Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-06-29, 09:12

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Oh yeah, I buy physical copies for collecting purposes as well, when I feel like it. However, from the purpose of being able to play the games - the GOG releases are probably even better than most physical copies, because physical copies also frequently have DRM, which can suddenly break / become …

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Re: Collecting rants

Posted on 2020-06-29, 09:08

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When people buy things from 'cheap' sellers and put it up for sale again for a much higher price. Last month I sold my IBM 5170 with working IBM hard drive, memory expansion, several other cards and a working IBM CGA monitor. I wanted to sell it because I was not really using it, ever. This …

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CD-ROM/DVD problem with Asus P2B-LS

Posted on 2020-06-28, 20:37

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I bought an old case so I could build a pentium 2 400-450Mhz AGP motherboard inside of it. It is an Asus P2B-LS with Award Bios 4.51Pg and Asus ACPi Bios rev 1002. Unfortunately I have encountered a problem, it hangs when it detects CD-ROM or DVD drives. It can detect and use floppy disks and hard …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-01-19, 20:32

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I've got two sets of Creative VideoBlaster drivers & utilities. Each card came with their own respective set of floppy disks and manuals. As I haven't found these anywhere, I would like to donate them to the Vogons archive. I would also like to make a thread about my two cards, where I hook them up …

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Re: VLB VESA card recommendations (with links to many)

Posted on 2015-10-09, 20:45

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ATi Mach 64 was one of the last VLB cards, but they can be hard to find and expensive now. Mach32 is easier to find and a little less pricey, but still more money than many alternatives like Cirrus Logic, Trident or S3. The advantage of a Mach 32 or 64 is that they came with more memory than most …

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Re: Upgrading a windows 95 desktop

Posted on 2015-09-28, 18:27

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Probably just a cost-cutting measure, as the more expensive HX chipset could handle it with the appropriate tag ram. Remember, 64MB was a huge amount of memory for home users when these boards first came out. But many OEMs who implemented Triton II didn't bother to add the 11-bit tag. It should …

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Re: Upgrading a windows 95 desktop

Posted on 2015-09-28, 13:47

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So Intel was deliberately short-changing everyone 4 years later when they had already solved the cache issue prior. Probably just a cost-cutting measure, as the more expensive HX chipset could handle it with the appropriate tag ram. Remember, 64MB was a huge amount of memory for home users when …

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Re: Upgrading a windows 95 desktop

Posted on 2015-09-28, 12:32

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Found a bunch of EDO ram at a thriftsore, able to upgrade to 64Mb. nice. Found mostly 4, 8 and 16 MB modules. No 32MB ones, but 64MB is still veerryyy nice. If the motherboard still booted.

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Re: Compaq Pentium I not booting.

Posted on 2015-09-21, 21:46

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When you power it on does your powersupply still make the squealing noise? I once had a bad AT powersupply that blew out and sounded like that as well. Try another AT psu first is my suggestion (make sure the pinout is not proprietary) I don't have an other AT powersupply, or AT compatible …

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Re: Compaq Pentium I not booting.

Posted on 2015-09-20, 14:47

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If anyone has a schematic of this board: https://www.dropbox.com/s/nyaodfpsgkp8r45/FOTO0860.JPG?dl=0 Then maybe I could buy a multimeter and test everything. If anything has been damanged by the cradle movement, which parts would it be?

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Compaq Pentium I not booting.

Posted on 2015-09-20, 12:45

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I have a Compaq Presario 7212 (Or Compaq Presario 7210 ) AT style motherboard with a Pentium I that I was installing a secondary harddrive into. Everything was working until that point, it passed every Norton Utility and Compaq diagnostic test. The system was running while I was looking at some …

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Problem with One Unit Whole Blood

Posted on 2015-08-29, 16:46

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I got the following One Unit Whole Blood from this site: [LINK REMOVED BY MODERATOR] And burned it to a CD-R. The 6x CD-RW drive in my DOS 6.22 system is able to run the installer, but I get an error message when it tries to install. 'Blood.ini not found on installation disk' and cancels the …

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Re: Compaq presario 7212

Posted on 2015-08-29, 08:19

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Is the processor soldered? If not, getting a Pentium 133 or 166 should be easy and cheap. Maybe even a Pentium 200, which you could then set it to any speed you can think of with multipliers up to 3x. Btw I doubt it increases the voltage automatically. If it is anything like my Deskpro you're stuck …

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Compaq presario 7212

Posted on 2015-08-28, 21:54

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After reading the jumper manual, this is how far I got with a chip that ran at 75Mhz https://www.dropbox.com/s/jsdmiosy50kdblx/120mhz.JPG?dl=1 Looking at the CPU model, do you think that I could push it further? no idea. Also, do the clock and bus speed jumpers on the Compaq motherboard put a higher …

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Re: DOS 6.22 / Windows 95 dual boot.

Posted on 2015-08-27, 08:15

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if you also want Win3x installed I wouldn't recommend the above though Personally I've decided I can't be bothered with having multiple OSes on one machine. DOS 6 / Win 3.1: 386 Win 95: 486 Win 98: Pentium / Pentium II / K6 Win XP: Pentium 4 / Athlon XP I like to compartmentalise. How much ram do …

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Re: Upgrading a windows 95 desktop

Posted on 2015-08-25, 17:29

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Messed with the jumpers again, got it running at 120mhz, better to only start using this when I bought a fan though.

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Re: Upgrading a windows 95 desktop

Posted on 2015-08-25, 11:30

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As for the CD drive, I got it to work. However, to make file tranfers easier, I removed my Philips CCD 3610 CD/RW drive from its external parralel CD-ROM caddy and configured it in dos as an internal drive. Now I can move files quick, easy and without wasting CD-R, which I use for my old Philips …

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Re: Upgrading a windows 95 desktop

Posted on 2015-08-24, 16:06

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Does DOS or Win95 even support 128MB of ram? The heatsink can get hot, the heat getting uncomfortable after 3 seconds or so. I could install a fan, but I dont think that it has a power plug on the motherboard for that, any help? maybe I can use the second floppy drive power cord? Anyway, I fully …

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DOS 6.22 / Windows 95 dual boot.

Posted on 2015-08-24, 12:42

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Hello there, SO, I would like to be able to use MS DOS 6.22 and Windows 95 on my old Compaq. Maybe I could install 6.22 first, then windows 95. And then modify sys/bat files in such a way that it boots 6.22, waiting for me to enter the 'win' command when I desire Windows 95. Couldn't tis be done …

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Re: Upgrading a windows 95 desktop

Posted on 2015-08-23, 22:28

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Are you using the onboard S3 graphics, or do you have another display card? If you are using the onboard one, it is possible to upgrade its RAM from 1MB to 2MB as far as I can see from your picture. For some S3 cards, 1MB to 2MB upgrade means quite a performance increase due to how they utilize …

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