Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP Compatibility Problem

Posted on 2018-05-03, 20:59

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Thanks for the tips guys, I'm sure I'll get them off now. I did replace the c90 and it didn't work, so when I have time I'll do them all. Will return to my own forum topic again, will post questions and/or updates there.

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Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP Compatibility Problem

Posted on 2018-05-03, 15:51

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Awesome news! Great work, nice to see it working again. With great interest I have followed this thread, as I have a similar problem. I'm about to recap the card but I'm having a setback. These caps are glued to the pcb, as you yourself have seen. How did you take them off? I have no problem …

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Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP freezes PC

Posted on 2018-04-29, 11:04

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I'm going to replace all the caps and see what happens. Thanks for the explanation. An ESR meter would be used once, not worth the money. Below links are what I think are the right items: https://sinuss.nl/componenten/passieve-componenten/condensatoren/aluminium-electrolytic/aluminium-electrolytic- …

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Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP freezes PC

Posted on 2018-04-28, 11:25

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R112 has nothing written on it, I don't have the card with me right now but I'm 99% sure U11 has a dust particle on the picture. Unfortunately I don't have an ESR meter, I do have both an analog and a digital multimeter. Those two meters don't suffice for checking caps right? I would need to take …

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Re: Voodoo 5 5500 AGP freezes PC

Posted on 2018-04-27, 22:03

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It's a really bad plan to replace a cap that handles 3700 mA ripple with one that can only take 450 mA. Particularly when ripple is that caps main job. . The cap that I used to replace the old one with was purchased a while ago, and while it does work I'll try to find another one. Finding this one …

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Voodoo 5 5500 AGP freezes PC

Posted on 2018-04-27, 20:18

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Hi guys, I have a Voodoo 5 5500 AGP videocard which I haven't used for a couple of years. Back then, I got it from eBay and it never worked properly so I got another one which works. However, after this time I thought I'd look into it's problems again, so maybe someone of you can help me. The card …

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Re: dos games using xms on 286?

Posted on 2017-10-21, 16:55

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Dune II, you get voices when you enable XMS. You need 2 MB.

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Re: Lands of lore on a 286 freezes

Posted on 2017-10-21, 16:49

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Did it work ? Well I first had to buy some memory for the pc. 1 MB wasn't enough. After installing emu386 the game installed and I got the intro working, surprisingly it wasn't really slow. After selecting a character I got a black screen and didn't have time to try other things. I also installed …

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Re: Lands of lore on a 286 freezes

Posted on 2017-09-22, 20:04

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Hey Justin1091, Just out of curiosity, are you seeing a graphical glitch and freeze when it attempts to decompress introduction speech, or does it just not seem to be doing anything for a bit of time? I wouldn't be surprised if the installation's decompression is crippling that 286 processor. It it …

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Re: Lands of lore on a 286 freezes

Posted on 2017-09-22, 19:59

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I know the minimum requirement is a 386 That's the point. It simply doesn't work on a 286. So you tested it? Thanks for letting me know. Edit: see my next post, it might work. And because it doesn't return an error I'm curious if it should work (slower of course) or if something else is wrong, …

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Re: Lands of lore on a 286 freezes

Posted on 2017-09-22, 17:22

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Thank you, that is very interesting. Will try it as soon as I'm able and post back results. I suddenly realize that the CD version of Lands of Lore comes with a vwwsd.386 driver, which installs to system.ini when installing under Windows 3.11 (or 95, 98). According to the manual, this is for …

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Lands of lore on a 286 freezes

Posted on 2017-09-22, 08:44

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Hello guys, I have a 16mhz 286 pc and I am trying to run Lands of Lore 1, the floppy version. When the installation program asks for diskette 2 and I insert it, the installer hangs at 'Decompressing introduction speech'. I tried installing it on a Pentium 2 pc and it worked. So I put the 286's HDD …

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Re: Need help with old 286 PC: expansion card exploded and HDD CHS

Posted on 2017-09-09, 20:41

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Hey guys, An update. Replacing the cap fixed the card. It works flawlessly now. I still have trouble with the hdd though. I can't boot from it so I used a DOS 4 shell diskette and I could browse it. I noticed it has an old utility folder on it with drivers. Because they might come in handy I want to …

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Re: Need help with old 286 PC: expansion card exploded and HDD CHS

Posted on 2017-09-04, 20:09

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I ordered two caps (in case I fail to install one correctly). I think it's not a ceramic capacitor, but a tantalum one. I did find the first website you sent me, but the other one I didn't know about. Will be useful, thanks. Someone over at reddit explained the LZone and WPComp stuff, but the two …

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Re: Need help with old 286 PC: expansion card exploded and HDD CHS

Posted on 2017-09-03, 22:26

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Thank you! I'll install the drive to another computer and see what it reports with auto detect. Perhaps some program like HDTune can tell me more. Nothing is written on the hard drive sadly, only Kyocera KC-40GA.

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Need help with old 286 PC: expansion card exploded and HDD CHS

Posted on 2017-09-03, 21:36

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Hey guys, For a few years this old 286 pc was collecting dust in my room because the clock capacitor had leaked onto the motherboard and destroyed the keyboard traces. This month I decided to read about soldering and I succeeded in repairing my old Xbox which had the same leaking capacitor issue. I …

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Re: Diablo II broken for W9x since Patch 1.14b?

Posted on 2017-06-29, 21:43

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The latest patches add this program to your Diablo II directory: BlizzardError.exe If your game crashes, a folder called BlizzardError is created in the directory of the game. There you can find logs, in .txt format. I believe they did the same with Warcraft III. I think that also won't work anymore …

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Re: Voodoo2 in a pure MS-DOS PC

Posted on 2017-06-29, 19:55

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Voodoo2 SLI never failed me in DOS. Some games crash in glide mode when you have EMM386 loaded. Try disabling it and try again. For drivers, you can download a package and unzip it. Then put glide2x.ovl and in your SYSTEM directory (or was it DOS directory? I don't remember). Games that don't come …

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Re: Diablo II broken for W9x since Patch 1.14b?

Posted on 2017-06-29, 18:41

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It's because they added some system survey program. The game .exe calls for this program when starting. Since the survey program doesn't run on W9x or even 2K, you can't run the game. Pretty sad that some useless utility that nobody ever uses breaks support.

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