Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2018-05-16, 12:20

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Hopefully someday will upgrade my machine, but still it does all i need really good someday, i will get a ryzen, ddr4 ram, more hdd and a better gpu (the last is not an issue or a necessity) I'm sure your system is perfectly fine. I also have an older PC that is nearly on-par with my current use …

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Re: Post your 'current' PC

Posted on 2018-05-15, 23:57

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Antec 1200 ATX full-tower Intel Core i7-6700K "Skylake "@4.2GHz 16GB DDR4-3200 MSI Z170A Gaming M7 LGA-1151 MSI GeForce GTX 980ti 6GB Samsung Sm951 m.2 256GB AHCI PCI-E SSD Samsung 850 EVO 2.5" 1TB AHCI SATA SSD Seagate 3TB 7,200RPM AHCI SATA HDD Windows 10 Acer Predator 27" 2560 x 1440 144Hz G-Sync …

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Re: New Win98 installation

Posted on 2018-05-11, 13:53

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Ok, got the Sound Chip working properly too, thanks to driver packages found HERE on Vogons.org. I tested it with DOS mode and Wolfenstein 3D. Works like a charm.

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Re: New Win98 installation

Posted on 2018-05-11, 12:50

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Ok Wow, I'm dumb. Thanks for the tip. I need OAKCDROM.SYS off of my Windows 98 startup disk in order to get this running. ....OK, worked perfectly fine. Whohoo! Simple mistakes that it took you guys to point out. Thanks a bunch. Now I can tweak things to get it all working right. Get some of this …

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New Win98 installation

Posted on 2018-05-11, 03:04

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I was given an IBM Aptiva E85. Specs below Motherboard: V58XA ATX CPU: AMD K6-2 300MHz RAM: 64MB PC-66 (2x32MB) HDD: Quantum Bigfoot 5.25" IDE 6.4GB Video: ATI Rage 3D+DVD 2MB (on MB) 3dfx: Diamond Monster 3D II 8MB PCI Sound: Crystal CS-4237B (on MB) It has a CD-ROM and a standard floppy drive. The …

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Re: Pentium 1 - 60 MHZ - Graphics Card

Posted on 2018-04-15, 15:08

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I don't have many DOS games, but I did download Tomb Raider and I can't get it to work on my Voodoo2 cards at all. This issue was described in a previous thread over a year ago and still has not been resolved. Mainly I stick within Windows for games, but I think with THAT system, I was going to have …

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Re: Fdisk wont create 2GB Partition only 504MB

Posted on 2018-04-14, 14:28

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Had this problem using a 20.4 GB Maxtor hard drive on a Socket 7 Pentium system that could only really see ~8GB. I ended up finding the Maxtor Drive Overlay software that boots before anything else and lets me use the whole 20.4GB in Windows 95. Works like a charm.

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Re: Pentium 1 - 60 MHZ - Graphics Card

Posted on 2018-04-14, 14:23

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

A Pentium 233MMX is already bottlenecked by V1. i consider a 166Mhz CPU optimum for V1, unless you want to do crude things like running Q3A.. If I have a 200MHz non-MMX Pentium in a Socket 7 MB with 64MB of EDO RAM (60ns) and running Windows 95 OSR 2 with an ATI Rage IIc 2MB PCI graphics card, …

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Re: Pentium MMX - Voodoo1 or 2 and paired with?

Posted on 2018-03-23, 23:25

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Why would you have such an overkill combination like that? Might as well go further back than the GeForce/Radeon timeline and get a Matrox card for 2D and just use the Voodoo1 for 3D gaming. If you want to max out 95-98 games, you'd need a Pentium 3 and 256MB of RAM anyway. The P54 is holding you …

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Re: HD-AUDIO vs AC'97 and my issue

Posted on 2018-03-22, 19:33

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Researched more, it expects a 1,000 ohm resistor to ground. But then the jack sense lines are also wired totally differently. in HD Audio, Pin 7 is the SEND for the jack sense lines. The two jacks have different resistors before going to their respective pins (6 and 10). So no, I can't re-wire it. …

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Re: Gaming Card for Compaq Presario?

Posted on 2018-03-18, 15:01

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

At the MOMENT, it's using the old 300-watt PSU. But this one doesn't have any PCI-E power ports, so if I got a nice sized graphics card for it, I'll be changing that out for a more modern one with those cables. I can use that PSU to maybe run an even older Pentium (Win95) system I have plans for.

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Re: HD-AUDIO vs AC'97 and my issue

Posted on 2018-03-18, 04:20

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Hmmmm. I wonder what kind of resistor it would expect.

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Re: Pentium II Build (Pictures) - Updated

Posted on 2018-03-17, 13:21

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Is that Pentium 2 actually a 450? Why did you de-clock it?

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Re: Gaming Card for Compaq Presario?

Posted on 2018-03-17, 13:17

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Oh come on, the Pentium isn’t THAT bad. We had one running our Labtech server for years.

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Re: GTX 480 - dumb mistake

Posted on 2018-03-17, 13:13

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

That Kryonaut by Thermal Grizzly is the most expensive (by volume) TIM I’ve ever bought, but it’s crazy good... I used the last of it on this GPU die. I might get another tube. I usually use AS5 for attaching heat sinks, though. I can buy two tubes that have 50% more TIM per tube for slightly more …

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Re: HD-AUDIO vs AC'97 and my issue

Posted on 2018-03-17, 13:09

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Yeah, I get the message with nothing installed. I wonder if it really wants HD audio before it’s satisfied.

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Re: Gaming Card for Compaq Presario?

Posted on 2018-03-17, 03:20

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by FFXIhealer

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in Marvin \ Video

This is honestly already the most powerful XP machine I've ever messed with, since it has a dual-core processor in it. I'm used to XP and below being single-core, Vista and above multi-core. The Pentium happens to be in there because it was free. It would have been a throw out at some later point …

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Re: GTX 480 - dumb mistake

Posted on 2018-03-17, 03:12

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Well, these are those tiny-ass capacitors that surround the GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) underneath the IHS (Integrated Heat Spreader). I have no idea how in the world I would even go about replacing them and they're so tiny that my eyes have trouble distinguishing the end-cap to see if it's still …

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Re: HD-AUDIO vs AC'97 and my issue

Posted on 2018-03-16, 22:50

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

The way I have it wired now, I moved that Mic return line to the black (8) pin, the one that is blocked off, so it's not currently being used. I still get that F1 to continue message at POST, though.

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Re: Gaming Card for Compaq Presario?

Posted on 2018-03-16, 22:48

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by FFXIhealer

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Interesting. Reviewing the specs now. Radeon HD 4850 Interface Type: PCI-Express 2.0 x16 (wouldn't the card bottleneck with only 1.0?) Max Resolution: 2560 x 1600 (Too high for me to ever use - I usually top out at 1920 x 1080) Interfaces: DVI-I (dual link), VGA, HDMI Graphics Engine: ATI Radeon HD …

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