Windows XP disable Activation?

Posted on 2017-09-15, 20:30

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by dexvx

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Is there anyway to disable Windows XP activation? I've been going into safe mode and using 'rundll32.exe syssetup,SetupOobeBnk', but now it's not working anymore 🙁 Is there any way to disable it permanently? Just buy a key?

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Re: What was the first game you played (and on what system?)

Posted on 2017-09-06, 23:43

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by dexvx

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First games were on a 80286 pango and digger

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Re: Bought this (Modern) hardware today

Posted on 2017-09-04, 23:49

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by dexvx

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Seems like if AMD went with good old fashioned GDDR5/5X, they wouldn't be in this mess they are in right now. Vega probably would've launched maybe 6 months ahead of schedule.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-09-03, 04:42

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by dexvx

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Must be doing something wrong. Set the iron to 650F and now my Ti4200 is a little discolored. Sigh, youtube videos make it look so easy. You should not "set" and go on, instead see what the min. temperature is that gets the solder to flow. Also, do not heat the board too long, do take breaks. What …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-09-02, 04:17

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by dexvx

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Tried and failed at soldering today. Must be doing something wrong. Set the iron to 650F and now my Ti4200 is a little discolored. Sigh, youtube videos make it look so easy.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-08-30, 17:39

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by dexvx

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Been testing a few P3 slot-1 boards I got from Goodwill. All were marked 'as-is'. Asus P2B-LS, works fine, limited to Katmai. Not a fan of the E-ATX form factor. Asus P2B-DS, works fine. Holy hell those retention brackets suck. Literally spent 15min trying to pry my P3-450 out of it. Asus P3C-D (HP …

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Re: How likely is a Celeron 1100A to hit 133MHz FSB?

Posted on 2017-08-28, 23:38

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by dexvx

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's all RNG. However, you stand a better chance with a later produced processor. If the seller has a picture of actual CPU, you can get the work week / year it was made. One of my original setups with an Asus P3C-E / PC800 RDRAM / PowerLeap Slot-T / Celeron 1.2A @ 1.6 stock voltage / Stock HS+F. …

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Re: Quake III Arena Benchmark Thread

Posted on 2017-08-28, 23:12

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by dexvx

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Purging an integral part of a game seems counterproductive for what is the go-to real-world performance benchmark, no? Most all in-era benchmarks for Quake3 disabled sound. Back then it was less about real world performance and more about raw hardware performance. The timedemo's themselves are not …

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Re: dcsliquidations on ebay are true dickbags

Posted on 2017-08-28, 18:55

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by dexvx

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Sellers with shitty photos just surprise me the most. They could've saved a lot of time by making an in focus photo. And don't get me started on camera quality. I have a $30 Nokia Lumia 640 and it takes photos fine, even indoor in sub-optimal lighting.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-27, 19:34

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by dexvx

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Ok finally moving through my hardware test list. Bought an untested Asus P4P800 Deluxe for cheap. Even has that Googlegear label (for those that don't know they were quite a popular online computer shop. Later renamed to ZipZoomFly because Google sued. Alas they went under)! Took a gamble due to how …

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Re: What's the deal with the Pentium Pro?

Posted on 2017-08-27, 05:31

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by dexvx

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pentium Pro was a huge milestone for Intel. It literally put intel on the map for serious workstations and servers.

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Re: Are GeForce 256 DDR cards that rare?

Posted on 2017-08-25, 20:34

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by dexvx

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I posted this in the general forum, but I'll post it here as well I guess. Visiontek GeForce 256 DDR 32MB. Stock at 120/150. Memory is -6, so it should go to 166 no problem. Fan is dying. Still on the lookout for my old Creative Labs Annihilator Pro.

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Re: Modifying ELSA Quadro SDR & Quadro2 Pro to GEFORCE Tutorial-ish! (Not a video!)

Posted on 2017-08-25, 05:51

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by dexvx

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I think it's probably to do with drivers. No professional apps use Direct3D, so performance there is unaffected. The preset defaults for OpenGL on the workstation Quadros may default to some higher quality settings compared to the GeForce, thus impacting performance. I think a better way to go is to …

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Re: Geforce2 Ultra

Posted on 2017-08-25, 05:48

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by dexvx

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I can help, do you know what type of GF2 Ultra you need? Also, for whatever reason, when I run GPU-Z, it crashes the system on older video cards (like the GF256 DDR). Do you use an old GPU-Z build? Edit: Also PM me, because I may not check the thread.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2017-08-24, 23:35

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by dexvx

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Haven't posted in awhile, been busy. Here are some goodies. Asus GeForce FX5950 Ultra 256MB AGP. The right fan is a little rattling, but works. http://i.imgur.com/bbQZC87.jpg Diamond Viper V550 (TNT) 16MB PCI. Looks VERY different from the AGP V550. http://i.imgur.com/doAeYYb.jpg Hercules Prophet …

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Re: How to compare modern CPUs?

Posted on 2017-08-24, 17:18

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by dexvx

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Also, use Edge. Has longer battery life. Also one of the few browsers that can stream 1080p/4K in Netflix (Chrome/FF can't). Which brings another annoyance. Movie studies require ReadyPlay 3.0 (DRM) for many 4K streaming. So you need a KabyLake or newer to stream 4K from Netflix. Nvidia supports 4K …

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Re: My Ongoing Retro Rig Project - Xeon Prime

Posted on 2017-08-24, 05:18

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by dexvx

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Those Pentium III Xeon's with large cache are rare. I only remember seeing most with only 256K on-die. 900 MHz and 2MB cache is the top end. Wonder what is relative performance compared to 440BX and P3-900/100.

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Re: Quake III Arena Benchmark Thread

Posted on 2017-08-24, 05:08

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by dexvx

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*cough*/r_primitives 2*cough* A lot of the judgment against ATI had to do with the compiled vertex array extension not being properly detected by the game on their cards making it pick a slow path (r_primitives 1 uses this fallback mode). Probably r_ext_compress_textures. That defaults to 1 as S3 …

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Re: How to compare modern CPUs?

Posted on 2017-08-23, 15:27

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by dexvx

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Very helpful, thank you! The best Kaby Lake mobile CPU scores 9961. I'm eager to learn the results of the upgraded video driver, and then I'll decide whether I'm in the market for a replacement. Yea, forgot about that. GPU improvement from Kaby to Sandy is literally like 5X. Kaby has full HW H265 …

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Re: Are GeForce 256 DDR cards that rare?

Posted on 2017-08-22, 17:18

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by dexvx

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Dude, that guy has literally everything.

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