Help getting Soundblaster Live! SB0220 working in Windows 7

Posted on 2021-07-03, 13:31

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by BSA Starfire

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in Marvin \ Sound

Hiya, Need some assistance getting a sound card working in my HP Proliant ML-115 G5(Opteron 1354, 8GB RAM, Radeon HD 3870), it's a Creative Sound Blaster Live! 5.1 Digital (Dell OEM, SB0220). now I know what your thinking, why this card, well the HP only has PCI slot's with the 3.3v available, so …

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Re: Atari 2600 and Intellivision NOAC (Nintendo on a chip) clones.

Posted on 2021-06-24, 18:02

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by BSA Starfire

in Console & Arcade Emulation

in Console & Arcade Emulation

Thanks for the information, that's just what I wanted to know. Seems "nice code software" were incredibly prolific on NOAC/Famiclones. I agree these units are not for the purists of today(saying that I've been a Atari VCS 2600 gamer since 1981 and always owned one since that time), and I kinda get a …

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Atari 2600 and Intellivision NOAC (Nintendo on a chip) clones.

Posted on 2021-06-21, 17:50

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by BSA Starfire

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in Console & Arcade Emulation

I've been having a lot of fun playing some really old games recently and also some more modern recreations of old games that I expect many folk haven't played, these are reprogrammed/re-imagined Atari and Intellivision games running on NOAC systems, that's a Famicom/NES on a single IC. The two …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-21, 11:50

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by BSA Starfire

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HP z200 workstation rear.jpg HP z200 workstation.jpg Bought this today, a 2010 HP Z200 workstation, it has a Xeon X3450 CPU, 4 GB RAM and includes 3 caddy's for HD's. There is a GPU in there but no idea what until it arrives. I was short a machine as a friend needed a PC to replace a dead Toshiba …

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Re: What is your Favorite CPU and Why ?

Posted on 2021-06-17, 14:37

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by BSA Starfire

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I'm going to be weird as always, and old. The 6502 was the one for me, it powered my first ever interaction with a CRT in the Atari VCS/2600,this showed me the worlds that could exist inside a computer and that I could interact with, then my first ever computer the commodore VIC 20, this showed me I …

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Re: What music are you listening to?

Posted on 2021-06-17, 12:43

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by BSA Starfire

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Munx wrote on 2021-04-25, 08:24: Got myself some fresh vynil - Strange Highways by Dio amd The Symbol Remains by Blue Oyster Cult. P_20210423_145743.jpg you my friend have very good taste! the sisters of mercy - floodland here today!

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Re: What is better: used HDD from a server or used HDD from a home computer?

Posted on 2021-06-13, 13:14

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by BSA Starfire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've got some old enterprise drives that have more than 8 years uptime on them that are still just fine, Seagate 500GB constellations mostly, 2 in the machine I'm typing this on now in fact, I've personally found these to be very strong compared to consumer drives, yes they are somewhat loud in …

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2021-06-13, 12:49

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by BSA Starfire

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HP z200 workstation rear.jpg HP z200 workstation.jpg Bought this today, a 2010 HP Z200 workstation, it has a Xeon X3450 CPU, 4 GB RAM and includes 3 caddy's for HD's. There is a GPU in there but no idea what until it arrives. I was short a machine as a friend needed a PC to replace a dead Toshiba …

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Re: Community Socket 7: Choose my parts!

Posted on 2021-05-10, 13:20

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by BSA Starfire

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Left my thoughts on your survey. Have fun 😀

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Re: Good brands/models of early 90's PCs to collect?

Posted on 2021-03-27, 12:03

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by BSA Starfire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

An IBM PS/1 model 2133(386 SX 25) might be worth a look, it has ps/2 Kyb/mouse ports, built in Cirrus Logic VGA, standard IDE and FDD onboard, 72 pin RAM sockets, and uses a CR2032 coin cell for CMOS/time. Also the board uses standard AT PSU connectors. CMOS settings don't need a disk either. I'm …

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Re: Everything You Wanted To Know About Tualatin

Posted on 2020-10-04, 19:35

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by BSA Starfire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Interesting stuff, but Coppermine did not use copper interconnects, that was marketing fuzz from intel, AMD were first with that using the process they co developed with Motorola in 1998 and used in the Athlon. Intel were way behind in that party and the coppermine didn't use it despite the name. I …

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Re: What do you do with hardware equivalent PCs?

