 1 is obviously the opposite side of that. Its hard to mess up. looking at the specific card I can clearly see the number 1 on one side of the connector. So …
Re: K6-3+ 600 Socket 7 System - DISASTER
Posted on 2023-08-31, 05:28
2.1v will not harm that CPU in anyway. Its rated to 2.2v. CPU was probably binned correctly at 570mhz 128k cache or whatever it was to begin with. It seems that the 570mhz run was a good one in terms of clock speed yields but a lot of people reported the 256k L2 cache mod didn't have as good yields …
Re: Norton Commander 5.5 vs 5.51
Posted on 2023-08-29, 04:33
afaik LFNs are only visible under windows since its uses windows API. 5.5.1 adds a TSR to preserve LFNs while under real mode but it doesn't display them. If you want to display LFNs under Real Mode in a norton style commander. I reccomend Vokov commander 4.99.08 with one of the DOSLFN TSRs. …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2023-08-25, 04:18
PcBytes wrote on 2023-08-24, 17:59: Looks like flux to me, or just a simple stain. If it were a burn mark, it wouldn't look like that. looks like a booger to me.
Re: Vesa Local Bus graphics card - upgrade video memory
Posted on 2023-08-24, 21:43
I couldn't get certain vesa modes on ark VL1000 without upgrading to 2mb. Stargunner wouldn't run without it. Interesting. May I ask on which hardware do you run dos stargunner? Am5x86 is strong enough? sure why not? Now that I remember it wasn't an issue with stargunner it was a problem with …
Re: Help - How to get Soundblaster Live SB0410 working in Win 98
Posted on 2023-08-24, 05:45
I've read many times it doesn't work, but I've never been handed a card to try myself in forcing it to work. The chip is different and the driver package doesn't have a 9x package for that chip, but that doesn't mean the driver for the supported chip couldn't be modded. But most people are point and …
Re: Vesa Local Bus graphics card - upgrade video memory
Posted on 2023-08-23, 23:21
I couldn't get certain vesa modes on ark VL1000 without upgrading to 2mb. Stargunner wouldn't run without it.
Re: Odd performance phenomenon
Posted on 2023-08-22, 15:00
They were slightly faster per clock but thats where it ended the pentium 4 3.4 ghz is around 80% faster in total and it reflects in the CPU score in 3D mark p4 3.4 is 80% faster than a PM? A Pentium M @ 2ghz is roughly equivalent to a Pentium 4 3.4 E When considering overclocking a Pentium M @ 2.7 …
Re: Would it be worth it?
Posted on 2023-08-22, 13:42
g450s it is then.
Re: Would it be worth it?
Posted on 2023-08-22, 05:02
I could harvest ram from anything with hy5dv651622 tc-g6 and I assume hy5dv651622 tc-G55. There are 4 chips on the front and 4 on the back. Squeze testing reveals nothing. The artifacts look memory related in my opinion. As I see lines or stripes in the output the card does display however. Its not …
Would it be worth it?
Posted on 2023-08-22, 04:44
So this is a philosophical question. I have this rare card that I want to try to fix. Its a Elsa Gloria II pro AGP Pro 50 card. Basically a geforce 256 DDR 64 MB card for AGP pro slot that happens to be a quadro. I also have got a ATI R6 7200 with 64mb of the same exact DDR and that card works. …
Re: Stuffing new Win98SE computer: ideas?
Posted on 2023-08-20, 12:32
Harry Potter wrote on 2023-08-16, 14:05: Bad news: it stopped working again. 🙁 I don't quite remember what I did to get it to work so can't repeat it. add dos=high
Re: Turbo Bus 386 Mother Board
Posted on 2023-08-19, 18:14
The case itself isn't as remarkable. and theres a lot of surface rust inside that needs attention. I think I want to try recapping the power supply. I haven't tested it yet and even though I inspected the caps I'm sure they're bad. The memory board looks like it can be upgraded to 8mb. I'm not sure …
Re: List of Windows games which look better when using 3DFX Glide (compared to Direct3D and OpenGL)
Posted on 2023-08-19, 15:47
Id look at games that have software modes, and received d3d patches, and glide pathes and games from 1996-1997. You want to look at pre directx games in general. Ported games maybe an area of interest or games that originated on consoles like ps1. Diablo II is an outlier because its such a late game …
Re: Turbo Bus 386 Mother Board
Posted on 2023-08-19, 14:46
Maybe the 5000 series do not do interleave. Rest seems like marketing to me. IDE had not fully caught on by 1989 and mfm i guess was still a thing. we wouldnt see eide untill 1994 and by that time vlb became the standard.
Re: Turbo Bus 386 Mother Board
Posted on 2023-08-19, 12:49
Do you have the original hard disk drive? I was wondering if the controller might be ESDI. The only reference I found was an eBay listing that claims the controller Is MFM/ I can do better, I found the manual. Too bad it doesn't do IDE. I now have to replace this card with an IDE one. https://www. …
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