Re: Help Configuring Sound/ DOS Games

Posted on 2023-05-30, 11:39

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If I set DMA channel to 3 and test the sounds on any of the Sound Blaster options I get this horrendous electronic sound through my speakers. Definitely not what they intend but it's talking now. I think I have to set the right port and IRQ any idea where I can find that info in the system settings …

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Re: Help Configuring Sound/ DOS Games

Posted on 2023-05-29, 11:26

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It'll help you greatly to know what sound card you have! But without knowing that, one of the plain "Sound Blaster" entries is probably going to be a safe bet. Alright I'll have to open the computer. I checked DOOM 2's setup configuration and it's just set to Sound Blaster but if I use that in Dark …

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Help Configuring Sound/ DOS Games

Posted on 2023-05-29, 11:08

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Hi Everyone! I just recently got Star Wars Dark Forces on DOS and I want to play it on my Windows 98 PC and I'm trying to get sound working. When I run the setup and select express it doesn't detect a sound card. I know I have one though because I play plenty of W98/95 games with sound, DOOM DOS has …

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Re: Advice with hard drive error Windows 98se

Posted on 2022-11-22, 06:29

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computer is broken :P It means it needs diagnosing. Multimeter and measuring voltages from psu, reseating all the components, removing all the components other than ram cpu graphic card, that sort of stuff I just came back here to delete the thread because I found one of the RAM sticks was loose, …

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Re: Advice with hard drive error Windows 98se

Posted on 2022-11-22, 06:12

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Now I'm getting one long beep and nothing on the screen when I turn it on. What does this mean?

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Advice with hard drive error Windows 98se

Posted on 2022-11-21, 12:59

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Today I went to boot my Windows 98se machine and I got an error saying "invalid VxD dynamic link call to device number 3, service B." It advised to run the Windows Setup program to correct the problem and after rebooting a few times to try to get the program running it showed a new error saying " …

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Re: Starting Windows XP build

Posted on 2022-08-01, 23:09

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From which year to which year? What are the additional things you are interested in? XP era stuff (pre-2010) don't really benefit from having more than 2 cores, so you probably wouldn't see much improvement with the i7 over an i3-4370. Unmodded XP is limited to 3.5GB RAM which can be detected lower …

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Re: Starting Windows XP build

Posted on 2022-08-01, 23:05

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Since XP predates SATA, you'll run into the F6 disk issue unless you slipstream drivers onto the CD. Some people are allergic to using CD-Rs and drives. If you are, be aware there will be hoops to jump through and third party tools needed to install from USB drives, since no one did that before the …

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Re: Starting Windows XP build

Posted on 2022-08-01, 17:57

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Well if you've got enough money to spend, find an i7-4790K, a GeForce GTX TITAN Z, and a combination of motherboard / PSU / case that can accommodate those together. If you are on budget then any Core i Sandy / Ivy / Haswell, a GTX 700 series, and 4GB RAM will do fine. After all WinXP only supports …

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Starting Windows XP build

Posted on 2022-08-01, 16:51

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Sup dudes, I've got a really killer Windows 98se gaming set up and now I'm keen on building a Windows XP era gaming PC. Looking for advice on hardware to look out for so I can play most XP games max graphics. Also what common issues or walls I might run into while I put this thing together, any …

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Re: Getting IBM 340 to turn on

Posted on 2021-09-28, 10:23

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Yes, there should be something. Usually if a thinkpad finds nothing to boot from it displays something like this. 6iz1d7x0u9h31.jpg You may need to enable external VGA output by pressing some key combination. Here is the manual for it for more details http://download.lenovo.com/ibmdl/pub/pc/pccbbs/ …

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Re: Getting IBM 340 to turn on

Posted on 2021-09-28, 10:00

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Yout don't need a battery to run your laptop. The spinning sound you hear is most probably the HDD, not a fan. I don't think there is a fan in a 486 SLC 50 thinkpad. Did you try to insert a boot diskette? Does it try ro read/boot? The screen remains black, right? It can be a failed backlight or …

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Re: Getting IBM 340 to turn on

Posted on 2021-09-28, 09:15

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Yout don't need a battery to run your laptop. The spinning sound you hear is most probably the HDD, not a fan. I don't think there is a fan in a 486 SLC 50 thinkpad. Did you try to insert a boot diskette? Does it try ro read/boot? The screen remains black, right? It can be a failed backlight or …

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Getting IBM 340 to turn on

Posted on 2021-09-28, 04:50

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Hi guys, I've just been given an IBM 340 Thinkpad to play around with and I can't get anything on the screen working. I have the original adapter but no battery and the guy that gave it to me said he never had one but he could be wrong. If I plug it in and turn it on I can hear what sounds like a …

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Re: Something Seriously Wrong With My Computer

Posted on 2021-06-07, 10:26

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A defective motherboard is a possibility but from what you describe it doesn't really sound like that. Did you test either graphics card on another system to rule out the corrupted text being a symptom of bad video RAM? How did you flash the BIOS? Which tool did you use and which operating system? …

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Re: Something Seriously Wrong With My Computer

Posted on 2021-06-07, 10:12

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A defective motherboard is a possibility but from what you describe it doesn't really sound like that. Did you test either graphics card on another system to rule out the corrupted text being a symptom of bad video RAM? How did you flash the BIOS? Which tool did you use and which operating system? …

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Re: Something Seriously Wrong With My Computer

Posted on 2021-06-07, 09:53

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Did you also set the lower switch so that it is not on auto? I have no idea but maybe the auto function is not working what ever that is. I'm referring to that you said that you thought the CPU clock was higher than expected. Also as someone else said try to under clock. /BR joakim I turned them …

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Re: Something Seriously Wrong With My Computer

Posted on 2021-06-07, 07:32

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I've swapped the power supply and nothing changed. I'm suspecting the motherboard more and more.

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Re: Something Seriously Wrong With My Computer

Posted on 2021-06-07, 06:55

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The user manual is available online. https://www.manualslib.com/manual/210911/Asus-P4b-M.html It almost sounds like the EEPROM chip is dying but that would usually result in an error message when flashing a different BIOS version. Does the board have any bulging capacitors? How is the voltage on …

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Re: Something Seriously Wrong With My Computer

Posted on 2021-06-07, 06:54

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Joakim wrote on 2021-06-06, 19:13: Yeah but you have switches it seems. Should be these two sets of switches:Screenshot_20210606-210759.jpg (If Google is correct) I've tried flicking those and I can get it to 2600mhz which is the correct speed of the processor but it doesn't make a difference.

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