Finally!!! I found my childhood system!

Posted on 2020-01-27, 17:24

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This is a real long shot but can anyone ID this sound card? it's an ISA card for sure this is the only photo i have for now. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/JS8AAOSw9-Zd87d-/s-l1600.jpg

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Finally!!! I found my childhood system!

Posted on 2020-01-27, 17:18

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by darkomen

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I'm so excited! After years and years of searching... I've finally found my childhood PC on eBay and purchased it! It's also in very clean, fully working condition. https://i.postimg.cc/sgjZQ2sT/s-l1600.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/bwmSQjvp/s-l1600-1.jpg It's a Packard Bell Pulsar 19 desktop PC Pentium …

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Could this work??

Posted on 2020-01-04, 00:03

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by darkomen

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Hi all Could this work as a pure MS DOS machine? I have a bunch of spare parts which would only need a PSU and case but it's completely period incorrect. 2.2ghz Pentium 4 256MB RAM Aopen motherboard Geforce FX 5200 Sound Blaster Augidy would it work or would it just be so incompatible and bad? I've …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! 0060 Issues

Posted on 2019-12-29, 00:45

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by darkomen

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It's funny you mention that actually.. I did disable ACPI 2.0 and ACPI APIC support in the BIOS to get the drivers to install. It was one of the work arounds i made. For me, Windows support is most important as DOS isn't used much and I plan to later build a nice period correct DOS machine. As for …

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Re: Did I make a mistake here?

Posted on 2019-12-29, 00:34

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I suggest you image your HD now that you have it running well. Something like Acronis or other good Disk Imager and put that image on a second HD (and maybe even burn to CD/DVD) that way you can always quickly put it back running if something messes up the OS. That's actually a very good suggestion …

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Re: Did I make a mistake here?

Posted on 2019-12-29, 00:28

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I saw that in the manual about the board only accepting single sided RAM modules. Luckily I bought a pair of good brand DDR400 single sided modules of only 512MB capacity so no issues for me. I also always run memtest86+ on any second hand memory I buy and it did 5 passes with not a single error. I …

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Re: Did I make a mistake here?

Posted on 2019-12-28, 17:21

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The issues i ran into and some i still have but have made some work arounds are: CD drives not being detected by games or applications even though my computer shows the disk is present, this also happened after Windows 98 did the initial HDD format. I would get a message like the disk wasn't even …

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Re: Advice on my classic windows 98 rig...

Posted on 2019-12-28, 13:52

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True DR_ST this is certainly XP era stuff. Plus the manual does clearly state it does not support Windows 98. I knew it was a gamble but the board was literally £9 which is super cheap these are at least £30 on eBay normally. That said though, after lots and lots of tinkering i have managed to get …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! 0060 Issues

Posted on 2019-12-28, 13:40

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Thanks for the info Horun. I managed to work around it I went into safe mode, looked for every trace of the drivers it was trying to self install from C:/Windows/inf etc and removed all of them. Then i rebooted and Windows didn't know what the device was anymore so i installed the same, real …

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Re: Sound Blaster Live! 0060 Issues

Posted on 2019-12-28, 02:11

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Hi, I tried the one other PCI slot the board has and it does the exact same thing. PnP support is also enabled. Is there anyway to stop windows from installing new hardware at boot? If i can actually get into windows and install that way the BSOD is recoverable but you get a red X on the SB 16 …

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Re: Advice on my classic windows 98 rig...

Posted on 2019-12-27, 22:57

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Well... the machine is together at last! https://i.postimg.cc/HLwrt63p/20191227-182800.jpg When it works, games are sooo much better, silky smooth but... like i say, when it works... this board does not like windows 9x at all. So many issues from sound to game port to CD drives to multiple BSOD and …

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Re: Did I make a mistake here?

Posted on 2019-12-27, 22:53

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Just for reference and info for anyone who may come across this... This board is a nightmare with Windows 9x I've literally spent all day trying to get it working nicely with 3 complete windows installs and loads of messing around. My older Aopen board worked flawlessly out of the box. In short, …

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Sound Blaster Live! 0060 Issues

Posted on 2019-12-27, 22:42

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by darkomen

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I can't start my machine because Windows 98 SE keeps trying to install SB16 emulation for my Sound Blaster Live! card which causes a BSOD. Normally when i installed the drivers inside windows I can get around this by just turning the machine off and it just won't function but normal sound will but …

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Re: Best driver for FX 5700LE

Posted on 2019-12-22, 01:49

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by darkomen

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Thank you! 😊

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Best driver for FX 5700LE

Posted on 2019-12-21, 19:47

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by darkomen

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Hi which driver is best for the FX 5700 LE under windows 98 SE? Thanks

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Re: Did I make a mistake here?

Posted on 2019-12-21, 14:52

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by darkomen

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Fantastic news, thank you all for the help! 😀

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Re: Advice on my classic windows 98 rig...

Posted on 2019-12-21, 13:49

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by darkomen

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Slowly making more progress... More parts arrived and my cooler for the GPU arrived which I'm very happy with as i literally just guessed it would fit from looking at it on eBay and it's literally the same cooler but pure copper and a working fan! https://i.postimg.cc/vZXbJ5rD/20191221-134230.jpg …

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Did I make a mistake here?

Posted on 2019-12-20, 23:03

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by darkomen

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Ok so, i've ordered a new board which was super cheap so i can have AGP 8x on my current Windows 98 SE rig but I didn't notice it has a ATI IXP200 chipset when i grabbed it which I'm not too familiar with so i did some digging for drivers and couldn't find any chipset drivers for Windows 98 SE... …

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Re: Advice on my classic windows 98 rig...

Posted on 2019-12-18, 20:30

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by darkomen

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Ok, i've been rather busy with this... I got my 5700LE card and i tested it in 3D Mark 2001 SE and I went from 5000 or so to 7912 so a huge increase and that's with stock clocks which match my old FX 5200 with massive overclocking potential so very happy with this. Even Windows 98 SE feels smoother …

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Re: Joystick advice

Posted on 2019-12-16, 13:16

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Thanks i will check them out. A throttle control would be nice, in certain missions you do need to land too which involves the break and gearing but then I expect there will be keys you can assign. I will grab one for sure. Thanks again.

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