Re: Windows 7 on a Prescott P4, does it run ok?

Posted on Today, 04:02

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by Horun

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I graduated high school in 1997 in a large suburb of largest city in our US west coast state, everything had to be hand written. It was a good school and had near 95% graduation at the time. Teachers then actual taught the basics and we all learned. Now schools are just dumping grounds for tons of …

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Re: Is this a good card??

Posted on Today, 03:37

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by Horun

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I am going to answer as an avid gamer back in late 90's thru 2010 because I was. Stay away from ATI Rage based, back then every time a new game came out ATI released a new driver for every major game or else the game had issues with their cards. Got bad enough ATI changed the name of the a few times …

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Re: Is it possible to add microcodes on a Intel BI440ZX motherboard?

Posted on Today, 03:12

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by Horun

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Award and AMI bios are totally different in how they are compiled. You cannot use one on the other AFAIK. The best source of many BIOS tools is the Borg Number 1 bios tool collection...also see this: Where can I find "AMIBCP" (for DOS) ?

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Re: Is it possible to configure the Lin-Lin socket 370 adapter to do PPGA to FCPGA?

Posted on Today, 02:54

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by Horun

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You wanna put a PPGA chip in a FCPGA socket? i think this dude managed it.. https://www.overclockers.com/forums/threads/ppga-celeron-100mhz-fsb-mod-finally.332015/ But IDK about the other way round. Usually back in the day you'd mod the PPGA socket to FCPGA at least. Think he wants to run something …

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Re: Is it possible to add microcodes on a Intel BI440ZX motherboard?

Posted on Today, 02:47

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by Horun

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Never seen am AMI bios on a true Intel board (not saying there may not be) but most the Intel BIOS were Phoenix based that I know of. Ahh ok the board has a Intel - AMI bios. Doubt it is editable....

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Re: Ideas for a DOS machine?

Posted on Today, 02:12

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by Horun

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I think they lasted longer than the lithium packs velcroed inside 5170 ATs, those seemed to give out at about 8-10 years while Dallas, despite smaller battery seemed to do 10-15. Yes they do last longer, have seen original 1999 dated Dallas RTC still working proper just recently. Never get that …

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Re: FOR ETERNITY - Quintessential Method to backup Floppy Disk images under DOS

Posted on Today, 02:01

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by Horun

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Central Point made the first bit-by-bit/sector by sector floppy copy adapters ( Copy2pc) starting back in about 1986. The Deluxe Option with the Transcopy3 ASIC was a valuable tool that worked between the Floppy controller and the drive to read/write encrypted/copy protected disks accurately and …

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Re: Ideas for a DOS machine?

Posted on Today, 01:44

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by Horun

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These Dallas chips are one of those things that are just... hard to understand. Apple was using those cylindrical batteries that turn out to explode and destroy motherboards 20+ years later (oops), but it just seems bewildering that they'd actually solder a battery inside a chip, even if they …

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Re: COAST Cache L2

Posted on Yesterday, 03:52

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by Horun

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Most (not all) COAST are specific to certain motherboards or to the motherboard company. Very few were cross compatible. I wish there was a catalog of which go with what....

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Re: FOR ETERNITY - Quintessential Method to backup Floppy Disk images under DOS

Posted on Yesterday, 03:02

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by Horun

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ImageDisk and TeleDisk are both very good DOS floppy imaging tools. See Dave Dunfield's website: http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/ the floppy tools: http://dunfield.classiccmp.org/img/

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Re: D865GLC w/ 2GB (2×1) or 4GB (2x2)?

Posted on 2024-10-08, 04:59

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by Horun

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I currently have 2x512mb DDR-333 working fine in this motherboard but would like to get at least 2x1GB working in dual channel mode. I see the specs for this motherboard say it can support up to 4GB (of DDR aka DDR1) but may limit to 3GB max on windows 98. Okay, fine. Where are you reading this < …

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Re: Ideas for a DOS machine?

Posted on 2024-10-08, 04:24

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by Horun

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Somewhere in my stacks o crap have an Asus SP98AGP-X non-audio R1.02 (is ATX) sitting idle since 2020. If I lived in CA would let you play with it but shipping from US is horrid. Guess I should look thru my other stuff and see what might work for a beginner in Pentium but expert in computers 😀

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Re: Ideas for a DOS machine?

Posted on 2024-10-08, 02:04

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by Horun

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AMD K5 and Cyrix are some non Intel choices....the Cyrix 6x86mx has MMX but not the K5

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Re: Challenge with new Socket 370 Build - Azza 810DTA

Posted on 2024-10-08, 01:54

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by Horun

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MeatballB wrote on 2024-10-07, 16:48: Edit: Checked 1 to 4 on each respective side and getting about 3.3v Yeah that is not right. One of the five has to be ground and one has to be 5v. Two of the other three could be something odd due to no load effect....

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Re: Need help troubleshooting storage on a 386 and 486

Posted on 2024-10-07, 03:47

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by Horun

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Yes I suspect the fast bus could be the problem and the VLB HD controller finally gave out at that speed. On another topic, a minute is 60 seconds or 1/60 of an hour, not near 3 months 🤣

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Re: WinXP wont cooperate with secondary drive used with Win98??

Posted on 2024-10-07, 02:57

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by Horun

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So quick update: I just tried what I thought would be fool-proof way for it to work: Wiped everything out of the 120GB using Disk Management in WinXP. Then rebooted and I used Win98 FDISK, made an Extended Partition covering just 30GB of the 120GB drive. Then made a 30GB Logical Drive inside that …

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Re: Abit AB-PW4 rev 1.2 Jumper setting - please help!

Posted on 2024-10-06, 20:05

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by Horun

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The bus speed settings are typically locked to the FSB for cpu (on 286,386,486), at 33Mhz the VLB should be 33Mhz, The ISA should be FSB/4 or about 8.3Mhz which is fine. Double check the BIOS and post a picture of the BUS speed part please. The jumpers for VLB for wait state and >33mhz typically …

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Re: Is the turbo switch still available for sale?

Posted on 2024-10-06, 15:30

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by Horun

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Nice ! Good find BitWrangler !

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Re: Everex EV-673 - VGA output problems

Posted on 2024-10-06, 15:25

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by Horun

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At one time Everex had a file with "On-line help system Configure, setup, modes available." http://web.archive.org/web/19961104093443/htt … lib/vid673.html files not found... and thanks to DOS days found the original advert.

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Re: Challenge with new Socket 370 Build - Azza 810DTA

Posted on 2024-10-06, 01:29

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by Horun

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Yeah, I did a little bit of surgery and reversed the pinout on one side of the adapter I had, so it should match up fine. Problem is, I think you need to set something in BIOS to enable USB for the KB, and I can't do that without a USB KB or a working AT KB. :) Two steps forward, 3 steps back. I'll …

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