Re: Hercules Radeon 9700 Pro: weird output

Posted on 2023-09-13, 08:45

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Regarding cooking it, perhaps I have not explained myself clearly. When I bought this card back in 2002 the first thing I did was removing the cooler to use good quality paste. Then I saw what ATi/Hercules did and immediatly bought a new cooler. I sanded/carved the edges so that it would make …

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Re: Pentium MMX 166 / Soyo SY-5BT / S3 Trio64V+ / Voodoo1 / YMF719 / AWE64 Gold / SC-155

Posted on 2023-09-12, 15:57

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Love it! Very nice and tidy PC with components that almost look like new - my favorite kind of build! :grin: One thing I'd recommend is a full PSU maintenance (including recap), or maybe replacing it altogether (any good modern PSU would be suitable, since this PC doesn't suck a lot of current from …

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Re: Hercules Radeon 9700 Pro: weird output

Posted on 2023-09-12, 08:52

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That behavior is usually indicative of broken solder joints (either on the GPU, or its memory ICs). A damaged GPU core is also a possibility, but that usually results in having no display output at all. While the system is running, try and press / gently bend the card in various areas (and press on …

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Re: Core 2 Duo E8600 / Foxconn P35AX-S / X800 GTO / Audigy2

Posted on 2023-09-11, 15:37

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I've been using GPU-Z for my measurements, so I'm not sure how accurate that is. Anyway, according to the GPU-Z log file, my freshly re-pasted X800 GTO starts off at 39°C when idle and goes up to 79°C under full load. This is with a 26°C room temperature. Thank you! So it's basically in line with …

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Re: Core 2 Duo E8600 / Foxconn P35AX-S / X800 GTO / Audigy2

Posted on 2023-09-11, 14:02

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Cheers! I managed to clean and re-paste it: Interestingly, it looks like the previous owner (or someone else) had already done this, but it may have been some time ago. Anyway, with fresh thermal paste and a newly lubricated fan, the noise went down about 5% according to my highly scientific …

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Re: Core 2 Duo E8600 / Foxconn P35AX-S / X800 GTO / Audigy2

Posted on 2023-09-11, 11:42

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Thanks man! Couldn't have done it without your help! :) BTW, do you have any advice on cooler maintenance for X800 cards? I'd like to re-paste mine and possibly also lubricate the fan, but this thing looks like it wasn't built to be easily disassembled. You're welcome! :-) I was actually going to …

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Re: Core 2 Duo E8600 / Foxconn P35AX-S / X800 GTO / Audigy2

Posted on 2023-09-11, 10:55

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Very nice build, congrats! 😀

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Re: Some questions about a LGA775 Win98 build using PCIe graphics

Posted on 2023-09-11, 05:20

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by bloodem

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Not to nitpick, but please allow me to modify your original post to better illustrate my point: In the BIOS, set SATA to IDE Compatible mode (I'm using SATA SSDs) and disable all on-board devices including HDA, LAN, Serial and Parallel ports In the BIOS, set the total number of USB ports to 6 ( …

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Re: Diagnosing an Asus V6800 DDR

Posted on 2023-09-10, 13:05

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The first thing I'd try would be to check if there are any loose solder joints on the memory IC legs.

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Re: Some questions about a LGA775 Win98 build using PCIe graphics

Posted on 2023-09-08, 18:11

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That was indeed the cause of the issue. Removing the second 2 GB RAM stick brought Win9x performance much closer to that of WinXP. I've only tested Quake 2 and 3 so far, but it was enough to see the difference. I'll post more detailed benchmarks a bit later. Also, my E8600 CPU has arrived, and it …

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Re: Some questions about a LGA775 Win98 build using PCIe graphics

Posted on 2023-09-08, 10:13

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Your benchmark scores are quite low, indeed. Off the top of my head, even though I don't recall exact numbers, I seem to remember having a similar performance issue when I ran the benchmarks on Win98 with 4GB RAM in dual channel. This is the reason why I reverted to using a single 2GB DIMM. Not sure …

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Re: BIOS for Diamond Viper V770 Ultra video card

Posted on 2023-08-29, 18:27

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Thank you very much! Though, I would really prefer to have a known working binary BIOS dump with NVFlash or similar tool. Hopefully there's someone out there that has it. The problem is that the card I'm trying to repair had, among other things, a VERY corrupt BIOS. Even worse, I had to desolder the …

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Re: List of Windows games which look best when using 3DFX Glide

Posted on 2023-08-29, 16:32

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Joseph_Joestar wrote on 2023-08-29, 16:05: BTW, which track are those screenshots from? It's from the Moscow track.

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Re: List of Windows games which look best when using 3DFX Glide

Posted on 2023-08-29, 14:29

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Anyway, nice to see that your Voodoo 2 is working! Thank you. After having replaced 4 memory ICs in vain, I finally understood that it was the FBI's fault all along. :-) Back to TD5, I actually didn't have the patch, downloaded and installed it now. The patch has made the "fog" effect much less …

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Re: List of Windows games which look best when using 3DFX Glide

Posted on 2023-08-29, 14:05

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What a coincidence. I am in process of building an Obsidian2 X-24 mATX machine. It should be done later tonight. I’ll check it if someone hasn’t tested by then. I mean, I don't wanna say that I hate you, but... yeah, I do hate you! :grin: Anyway, I was just testing one of my Voodoo 2 cards after …

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BIOS for Diamond Viper V770 Ultra video card

Posted on 2023-08-29, 04:39

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I tried searching for this card's BIOS everywhere, but I only found one for the regular V770. If someone can do a quick dump and send it to me, I'd appreciate it. 😀

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Re: help slow boot

Posted on 2023-08-28, 16:25

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Well, one obvious solution would be to disable the himem memory testing by editing config.sys: DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS /TESTMEM:OFF However, this would probably just mitigate the effect, not fix the actual root cause. So, ideally, you should try and identify what is causing this slowdown. For …

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Re: Faulty Voodoo 2?

Posted on 2023-08-26, 12:36

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I have a basically pristine Creative Voodoo 2 CT6670. Looks like it´s never been used. It has EXACTLY the same error log with mojo as Donut King back in 2019 with his card. FBI Memory shows 0 MB and TMU PowerOn Sense is 0xdead. Has anybody an idea what causes this? This may not necessarily be the …

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Re: (NEW RECORD) "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build 7900GTX + 4.89GHz E8600 + 2GB DDR2 1066MHz + ASUS Maximus II For

Posted on 2023-08-18, 15:43

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Are any of you able to bench Quake 3 for me on an nVidia PCIe card on Windows 98 please? Thanks If it helps, for comparison purposes, here are the results with a Core 2 Duo E8600 @ 4 GHz + ATI Radeon X850XT PCIe: Quake 3 640 x 480 x 16: 979.0 FPS Quake 3 640 x 480 x 32: 976.0 FPS Quake 3 1024 x 768 …

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Re: ATI Radeon 7500 PCI not working

Posted on 2023-08-17, 14:26

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Well, the card was sold as a "Radeon 7500", with the word "Mobility" missing. Not a fraud on the seller's part (the ones who made the card committed that), but it can definitely be considered a false listing. It is technically eligible for a refund. For sure it is. :-) The Mobility 7500 is a worse …

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