Is there a way to stop the CD spin up "hiccup" when the music on CD starts up

Posted on 2016-08-30, 18:56

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by Deksor

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When gaming on old PCs, I noticed something that was always a bit annoying : when your game has music written directly onto the CD (wich you can read in a CD player) when the music starts up, the game freezes until the CD is spinning fast enough to be read by the drive. It can also happend when …

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Re: Socket 7 heat sink + fan (thermal paste?)

Posted on 2016-08-27, 16:50

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by Deksor

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They don't really need it, although it's still better to have it, but not required CPUs really started require it when the Athlon/pentium 3 coppermine came out

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Re: How to enable Matrox OpenGl with Parhelia and V2

Posted on 2016-08-26, 08:34

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by Deksor

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When I wanted to do the reverse thing with a game using the Q3 engine, I had to rename 3dfxvgl.dll to opengl32.dll to use my sli. You should try to remove opengl32.dll from the game's files (if it exists)

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-08-26, 07:53

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by Deksor

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Wow I never heard of that story. I'm french, so I may have talked to him without knowing. Sounds like childish reaction from him ... Do you know how he was called ? Edit : Is it Trevormacro ? http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=355053 http://forum.hardware.fr/hfr/Hardware/2D-3D/powered-voodoo- …

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Re: "Intel Inside" logo, 486 question

Posted on 2016-08-25, 21:17

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by Deksor

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My IBM PC 340 apparently had a black logo :

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Re: "Intel Inside" logo, 486 question

Posted on 2016-08-25, 16:02

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by Deksor

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My DX desktop has a blue sticker and my SX laptops are having red stickers. Maybe the color was up to the manufacturers ?

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Re: Random crashes withe RE-volt

Posted on 2016-08-25, 14:43

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by Deksor

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Well I tried many games before and I didn't have any problems. But when I tried to install and play another game (Age of empires 2) wich I know to be rock stable (It was stable even on our old celeron 633 wich was very unstable 10 years ago due to bad caps) that crashed when I wanted to play. So It …

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Re: Random crashes withe RE-volt

Posted on 2016-08-24, 20:17

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by Deksor

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Nope, the game hangs too ... this is even worse because before using rvgl, the game just crashed, but I could close it whereas now the whole computer is stuck and then I have to restart ...

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[Solved] Random crashes withe RE-volt

Posted on 2016-08-24, 09:53

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by Deksor

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Hi I tried to run RE-Volt on my SLI rig, the game is running well, but the problem is that it randomly crashes. It can happen anywhere : in menus, during tracks, at the end of a track ... and this is very very annoying. My configuration is : Celeron 300A overclocked at 450MHz (stable overclock) …

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Re: How to repair a toshiba laptop floppy drive ?

Posted on 2016-08-16, 18:34

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by Deksor

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Thank you very munch, I'll check that and I will give you a feedback if you want Sadly the last electronic repair shot that I knew was closed a few years later 😒

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How to repair a toshiba laptop floppy drive ?

Posted on 2016-08-15, 20:50

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by Deksor

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Today I bought a Toshiba Satellite 200CDS for 5€ with all it's manuals and of course the CD drive. However the motherboard had a problem due to a leaky battery, but since I had a functionnal but in poor condition Toshiba Satellite 210CS, I switched the motherboard and now I'm having a fully …

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Re: Do you think that Tremulous can be launched on 3Dfx cards ?

Posted on 2016-08-10, 18:33

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by Deksor

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Copying and renaming the file worked ! Thank you very munch 😀 ! Now I can enjoy this game ... at ~20-30FPS most of the time 🤣

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Re: Do you think that Tremulous can be launched on 3Dfx cards ?

Posted on 2016-08-10, 16:20

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by Deksor

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Yes, but the game seems to use the main gpu (wich is an ATI rage pro) instead of my voodoo 2 sli. Also, the game doesn't come with any dll files, so I can't replace a non existent file ... The game seems to look for that file in the Windows directory, so if I replace that file it will screw up …

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Do you think that Tremulous can be launched on 3Dfx cards ?

Posted on 2016-08-10, 15:49

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by Deksor

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I always wondered if Tremulous (a free game from 2005-2006 based on the quake 3 engine) could be run on 3Dfx cards, but I don't know what to look for. I tried it on my retro PC, however I can only use the opengl32 mode. Isn't there a 3Dfx mingl driver or something like that that I could use ?

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Re: Is anyone else running a celeron mendocino

Posted on 2016-08-10, 14:10

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by Deksor

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Im actually runing a celeron 300A @ 450mhz in my "1998" rig It has : 2x Voodoo 2 12MB in SLI 128MB of ram 3com ethernet card ati rage pro AGP (I'm still looking for something a little bit faster and that was released in 1998 just like the riva TNT, but I didn't find any of those atm) 4 GB HDD (I …

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Re: Need help for my ECS UC4915 socket 3 board

Posted on 2016-08-10, 08:56

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by Deksor

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I noticed one more thing today. At very rare moments, when the board receives current, the keyboard leds are powering on, and then off, just like they should do (but nothing else happens). Maybe there is still some life in this board ?

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Need help for my ECS UC4915 socket 3 board

Posted on 2016-08-09, 16:57

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by Deksor

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Hello everyone Someone gave me an UC4915 motherboard wich wasn't used for 18 years. It has been damaged by a leaky battery so I bridged every damaged traces There was also many missing jumpers so I looked at the manual here http://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/Ecs%20-%20Elitegroup/manual/uc4915/ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2016-07-31, 05:41

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by Deksor

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Oh a M915i with real cache ? That's interesting, mine have the fake cache, but it seems that I could put some real chips in there because the traces are actually powered. But apparently, the BIOS have been modified to make you believe that you had real cache :depressed: But since your board has …

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Re: Going online with Windows 3.11?

Posted on 2016-07-16, 18:59

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by Deksor

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I connected my 486DX 33 to the internet once last year. But it was very very slow, and while the few websites that I browsed were more or less fine under explorer 5.5 (old/simple websites), that was way too slow. However, it is "fast" enough on my pentium MMX 200MHz and on my Pentium 2 400MHz, both …

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Re: Metabyte and Creative Voodoo 2 12MB SLI issue [SOLVED]

Posted on 2016-07-14, 11:16

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by Deksor

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Well, in fact I'm still having one major issue :depressed: Every glide/opengl app is working properly, but directx 7 doesn't seem to work with my cards ... Every single DX7 game that I'm trying doesn't do anything when I choose the 3dfx mode (and they aren't showing any video mode either). Even when …

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