Bootable OS CD for accessing USB stick & hard drive on a Pentium 2 system?

Posted on 2022-02-03, 22:51

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I'm currently testing and installing software & games on my recently purchased Pentium II 333. I like to make frequent backups of the SSD because Windows 98 can be finicky but this means constantly removing the cover from the PC which can get tedious. As such, I wonder if there's a bootable CD that …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-02-03, 21:17

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I've seen a few early atx designs where the psu was mounted next to the cpu (in order to provide better cooling, I suppose). Back then I were a little annoyed the psu obscured the view of the PII :D Edit: seeing your new short and wide case reminds me a little of the "reversed" AT-towers where the …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-02-03, 20:57

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I finished cleaning & installing + configuring my new Pentium II 333. Very happy with the look of the case & the components inside: Pentium II 333 ASUS P2L97 32MB RAM (I may increase this to 64MB) Creative Soundblaster 32 (32MB RAM on order to turn this into a fully fledged AWE64) Creative Riva TNT …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-02-03, 20:51

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I finished cleaning & installing + configuring my new Pentium II 333. Very happy with the look of the case & the components inside: Pentium II 333 ASUS P2L97 32MB RAM (I may increase this to 64MB) Creative Soundblaster 32 (32MB RAM on order to turn this into a fully fledged AWE64) Creative Riva TNT …

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1997 ASUS motherboard detects 240G & 480G SSD but not 120G SSD ?

Posted on 2022-02-03, 16:23

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I've got this weird "problem" - I have multiple 120GB SSDs which I love using for Windows 98 machines (since 128GB is the limit there anyway) but with my new Pentium II (ASUS P2L97 with P2 333) I've run into something I've never seen before: it detects a Sandisk 240gb & 480gb just fine BUT it won't …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-03, 15:10

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I agree , I felt stupid for buying a voodoo 2 for 120 aud then another for 140 aud to get a sli setup going back in 2020 but looking at the prices now it doesn't seem so bad. I mean people pay stupid amounts for knowingly broken ones now , it's mental. I paid €70 for a broken Voodoo3 3000 - I fixed …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-03, 11:25

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seller posted a pic of it booting into bios so im crossing my fingers for a working voodoo2. if not i have another dead voodoo2 i can make a piece of wall art. 2 dead voodoos in a dead mother board hanging on the wall. could call it sli art lol Even a dead Voodoo2 can get detected in Windows 98 and …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-03, 11:23

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BitWrangler wrote on 2022-02-02, 21:49: Slot load! Oh yeah! I already had a slot loading Pioneer DVD player which I bought in 1999. Very reliable, very quiet and very fast. This one is a CD player and slightly noisier but it does load CDs very fast.

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Re: Sound Blaster 32 CT3670 + 2nd OPL3 card ?

Posted on 2022-02-03, 08:01

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Yes, that is what I found back then as well. FM music interfacing is not only about the Adlib defined IO port 388, but also about the Sound Blaster range of IO ports, the ones typically starting at 220. In that range Creative labs defined their own FM ports. Though the Sound Blaster still responds …

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Re: Sound Blaster 32 CT3670 + 2nd OPL3 card ?

Posted on 2022-02-03, 07:55

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T5 is for the SB Pro MCV (so IBM MCA, not ISA), T4 is the correct setting for SBPro2 (i.e. ISA card with OPL3). That might explain the issues... Hocus Pocus is known to misbehave with T5. If that doesn't fix it, by all means try the AZT2320 instead. I find it to be very compatible and trouble-free. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-02-02, 20:25

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https://i.ebayimg.com/00/s/MTAyNFg3Njg=/z/ztsAAOSwavBh7vkN/$_84.JPG I bought a wonderfully looking Pentium II 333. The motherboard is great as well but I bought it specifically for the form factor. The inside of the case is extremely tidy with no wires in the way - everything is neatly tucked & …

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Re: Sound Blaster 32 CT3670 + 2nd OPL3 card ?

Posted on 2022-02-02, 19:25

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Hang on, the Audician 32 Plus is an ISA card with Yamaha 719, not a PCI card. Can you confirm what you have there? If it's the Audician, that would be the obvious choice, if it's a PCI Yamaha, the question is whether you have PC/PCI (SBLink) on the motherboard. If not, the Aztech would be a better …

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Re: Sound Blaster 32 CT3670 + 2nd OPL3 card ?

Posted on 2022-02-02, 19:24

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AFAIK unisound allows to move CQM to some irrelevant address so you can have your real opl3 at 388h - meaning no compatibility issues whatsoever Well it's Unisound I've been using so far in my attempt to figure it out. Here's what I've done: - set Audician 32 to A240 I7 D3/H4 P0 F388 using the SET …

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Re: Sound Blaster 32 CT3670 + 2nd OPL3 card ?

Posted on 2022-02-02, 19:19

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You won’t have any trouble with only 2 sound cards. You should have plenty of I/O, DMA, and IRQ addresses. Worst case is disabling one or both COM and Parallel ports. You don’t even need to disable one card in Windows, in fact I discourage it. And for some games like Age of Empires, You need both …

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Sound Blaster 32 CT3670 + 2nd OPL3 card ?

Posted on 2022-02-02, 11:08

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I bought a new system designed for late DOS games and Windows 98 games (a Pentium 2-333). I like the SB 32 included since it's one of the better models but it has CQM instead of OPL3. Since I want to make this system a kind of "DOS system for everything except speed-sensitive games" I really want …

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Re: Did I get ripped off? (Voodoo2 Diamond)

Posted on 2022-01-19, 22:24

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Thanks folks - I'll try the suggestions when I can.

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Re: Did I get ripped off? (Voodoo2 Diamond)

Posted on 2022-01-19, 06:48

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Windows 98 detected the card as before... what do you suggest with this line? Did windows ask for driver installation and you installed it? Else you could try removing the driver in safe mode and install it again by yourself manually. Well the old and new cards are functionally identical so I …

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Did I get ripped off? (Voodoo2 Diamond)

Posted on 2022-01-18, 21:34

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So a while back I bought a second Voodoo2 12MB with the intention of going SLI but due to a lack of time due to family circumstances, I only this week could get around to testing it. To test, I first wanted to make sure the card worked with existing drivers so I removed my previous Voodoo2 ( …

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Re: 2D card performance under Windows 9X

Posted on 2022-01-18, 20:37

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Any of the following chips will will work (All are 512KB) EM614163A MT4C16270DJ KM416C254BJ If faster ones (faster than 60ns ) are cheaper buy the faster ones. I didn't know you were in the EU, the ones I got were from https://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/363331097252?hash=item54983892a4:g:GdMAAOSw901gWSTo …

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Re: 2D card performance under Windows 9X

Posted on 2022-01-18, 20:16

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OK I think I found a EU seller for these chips: https://www.benl.ebay.be/itm/152400238242?hash=item237bc316a2:g:3FkAAOSwIFtc1xVM&autorefresh=true 60ns just like the ones in the system. These should work right? Any of the following chips will will work (All are 512KB) EM614163A MT4C16270DJ …

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