Alternative BIOS for HP Vectra VEI 7?

Posted on 2024-03-15, 09:28

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by DrLucienSanchez

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Hi everyone. I have a HP Vectra VEI 7 motherboard. It's very very OEM, limited, the BIOS is flashed to the official latest, and runs a Celeron at 466MhZ, seems limited to 66Mhz bus, which coupled with the memory running at this frequency and the shared onboard graphics, which I have disabled within …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2024-02-09, 20:05

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I have had the card a couple of days now, and I can confirm it is indeed genuine :) I got it cheap on Flea Bay, due to them listing it as a Yamaha ISA card, so for £20 I am very happy with this. The photos didn't do it justice, it's very clean, no corrosion, looks brand new. I have a dual-boot 98/XP …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2024-01-31, 11:49

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I had experience once with buying (cheap) a card with a huge Yamaha labled chip, which turned out to be a Crystal. :) I understand the that wthout a foto of the fake this response is not so useful, but my impression is that it's quite easy to come by a fake card, and it would look quite legitimate …

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Re: Yamaha YMF7x4 Guide

Posted on 2024-01-31, 08:47

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Very intresting thread, I've been getting a lot into XG, and have started with the FF7 XG track via the SG-1000 soft synth, and even the DOOM soundtracks via MidiPlayer Yamaha VST. I'm currently looking for a genuine Yamaha card, and unfortunately a decent priced Slot 1 mobo has an XG chip, but is …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2023-08-04, 14:24

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I received my new old stock Akasa GPU coooler today, so I have replaced the double sided Zalman cooler with this one, very quiet and keeps the card extremly cool under load - I may get another to replace the stock cooler on my 5900XT. Also installed Windows 98 and XP, dual-booted on a 240GB SSD, the …

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Re: High feresh rate, low resolution, impact on CRT life?

Posted on 2023-08-04, 13:48

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by DrLucienSanchez

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Thanks for the info, very imformative! I can't find a manual for this, but have found some specifications - https://shrubbery.net/~heas/sun-feh-2_1/Devices/Monitor/MONITOR_Color_17_Entry_CRT.html#365-1417 Resolution 640x490 to 1280x1024, although I can go as high as 1600x1200 at 60hz. The supported …

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High feresh rate, low resolution, impact on CRT life?

Posted on 2023-08-04, 13:06

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by DrLucienSanchez

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Hi I currently run a Sun Microsystems 16" CRT Monitor - PN17J0 - and usually game at 1024x768 at 85Hz, but after runing some demos that defaulted to 640x480, it defaulted to an optional refresh rate of 150Hz, and Windows 98 display properties lets me go anyweher from 60-150Hz at this resolution. I …

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Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2023-07-27, 15:10

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by DrLucienSanchez

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Perfect, yes, I can't see any issues around Windows Vista or 7 mentioned on the Wiki, and would prefer to play with DX10 for Bioshock with EAX. Same for Mass Effect, it runs stuttery in XP for me, smooth in Windows 7, so at least I can geta smooth experience with the bells and whistles EAX, then …

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Re: EAX appreciation thread

Posted on 2023-07-27, 14:46

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One question, if anyone knows - say you wanted to play Bioshock, Mass Effect, something that uses EAX5, would there be a difference in terms of EAX implementation XP vs Vista/Windows 7, since it would rely on OpenAL?

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Re: Help identifying this Socket 370 HP OEM motherboard please

Posted on 2023-06-27, 09:25

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by DrLucienSanchez

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Hi everyone, I purchased this on a whim, at a decent price, for a board that had an ISA slot. The only details I had on the lisinting were - HP D7580-60003 Intel Socket 370 Motherboard, Celeron 466 CPU and 64BM RAM and includes a 4MB SGRAM SODIMM module. From my research, I believe this is a …

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Help identifying this Socket 370 HP OEM motherboard please

Posted on 2023-06-26, 10:39

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by DrLucienSanchez

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Hi everyone, I purchased this on a whim, at a decent price, for a board that had an ISA slot. The only details I had on the lisinting were - HP D7580-60003 Intel Socket 370 Motherboard, Celeron 466 CPU and 64BM RAM and includes a 4MB SGRAM SODIMM module. From my research, I believe this is a …

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Re: Windows XP - I need a 1440p suitable GPU!

