Re: Plextor px-40ts very slow reading

Posted on 2022-09-16, 17:58

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by Nemo1985

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I bought another PX-40 TSI but also this one reads the disc at 8x maximum speed, for the whole surface. This is madness... I switched the scsi card from the AH-29160 to a el cheapo Adaptec ava-2904, restored the options with plex tools and it apparently solved the issue, but if I install back the AH …

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Re: Plextor px-40ts very slow reading

Posted on 2022-09-10, 20:30

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by Nemo1985

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What do you have the "sync rate" set at in the Adaptec "SCSIselect" ? For the narrow 50pin UltraPlex it should be 20, for the wide 68pin version should be 40 (for the Plex's scsi ID). Yes I have, it is 20. I also have a Plextor SCSI cd burner (PX-W8220Ti) which sync at 10, but it's still faster in …

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Plextor px-40ts very slow reading

Posted on 2022-09-10, 07:47

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by Nemo1985

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Hello people, I recently bought this scsi cd reader. Unlucky it the seller didn't care about the package so I received it with several smash on the fron panel (some cracks). Even the tray has a small crack. I already sent a message to the seller claiming that I would have tested it. Now I did. The …

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Re: Pci cards roundup on dos

Posted on 2022-09-08, 03:15

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by Nemo1985

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I have a Riva 128 PCI and a M64 PCI, when I get around to digging out the SS7 I can throw some results up here, also have a Savage 4 PCI and a Radeon 7000 PCI which while a bit newer both work really well under DOS. Got both the Ark 1000PV and 2000PV, which IIRC were quite amazing DOS based cards …

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Re: Pci cards roundup on dos

Posted on 2022-09-08, 01:41

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by Nemo1985

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Thank you for running these benchmarks and sharing the results. I appreciate the way you organized the spreadsheet by chipset year. If you ever get a chance, it would be neat to see a TNT2 M64 or some other late 90s Nvidia compared to these. They are widely considered one of the fastest chipsets …

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Re: First program used with scsi cd burner

Posted on 2022-09-06, 21:45

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by Nemo1985

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Man you are the saviour of the day, it definitely was GEAR MM by Elektroson!

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First program used with scsi cd burner

Posted on 2022-09-06, 19:40

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by Nemo1985

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Hello good people, I was able to get a scsi cd plextor writer, I remember that back in time, when I bought my first cd burner there was an included software (way before nero became the standard program). I remember it was mandatory to insert the original cd driver which was readed from the burner …

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Re: Pci cards roundup on dos

Posted on 2022-09-05, 15:53

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by Nemo1985

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Hello good people! I redid the roundup, added the fastdoom results and pc player bench 640 has been run with LFB. PC: k6-3+ 550, aopen ax59 pro, 128mb memory, tightest timings. I did choose this configuration because I wanted to find the video cards limit. All the virge models have been tested at 85 …

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Re: Tseng ET 6100 identified as 6000 and almost no performance difference?

Posted on 2022-09-04, 12:56

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by Nemo1985

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According to my knowledge the Tseng Labs video card were best performance on dos, not in windows... I'm still puzzled about why the et 6100 is identified as 6000.

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Re: Tseng ET 6100 identified as 6000 and almost no performance difference?

Posted on 2022-09-04, 09:23

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by Nemo1985

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AppleSauce wrote on 2022-09-04, 08:14: I've got a et6100 and a 6000 and when I did some benchmark tests with phils benchmark compilation in dos I couldn't see any difference performance wise. The Et6000 is clocked at 91,87 the ET6100 at 97,16.

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Tseng ET 6100 identified as 6000 and almost no performance difference?

Posted on 2022-09-03, 20:34

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by Nemo1985

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Hello, I have such video card, according to my tests it is almost the same as ET 6000, but I have one quirk, the vga is identified as et 6000, which makes me wonder, is there any other fellow vogonians that has a et 6100 and can confirm (or not) this quirk? Also is anyone willing to share the et …

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Re: IDE 66 and USB 2.0 relationship

Posted on 2022-08-27, 13:06

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by Nemo1985

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Memory performance on vanilla DFI bios are crippled. The soggi bios gave me performance similar to the Aopen AX59 Pro. What Mobo exactly do You have? So you used with soggi BIOS, or at least boot it good? My rev is B2, with 512kb of cache. Soggi's bios improved the memory performance and it didn't …

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Re: Dos 6 conventional memory tricks

Posted on 2022-08-27, 13:01

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by Nemo1985

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iraito wrote on 2022-08-27, 12:54: Jura Tastatura wrote on 2022-08-27, 11:03: I would also try to use UMBPCI if you have supported chipset. Ok, i was able to get a bit of memory, i would like to use SHCDX but i can't find a decent guide anywhere. It doesn't need anything special, just a line on the …

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Re: IDE 66 and USB 2.0 relationship

Posted on 2022-08-27, 06:22

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by Nemo1985

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Memory performance on vanilla DFI bios are crippled. The soggi bios gave me performance similar to the Aopen AX59 Pro.

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Re: ASUS P4T533-C in need of repair

Posted on 2022-08-18, 08:56

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by Nemo1985

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Those will help whoever will be fixing it: https://www.xwfix.com/asus-motherboard-p4t533-c-1-02-boardview/ https://www.xwfix.com/asus-motherboard-p4t533-c-1-03-boardview/ seeing the lime green ones were 2000uf 6.3V the red ones are most likely 470uf best picture I could find http://www.janiahola. …

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ASUS P4T533-C in need of repair

Posted on 2022-08-18, 03:31

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by Nemo1985

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So some months ago I bought this motherboard, which unlucky proved to be non working (so far). 13-131-310-11.jpg It had a bulging cap near the cpu, so I changed the whole set of caps near the cpu (marked in lime green). I removed the caps marked in red and forget which was the value as uf and …

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Re: DFI K6XV3+/66 (REV. B+) and K6-2+/570MHz

Posted on 2022-08-05, 10:17

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by Nemo1985

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The bios modified from Soggi, it's a vogon's user you can find it there: https://soggi.org/deliver/

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Re: DFI K6XV3+/66 (REV. B+) and K6-2+/570MHz

Posted on 2022-08-05, 09:32

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by Nemo1985

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It's not a bad motherboard but for sure with standard bios is not a top performance with vanilla bios but worry not, there is the soggi modified bios which improves the performance of memory (and l2 chip if I remember right). With that bios it reaches the performance of Aopen AX59 PRO and other mvp3 …

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Re: Dealing with energy consumption of old hardware

Posted on 2022-08-05, 09:21

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by Nemo1985

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As someone already said I wouldn't bother for the power consumption of retrostuff... 386 and 486 hardly reach 80 watt, pentium systems hardly get over 100 watt. With newer stuff things can be different (let's say from p4-athlon xp era), since they were hungry and heat monsters. I noticed that …

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Re: Dealing with energy consumption of old hardware

Posted on 2022-08-05, 09:16

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by Nemo1985

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As someone already said I wouldn't bother for the power consumption of retrostuff... 386 and 486 hardly reach 80 watt, pentium systems hardly get over 100 watt. With newer stuff things can be different (let's say from p4-athlon xp era), since they were hungry and heat monsters. I noticed that …

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