How to control full screen refresh rates on Win 10?

Posted on 2022-12-31, 10:16

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by flynth

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So I had an idea to play old motoracer 1 on win 10 64 bit (mainly because I wanted to use my Bluetooth controller) when I saw some people got it working on win7 64bit before. I've got a good display port to VGA adapter that supports all the modes my crt monitor does and I used the nVidia control …

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Motoracer 1 Direct 3d on Windows 98 SE

Posted on 2022-12-31, 00:47

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by flynth

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My Moto Racer 1 (EU edition) has a problem running with D3d on. When the race starts the game runs, but the graphics is broken (only sky and horizon perhaps are visible nothing else). Once I disable d3d it runs fine. It is Windows 98 Se plus all the ms fixes from unofficial sp3, with DirectX 4. …

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A problem with an old game port joystick.

Posted on 2022-12-30, 13:10

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by flynth

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I have an old Genius 2000 f-16 game port joystick. The instruction manual says it doesn't need any drivers (under win95/98). So I've added it as a 4 button joystick with throttle. However, it looks like joystick's pots have very small range. Before I calibrate it I can see all movements basically …

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What kind of plastic for a DIY turbo button panel.

Posted on 2022-12-30, 11:28

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by flynth

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Unfortunately my 386dx40 pc case is missing a turbo button/reset/lock panel. I would like to make a replacement. I think the easiest to make will be just a turbo button with a led underneath that lits when pressed. For this to look good I would like to put a black slightly translucent plastic in …

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Any way to change sensitivity on a gameport analogue joystick in Windows 98?

Posted on 2022-12-28, 00:10

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by flynth

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I tried to play Carmageddon (win version) on Windows 98 with an analogue gameport joystick. Unfortunately it is practically impossible, because the joystick is way too sensitive side to side. Calibrating changes nothing. I can only make it more sensitive by not extending it fully during calibration …

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Re: Transferring files to your retro project. help thread

Posted on 2022-12-22, 23:42

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As another person said, a USB CF card reader for the modern system and a CF to IDE adapter for the old one works great. I use this myself with my 386 old system and a modern Ryzen system. There is no need for a CF to PCIe card for a modern system. However, it is important to remember to always eject …

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Re: Hardware Repair setup?

Posted on 2022-12-22, 12:23

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Further question, rather specific, how would I fix a stuck CD drive? Depends on the mechanism and what is causing the issue. If it uses a belt then those can usually be replaced. If it's using a plastic gearing mechanism, those can be a bit trickier to repair. I have a mix of both. some are gear, …

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Re: Trying to fix a dead slot1 motherboard - PCchips M726

Posted on 2022-12-22, 11:42

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by flynth

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I haven't had a chance to look at this MB again yet. There is lots of holiday related stuff to do, but I'll definitely have some updates in few days. I have this motherboard in a somewhat working state last time I checked. It had some instability and would often crash, so I just put it away, but it …

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Re: Trying to fix a dead slot1 motherboard - PCchips M726

Posted on 2022-12-21, 16:04

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PCIRSTJ (reset in PCI bus) is active (low) , isn't it? A southbridge will deactivate it when power-good signal PWG gets active. Or maybe it's some faulty chip pulls reset to low level. Or the southbridge is faulty itself. The southbridge is ALi M1543/M1543C here. So you can find a datasheet and …

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Re: Trying to fix a dead slot1 motherboard - PCchips M726

Posted on 2022-12-20, 15:15

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Hi, Is CMOS battery OK and a clear-cmos jumper set in normal position ? Yes, they are. Also I found pictures online of this board that show another clock chip. One I had much more luck finding a datasheet for (w83194R-39). So now having the datasheet for a compatible chip (my MB has cma8864bf-26) I …

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Trying to fix a dead slot1 motherboard - PCchips M726

Posted on 2022-12-20, 13:27

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I have this motherboard. Unfortunately it is 100% dead. I'm trying it with known good ram and cpus. I also have various tools, a (pci & ISA) pc analyzer card, a multimeter, an oscilloscope etc. I measured the CPU voltage and it appears to be slightly high at 2.1V (while it should be 2V), but …

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Re: Hardware Repair setup?

Posted on 2022-12-20, 11:16

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by flynth

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There are a lot of good comments in this thread already, but I would like to add that having a good bench psu is very important. It has to have current limiting, if it doesn't you might as well use an atx PSU on the bench. It is also good to have more than one output(double, triple) . This way you …

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Re: BIOS resetting to defaults.

Posted on 2022-12-19, 12:05

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by flynth

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I had a similar issue and cause of it turned out to be faulty memory. The RAM sticks passed all the tests I threw at them, but BIOS stopped resetting immediately after replacing them. When I was troubleshooting it I happened to find someone who fixed similar issue by disabling some automatic OC …

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BIOS resetting to defaults.

Posted on 2022-12-19, 11:10

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by flynth

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I'm having a weird problem with my Windows XP pc. Specifically the motherboard reverts to BIOS defaults when power is fully disconnected (the CMOS battery was replaced twice). This motherboard supports "advanced overclocking" and its manual mentions that it helps you with overclocking by reverting …

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Re: Is there any way to use PCIe NVME SSD on Windows XP 32 bit?

Posted on 2022-12-19, 08:49

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Thank you both. I've decided to use the SATA ssd as planned, because I realised there is (almost?) no benefit to using PCIe x1 than SATA 3Gb. Both are in the same ballpark transfer speed wise. I've started the pc with the sata 128gb ssd installed (via a M2 to sata adapter) to make sure windows sees …

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Re: A fresh Windows XP install configuration tool.

Posted on 2022-12-19, 00:56

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by flynth

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tweak UI for XP? https://archive.org/details/tweakuixppowertoysetup Perhaps.. It didn't change the look and feel. It just disabled some baloons, and did other under the hood stuff like enable disk DMA etc(if I remember correctly). I need to run it and see. Looking at the screenshot at the link it …

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A fresh Windows XP install configuration tool.

Posted on 2022-12-18, 22:09

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by flynth

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Does anyone remember a name of a tool used back in the day to set various configuration options on Windows XP (such as hide certain annoying balloon messages etc). This tool would contain lots of useful registry settings. I used it a lot back in the day, but I can't remember it's name. It was …

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Is there any way to use PCIe NVME SSD on Windows XP 32 bit?

Posted on 2022-12-18, 22:04

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Let me start with the key question. Is there a Windows XP 32 bit driver for PCIe connected NVME SSDs? . I found this for 64bit win XP https://retrosystemsrevival.blogspot.com/2019/11/nvme-express-15-windows-xp-driver.html?m=1 But there is conflicting info about nvme storage on Windows XP 32 bit. I …

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AM2+ Motherboard issue with a Phenom x4 cpu (windows xp build).

Posted on 2022-12-10, 21:33

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by flynth

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I've thought I was pretty much done with the hardware part of my windows XP build. I chose parts I already had lying around that I've used myself for many years so I knew they were good. However I've encountered a weird and possibly an interesting issue. Specifically my windows xp build uses: A nice …

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Re: 5,25 Drive… which one to buy?

Posted on 2022-12-10, 01:10

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have you tried the internet shopping experience? :P I see plenty of dicey ~$10 1.2MB untested floppies, one $35 fully tested 1.2MB, and one $56 fully tested 360KB listed in Poland right now. It sometimes makes sense to buy "untested". I buy almost all of my vintage stuff this way and I only got a …

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