Posted on 2023-05-31, 17:56

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HDMI is single link only. Unless you got DVI-DL to HDMI 2.0 adapter, 1440p60 will never work over DVI to HDMI officially (you can try to make it work OC'ing RAMDACs with custom resolution - no guarantees it will work though). Just buy 7970/280X, they work with DP 1.3/1.4 at 1440p60 no problem. DP …

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Re: Windows XP - I need a 1440p suitable GPU!

Posted on 2023-05-31, 10:41

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I've tried a DVI to HDMI converter, unless there's another type to use, blank screen anything above 1080p, monitor only has DP and HDMI.

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Windows XP - I need a 1440p suitable GPU!

Posted on 2023-05-31, 10:32

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HI, I've put together a nice little XP system, i3 3420, 4GB DDR3, X-Fi, Quadro 2000, Windows XP. Quadro 2000 works fine in 1440p 60hz, no issues with latest XP drivers, it's via DisplayPort, all good, but need a bit more grunt to drive Fallout Vegas and Mass Effect. My 560ti with mini HDMI and DVI, …

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Re: Baldur's Gate Original- Windows 10, but getting EAX working correctly.

Posted on 2023-04-26, 14:07

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Thanks, ultimately it did work. I followed all the instructions on the link, made the additional reg keys as instructed so it would find dsound.dll, launched the game, but environmental audio was still greyed out. I had an idea and added the game via Alchemy, as previously this would allow you to …

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Baldur's Gate Original- Windows 10, but getting EAX working correctly.

Posted on 2023-04-26, 10:47

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Hello! I'm putting away my CRT and 98/XP era systems away for the summer, and will be using my boring Windows 10, i7 etc system and flatscreen monitor. I have a X-Fi that I'm using well with Windows 10, Alchemy, not too bad, and do have access to EAX 2,3,4,5, but it doesn't support EAX1, and that's …

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Re: Guide: Installing DOS drivers on an Audigy2 ZS (version 2)

Posted on 2023-01-27, 10:52

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by DrLucienSanchez

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Can you be more specific as to what the problems are for these games? I would like to familiarize myself with the problem use case. What would I look for, specifically? Is it digital sound, Redbook audio, Adlib, etc. Quake, WarCraft and WarCraft 2 - digital audio crackles and cuts off occasionally. …

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Re: Windows 98 and XP - Conroe - PCIE

Posted on 2022-12-23, 16:01

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by DrLucienSanchez

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Build is now 100% complete. I'm just leaving this as a Windows 98 build. I'm putting this last update on as I have managed to resolve the issue with the refresh rate being locked at 60Hz, no matter if using HzTool, Powerstrip - it was a well known issue back in the day. I have it all happily …

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Re: Windows 98 and XP - Conroe - PCIE

Posted on 2022-12-22, 22:26

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by DrLucienSanchez

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This is a very interesting build and I'm planning a ich7 PCI-e build too (coincidentally in the exact same case!) Are you able to upload the driver you installed for the ich7 pci bus? My build will be a 478 board with PCIe, a 6600GT Which had W98 drivers and a Advance Logic ALS4000 sound card. But …

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Re: Windows 98 and XP - Conroe - PCIE

Posted on 2022-12-22, 10:15

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by DrLucienSanchez

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Here you go. I recall that under "other devices" there was a yellow exclamation mark for "PCI bus management" which I then manually added the ICH7 driver to. System devices was already populated after the OS install, the only yellow exclamation, on the screenshot, allows a driver to be loaded as the …

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