Re: Best isa gpu?

Posted on 2020-07-30, 12:38

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by emosun

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What do you mean by "secondary"? Do you plan on using two VGA videocards to drive two screens? I'm not sure it's that easy. From what I understand, each videocard has its own VGA BIOS and they are likely to conflict. If anything, only one of them will get initialised. the machine is isa only and …

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Re: Best isa gpu?

Posted on 2020-07-30, 10:20

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Ok after a bit more research I think I've found that the cl-5420 might be more than enough for what i need and doesn't cost very much. It more or less just needs to display another monitor and play back some video in windows media player. I watched a youtube video of someone playing starcraft and …

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Best isa gpu? [solved]

Posted on 2020-07-30, 03:22

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by emosun

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wondering what the best isa only gpu there is for windows specifically. From what i was able to google some are better at dos and some are better at windows/gui. Was able to find a few recommendations based on dos gaming but not really windows. The gpu would be used as a secondary gpu on a windows …

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compaq prolinea bios

Posted on 2020-04-12, 20:48

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by emosun

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How would you access the bios in a prolinea 4/33s ? none of the normal keys seem to do much. the machine has no hdd. the keyboard works fine and it shows video and just tries to boot from floppy. I've read around a bit and other older compaqs seem to need a bios disk in order to get into it , any …

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Re: getting pci devices working on packardbell

Posted on 2020-04-10, 17:46

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by emosun

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alright well heres an interesting development I tried a pci ethernet card and it works , detected just fine. automatically came up in windows and requested a driver. I then tried a pci ati rage gpu in the same slot which yielded a proper bios beep (1 long 2 short) (i assume thats "video problem …

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Re: getting pci devices working on packardbell

Posted on 2020-04-09, 14:42

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by emosun

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so.... no ideas on that one huh? 🤣

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Re: getting pci devices working on packardbell

Posted on 2020-04-08, 19:21

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by emosun

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alright well heres an interesting development I tried a pci ethernet card and it works , detected just fine. automatically came up in windows and requested a driver. I then tried a pci ati rage gpu in the same slot which yielded a proper bios beep (1 long 2 short) (i assume thats "video problem …

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Re: getting pci devices working on packardbell

Posted on 2020-04-08, 14:38

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by emosun

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But the PnP BIOS still needs to keep track on how resources are allocated per device in ESCD portion of CMOS. would this be something it kept track of after a reboot? I'm saying that..... would the machine not be able to do this on a "first boot" situation? What I'm getting at is , it can …

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Re: getting pci devices working on packardbell

Posted on 2020-04-08, 14:22

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by emosun

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With no CMOS you won't be able to configure PCI Extended System Configuration Data (ECSD) with device resource allocations. This is how P&P OS know which device need to be configured. when i check the bios there doesn't seem to be an option for that. the only pci related options are palette snoop …

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Re: getting pci devices working on packardbell

Posted on 2020-04-08, 13:59

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Maybe that's your problem, because it means that it can not even store any configuration data from the PCI bus enumeration. yeah but wouldn't the machine not retain the ide configuration as well then? which would prevent it booting? I think the machine retains it's settings between each boot, just …

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Re: getting pci devices working on packardbell

Posted on 2020-04-08, 13:50

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by emosun

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Check the BIOS for a setting like "reset configuration data" or similar in the Plug&Play section. You may need to enable that once for the cards to get detected. well theres another whole issue , the board uses a dallas clock chip which has long since died and doesn't save any bios data , not even …

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Re: getting pci devices working on packardbell

Posted on 2020-04-08, 13:48

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PCI should always be plug&play, even on an old i430NX chipset. If not, something's wrong. USB cards might use a newer PCI version, whicou could be problematic, but I'd expect the video card and sound card to at least be detected (getting drivers working would be a whole different kettle of fish, …

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getting pci devices working on packardbell

Posted on 2020-04-08, 05:09

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I've pulled out a packardbell Pro 108cd (pentium 90/ 72mb ram/onboard video) from off the shelf and have tried booting it and running it for the first time since i bought it. Was able to get windows 98 installed and running fine. However , I'm not sure how to get pci cards working in the machine. …

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Re: Help Identifying Computer Case from CompUSA

Posted on 2019-12-29, 21:43

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by emosun

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The case you are looking for is a TH-7614R I own a bunch of these , they mostly do not have a particular brand. These were cheap cases that were made for the korean and japanese markets in the late 90s. They would frequently be sold out of catalogs to pc shops there and around the world. The reason …

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Re: Is the bios on HDD or not ? Compaq Deskpro 2000 P133

Posted on 2019-06-14, 16:36

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by emosun

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The bios should be in rom. You can check by just unplugging the hdd and turning it on

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Re: Help To Identify Old Laptop

Posted on 2019-02-06, 23:59

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by emosun

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GabrielKnight123 wrote: What would this laptop be worth as it is well its a totally unknown laptop that doesn't work so about 5$ to the right buyer and free to the wrong buyer

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Re: What is the best benchmark for PCI VGA cards?

Posted on 2019-02-05, 14:20

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by emosun

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games are the best bencmark

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Re: Would you Retrobright?

Posted on 2019-02-02, 15:37

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by emosun

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i found plenty of paint in the past that exactly matches the beige of a 90's computer case. theres also a chance whatever you retro brighted might just be using a very bad plastic or you didn't do something right.

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Re: Show us your retro computer cases

Posted on 2019-01-26, 20:38

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by emosun

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a youtuber called Luke Junker had a similar case to one of those on that picture as seen on one of his videos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPnHSwFXmxI thats cool , i'd sure like to buy it but sounds like it's a sentimental machine I saw one of those in teal/aqua on ebay about 6 months ago.. …

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Re: How long to old-floppies last?

Posted on 2019-01-25, 20:42

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by emosun

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generally the older a floppy is the better quality it will be and the longer it'll last (relative to it's time of course) 70's floppies tend to still work 40+ years later , while 3.5 floppies from 2005 tend to be about 20% DOA in the packaging. In 2018 i'd say any floppy past 1988 is a 100% crap …

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