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Re: Going from 3gb to 120gb - how to setup Sectors? Cylinders? in BIOS.

Posted on 2020-06-21, 19:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm also not unconvinced the 40gb drive may not be using a DDO. did it come with an "install disk" when you put it in? I don't know what DDO is. I literally just plugged it in and it worked (Windows sees the full 40GB at least, haven't tried DOS but I assume that will too). Just select "auto" in …

Re: Proper order/way to swap sound cards (AND Remove/Add drivers?)

Posted on 2020-06-21, 08:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Personally, I go into into the device manager, remove the sound card then uninstall any drivers (and make absolutely sure theyre gone) before I plop in the replacement. So leave the old card plugged in while I do the uninstall? This is the problem actually – I don't know which to delete in device …

Can't swap from Audigy 2 ZS to SB Live! Card - blue screen VXD Errors

Posted on 2020-06-21, 02:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have to be doing this wrong as this commonly happens to me... I had an Audigy 2 ZS audio card installed, and wanted to switch over to a SB Live! card instead (as this card is period correct for my build). I pulled the Audigy card, installed SB Live card, and rebooted the computer. Upon boot-up it …

Re: Going from 3gb to 120gb - how to setup Sectors? Cylinders? in BIOS.

Posted on 2020-06-21, 00:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

https://archive.org/details/whatide :) Cool, thanks! I can download that on the other computer and run it to get those values. That's all that's needed? Should just be able to plug those values into the BIOS and It'll work? [hr] To add to my reply above, I checked the BIOS for the Secondary HDD , …

Re: Going from 3gb to 120gb - how to setup Sectors? Cylinders? in BIOS.

Posted on 2020-06-21, 00:06

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Your board Pentium 1 board is old enough that its BIOS will likely not be able to support anything over 8.4GB without either patching the BIOS (if possible), an XT-IDE BIOS, a PCI IDE/SATA controller with a BIOS that can handle the drive size or a software solution called a dynamic drive overlay ( …

Going from 3gb to 120gb - how to setup Sectors? Cylinders? in BIOS.

Posted on 2020-06-20, 23:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a MMX 200 running Win98 which had a 3GB mechanical HDD in it. It seems like the previous owner had to set that up manually in the AMIBIOS. I just installed a 120GB SSD (computer seems to recognize it), but I have no clue how to set this up manually in the BIOS. https://i.imgur.com/DlwK6Bdl. …

Re: Apple is getting off Intel CPU’s ?

Posted on 2020-04-24, 02:05

in Milliways

in Milliways

I just don't see how they can get that high of performance with ARM, especially in regards to all the "artsy" stuff that is touted by all the Apple sheeple who claim that Apple is the best for graphics, photos, etc... when in fact they have never even tried a PC that costs a lot less and will …

Re: Problem with Need for Speed 2 SE and Xbox 360 controller on Win98SE

Posted on 2020-04-19, 14:31

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I used a Logitech RumblePad 2 back in the day. It's a USB game pad which has Win98 drivers and supports dinput but it doesn't support the newer xinput. I don't have it anymore, but I remember that it worked fine with PS1 emulators of the time, including proper vibration support. They still sell …

Re: Problem with Need for Speed 2 SE and Xbox 360 controller on Win98SE

Posted on 2020-04-19, 12:24

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Please let us know if you find anything with an analogue stick which works in Win98 (I'm sure DOS support is out of the picture though...). I just can't deal with the Gravis ultrapad or gamepad pro (or whatever it's called). It's literally one of the worst controllers I've ever used (and I've used a …

Re: The Great Sound Blaster Live! Install CD Test Off

Posted on 2020-04-14, 04:38

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Yes, I'm convinced that just because a model is listed in one of the INF files on the CD, it doesn't mean that an installation will go smoothly. The only guaranteed solution is to have a retail version where you know for certain that the card and CD are a match. The next best thing is to do what …

Re: The Great Sound Blaster Live! Install CD Test Off

Posted on 2020-04-14, 00:56

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

In the past, a 100% smooth install has happened only when I used a boxed retail version of a card with the CD that was packaged with it. I had retail CDs for CT4760 and SB0060 but sold the latter. I'm glad you posted this - I was researching which I should use with my CT4760 I just got, and was …

Re: Dreamblaster x2 availability

Posted on 2020-04-10, 04:28

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

you realize no seller makes any money off of VAT? and making a VAT free sale outside the EU requires paperwork and evidence, hence tracked shipping. making VAT free sales is a bunch of extra effort for a small company like that. I did not say any seller makes money off VAT. I order a good 10-ish …

Re: Dreamblaster x2 availability

Posted on 2020-04-10, 02:42

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I've bought 2x from ExcelValley (from China or Hong Kong I believe), the last arrived maybe a week ago. I didn't want to buy them from Serdashop because there wasn't an option to take off EU VAT, and since I live in the USA I wasn't paying that 19% extra or whatever. I think it probably came out to …

Re: How to benchmark Unreal Tournament (1999) using patch version 436?

Posted on 2020-04-02, 21:54

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Be sure to run without vsync or a software frame limiter as that is the only way to get the engine to "execute as fast as possible". Are these found in the Unreal settings I assume? Or maybe for the vsync that's found in the Windows video card panel where you have to turn it off? What's the cap on …

Re: 4:3 A.R. and new displays

Posted on 2020-03-30, 05:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am interested in a possible inexpensive scalar solution if it can force a 4:3 AR on the series 6 TCLs. I haven't tried any of them, so I am hoping to hear of one that works in a situation similar to mine. OSSC is considered the current best of the bunch and is around $175 USD. It's worth joining …

Re: 4:3 A.R. and new displays

Posted on 2020-03-29, 22:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Have you tried any scalers? Some have passhrough mode and simply convert analog to a digital HDMI signal and I've never had a problem on my TCL's with these stretching the image (but these are actual scalers and not just ADC's like your Hammerhead/HDFury clone). I had a TCL 5 series TV hooked up to …

Re: Quest for the Ultimate 486 computer.

Posted on 2020-03-27, 19:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

About what year DOS games are you trying to play? I'm currently in the middle of trying to get a system like this built which will likewise "play the most games and run the most software", but I'm stumbling a bit. I think my problem is I'm trying for too wide of a range of years. To me all DOS games …

Re: Best DOS video card?

Posted on 2020-03-26, 16:00

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I have a virtually identical pc/lcd setup to you, with a s3 virge GX instead, and it works fine. I think the trio/virge are the most compatible dos cards of all. I think what is happening is a driver issue. When you launch the games you do it from windows right? Try to see if you can find other …

Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2020-03-26, 05:49

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

So conflicting advice from you two! I'll have to compare myself...but that's really not going to help as I'll have to swap out cards between tests and will forget what the one I just ran sounded like lol. What's weird is the one in Phil's video, pic below, which people reference a lot about these …

Re: Trying to get ESS 1868F working on DOS and Win98SE

Posted on 2020-03-26, 05:34

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

For stuff that can interact nastily with Windows I just have a file '1.bat' in the root of my C: drive. In my case it starts DOS mouse and sound drivers. Maybe that would work for you? You need to remember to run it after booting into DOS, of course. It was the weirdest thing... like even when I …

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