Re: 3DFX card broken?

Posted on 2016-12-04, 04:19

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by FFXIhealer

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had a similar graphical issue. Turns out on the card it was one of the two pixel shader chips that had a few of the connections bent so they touched. Examine all the chips for contacted pins. If they're all ok, then worry about the memory chips themselves. I straightened mine out with a sturdy …

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Re: bsod when moving files, the PC doesn't like having too much RAM?

Posted on 2016-11-28, 00:05

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by FFXIhealer

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I'm running Windows 98 on my retro PC and I'm perfectly happy with 256MB of RAM. Dunno why people are complaining about not being able to have more than 512MB. I ran Windows XP for a few years with only 256MB, then bumped it up to 512MB. THAT PC now has 1GB....but come on, it's XP SP3! You weren't …

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Re: Good internal hard drive for modern pc

Posted on 2016-11-13, 17:11

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by FFXIhealer

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Yeah, you don't want to ask me about modern storage drives. Current PC Boot Drive: Samsung SM951 m.2 256GB PCI-Express SSD (~$310) Games Drive: Samsung 850 Evo 1TB SATA SSD (~300) Storage Drive: Seagage 3TB 7,200 RPM SATA HDD (~70) Last PC Boot Drive: Samsung 850 Evo 256GB SATA SSD (~140) Storage …

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Re: Windows Server 2008 on old PCs

Posted on 2016-11-12, 15:08

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by FFXIhealer

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Yeah, but having a server running only in Command-Line Mode is super-scary to most people. I've known plenty of IT pros who are intimidated by CLI-only. But it's wonderfully compact and efficient that way. The GUI takes nearly 4x the CPU power and over 10x the system resources (memory) to run the …

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Re: Anyone on here into retro console gaming as well

Posted on 2016-11-11, 05:09

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by FFXIhealer

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My consoles: Nintendo Entertainment System (replaced the inside cartridge connector) Super Nintendo Entertainment System Nintendo 64 (with 4MB Expansion Pack) Gamecube GameBoy Color GameBoy Advance GameBoy Advance SP Nintendo DS (original model) Nintendo 3DS (original model) Sony Playstation Sony …

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Re: Windows Server 2008 on old PCs

Posted on 2016-11-11, 04:50

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by FFXIhealer

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Yes, server 2008 will continue to receive support from Microsoft until 14 January 2020. But that's beside the point. Why would you want to run a Vista-based OS on such under-powered hardware? The OS ALREADY takes forever to boot and runs rather slowly. I can only imagine how slow 2003 would run. …

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Re: Graphical issues in FF7&8 with Voodoo2

Posted on 2016-11-11, 02:16

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by FFXIhealer

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Yeah, weird. I had severe 3D artifacting on my first Voodoo2 card after I got it, but it turns out a few lines on one of the shader cores had been pushed together and were shorted. I used a very small flat-head screwdriver and separated them. Then after sitting on the shelf for a few months, I …

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Re: Win95. yea or nay?

Posted on 2016-11-10, 15:03

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by FFXIhealer

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Man, you guys live old. LOL My first Windows 95 PC had a 100MHz Pentium and 16MB of RAM. The older 486 PC had DOS and Windows 3.1. And if I recall correctly, Windows 3.1 ran ok, but would slow down or hiccup if you had to do anything processor intensive, like any kind of gaming (excepting …

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Re: Retro Gaming PC (1998)

Posted on 2016-11-09, 05:28

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by FFXIhealer

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So thinking AGAIN about my Athlon-based Windows XP computer here....there's almost no point in bothering with it because it's only a few years earlier than my Dell laptop (Windows XP). But looking back to when I built it, I can't help but think about how little I knew about PC gaming and hardware …

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Re: Retro Gaming PC (1998)

Posted on 2016-11-01, 18:57

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by FFXIhealer

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Only copy of the Dark Forces and Jedi Knight series is on STEAM...which doesn't usually trace well to Windows 98. I do remember playing Jedi Outcast way back in the day, but it wasn't with a Voodoo card. I think it was still on that 8MB Intel i740 card.

