Re: Bought an unknow computer

Posted on 2021-04-09, 17:51

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Joakim wrote on 2021-04-09, 17:32: I'm curious, what is the point of a retro XP PC (except for being totally awesome). Are there many games that run better on XP? 🤔 I have the same doubt, apart from the games that used anti-copies that do not work in Windows 7, a 32-bit Windows 7 has never failed …

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Re: The bet. Can a card in this state be repaired?

Posted on 2021-03-27, 12:36

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Impressive and really beautiful work.

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Re: Lara Croft like games list

Posted on 2021-03-21, 16:28

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I remember Heavy metal Fakk 2, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heavy_Metal:_F.A.K.K._2 Not sure it it was inspired by Tomb raider, but there are a lot of similarities.

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Re: Ati Rage XL on 430TX motherboard Pentium 166mhz (no mmx)

Posted on 2021-02-28, 16:46

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Ok, I won't say you are wrong because probably, you are right and I don't have a radeon 7000 PCI to test ;). And I think that there isn't much love for the rage cards. I also see they aren't the best. But I think they had good quality becase I've seen so many still working great nowadays. In fact …

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Re: Motherboard BIOS Flash?

Posted on 2021-02-28, 15:39

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I have the same board, and used the hotflash method, it's a god board, very compatible with sdram and stable at 75mhz bus, and the mentioned cheap ragexl works. For me the hard part was to find a compatible eeprom. I even polimoded it.

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Re: Ati Rage XL on 430TX motherboard Pentium 166mhz (no mmx)

Posted on 2021-02-28, 15:26

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I'm not so good at electronics, but I was wondering if it's posible to mod those rage xl to work with the 5 volt line. In another thread someone posted a method to add the 3.3 volt line to a motherboard that doesn't have it. That may solve the OPs isue. The Radeon 7000 PCI is around 3 times the …

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Re: Ati Rage XL on 430TX motherboard Pentium 166mhz (no mmx)

Posted on 2021-02-27, 20:13

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In that post the hypothesis is the PCI version, 2.1/2.2 but the OP here says that his graphics card didn't post on a 430TX chipset and I have the same graphics card on a 430tx chipset, so this leaves the motherboard's BIOS, the VGA BIOS, the AT/ATX specs and the motherboard itself, but the PCI spec, …

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Re: Ati Rage XL on 430TX motherboard Pentium 166mhz (no mmx)

Posted on 2021-02-27, 16:30

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I wonder, thinking on price/performance ratio, what's the best graphics card, or what's the cheapest pci card with good performance, that's what I was loking for when I bought the ragexl pci.

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Re: Ati Rage XL on 430TX motherboard Pentium 166mhz (no mmx)

Posted on 2021-02-27, 16:10

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Didn't notice the diference in image quality, possible my eyes aren't well trained, the other problem with these ragexl cards are the drivers, I sufered it and it's a shame. But a voodoo... 50€ minimun, a ragexl made in china... 15€ more or less. The price of voodoo cards is ridiculous, for me this …

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Re: Ati Rage XL on 430TX motherboard Pentium 166mhz (no mmx)

Posted on 2021-02-27, 11:51

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I have the same graphics card and had what I think is the same issue, I bought it for a system that has a crappy sis 6202 but it didn't post, the board is a ga586ipv from dfi, 430vx AT. But on MSI 5148 430tx atx board, it works, so I tried it on another board, a pcchips A101, also AT and also 430vx, …

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Re: My First "Retro" Build Athlon 1000 Socket A

Posted on 2021-02-18, 21:44

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I envy the state and appearance of that processor, I have two processors like that working but they have broken corners, something very common. One is overclocked to 1333mhz and I like it a lot.

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Re: Link Repository for Vintage PC Driver\Documentation Archives, FTPs, Websites

Posted on 2021-02-18, 19:27

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I use this site a lot, it's in French but has a lot of drivers. https://www.touslesdrivers.com/

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Re: Limit my HDD to 32GB

Posted on 2021-02-17, 18:11

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The 32gb size limit is for the BIOS, win98se supports fat32, and you can create more than one partition, a drive overlay software may help you if its a BIOS limit. Motherboard Model?

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Re: Struggling with an old Athlon XP 1800+ Build

Posted on 2021-02-17, 17:35

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Check the caps of the board, the cpu, and the psu, with the cpu only the board should beep, no ram. Anybody with some experience will tell you about the caps.

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Re: newest version of vlc that will work on amd k6

Posted on 2021-02-09, 23:42

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For Win 98 I use 0.8.6i, not sure if it worked on Pentium mmx, I think it worked but don't remember it clearly. It needs the Unicode layer for Win98, maybe WinMe already has it. But I agree with DosFreak , Windows media player plus codecs was a common solution back then.

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Re: Min Hardware Specs for Daemon Tools 3.47 in Win9x?

Posted on 2021-02-07, 15:57

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I used it with Windows 98 and didn't noticed any problem, but Alcohol 120% is better from my point of view, I think it's a bit faster. And Clone CD was also very god. Daemon tools isn't as good as people thinks.

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Re: My Radeon X800 PRO (or is it?)

Posted on 2021-02-07, 13:21

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Try Atitool, https://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/ fast and easy, and lets see where it gets, don't forget to improve the cooling.

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Re: The Athlon 64 Frustration Build

Posted on 2021-02-07, 13:12

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The socket 478 cooler retention system is from my point of view one of the worst, I've replaced a lot of then because they broke even with the intel stock cooler. But maybe some motherboard brands used low quality plastic, I don't know.

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Re: Ati Radeon X1950 PRO AGP problems!

Posted on 2021-02-07, 12:59

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I've seen a lot of ati cards failing because of the bridge chip, it gets very hot and doesn't have any cooling, nvidia cards always had a heat sink on the bridge chip, but for some reason I've never seen an ati card with a heat sink on it. Two weeks ago my x1650 pro agp, died and it was the bridge …

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Re: 40 Pin Floppy Cable Isssues

Posted on 2021-02-06, 10:30

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OK, the twisted side of the cable goes on the drive and red wire should go to pin 1 on the motherboard and on the drive, and the wire should be twisted only on the side of the drive of course. This applies to the 99,9% of the cases at least. Wath out for cables that are keyed and may be wrong, or …

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