Posted on 2020-09-18, 13:22

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by BSA Starfire

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in Marvin \ System Specs

I've got 3 kinda similar machines, all are based around AMD K10 CPU's. These are my daily drivers. I love AMD K10 architecture. #1(2008) HP Proliant ML 115-G5 this is an old server/workstation from 2008,AMD Opteron 1354"Budapest" CPU(4 cores, 2.2 GHz, L2 512MB per core, L3 2MB), 8GB RAM, XFX Radeon …

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Re: dogs in video games

Posted on 2020-09-13, 09:55

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by BSA Starfire

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A few Nintendo Famicom games I can think of: Obake no Q-Taro: Wan Wan Panic. (Bandai. December 16th 1985) Onyanko Town. (Pony inc. November 21st 1985) A week of Garfield.(Towa Chiki April 7th 1989) Mother. And a couple of Famicom disk system games. Tama and Friends: 3-Choume Dai Bouken. (Bandai. …

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Re: The merits of Socket 7 processors - Intel P54C/P55C | AMD K5/K6/K6-2 | Cyrix/IBM 6x86 | IDT Winchip

Posted on 2020-07-16, 12:44

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by BSA Starfire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well to be honest,I suspect most people here are gonna tell you Intel Pentium MMX, and that is fair, especially if your going to want to play quake as well as it can be on the platform(Quake was hand coded for the Intel Pentium FPU and performs far better on the intel part because of it, and as …

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Re: Your favorite retro socket/platform

Posted on 2020-07-13, 13:20

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by BSA Starfire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Socket 7/super 7 for me, it has such a range of things to play with, Intel Pentium & Pentium MMX, AMD k5, K6, K6-2, K6-III, Cyrix 6x86, MX, MII, Idt Winchip C6, C6-2, RiSE MP6 CPU's. you can use ISA, PCI and AGP video cards, ISA and PCI sound cards. chipsets where available from many makers too …

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Re: SiS 6326 AGP great card!

Posted on 2020-07-13, 12:26

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by BSA Starfire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I did a bunch of testing with 3 versions of the SiS 6326 recently, first the C3 revision that was built into my ECS socket 7 motherboard, this had 4MB VRAM and connected via internal AGP bus. Second a PCI 6326 H0 revision with 4MB VRAM and finally a PCI 6326 H0 Revision with 8MB VRAM. The C3 …

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Re: Demo for GUS on 286?

Posted on 2020-07-08, 19:52

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by BSA Starfire

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Indeed! I bought my Amiga A500 back in 1987, my first pay packet in fact! I recall my pal's having neat things on the Commodore 64 at that time or so, but not till the DX/2 66 was a standard computer do I recall seeing stuff on the PC, second reality is the one I remember.

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Re: Demo for GUS on 286?

Posted on 2020-07-08, 19:43

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by BSA Starfire

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in Marvin \ Sound

WOW! I didn't realise the demo scene took in the 286! I always assumed it was a post 386 thing as all those guys were on Amiga/ST/64 till the 486 DX/2 66 came along and made the PC seem like a worthwhile proposition performance wise. I know we have had some awesome stuff for the old PC/XT class …

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Re: Anyone collect foreign computers?

Posted on 2020-07-04, 15:15

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by BSA Starfire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think Amiga was pretty much international? I know they were exceptionally common in the UK and Europe, I've seen them for sale in Japan(not often, but BEEP had a few last year) and Commodore was an American company so I'd assume they were fairly common there?

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-07-02, 15:22

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by BSA Starfire

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As my HP Proliant ML 115 G5 is so picky about graphics cards(it so far has only run properly with a Geforce 6800(NV 41) card). I bought this PNY Geforce 9600 GT off fleabay. hopefully it'll work OK, it obviously needs a full clean out and service, poor thing looks choked with dust. Filename geforce …

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