Re: Toshiba 2805-s402 Ultimate retro gaming laptop

Posted on 2020-12-27, 02:51

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It allow higher sound than it should be. Just adjust the volume. That being said its a know issue with all XGs as mentioned in the XG thread. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=48133 2.2. Crackling      Crackling may be caused by too high maximum volume. Sometimes it's because driver allows to …

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Re: Downgrading XP to 98se

Posted on 2020-12-26, 06:55

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Like other said You can dual boot Xp and 9x or you can just get rid of xp reformat and install 9x instead. Id recommend finding a copy of symanctec ghost 7 or 8 and just making a backup image of XP and saving it to a thumb drive or a dvd or something. then you can put it back if you ever decide to. …

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Re: Downgrading XP to 98se

Posted on 2020-12-26, 06:26

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same goes for cards Like SB LIVE with Audigy 2 drivers for midi in dos box, Yamaha XG, A3D. Plenty of examples. Theres those integrated controllers on motherboards that will support dos games under 9x but not under pure dos. For all of that you need vxd drivers. Anyways, there a thing called 98se2me …

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Re: DOS CPU benchmarks

Posted on 2020-12-26, 05:28

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ok thanks horun. after reading about dhrystone it may not work either as it said Dhrystone's small code size may fit in the instruction cache of a modern CPU, so that instruction fetch performance is not rigorously tested i'll test it though

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Re: Downgrading XP to 98se

Posted on 2020-12-26, 05:24

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yes I'm referring to the real dos box not the emulator.

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Re: Downgrading XP to 98se

Posted on 2020-12-26, 04:09

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ya maybe but very little computers designed to run 95 or 98 run ME right becasue a lack of WDM driver support on older hardware. IF you want to run DOS games ME is a poor choice compared to 98se. Lack of real dos unless patched, and its buggy and crashes a lot with vxd drivers and you need vxd …

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DOS CPU benchmarks

Posted on 2020-12-26, 04:04

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speedsys isn't reliable to me as a benchmark. It too heavily skews due to FPU performance. I need some kinda accurate or at least good benchmark to benchmark a laptop in DOS that isn't speedsys and doesn't look at FPU performance like speedsys does.

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Re: nVidia TNT2 / GeForce 2 strange colors issue (mainly seen in Need for Speed 2 SE - NFS2SE )

Posted on 2020-12-25, 07:09

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try 98se instead of me

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Re: Merry Christmas everyone and have you ever lost something in your computer stash ?

Posted on 2020-12-23, 06:16

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merry Christmas horun

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Re: Mystery Motherboard

Posted on 2020-12-23, 03:28

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lol nice necro. Ended up building a pc out of this. Maybe that Os2 site guy knows, but I never was able to enable L1 WB cache on the CPU. Despite the fact that the BL3 supports it and the IBM cobalt manual states the board has L2 WB. There is no option in the MR-BIOS to enable either one. I messaged …

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Re: Software for Windows 98SE

Posted on 2020-12-22, 17:59

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instead of hijaking a post from 2016 to ask for help, in the future just make a new thread.

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-12-22, 17:35

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might be the same thing only difference I see is your has 1ghz cpu so its a refresh.

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Re: Toshiba 2805-s402 Ultimate retro gaming laptop

Posted on 2020-12-22, 17:14

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we can link to official drivers, but there's no need to upload them, since the laptop is supported elsewhere on official page. The official video driver is fine but it's version 7.76 or something. Very old driver. 12.41s work fine as well, anyone is free to modify 12.41s themselves if they want. 14. …

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Re: mistakenly bought Adaptec AHA-1510A SCSI adapter (version with no BIOS), would it still work on a 286?

Posted on 2020-12-22, 07:48

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those are for windows only for like hooking up scanners

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Re: Repacking prortable system battery packs.

Posted on 2020-12-22, 07:34

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gl, i tired this before and failed because i didnt buy the tin strips, and I didnt have a battery spot welder. to spot weld the tin strips to the batteries. i saw a lot of vids of people soldering but that didn't work for me, and your no supposed to do that anyways.

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-12-22, 06:18

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Drivers off my 2805-s402 dumped in thread. Re: Toshiba 2805-s402 Ulimate retro gaming laptop

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Re: Toshiba 2805-s402 Ulimate retro gaming laptop

Posted on 2020-12-22, 06:16

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Driver Dump Custom. ( if you use these files you do so at your own risk) Chipset https://www.mediafire.com/file/dquti0tlc1cz221/chipset_infinst_enu.7z/file Toshiba Common Controls (needed for toshiba power saver) https://www.mediafire.com/file/onpto3p3r9235t8/Toshiba_Common_Modules.7z/file Toshiba …

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Re: Custom 486DX2 (99.9%)(Christmas Special) Finished.

Posted on 2020-12-22, 00:38

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thanks external speed calibration for thrustmaster acm. a quad game port isa card. dial guarantees precise control in any game and Thrustmaster's Thrustware will ensure optimum performance. also comes with a program that works with red baron game of my childhood its probably more useful on an early …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-12-21, 09:03

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i'll dig it out tomorrow mate

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-12-21, 08:29

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Being a owner of a Toshiba 2805-s402 i can say it is far from perfect. The compromises it makes are low max memory, less powerful geforce 2 go variant. Far from perfect LCD that only does 16m colors even tho the gpu does 32m. weak build quality that effects the entire series such as the hinges. Not …

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