ISA sound card for Windows XP

Posted on 2022-10-16, 19:35

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Hi everyone, I'm working on an early 2000s XP machine without on-board sound. It's a 440BX system with a 1.4GHz Celeron and 1 AGP, 3 PCI, and 3 ISA slots. Fast connectivity was more important to me than PCI sound and EAX/A3D, so I've used the PCI slots for an ATA133 card, a USB 2.0 card, and an …

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Re: Older USB headers with 10 pins?

Posted on 2022-09-24, 16:44

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I didn't easily find the manual for the K7T Pro, but I did find one for the Pro 2. It shows the USB header wired up as below. Perhaps your header is wired the same. It has two ground pins per port instead of the usual one ground pin, so that's why there are 10 pins instead of 8. You may need to …

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Re: Year 2038 bug?

Posted on 2022-09-24, 16:32

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If anyone here is interested in OpenBSD, they converted all internal timestamps to 64 bits in the May 2014 release (OpenBSD 5.5). I thought it was cool how quickly they got ahead of the issue. :) time_t is now 64 bits on all platforms. From OpenBSD 5.5 onwards, OpenBSD is year 2038 ready and will …

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Re: Replacing case/power supply fans

Posted on 2022-09-22, 17:41

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

On that note, the power supply fan is loud (not as loud as the current case fan), is it possible (recommended) to toss in another fan that's quieter into the power supply? I also noticed the fan itself is pushing air out of the system, would it not be better for it to pull air into the system, or …

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Re: Neat article about one of the last floppy disk businesses.

Posted on 2022-09-22, 15:45

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Speaking of Japan still using fax machines, the Nintendo video game series Splatoon announces its monthly splatfest events via fax machine, even in the latest in the series (Splatoon 3) released this month. I always thought this was kind of a neat cultural reference.

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Re: Memtest86+ throws up entire-stick memory errors

Posted on 2022-09-19, 04:57

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Any change testing one stick at a time? In case your sticks aren't matched, some boards are picky about the order of the sticks. When using non-matched sticks, I've had Memtest fail with one order and pass with a different order.

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Re: Windows 2000 abnormal behavior

Posted on 2022-09-13, 20:33

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It sounds very abnormal to me. Is there any chance you could reinstall without the floppy drive connected? I don't know any exact registry keys to check, but I think Windows may maintain a list of places to check when it needs files during device or driver installation, and I'm wondering if somehow …

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

Posted on 2022-09-13, 15:50

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Yup, if possible with your motherboard, adjust the voltage to 2.1/2.3v to have a stable front side bus 100 Mhz frequency with this cheap lovely CPU. Below 2.1v, it's not stable. Good advice, thanks! I just checked and it's pulling 2.03v in the BIOS, that's probably the issue. Unfortunately no way …

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

Posted on 2022-09-13, 02:42

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I did my first FSB overclock on my Soyo SY-6BB system today. I picked up a Celeron 366 (SL36C) with plans to overclock from 5.5x66 = 366 MHz to 5.5x100 = 550MHz. This was apparently a very popular and easy to obtain overclock back in the day. However, mine topped out at 83 MHz FSB. :( Seems fine in …

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Re: WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-13, 02:16

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Can you post a good pic of the mobo where we can see fine details? Will do, thanks for your help Sphere. This system was my first retro PC, acquired for free around 2009, and it's currently at my parent's place since I ran out of room for retro PCs in my apartment :D but I'm going there tomorrow …

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Re: WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-12, 23:52

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Here is the 512KB COAST module that appeared on eBay recently, just for reference in case anyone comes through here in the future looking for similar info. I can't quite make out the DIP chip... it's Mitsubishi, looks like maybe M5M5218DJ, but that doesn't return any datasheets. https://i.imgur.com/ …

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Re: WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-12, 23:33

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In theory, if the tag on the coast module is a separate chip and the 256 and 512 uses the same pcb, it should be possible to replace the tag with an 11-bit... But if the BIOS doesn't support it, it would not make any difference, probably Interesting! I never thought about doing that. Indeed there …

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Re: WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-12, 18:40

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I hope this is somewhat on topic - this thread is mostly about ~1995 but I have an HP Vectra VL5 which is more of a '97 machine. It came with a 200MHz Pentium MMX and 96MB RAM (6 x 16MB EDO). Due to the 256K COAST module it can only cache 64MB (430HX chipset). I currently run Windows 98 SE and it …

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Re: WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-12, 16:25

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I hope this is somewhat on topic - this thread is mostly about ~1995 but I have an HP Vectra VL5 which is more of a '97 machine. It came with a 200MHz Pentium MMX and 96MB RAM (6 x 16MB EDO). Due to the 256K COAST module it can only cache 64MB (430HX chipset). I currently run Windows 98 SE on it …

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Re: WIN95 16/32MB performance difference much?

Posted on 2022-09-12, 15:54

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I hope this is somewhat on topic - this thread is mostly about ~1995 but I have an HP Vectra VL5 which is more of a '97 machine. It came with a 200MHz Pentium MMX and 96MB RAM (6 x 16MB EDO). Due to the 256K COAST module it can only cache 64MB (430HX chipset). I currently run Windows 98 SE and it …

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Re: What is a good, free, PDF to JPG converter?

Posted on 2022-09-11, 12:28

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I've used Xpdf before. It takes a little time to get the command right but it might work for you. Looks like you'd need pdftopng then a second pass to convert PNG to JPG (ffmpeg or imagemagick). I used it for work once. We asked for a spreadsheet and they sent PDFs and wouldn't budge. Xpdf came to …

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Re: Make Win98 Taskbar Larger

Posted on 2022-09-08, 18:39

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You can also try applying the "Windows White (Extra Large)" theme and the Quick Launch -> View -> Large properties to make the taskbar bigger: https://i.imgur.com/vSe8oPE.png 1.PNG You can track, for example, using the RegShot program, what changes are made when applying this theme to the registry. …

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Re: Better video card options for this Super Socket 7 build

Posted on 2022-09-08, 04:05

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I played halo all the way through on a k6 3+ and 9800 pro And did this on the same setup on a cyrix mII https://youtu.be/jx-KE-xlNS0 You can still see gains between 550 and 600 mhz. Some people are even doing higher. Holy cow Sphere. Could you share more about that setup? It's running really …

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Re: Make Win98 Taskbar Larger

Posted on 2022-09-08, 03:43

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Start menu thickness is linked to the size of "Caption Buttons" Is there a setting where I can adjust this Caption Button size? It's under Display Properties under the Item drop down. Several of these options have size options that could be tweaked for better display on a large screen. I'm not sure …

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Re: SDL_net on PSP?

Posted on 2022-09-08, 03:29

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I tried another Linksys router running DD-WRT and was successful. :)

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