Re: What does "1066 FSB supported with overclocking" mean?

Posted on 2024-01-29, 13:45

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by VivienM

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giantclam wrote on 2024-01-29, 13:19: It won't 'stress' anything, but only 3 CPUs are supported for that configuration --> https://www.asrock.com/mb/intel/775i65g/#CPU Aren't there newer revisions of that board that add support for a lot of C2Ds, most of which are 1066 FSB?

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Re: Got a P4 3 Ghz box, curious for suggestions

Posted on 2024-01-29, 05:10

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You missed the OS between 98 and XP. Win2k actually makes a real good alternative to Win98 and alot less hanging, blue screens, etc. I loved Win2000 back in the day, and I probably would even go as far as to label it the greatest version of Windows I've ever used (7 would be a close second, pre-SP1 …

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Re: DFI CA61 motherboard - which P3 to put in ?

Posted on 2024-01-29, 03:23

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why ? I wanted a socket 370 mobo that has 133 FSB plus AGP + PCI + ISA slots at affordable price. They are very hard to come by here in Australia. They are hard to come by everywhere. The 440BX had AGP + PCI + ISA, but no official 133MHz FSB (although I believe some of the usual suspects in Taiwan …

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Re: K8M800 Win98 SE advice

Posted on 2024-01-28, 17:21

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I had exactly the same experience with this error. Its far as I could work out, I think it sounded like this is a consequence of Win98 expecting IDE controllers to be on specific IRQs only, so a third one on a different IRQ just won't work in the way it would in XP etc. I did briefly try disabling …

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Re: K8M800 Win98 SE advice

Posted on 2024-01-28, 16:03

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I had a similar nightmare trying to get a Skt754 board with the same VIA southbridge and also gave up on getting SATA working in Win98. But then I left it a while and gave it "one more try". This time I enabled SATA in RAID mode, and did a fresh format of the C partition (leaving it on an IDE drive …

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Re: K8M800 Win98 SE advice

Posted on 2024-01-28, 14:50

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VivienM wrote on 2024-01-28, 14:16: I think it's fully working on Win98 now I may have spoken too soon, it seems... very crash-prone this morning...

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Re: Internal USB/Card Reader/Windows XP 32-bit/cannot use 128gb SD cards

Posted on 2024-01-28, 14:18

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by VivienM

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That's going to be a limitation of the USB SD card reader, it would need to support SDXC to read a 128GB card while 32GB and lower are SDHC so more compatible: https://www.integralmemory.com/faq1/what-is-the-difference-between-sduc-sdxc-sdhc-and-sd-cards/ Ah, okay. Thank you for this information! I …

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Re: K8M800 Win98 SE advice

Posted on 2024-01-28, 14:16

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by VivienM

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Good to hear you got XP on it and sorta working on Win98. Which model K8M800 is it ? just curious.... This is the Biostar K8M800 AM2 board. Something I picked up on eBay (there's a seller there selling these quasi-new with reasonable single-core AM2 chips, some RAM, etc) that struck me as having a …

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Re: K8M800 Win98 SE advice

Posted on 2024-01-28, 02:57

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I finally had some time to go back and try Win98 SE (after also acquiring less RAM), and... well, let's just say I could never get SATA working. Crashes up the wazoo even with the rloew patch. Plugged SSD into a Startech IDE to SATA adapter, disabled SATA controller, and 98SE runs happily so far. …

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

Posted on 2024-01-26, 01:13

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Managed to get a NOS PCI-E X-Fi Titanium installed in my ivy bridge system. Had some trouble because the GPU blocks the PCI-E slots, so I'm using a little extender cable and mounting it sideways, which took some effort to get working... I need to get the front panel audio hooked up and then I think …

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Re: Feedback on a potential new build - Voodoo3 + Dual Xeon + Windows 2000

Posted on 2024-01-24, 22:53

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I don’t remember the early 2000s being such an AGP nightmare. I think graphic cards and systems were evolving so quickly that it... didn't really matter. No one was thinking of reusing a 3 year old graphics card... this is an era when a $50 GF4 MX was better or equivalent to a GeForce 2 GTS from... …

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Re: Help approximately dating this case? Late 90s or early 00?

Posted on 2024-01-24, 22:49

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by VivienM

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I would agree with the late 90s guess. The other thing that I'm noticing is the power/reset/etc buttons. This style of buttons screams early ATX to me. Not to mention... isn't one of the lights a turbo light? And that 'sleep' button is very awkward... makes me think this was a hastily retrofitted …

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Re: Recommendation for a Win98 compatible mobo

Posted on 2024-01-24, 00:33

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by VivienM

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And yes, you can assign the two SATA ports as either the primary or secondary IDE controller in the BIOS (or use it in Native mode in addition to 4 IDE devices). Does anyone know if this is a hardware feature of the ICH...5, or a BIOS feature? (Or, put another way, is a VT8237R+ capable of doing …

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Re: Recommendation for a Win98 compatible mobo

Posted on 2024-01-24, 00:15

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by VivienM

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I haven’t done to much research on the AMD side of things. I’ll look into socket 939 with the chipsets you mentioned. Thanks ☺️ There are some interesting things on the AMD side, e.g. I have an AM2 board with AGP and a Via chipset... but I haven't actually managed to get 98SE running. Suspect I …

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Re: Recommendation for a Win98 compatible mobo

Posted on 2024-01-23, 02:41

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by VivienM

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I haven’t done to much research on the AMD side of things. I’ll look into socket 939 with the chipsets you mentioned. Thanks ☺️ There are some interesting things on the AMD side, e.g. I have an AM2 board with AGP and a Via chipset... but I haven't actually managed to get 98SE running. Suspect I …

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Re: What was your experience and thought process like when buying or upgrading a computer in the '80s / '90s?

Posted on 2024-01-09, 01:32

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by VivienM

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But in, say, 1996, you played games on the computer that your parents had bought for other purposes. ...in 1996, I was already parent =) Being born in the late 1950's, my take on this is completely different... and largely OT here =^) Yes... and presumably, being born in the late 1950s, your …

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Re: What was your experience and thought process like when buying or upgrading a computer in the '80s / '90s?

Posted on 2024-01-09, 00:26

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Really the biggest memory from this era was how quick you were out of date. I was always asking my parents for a new computer as in 12 months' time Pentiums had become common enough that our 486's were already struggling. Duke3d/Red Alert was the final games I could play until 98. so it's only now …

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Re: What was your experience and thought process like when buying or upgrading a computer in the '80s / '90s?

Posted on 2024-01-09, 00:17

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What made you pull the trigger on whatever it was that you ended up buying back in the day, given the choices that you had, or at least knew of? Where did you look for cases, components, peripherals, monitors or prebuilt packages and where did you buy? What spawned the interest in wanting to buy …

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Re: What was your experience and thought process like when buying or upgrading a computer in the '80s / '90s?

Posted on 2024-01-08, 23:51

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Computers in the 80's (IBM PC's and their clones) were still very expensive for the average home user. Back then, owning a computer (I'm not referring to the 8-bit range of computers like your Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum, etc.) was more of a luxury than a necessity for most people. Remember there was …

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Re: IBM Aptiva faceplate 5.25" cover

Posted on 2024-01-08, 12:51

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Oh, and some Aptivas of this era apparently shipped with Quantum Bigfoot hard drives. Don't think mine had that, thankfully. Were these really all that bad? I do enjoy their sound and huge size but that was probably not a good selling point in its time... So... I never had one and I don't recall …

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