Re: Intel TC430HX large hard disk

Posted on 2018-08-27, 06:10

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PCI IDE controller will be better than that lame onboard ide controller, i used one on my packard bell pc that had that 8gb limit for using a 40gb hard drive for windows 95 osr2, i used a Promise Ultra66 PCI

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Re: Smallest Socket 7 Motherboard

Posted on 2018-08-27, 05:02

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the Intel Advanced/ML is pretty small compared to my other socket 7 boards in my possession, my AG430HX and AN430TX boards are bigger than that one, it's the smallest ATX socket 7 board that i have. (don't have a camera so it's not my board, just found some images of the boards i have) Size Marl …

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Re: best atx 430hx board?

Posted on 2018-07-23, 07:00

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

there were some Sony Vaio PCV models and Toshiba Infinia models that had atx 430hx boards

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-07-16, 13:40

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Found another Intel AN430TX board, a HP ASUS SPAX Super Socket 7 Board, and a Creative Sound Blaster 16 CT1740 Intel AN430TX https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/fnkAAOSwTgdbQAmZ/s-l1600.jpg ASUS SPAX https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/JpUAAMXQKQhRGe4M/s-l500.jpg SoundBlaster 16 https://i.ebayimg.com/images …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2018-02-13, 04:45

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My main PC setup http://oi63.tinypic.com/fa7ynl.jpg on top of the table http://oi65.tinypic.com/szwnx5.jpg The black PC on the right (my main PC) ASUS Rog Strix B350F Gaming Socket AM4 Motherboard AMD Ryzen 5 1600 6 core 3.20 GHz 16GB GSkill Trident Z RGB RAM Zotac GTX 1060 6GB Amp Edition Mushkin …

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Re: pentium pc beeps when pressing a key in windows 98 dos mode when playing jill of the jungle, adlib tracker, etc.

Posted on 2018-01-26, 05:39

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Legacy USB was the culprit. i guess don't use it. On to playing jill of the jungle, commander keen, duke nukem, day of the tentacle, etc.

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pentium pc beeps when pressing a key in windows 98 dos mode when playing jill of the jungle, adlib tracker, etc.

Posted on 2018-01-26, 04:55

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by Windows9566

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

when i boot to dos mode on windows 98 se on my pentium 133 pc and run adlib tracker or jill of the jungle, and press a key on the keyboard, it emits 2 beeps and doesn't respond to any keystrokes and i have to force restart specs Intel AN430TX ATX motherboard Pentium 133 CPU 64 MB RAM SoundBlaster 16 …

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Re: What was your worst screw-up with retro tech?

Posted on 2018-01-25, 19:57

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i was trying to remove the heatsink on my 430tx motherboard to put a pentium 133 in it and snapped the bottom tab off the socket 7 when trying to get the heatsink off. and my other screwup is i spilled coca cola on my dell at101w mechanical keyboard and most of the alps switches got ruined, and the …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-01-21, 07:31

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Bought a Intel AN430TX Socket 7 ATX board with a pentium mmx 233, 64 mb ram and a S3 Virge DX 4mb PCI card for $74.99, still shipping though.

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Re: Best and worst sound cards you have ever owned?

Posted on 2018-01-14, 05:00

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Best: Sound Blaster 16 - Decent ISA 16 bit sound card with good DOS support, I have a CT2830 Sb16 in my main Pentium 3 DOS/Win98 rig Sound Blaster AWE64 - Decent ISA card for Windows 9x, has a wavetable synth and soundfont support, don't have a SB Awe64 but i have heard that they are good sound …

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Re: My DOS Rig hates DOS Games

Posted on 2017-12-19, 04:21

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

too bad 486, Pentium, Pentium 2, Pentium 3 (Slot 1) class machines and hardware are too expensive on ebay. PCem v13 which just came this week works just fine with bio menace and i am having no trouble with it on my main rig Main Rig Specs ASUS ROG Strix B350-F Gaming Mainboard AMD Ryzen 5 1600 6 …

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Re: My DOS Rig hates DOS Games

Posted on 2017-12-08, 06:42

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The soundblaster 16 worked out of the box on my last DOS pc, didn't need any jumper config since i bought it from ebay, I bought the soundblaster 16 to replace the crappy Aztech AZT2320 Sound III 336SP that was in it. and about the demise of my packard bell, the packard bell stopped recognizing the …

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My DOS Rig hates DOS Games

Posted on 2017-12-07, 23:24

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My PC doesn't like DOS games, it might be that my motherboard doesn't like my soundblaster 16 isa card, Bio menace and Catacomb 3d and Commander Keen Goodbye Galaxy don't detect my sound card, Bio menace locks up the PC when i shoot an enemy, Star Wars X-Wing has garbled OPL audio, and some DOS …

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Re: My Gateway Solo 2550

Posted on 2017-08-26, 04:36

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I now know the video card and sound card for this laptop: it has a Silicon Motion LynxEM 4mb video card and a ESS Maestro 2E PCI sound card, i googled them and downloaded the correct versions, i now just need to know how to get the DOS compatibility for the Maestro 2e to work.

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Re: DOS only drivers for esstech pci soundcards

Posted on 2017-08-19, 21:43

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Its too quiet for me, i can barely hear the fm synth and can somewhat hear the digitized sound

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My Gateway Solo 2550

Posted on 2017-08-19, 18:03

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I need help installing Windows 98, I don't know what hardware it has, any ideas? It has a pentium III 450 mhz, 160 mb ram, 80gb hard drive, i don't know the video or sound card on it.

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Re: PCem v12 sound too quiet

Posted on 2017-05-15, 18:01

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I turned on Loudness equalization on the realtek drivers and it made PCem louder

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PCem v12 sound too quiet

Posted on 2017-05-13, 01:49

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I got Windows 95 installed on PCem v12, i maxed out the sound and its still quiet, i can barely hear it. any suggestions PC Specs Processor: AMD Athlon x2 5200 Dual-Core Processor 2.31 GHz Memory: 4.00 GB DDR2 Motherboard: ASUS M2N68-AM Plus Monitor: Dell 2005FPW Graphics Card: Zotac nVidia Geforce …

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Re: Trouble getting Commander Keen to work with sound on my Pentium 3 PC.

Posted on 2016-08-08, 18:03

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Commander keen 5 works fine, but CK4 and CK6 are having that issue. It does the same thing on dos mode too.

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Trouble getting Commander Keen to work with sound on my Pentium 3 PC.

Posted on 2016-08-08, 17:00

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I can't seem to get the soundblaster to work on Commander Keen 4 and Commander Keen 6. it works rarely when i relaunch it. other games like Doom and Wolfenstein 3D and Duke Nukem 3D have sound but Commander Keen is finicky with it on my machine. Specs: Motherboard: Gateway OEM Intel WS440bx Slot 1 …

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