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Re: What updates do you consider critical for Windows 98 SE?

Posted on 2014-10-14, 17:17

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ok I will reword the question slightly. What updates, if any, need to be installed in order to function properly, besides Direct X. To the folks not installing any updates. How fast of a computer have you installed Vanilla Windows 98SE on and not experienced problems? I am talking about CPU and hard …

What updates do you consider critical for Windows 98 SE?

Posted on 2014-10-14, 04:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What Windows 98 SE official updates do you consider to be required for a *fast* system, or in general? I am not a fan of unofficial *packs* as I simply do not trust them. With a fresh install of Windows 98 SE from an original disk I would install the shutdown fix for fast CPU's and large hard drive …

Re: Best DOS compatible PCI soundcard for less than 20 dollars?

Posted on 2014-10-14, 04:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What is written on the chip of the TB card? AU8830, AU8820 or AU8810?

Re: Old Nvidia Drivers

Posted on 2014-10-14, 01:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thank you for that link!

Re: What would you do with a Dell Dimension 4600?

Posted on 2014-10-13, 23:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would like an early XP box to play Splinter Cell displayed correctly with a GeForce4 TI and a later one for games that require more horsepower without having to swap video cards around. It's also an excuse for more boxes I suppose. EDIT: nice collection BTW

Re: What would you do with a Dell Dimension 4600?

Posted on 2014-10-13, 23:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dude.... EDIT: I laughed so hard when i read the Dork Age comment I almost peed myself...

Re: What would you do with a Dell Dimension 4600?

Posted on 2014-10-13, 22:56

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well hopefully I will find out tomorrow if there is one or two more like it, so hopefully I will have a pair. As far as if I dual boot it will be for early XP only. I do have an Athlon II 250 board with 4-GB RAM and a GT-740 card for later stuff if needed. When will I ever get all these boxes built …

Re: What would you do with a Dell Dimension 4600?

Posted on 2014-10-13, 22:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am leaning heavily in making it a dual boot system. Fast 98 and good early XP box. I did not have time today to mess with hard drives. The motherboard is solid though. Made by Intel, 9x/NT support, IDE, SATA, Floppy, will hold 2 3.5" hard drives, AGP, and 3 PCI slots. Couple that with working …

Re: Old Nvidia Drivers

Posted on 2014-10-13, 08:00

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Phil, Perhaps older drivers still exist on their servers. We could try forming a URL to one. Their FTP site is not navigatable:( So pick a driver version and edit URL. http://download.nvidia.com/Windows/xx.yy/xx.yy_win9x.exe edit for clarity: blah.blah/Windows/xx.yy/xx.yy_win9x.exe If I knew a …

Old Nvidia Drivers

Posted on 2014-10-13, 07:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was able to download old Nvidia drivers from their servers. Nvidia has done away with old driver support but they are still there... at least for now. Win9X Driver Page http://www.nvidia.com/object/win9x_archive.html Win 2k/XP Driver Page http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-2k_archive.html Howto …

Re: Question about Voodoo 3 PCI

Posted on 2014-10-13, 03:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hmmm I see the part you mean now... No idea.

Re: Question about Voodoo 3 PCI

Posted on 2014-10-13, 03:15

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

They are talking about AGP bus and not PCI bus. You will be fine on a PCI bus.

Re: YT Video: Building a retro gaming PC for Splinter Cell!

Posted on 2014-10-13, 02:53

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Phil, Did you ever have any luck with the Quadro based cards?

Re: What would you do with a Dell Dimension 4600?

Posted on 2014-10-13, 02:35

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I agree fyy, My main box is a HP DC7900, Core2quad, 8GB RAM, 240GB SSD, Nvidia GT-640. It does what I need, stable and inexpensive.

Re: What would you do with a Dell Dimension 4600?

Posted on 2014-10-13, 02:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have 2 sticks of Crucial DDR-400 1GB set aside and an XP Pro COA. So basically I just need a new PSU (bad cap in the one i took out) and choose a video card. I think this will be the box where I will probably swap between 2-3 video cards depending on what I want to play. Geforce4 for Splinter Cell …

Re: What would you do with a Dell Dimension 4600?

Posted on 2014-10-13, 00:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just grabbed an Audigy 2 Dell OEM card that will plug into the Dell front panel headphone jack for like $12.00 US.

Re: What would you do with a Dell Dimension 4600?

Posted on 2014-10-13, 00:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dagnabit... 🤣 oh well... Sutekh94, I will have some time tomorrow to try a few hard drives with the 4600 and report back. Not sure what size SATA drives I have on hand at the moment though. Pretty sure a 1TB, 160GB, 600GB and maybe a 320GB.

Re: What would you do with a Dell Dimension 4600?

Posted on 2014-10-13, 00:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nah its standard Micro-ATX form factor and power supply. 20-pin + 4-pin 12V

Re: What would you do with a Dell Dimension 4600?

Posted on 2014-10-13, 00:13

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mmmm... I think I posted everything I found in the original thread (http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=36925). I have been using one recently with onboard audio and video disabled and a S3 Trio64 PCI video card and a Yamaha YMF-718S ISA audio card. I like it for goofing around. I think I am …

Re: What would you do with a Dell Dimension 4600?

Posted on 2014-10-12, 23:37

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It also came with a Sound Blaster Live (sell on ebay) and a GeForce4 MX440 AGP8 video card. Might use that video card for a Direct X 7.0 Windows box in an Intel SE440BX-2 motherboard. It looks like it is keyed for 3.3 and 1.5 Volt slots.

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