Re: Prepping procedure for Win98SE Install (after failing 20+ times...)

Posted on 2020-02-23, 17:38

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by Dochartaigh

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in Marvin \ Software

Try running with just one stick of RAM (128MB?). For what's its worth I also got my 98 ISO from REMOVED and that has worked fine for me. I will try that - just got 3x new (used) sticks from eBay yesterday - I'll see if only 1 gives me a better experience (already dropped from 700 to 450mhz so I …

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Re: Why does the .wav on Windows 95 startup jitter on my PC?

Posted on 2020-02-23, 10:45

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by Dochartaigh

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The couple computers I'm working on now do this as well - with ISA sound card and PCI sound card. I made a post about it recently and uploaded a video even - seems to be pretty normal.

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Re: Prepping procedure for Win98SE Install (after failing 20+ times...)

Posted on 2020-02-23, 10:42

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by Dochartaigh

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I think you are trying to change too much at once - much harder to track faults to one specific thing when you approach diagnostics like this A slow and methodical approach might serve you better. I'm also trying to setup a pentium 3 based system for playing older w95-98 era games and am having …

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Re: Prepping procedure for Win98SE Install (after failing 20+ times...)

Posted on 2020-02-23, 10:35

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by Dochartaigh

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~12 hours since my initial post and another 3 or 4 Windows 98 and Win98SE installs later and still having issues (so at least 7 or 8 tried tonight, again). Things I did different: • Yet another new CD drive (going off the premise some files have to be corrupt...no move drives left to try fyi... …

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Re: Prepping procedure for Win98SE Install (after failing 20+ times...)

Posted on 2020-02-23, 05:42

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by Dochartaigh

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So it's been ~8 hours since I posted, and 4x installs of Windows 98 later...and I continue to have fail after fail after fail after fail. I actually picked up a Windows 98 non-SE CD by mistake (wrong description, seller refunded). That install actually went fine...and TBH I don't know if non-SE will …

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Re: Converting ATX Power Supply to DELL w/ Adapter (Safety Check!)

Posted on 2020-02-23, 05:03

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by Dochartaigh

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Is your multimeter a Digital VM or analog type ? If your Dell PSU works hook it up to the motherboard and power it up, and set on DC volts you can stick the neg probe from your DVM into any of the black leads (GND) on the 20 pin then just check the voltages on the other pins and write them down. If …

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Re: Converting ATX Power Supply to DELL w/ Adapter (Safety Check!)

Posted on 2020-02-23, 00:29

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes I would check the voltages. On the 6pin dell it has blue wires and the adapter one has red. One of my Dells has 3 black, two red, one orange on the P7 connector but the 20 pin is standard ATX. So Dell really changed things in some computers.... Do you have any experience doing this on a …

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Converting ATX Power Supply to DELL w/ Adapter (Safety Check!)

Posted on 2020-02-22, 23:28

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have a ~2000 Dell Dimension XPS T700r (also a T450 maybe 1-1.5 yrs older). These are supposed to have proprietary power supplies and you can't just drop in a regular ATX power supply. So I bought an adapter cable "Athena Power CABLE-DELL-X ATX 6" 20-Pin to Dell ATX 20-Pin & AUX 6-Pin" off eBay …

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Re: Are these both TNT2's Any differences between them?

Posted on 2020-02-22, 23:13

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by Dochartaigh

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The first card (TNT2 M64 Vanta) is actually an IBM OEM card and the second one COMPAQ OEM, so both originally not from Dell. Any GeForce4 card is excellent for late Windows 9x D3D games, especially the Ti4600. Totally weird that BOTH Dell's I bought off eBay came with TNT2 cards...and neither are …

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Re: Are these both TNT2's Any differences between them?

Posted on 2020-02-22, 22:06

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by Dochartaigh

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The first one is Riva TNT2 Vanta 16 MB / 64-bit. The second probably Riva TNT2 m64 32 MB / 64-bit. The m64 might be slightly higher clocked and thus faster. Great! Thanks. I'm going with the 2nd one then. How could you tell the 1st one only has 16mb of RAM? Don't see anything about RAM size on it …

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Prepping procedure for Win98SE Install (after failing 20+ times...)

