Re: Running without chipset drivers

Posted on 2020-02-18, 00:25

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was unable to find my chipset drivers for my super common motherboard. A TON of posts said that you really don't need them in many cases - that sometimes it's literally not even drivers, just an INF file which gives the exact name of the hardware and literally nothing else. YMMV at least, but I …

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Re: CD audio vs Roland & General Midi

Posted on 2020-02-17, 16:43

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

i was disappointed with the cd version of the Secret of Monkey Island because there wasn't any speech. Great cd audio quality but only music. I thought there was never any speech Monkey Island in the game, just music/sound effects? Or am I missing out with something in my audio experience with this …

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Re: Promise SATA150 TX2Plus: how to use + no CD-ROM?

Posted on 2020-02-16, 22:30

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As in your previous topics, you're getting into a mess by trying to do everything at once. Take it one step at a time, get one configuration working before adding a single extra component... Totally understand and appreciate the advice. By installing windows a good 20+ times so far - that's been …

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Re: Promise SATA150 TX2Plus: how to use + no CD-ROM?

Posted on 2020-02-16, 19:02

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does the bios of this controller detect ATA CD-ROM drives? Do you have a SATA CD rom or DVD just to test if it is detected? UPDATE: The bios seems to be weird. Can you enter the controller's bios with just the CD-ROM on the ATA cable? Any chance to manually select something? If you take a look at …

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

Posted on 2020-02-16, 18:54

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

As for transferring data to and from the retro computer, I'm now using an old Realtek 100 Mbit network card. It has drivers for Win9x and uses only a single IRQ value (which I can select manually) and that works perfectly for my needs. It might be worthwhile to disable on-board USB in BIOS, install …

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Re: Promise SATA150 TX2Plus: how to use + no CD-ROM?

Posted on 2020-02-16, 18:18

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

getting PCI IDE or SATA controllers to work properly in motherboards that have onboard controllers is always an exercise in frustration. I'd remove the card completely for testing purposes BTW I love the CRT so much Hey, I'm just being thorough in trying absolutely everything to get this computer …

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Re: Promise SATA150 TX2Plus: how to use + no CD-ROM?

Posted on 2020-02-16, 17:58

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes this should be doable, for that you could put the CD drive and the CF Card on the Promise's IDE controller. I've attached below the card's utility, straight out from Promise's website, just in case... Thanks for the link. That's the same version I'm using - it's not needed until it boots into …

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Promise SATA150 TX2Plus: how to use + no CD-ROM?

Posted on 2020-02-16, 11:32

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

With my Win98SE problems lately I want to start ruling out problematic hardware, and I'm currently using 2x SATA to IDE adapters for my 2x 120GB SSD drives. People recommended using a Promise SATA150 TX2Plus controller (PCI) card instead so I picked one up off eBay. It "supports up to two Serial ATA …

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

Posted on 2020-02-16, 07:44

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

The first thing I would attempt to do is look at the device manager and see if you are getting any warnings or have any uninstalled hardware drivers. If you don't know how this is done just right click on 'My Computer' , choose 'Properties', then 'Hardware' tab, then 'Device Manager'. Device …

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

Posted on 2020-02-16, 05:41

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

So before I rant since I know people will blame it on some of the below, here's the setups I've been using which 20+ times now has failed to give me a 100% working Win 98 SE installation: TLDR version is I've tried 3x different computers, 3x HDD's, 6+ Win98 ISO, etc. etc. • 3x different Pentium III …

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Re: Dreamblaster X2 Loader on Windows 98 not working

Posted on 2020-02-15, 10:35

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Windows 98 is not supported. I asked that question a while ago, too, as I really liked to have it work in Win98. programming effects and soundbanks is not the same usage as plugging the board in a wavetable header - sure it would be convenient to do it with 9x but sadly Dream built their chip …

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FastVoodoo2_4.6 drivers - blanking out (loosing sync) several times once Win98 starts

Posted on 2020-02-15, 10:17

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I'm running a Voodoo2 SLI setup (both same brand, both 12mb) with FastVoodoo2 4.6 drivers following to-the-"t" Phil's driver video to install the drivers and the Tweaker tool. Right after booting into Windows 98 mymonitor will loose sync for a split second, two times in a row. This is a CRT monitor, …

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Re: To Voodoo2 or not Voodoo2? Or use wrapper? Or use faster non-Glide video card? (and some new setup questions)

Posted on 2020-02-15, 09:20

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Thank you for the information and for writing such a detailed reply! (and sorry I didn't see this sooner) -It seems you're confused on what a Glide wrapper is. A Glide wrapper converts from Glide to Direct3D or OpenGL, so Glide games can be played on a non-3DFX card. I was definitely confused. So …

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Dreamblaster X2 Loader on Windows 98 not working

Posted on 2020-02-15, 08:47

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Can you load new Soundfonts onto a Dreamblaster X2 in Windows 98? Or does the Serdaco Dreamblaster Loader program only work on newer versions of Windows? (which would make absolutely no sense to me since I'm assuming most people are using Dreamblasters these to play old DOS games with Midi sound on …

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Re: Voodoo Disable Texture Filtering?

Posted on 2020-02-15, 02:53

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

leileilol wrote on 2020-02-15, 01:46: Not possible! The only filtering you can turn off is the video filtering. Is this video filtering you're talking about antialiasing? If so, I would love to know how to turn that off.

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Re: Converting CDs to CD images that defeat copy protection

Posted on 2020-02-13, 15:43

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Not sure what hacks you're using, but often the problem is that the programs will only try to play CD audio from the first drive they encounter alphabetically. If you have say, a real CD-drive on drive D and a virtual drive on drive E, then you'll need to swap them. I believe they will actually …

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Re: Converting CDs to CD images that defeat copy protection

Posted on 2020-02-12, 21:14

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

How do you all deal with games that use CD audio? Some work when you're using Daemon and you turn on digital audio (believe that's a checkbox in Control Panel/Multimedia?), but many don't and I STILL have to use a physical disk to have CD sound (there's other hacks I've tried as well and still …

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Re: Indy256 and Monkey Island speed patches don't work for AMD K5?

Posted on 2020-02-10, 14:36

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I will give setmul a try but I am not sure it works with K5, we will see.. I also thought these slow-down utilities which can disable caches only work on certain processors....maybe I should try it on my P3 700mhz (which has zero hardware slowdown/BIOS-enabled type stuff from what I can see on my …

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Re: Voodoo 2 DOS Glide compatibility matrix

Posted on 2020-02-09, 00:25

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by Dochartaigh

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in Marvin \ Video

I tested tomb raider quite a while to get it working with voodoo 2 card. Basically in the end I managed to make it work on my pentium 3 system. From http://falconfly.vogonswiki.com/voodoo2.html I downloaded driver version win9x V3.03.00 and I copied glide2x.ovl file from the driver to the tomb …

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To Voodoo2 or not Voodoo2? Or use wrapper? Or use faster non-Glide video card? (and some new setup questions)

Posted on 2020-02-07, 20:58

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by Dochartaigh

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

My P3 with GeForce 4 build has been going great these past couple weeks (~60 games up and running so far!), but I want to see what all the fuss is about 3dfx Voodoo2 and Glide games so I ordered a Voodoo2 12mb and started messing around with it (and am looking into a SLI setup as well maybe). To my …

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