Re: The Saga of the Artist Graphics 2000i PCI

Posted on 2021-05-17, 01:25

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Which driver are you using and what software is it? This driver is the only one I managed to get working in w95: http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=1253&menustate=5,1 This one listed as the w95 driver doesn't contain what Windows needs to use it properly: http://vogonsdrivers.com/getfile. …

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Re: The Saga of the Artist Graphics 2000i PCI

Posted on 2021-05-16, 04:29

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Here’s some pictures of the card. Still working on getting the recording setup but I’ll try the above mentioned and report back when I get to that step. The NetVision driver does appear to support OpenGL on W95 as other OpenGL software haven’t reported errors so we’ll see.

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Re: CompactFlash IDE the EVERYTHING?

Posted on 2021-05-15, 08:22

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@Douglar - GREAT info!! I too have had incredible luck with the industrial chinese CF's I've also noticed incredibly good speed on CF-IDE over any other drive no matter how good the quality. The convenience of pulling them and adding stuff via card reader is also far more convenient than burning …

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Re: Compaq Deskpro 2000 Hangs on Boot

Posted on 2021-05-15, 04:21

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Ooh good call - I’ve got a few PCI/ISA I/o controllers to try

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Compaq Deskpro 2000 Hangs on Boot

Posted on 2021-05-15, 01:28

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Hey Guys.... I'm no spring chicken when it comes to troubleshooting hardware... but this has really got me stumped. It's acted so flakey, but I had it all running so I could do some W95 benchmarking, and then I went to restart it the next day and... trouble started again. When it worked... it would …

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Re: The Saga of the Artist Graphics 2000i PCI

Posted on 2021-05-14, 07:56

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Thought you were serious... TBH I thought Quake 1 was OpenGL based. I thought I'd give that one a go anyway since it says it supports Windows 95

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Re: CompactFlash IDE the EVERYTHING?

Posted on 2021-05-14, 07:40

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Thanks for that Jo22! Man... I hear you 100% on the vintage thing. It's funny when you have to remind someone that the way things used to work wasn't as they remembered. Yes, floppies go bad. Yes, errors come up and the hardware might actually be working the way it was made!! Fascinating story about …

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Re: CompactFlash IDE the EVERYTHING?

Posted on 2021-05-14, 04:01

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Why not just offer the choice between HDD and CF card with adapter to the buyer ? EDIT : Possibly with a small bit of text explaining the practical advantages of CF . And if you end up with spare working legacy drives, selling them separately would be an option . Yeah... I suppose I could just …

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CompactFlash IDE the EVERYTHING?

Posted on 2021-05-14, 03:43

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Hey so I have a few machines I'm ready to part with that I've been building over the years. I think the wife's probably annoyed by the 30+ machines I have sitting on shelves in my office and I may one day get it down to one socket type or genre per unit type thing. Either way... so if I cleaned one …

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Re: Compaq Armada 1550 Windows 3.11 video drivers

Posted on 2021-05-14, 01:29

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You'll need an updated video card driver -- even the generic from Chips & Technologies for the card built-in or just use the default SVGA driver. The only difference between 3.1 and 3.11 (for workgroups) was networking support for networks. Ironically it's confusing because 3.1 *could* use internet …

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The Saga of the Artist Graphics 2000i PCI

Posted on 2021-05-14, 00:06

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So.... I got a cool 25lb box of random ISA/PCI cards from the 80s-90s from someone in Georgia who was getting rid of them all. In there was a plethora of cool stuff but one that stuck out for me was the Artist Graphics 2000i PCI. Never seen a card with 72pin ram modules before. A quick google netted …

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Re: Any ideas for a non-responsive 486 motherboard?

Posted on 2021-05-07, 22:35

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Going to revive a dead thread because I'm just that kinda guy... right? I swear I've hunted all over the web trying to solve the exact same issue on an Asus PVI-486SP3 Cleaned every contact, followed the traces I could... Damn I've looked at everything you can think of. PS is definitely good. Vid …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-05-05, 04:42

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Fixed an SiS 6326 PCI that I was told was dead... replaced broken capacitor and she lit right up and worked fine! 4MB card too. Also fixed an S3 Trio64V+ that had one of the tiny surface mount legs on a VRAM chip fall off. Replaced the leg with a clipping from the capacitor legs of that SiS I fixed …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2021-05-02, 02:20

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Going to attempt putting a regulator on a GA-486VS Rev. 8a And recap a Commodore PC 40 III motherboard.

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2021-04-30, 21:04

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When making copies of driver disks (or any other software), please always try to make disk images of them instead of copying the files separately from the disks. Sometimes the installations programs don't work correctly if the files are copied separately and the installation program is asking for a …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2021-04-28, 22:38

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Here's the drivers I got with a Typhoon Sound Systems Sound Card 16 "Gold" 3D - Based on the Opti 82C924 This includes Win 3.11 & Win 95 Drivers https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Sun_Z4GqOebxV_heYaQaTbAn-qsrTQDZ?usp=sharing Dunno, might help someone? There's hardly any info online about these …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2021-04-28, 22:09

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Noticed the driver DB didn't have the win 3.11 version of this driver. Figured I'd contribute. These are the two floppies that came with my Cirrus Logic 5440 The win 3.11 installer claims to install: CL-GD5440 Drivers and Utilities for Windows https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lmHk1- …

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Re: Need help with old 468

Posted on 2021-04-26, 08:08

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Not sure how you got that working... but if you have the ribbon's red line pointed to pin 1 on your controller card... it's not currently pointing there on that HDD. Pin 1 on many hard drives is often closest to the power molex. In your pic you've got the red line on the other side (the outer edge …

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Re: Need help with old 468

Posted on 2021-04-23, 20:26

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There's many different options to choose from in the hard disk menu. Automatic detection didn't find it either. The jumper is on the master position. Anyone know how to proceed? Just going to ask if you've got the hard drive ribbon in the proper position pin 1 on the end where the red line is and …

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Re: Need help with old 468

Posted on 2021-04-23, 17:56

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Tough to say whether that's a ram issue or just more signs that the contacts aren't clean or the board corrosion needs further attention

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