Re: Windows 98 Sata SSD

Posted on Yesterday, 19:41

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To further help those in search of SSD SATA solution please be sure the drivers for your programmable bios SATA RAID controller match in version to the drivers you use as they make changes per revision. For example a 2002 BIOS will misbehave for a driver made in 2003 because in 2003 they discovered …

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Re: Partition and format fat32 on disks from 128gb to 3tb

Posted on Yesterday, 08:57

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AFAIR: - Plain DOS can not format partitions beyond 2Gb (FAT16 limit). - Windows 98 couldn't go beyond 120Gb or so without being patched, because its LBA support. - Even it tried to not format disks beyond 32Gb or so, but could be forced to do so. - To use a disk bigger than 2Tb, you must use GPT. …

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Re: Partition and format fat32 on disks from 128gb to 3tb

Posted on Yesterday, 08:51

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I found a bootable thing its called minitool partition manager makes a bootable portable win10 enviroment but thats not boot from floppy retro style and being a PE that means downloading the 32bit component that isn't pentium III compatable

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Partition and format fat32 on disks from 128gb to 3tb

Posted on Yesterday, 05:32

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Hi, I have successfully Partitoned and formatted a PATA disk with 500gb space to a 1 bootable fat32 boot disk for windows 98se and Millennium. However this was done with a windows tool and another PC. I need tools simple enough to do this from real dos mode like using fdisk and format. Most more …

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Re: Win 9x Installation... What Am I Doing Wrong?!

Posted on 2021-07-20, 18:05

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what i'd like to know is, did anyone actually help or not 🤣

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Re: Is Vista now Retro

Posted on 2021-07-20, 17:22

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I can run vista drivers on 7 It's not that every Windows version needs completely new drivers. There is compatibility across versions, subject to various factors. In theory, even Windows 2000 and XP drivers (not graphics drivers though) "should" work on Windows 10, as long as the platform (x86, x64 …

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Re: Generic Win98SE Installation & Setup Guide

Posted on 2021-07-20, 15:19

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Where to get TLS 1.2 support for IE 🤣

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Re: Which USB 2.0 cards for old motherboards

Posted on 2021-07-20, 13:41

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I would probably rely on USB2 for the minimum spec of super socket 7 with an AMD k6 for reliable use. As far as 486? socket 3??? I'd settle for 100mbit LAN for data transfers, I mean, considering a null modem cable brings the 486 win95 desktop down to a crawl is a great tell tale sign that thing …

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Re: Trying to fix a faulty DTK Pim-Turbo "8MHz Turbo Board" Rev-5 with Siemens SAB8088-2-P 8088 CPU + 640KB RAM

Posted on 2021-07-20, 08:54

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This is really something I would sell that the buyer wuld have the stuff for it. Buying a complete system would be the goal of selling this for me that is takes up good amount of the price then theres no guess the config. man all those unused bios sockets I believe these are for ROM BASIC. When …

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Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration

Posted on 2021-07-20, 06:09

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I have an Abit VP6 with 2gb ram and with it being the maximum it actually lags on post about it so i wonder how much is actually cached lol IIRC a Socket 370 MB needs not worry about that. ;-) Thanks man I can forget my old T2 Chipset Pentium mobo. Good for 98se on dialup but bad for xp on ISDN.( …

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Re: A (Very Short) Guide to Having USB 2.0 in Windows 98 SE with a NEC-Chipset USB 2.0 PCI Card

Posted on 2021-07-20, 06:03

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I am waiting for my Caboose shaped NEC USB2 card thing from eBay its about the only USB2 card left so thanks for this. The dark circuit board is not common so it should be interesting.

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2021-07-20, 05:57

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That little metal can on your GPU card is the clock crystal be wise to test it they vibrate silently to death. Also happens to old motherboards. They are cheap to get though just that tedious surface mount job is all. Not sure how you would test it. With a multimeter perhaps? Also, I've already …

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Re: Trying to fix a faulty DTK Pim-Turbo "8MHz Turbo Board" Rev-5 with Siemens SAB8088-2-P 8088 CPU + 640KB RAM

Posted on 2021-07-19, 15:49

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So I'd get a brown paper, kraft paper bag, get it folded twice (four thicknesses of paper, if you're using an edge of the bag rather than having it opened out, you've got one fold already there) then surface wet that both sides with IPA and shove it in and out of 3 of the middle slots. Sometimes …

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2021-07-19, 15:41

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I wonder how well HWinfo would work with a system with qemm memory manager it compress memory space.

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Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2021-07-19, 15:38

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Tested out an ATI Rage LT PRO AGP PCI card under 98SE on my Asus TUSL2-C test-bench, and noticed questionable clocks being reported. Frankly, not sure what the actual clocks for this card are supposed to be, but looking on Wikipedia, these don't look quite right. Was wondering if you could take a …

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Re: Trying to fix a faulty DTK Pim-Turbo "8MHz Turbo Board" Rev-5 with Siemens SAB8088-2-P 8088 CPU + 640KB RAM

Posted on 2021-07-19, 15:07

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being non plug and play you'd need to plug disk controllers in each port to find the pre programmed correct one same as other cards it could be looking for memory expanson comms hard disk tape etc. If possible try find someone to dump your boards bios to tell you whats in it i bet a museum …

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Re: Most stable and compatible win9x configuration

Posted on 2021-07-19, 13:01

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For a good reliable DOS gaming computer that can run WIn95.Win98se/WinME go for this build. Motherboard - Intel 430vx or Intel 430tx or Intel bx440 with AGP RAM - 128mb or 256mb. Video - S3 trio64 IMHO there are some contradictories: 430VX or 430TX chipsets cannot cache more than 64MB RAM; …

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Re: What modern activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-07-18, 14:50

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I've been leveling up on Overwatch and other blizzard games

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Re: List of Currently Free Games

Posted on 2021-07-18, 12:58

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One must fall 2097 a robot fight simulator for DOS i always loved it even the shareware version was fun. A legit retired to freeware game now. I think there was a later sequel coming but don't know much about it https://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/one-must-fall-2097/

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Re: New forum suggestions/Feedback

Posted on 2021-07-18, 12:51

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This topic is to post ideas on what to change and to provide precise feedback on which features/looks you don't like. Please be as precise as possible. We will read all feedback, but no promises on what features/ideas we will take into account. I'd like to see a thread where people using merchants …

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