Re: What's up with my F1 key?

Posted on 2017-09-29, 07:50

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by Rawit

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I've updated to the latest bios revision for this board and I found a Microsoft Wireless Keyboard 800 (USB) to test, same symptoms persist! Shouldn't the USB keyboard be using a ps/2 emulator? Symptoms persist using USB legacy mode in real dos mode. If the attached image is correct the keyboard …

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Re: [GIVEN UP, partially explained] VESA BIOS works in 1600x1200 in DOS, with LG L246WP, but not with Samsung 204B

Posted on 2017-09-28, 06:57

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by Rawit

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So everything AGP has problems but PCI works? Are your chipset up to date? Seems more an AGP issue now than a card issue.

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Re: What's up with my F1 key?

Posted on 2017-09-21, 14:20

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by Rawit

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Try disabling CuteMouse. You're using a PS/2 keyboard?

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Re: FX Fighter vs FX Fighter Turbo

Posted on 2017-09-21, 13:23

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New characters, new stages, new moves, so I would call it a new game. A bit like the Street Fighter range.

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Re: weird scrolling on 386

Posted on 2017-09-18, 14:17

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It probably adds 40 pixels so when doubled you get a nice 640x480 resolution, probably the native resolution of the laptop. I hope the patches work, because it's also possible it forces 60Hz for the internal LCD, which can cause timing issues.

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Re: Which vlb video card would you use on a 486 dx4 100?

Posted on 2017-09-18, 07:05

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by Rawit

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My samsung 172-something are sensitive to this as were my IBM are better. Yet the samsung does not go into sleep mode on some ISA cards. The IBM does. However if I use a signal booster/splitter that in reality is a device wich you can use to get the same signal out on 4 monitors (same picture on …

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Re: Video cards with a DVI port AND a VESA feature connector?

Posted on 2017-09-15, 07:48

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The Panel Link chip make me think it's a Quadro, but I also saw a review where it's stated that the GF2 Ultra also uses an external TMDS. Normally the GeForce version uses the internal TMDS.

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Re: There’s only one ’t’ in ‘FasMath’: a long-neglected 386. FREAKING FINALLY, LET’S BUILD THIS.

Posted on 2017-09-15, 07:11

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:cool: Nice. As a Gravis UltraSound fanboy I approve :wink: thx for the offer! No problem! I've never run into any situation where a PnP is incompatible over a GF1 Except for the prepgame.exe for Epic Mega Games (which is for the detection routine if I'm not mistaken), it should be 100% compatible. …

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Re: Wolfenstein 3D weird problem

Posted on 2017-09-14, 11:09

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by Rawit

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Is it an issue after you ran other software? Like Doom? Or even after a cold boot?

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Re: There’s only one ’t’ in ‘FasMath’: a long-neglected 386. FREAKING FINALLY, LET’S BUILD THIS.

Posted on 2017-09-14, 07:13

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by Rawit

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I seem to love your build threads. Hopefully you will update your VFX1 one soon 😀 . If you ever start to hate the CF drive, I've got one of those Addonics 3.5" brackets lying around (no CF adapter included). You can have it if you like.

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Re: [GIVEN UP, partially explained] VESA BIOS works in 1600x1200 in DOS, with LG L246WP, but not with Samsung 204B

Posted on 2017-09-13, 07:07

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by Rawit

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Well it doesn't sound like there is an issue with your system, but when you're so unlucky with cards... It's not a 1.5v / 0.8v AGP issue? The cards/mainboard are probably keyed correctly.

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Re: Video cards with a DVI port AND a VESA feature connector?

Posted on 2017-09-12, 11:35

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by Rawit

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xjas wrote: Any guesses what chipset this is? It looks Nvidia-y to me. S3 Savage4 I think.

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Re: [GIVEN UP, partially explained] VESA BIOS works in 1600x1200 in DOS, with LG L246WP, but not with Samsung 204B

Posted on 2017-09-12, 11:03

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Does the fan work? Quadro cards should have an ok build quality. It does sound a bit like video memory issues/overheating. I assume your PSU is up for the task?

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Re: Trying to build a kickass 486 PC, but im not sure what videocard to choose.

Posted on 2017-09-12, 08:01

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1) Diamond Stealth 3d 2000 PCI: Virge based, best compatibility with DOS games I think, has Windows 3.1 drivers 2) Voodoo3 2000 PCI: Probably the fastest 2D core of the bunch, highly compatible, has a Windows 3.1 driver (http://falconfly.vogonswiki.com/voodoo3.html) 3) Matrox Millennium 2064 PCI: …

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Re: DOS DVI Recommendation

Posted on 2017-09-10, 07:19

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Matrox G200 with Flat Panel addon also falls back on 640x480@60Hz for DOS games. No timing issues so far. Image is vertically centered with top/bottom borders.

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Re: Matrox G200 PCI + Digital Flat Panel problems

Posted on 2017-09-09, 22:06

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The Matrox G200 now gives an image through the Flat Panel add-on. I've installed the latest BIOS on the card and I have an image in pure DOS and DOS games. I have to do further testing, but it seems it doesn't like my TV as a monitor. Some things I've noticed: - DOS is diplayed as 640x480@60Hz; - …

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Re: Changing hsync polarity on the fly

Posted on 2017-09-09, 14:39

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I've played with the scaling registers. When using the registers for scaling everything <480 I get a fullscreen image on VGA and DFP. So it means the card is set to 480 pixels on purpose and that it's not a case of a misconfigured or misindentified signal. When I turn on the registers for scaling, …

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Re: Changing hsync polarity on the fly

Posted on 2017-09-08, 21:05

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Mode 13h is displayed as 640x480@60hz, with black borders. It's possible that it is forced for compatibility reasons, as this card was advertised to be used with a digital projector. But doesn't the BIOS just set the registers to achieve that?

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Re: Changing hsync polarity on the fly

Posted on 2017-09-08, 06:51

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That's quite odd; officially there is no such VGA mode. Did you read it from port 0x3CC? They are both negative, I got confused. The default value is E3. If I change the value and start a game and read the value afterwards, it's back to E3. I tried setting it to A3, as I think those should be the …

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Re: Matrox G450 (using Matrox G400's) Win 3.1 driver?

Posted on 2017-09-07, 13:50

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If you have the card you can always try it. I wonder myself why it doesn't work. I did notice that the Matrox BIOS update packs are the same, they group 200/400 together, but the G450 uses different files. So I guess the chips do differ more than we think.

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