Posted on 2020-02-22, 21:30

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by Dochartaigh

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So after failing to get a fully running install of Windows 98 SE working properly (literally after 20+ installs), and from the advice you all gave me last week, I'm now on plan #21 and wanted your feedback. I think this covers nearly everything anybody mentioned that might be the root cause of my …

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Re: Dual Boot MS-DOS and Win98SE on SEPARATE DRIVES???

Posted on 2020-02-22, 21:08

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by Dochartaigh

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The XUB can allow you to boot from other IDE drives at boot time through the boot menu. You could just install each drive with the OS as normal separately, and then connect one of them as secondary master or a slave and use XUB to boot from it when desired. Do you have any links? I'm finding …

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Are these both TNT2's Any differences between them?

Posted on 2020-02-22, 20:41

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by Dochartaigh

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I have two video cards that came with Dell Inspiron XPS's from I think early 1998, and the other late 1999 (I forget which goes with with...). I think they're the same but wanted to ask since I'm going to be using these for a while in my main late-DOS/Win98 gaming rig: This one clearly says "Nvidia …

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Dual Boot MS-DOS and Win98SE on SEPARATE DRIVES???

Posted on 2020-02-22, 20:22

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by Dochartaigh

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Yes, you would think I could find this through searching...but I'm only finding instances of how to do this on a PARTITIONED SINGLE drive, where I want to have each OS on a SEPARATE drive – 2gb CF card for MS-DOS setup as one drive, and a regular mechanical HDD for Windows 98. Is there any way I can …

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Re: What’s in your Garage ?

Posted on 2020-02-19, 17:00

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by Dochartaigh

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I also horde PVMs (though mine are not as nice as some of yours!). Except I don't have a garage, I instead live in a ~700sq ft apartment downtown in a city. My other not-in-current-use computer stuff is kinda spread out here and there (couple closets, and a couple small overflow piles here and …

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Re: What’s in your Garage ?

Posted on 2020-02-19, 03:36

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by Dochartaigh

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Newly renovated mine about a month ago. OK, not the walls or bench as those are from 1958, but put in industrial warehouse steel shelving, bought about $500 worth of plastic bins for everything lol, and put in new lighting. The empty spaces are where my 3x Pentium III towers go + a NEC ~140kHz CRT …

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Re: ~20 Windows 98 SE Installs later....STILL isn't 100%, ever

Posted on 2020-02-18, 21:55

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by Dochartaigh

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I think it'd be easier to show a list of the patches provided by the unofficial service pack (and/or any official pack) then mark what we think we'd need, and then people would tell us if it'd be good to install it or not. I never had a problem with the USP, though. I always selectively choose …

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Re: ~20 Windows 98 SE Installs later....STILL isn't 100%, ever

Posted on 2020-02-18, 15:26

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by Dochartaigh

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in Marvin \ Software

Some Dell mobos need a proprietary PSU, while others don't. I have an Optiplex GX1 that originally came with a P2 that needs one, while Dell went with a standard pinout just a year or two later. I'm like 99% positive this series (the entire Dell Dimension XPS T___ and T___r line) uses the off-spec …

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Re: Green thinking still companies change computers every 3 years.

Posted on 2020-02-18, 15:15

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by Dochartaigh

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My companies timeline is much longer - maybe 5 years (but I think we're the outlier and people complained constantly of the computers being so slow). Honestly, for personal use though (talking laptops here as that's what non-gamers use like 95% of the time I find), PC laptops after ~4 years are just …

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Re: ~20 Windows 98 SE Installs later....STILL isn't 100%, ever

Posted on 2020-02-18, 01:13

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by Dochartaigh

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I wonder if your motherboard is going bad. It sounds annoyingly similar to the issues I've been experiencing: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=826566#p826566 Two motherboards going bad though? I would be tempted to suggest checking the power supply if all other avenues of inquiry have been …

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