Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?
Posted on 2010-06-16, 18:37
Release date of the 450MHz deschutes is August 24, 1998. Which is around the suspected date after which all retail Pentium's were fully locked. Also Core stepping is DB0.
Re: Socket-A AMD Athlon/Sempron system
Posted on 2010-06-16, 17:54
I see, I will try what APIC settings are available and what they do. (but not today...) To still enable StpGnt on this mobo, I now have to use the Coolon utility ( http://coolon.o-ya.net/en/ ), but comment out one line in the coolons.ini file so Halt remains disabled and StpGnt gets enabled. Like …
Re: Socket-A AMD Athlon/Sempron system
Posted on 2010-06-16, 17:20
Solved it, after reading the clue on a german forum: The 'Halt' power saving CPU state causes the harddisk's poor performance. Disable Halt with the BIOS or with CBid and the disk's transfer rate doubles. But because 'StpGnt' power saving CPU state can still be enabled the CPU seems to remain cool.. …
Re: Socket-A AMD Athlon/Sempron system
Posted on 2010-06-15, 17:21
What about DMA? You know that windows will shut the fast access down eventually. I had this a few times when I was trying to safe a disk which was damaged. Too many read errors make windows use pio mode again - for good! Check in the hardware manager Ah, there I found it, but it says "Ultra DMA" …
Re: Socket-A AMD Athlon/Sempron system
Posted on 2010-06-15, 11:20
gerwin wrote: Thanks for the response, I have found another flatcable (yes one with 80 wires) and will first try if that improves the transfer speed on the KT400. Tried the new cable, but it doesn't make any difference. 🙁
Re: Are these 2007 laptop parts useable?
Posted on 2010-06-12, 23:55
Lets talk to myself: I could use this mainboard: Aopen i945GTm-VHL http://www.aopen.nl/products_detail.aspx?auno=2064 And the chip that looks like a PIII is the northbridge.
Are these 2007 laptop parts useable?
Posted on 2010-06-12, 23:25
A friend gave me a laptop with a serious defect. a HP dv9381ea. No intentions to get it repaired. The geforce 7600go graphics chip had overheated and gives corrupted yet readable output. The overheating does not suprise me since many fanless graphics cards of mine have died that way, I prefer …
Re: Socket-A AMD Athlon/Sempron system
Posted on 2010-06-11, 21:10
Thanks for the response, I have found another flatcable (yes one with 80 wires) and will first try if that improves the transfer speed on the KT400. Sorry for the delay, but a router and netbook (1000HE) just came in and I just could not resist to set them up first.
Re: Socket-A AMD Athlon/Sempron system
Posted on 2010-06-10, 10:48
I got a little problem with this KT400 system Crystal diskmark 2.2 Seq Read test: KT400 with WD800JB IDE HDD: 28 MB/s KT600 with WD800JB IDE HDD: 58 MB/s BIOS settings are optimal for all I know, It was tested on a partition without much fragmentation. Now when these identical harddisks were both …
Re: (im)Possibilities wit Slotket CPU adapters?
Posted on 2010-06-06, 22:40
Or can you use a Tualatin on any old slotket, if the mobo can provide the voltage? I tried it, sometimes it should after some soldering, but it did not work for me. Edit: gerwin, can the AOPEN bios select fsb66 for a fsb100 CPU? No, it can not... :depressed: Need to do some soldering to the CPU or …
Re: New Webshow: Ancient DOS Games
Posted on 2010-06-06, 17:22
Re: (im)Possibilities wit Slotket CPU adapters?
Posted on 2010-06-06, 17:04
I mainly base my dislike for 900MHz+ coppermines on articles like this. But maybe I should actually use one to have the right to say something about it. A 1.13 GHz version was released in mid-2000 but famously recalled after a collaboration between HardOCP and Tom's Hardware discovered various …
Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?
Posted on 2010-06-06, 13:44
Tetrium wrote: I thought someone else would do it ux-3 wrote: I just couldn't be bothered I am so disappointed in you both, can't you take your retro gaming seriously? 🤣 😉
Re: (im)Possibilities wit Slotket CPU adapters?
Posted on 2010-06-06, 13:36
I have ruled out the 1100 P3 by now: 12% OC may not work. I haven't tried it myself but I think any coppermine above 900MHz is like factory overclocked and getting too hot for my liking. Whilst a Tualatin got a die shrink and uses lower voltage to do these 1 GHz+ speeds without a sweat. Does the …
Re: Which Pentium IIs can be underclocked?
Posted on 2010-06-05, 18:48
@Tetrium or anyone who has a multiplier limited Deschutes P-II running. Any news on the behaviour of the L2 cache at 133MHz?
Re: Hanging note problem detected on Creative Soundblaster model CT1750!
Posted on 2010-06-05, 12:35
Add the CT2800 as having the hanging note bug with Hexen -warp 02
Re: Best host for Roland Sound Canvas
Posted on 2010-06-05, 10:07
I just remembered reading this, no idea wheter it is true: When it comes to system stability on WinXP, I would have to say that the Roland Virtual Sound Canvas v3.23 will lead to the occasional BSOD when running under WinXP due to some deficiency in the device driver coding. It might be stable under …
Re: Best host for Roland Sound Canvas
Posted on 2010-06-04, 20:52
I would go for one of your last three options. In Windows XP you might want to consider a TB Santa Cruz PCI soundcard as a DB host. The Vortex-2 works best on a Windows 98 system. Using a DB host card also allows u to use a DB50XG/Dream/Korg/OPL4 DB whenever you get bored with the Sound Canvas. …
Re: Perfect ISA soundcard, in theory
Posted on 2010-06-03, 09:06
You should not put the blame on the CS4231 and similar CS4248. They are just codec's, and don't come with SB compatibility themselves. It is the Opti/Compumedia/Aztech chip that is next to it that should take care of that. CS4232 however, does have the Soundblaster interface build in, but no FM …
Re: Perfect ISA soundcard, in theory
Posted on 2010-06-02, 22:19
I have a CS4232 soundcard in the "retro pc" ...... The only game which is not working on my system is System Shock (blank screen when game is run) but this is probably due to a VxPro chipset incompatibility or something else ...). What else is on the soundcard besides the CS4232 Chip? System Shock …
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