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Re: Retro Gaming PC (1998)

Posted on 2016-11-01, 17:59

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by FFXIhealer

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There's just something about getting your retro system fully stable and fully working that puts a warm, fuzzy feeling in your belly. Now all I have left to do is find desk space for this thing, because sitting on the floor cross-legged and playing Quake with the keyboard on my lap and the mouse on …

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Re: Did Iomega Ever Make RELIABLE Storage Options?

Posted on 2016-10-29, 22:18

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by FFXIhealer

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I've got a 100 and a 250 internal ATAPI/PATA/IDE drive in my retro systems and I bought them WAY back in the day and they still work perfectly fine now. And my old ZIP drives, the ones I still have....still have the original data left on them. I have old-ass pictures, game saves, DexDrive archives, …

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Re: Retro Gaming PC (1998)

Posted on 2016-10-29, 22:14

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by FFXIhealer

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Just booted today and it came up SLI and working, first boot, first time. Very promising.

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Re: Retro Gaming PC (1998)

Posted on 2016-10-29, 01:14

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Voodoo_2.jpg So those are the drivers. I unplugged the SLI cable before powering on the system and FIRST TIME, this shit works. Until I can figure out WTF is wrong with the SLI, I'll leave it as a single card for now. Quake, Quake II, and FF7 will play fine with only one card and I'm playing them …

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Re: Retro Gaming PC (1998)

Posted on 2016-10-28, 13:13

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by FFXIhealer

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I have tried each card separately. They work perfectly fine as far as I can tell. But put the SLI cable in and BAM. But before the Gravis gamepad, when it worked it worked and it was solid the whole time the PC was on. So if there was an SLI cable problem, wouldn't that have prevented it from …

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Re: Pulling out my hair over windows 98 SE install troubles

Posted on 2016-10-27, 19:08

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by FFXIhealer

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+1 on copying the Win98 CD contents to a D:\Win98 folder after installing. Makes driver updates happen much faster with less hassle. I formatted my drive as 32GB C: and 8GB D:.

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Re: Retro Gaming PC (1998)

Posted on 2016-10-27, 19:03

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by FFXIhealer

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No, I did not say that Windows used to crash. I said IT used to crash - IT being a reference to the aformentioned DISPLAY app in the Control Panel. And what I mean by that is the Display app opens just fine and all tabs EXCEPT THE VOODOO2 tab work just like they're supposed to. But if you click on …

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Re: Retro Gaming PC (1998)

Posted on 2016-10-26, 03:28

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by FFXIhealer

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Ok, so I downloaded the Gravis CD and burned it to a disk. I used this to install the original 1998 drivers for the GamePad Pro and now the gamepad works properly (except for Up-Left, but we'll get to that later). Guess what? Now my Voodoo2 SLI stopped working. Period. I've restarted half-a-dozen …

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Re: Cooling Needed for 486 DX2 66Mhz

Posted on 2016-10-25, 13:12

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by FFXIhealer

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I remember back in college a friend of mine had a K6-2 processor with just a small fan on it, but the inside of his case was getting pretty hot. So I remember him and I, we found some styrofoam and made a conduit, then taped it to the front fan housing so that all the cold air from outside the case …

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Re: Retro Gaming Laptops Win9x and XP

Posted on 2016-10-24, 18:30

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by FFXIhealer

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Dell Inspiron XPS Gen 2 CPU: Intel Pentium M 2.1GHz RAM: 2GB DDR2-533 HDD: 250GB (C: 40GB, D: 190+GB) BIOS: Latest available VIDEO: nVidia GeForce Go 7800GTX 256MB PCI-Express OS: Windows XP Home SP3 This was such a beast of a laptop that it's still today the only real laptop I've ever owned. I …

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