Re: Old Mobo with some problems

Posted on 2014-11-05, 01:06

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by alexanrs

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I found that website while assembling the system. Quite useful, but I didn't find anything that could really help me with this weird problems, unfortunately. I might have to hunt for a decent Socket7 MMX-compatible board, since I do not have high hopes with this one. I really look forward to …

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Old Mobo with some problems

Posted on 2014-11-05, 00:25

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by alexanrs

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Hello everyone, Today I just found an old PcChips M571 here at my university about to get thrown away. I decided to test it and had a few issues: I can't get it to work with onboard video, but I can see the POST screen just fine with a PCI video card (yes, I changed the jumpers accordingly) In both …

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Re: Question about building a 90s rig

Posted on 2014-10-31, 09:26

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by alexanrs

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SpeedySPCFan wrote: I've been considering one, I just need to find a good one and figure out how to get audio (unless I'm overthinking it and it's easy). Audio has nothing to do with the video card's output. You just need a P2 to RCA cable and connect your TV to the Sound Card's line out.

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Re: 98SE with & without the service packs

Posted on 2014-10-27, 14:08

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by alexanrs

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Interesting... but if this slowdown is during Windows 98 bootup (and not the bios part), I'd hardly believe it is RAID stuff, seeing that it's drivers aren't installed. And if it is a pre-OS bootup delay, XP will suffer from the same issue. I'd try to see if both safe mode and safe mode+networking …

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Re: 98SE with & without the service packs

Posted on 2014-10-27, 11:03

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by alexanrs

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For USB sticks I've always used these: http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/43605-maximus-decim-native-usb-drivers/ Also, can you isolate what is taking so long during the boot process? I recall having longer boot times with DHCP in a PC way back then that was connected directly to a PPPoE router, so try …

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Re: Choosing an ISA sound card

Posted on 2014-10-15, 04:23

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by alexanrs

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No point using a YMF719 + Sound Blaster 16 in the same PC. Yes the Yamaha has OPL and SB Pro emulation but the SB 16 has OPL as well, depending on which model you choose of course. The SB 16 will also work with almost, if not all games that support SB Pro even though people say that the SB 16 will …

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Re: Choosing an ISA sound card

Posted on 2014-10-14, 23:10

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by alexanrs

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Had a look at the link you provided and the card that guy has is a different card to mine. Mine sounds absolutely fine and not "muddy" as he describes it as. What really put me off was that the board as shown in the ad looks exactly like the board in that article. 16 bit sound only really affects …

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Re: Choosing an ISA sound card

Posted on 2014-10-14, 09:46

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by alexanrs

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Upon close inspection that card is the ESS968F, and according to this guy (http://goughlui.com/2012/11/29/tech-flashback-the-golden-age-of-sound-cards-and-creative-labs/), it is a bit rubbish :-( As far as clones go, how is the digital sound of that YMF719? Is is SBPro/16 compatible without a TSR? …

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Choosing an ISA sound card

Posted on 2014-10-14, 03:38

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Hello everyone! I've got a nice old Pentium 133 that I've been playing with recently, but the problem is that the only sound card I had to put in it was my old SBLive! While things sound decent enough within Windows 98 (not taking OPL into account), under DOS the compatibility is a bit dodgy, and GM …

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Re: Configuring SBEMUL.SYS

Posted on 2006-05-05, 19:01

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by alexanrs

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VPC is not a decent solution for DOS games. It's not designed for running DOS games and I dare say it never will be. Well, I also like to install several operating system, so that's why I bothered getting it in the first place (if it were just for games I'd rather have bought an old and cheap …

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Re: Configuring SBEMUL.SYS

Posted on 2006-05-04, 22:35

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by alexanrs

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DosFreak: This page one of those I found, but nor Google web serach nor news group search provided me any information on how to configure it, not just to enable 16-bit sound but to change any of the other settings (8-bit DMA, IRQ and etc.). About DOSBox, well, I haven't tested it because I've just …

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Re: Heroes of Might and Magic for Windows on Win 2K?

Posted on 2006-05-03, 20:17

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by alexanrs

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Enable the "compatibility mode" in the installation executable: theorically this sould fool the setup procedure and things should be OK, although this do not always work, like in Constructor (the Windows 95 version). Enable the compatiblity mode in the game executable as well, if the game itself …

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Re: Configuring SBEMUL.SYS

Posted on 2006-05-03, 16:44

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by alexanrs

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Why do you want SB emulation for? ms-dos games? It would be better using DOSBox, then. I tried DOSBox once, but had speed problems with me... Maybe I'll try again, as it has been updated. IIRC, Windows 9x doesn't have sound emulation. up to your sound card drivers. Windows 98 SE and ME have sound …

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Configuring SBEMUL.SYS

Posted on 2006-05-03, 01:40

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by alexanrs

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I'm not very sure if this is the right place to post this but I found no other place to. I am using XP+VDMSound as my main system and I'm happy with that, but I also dualboot with Windows 98 to use some DOS-Win95 games that refuse to run in WinXP. In XP the emulation is done via VDMSound (and I put …

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Re: VIA AC97 DOS Drivers?

Posted on 2005-10-25, 16:32

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by alexanrs

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Have you already tried to update your bios... maybe the updated one will shou the "Legacy" thing. Some vendors hide some options they think that are dangerous... you can also try dumping your bios to a BIN file and use some bios editor to try to unhide them Also, maybe it is enabled by default in …

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Re: Faking response to "ver" in XP?

Posted on 2005-10-24, 01:21

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by alexanrs

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Uh, how is that an idiotic feature? It is reporting the correct OS version, that is what it's supposed to do. CKeene : I answered that way because it is weird for XP to be able to report the correct DOS version when the OS which version is requested is not even being executed (and may not even be …

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Re: Windows 98 vs ME

Posted on 2005-10-19, 15:47

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by alexanrs

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in Windows

ActiveDesktop is definately not dead. I tried once in Windows XP and it seems that ActiveDesktop is allways active and the "disable" option is just hidden (sometimes when it freezes and I "reset" it, it gives me that message abou ActiveDesktop being disabled, it seem that MS simply updated …

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Re: Windows 98 vs ME

Posted on 2005-10-14, 17:42

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by alexanrs

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ME is not that bad, really. The main problem in ME is, besides System Restore, that it ships BETA versions of Internet Explorer (and, due to IE integration, a whole Beta shell) and Media Player. The MS-DOS hiding thing is annoying as well. But it have its pros: it ships the best memory manager in …

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Re: Faking response to "ver" in XP?

Posted on 2005-10-14, 15:41

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by alexanrs

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in DOS

Sorry for the double post but I found no way to edit the previous. Windows 2000 (and probably XP) ships with SETVER.EXE utility that is able to fool applications to make them think they are in a specific DOS version, like the SETVER.EXE from DOS. Simply open config.nt (inside Windows\System32 in XP) …

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Re: Faking response to "ver" in XP?

Posted on 2005-10-14, 15:18

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by alexanrs

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in DOS

Uh, how is that an idiotic feature? It is reporting the correct OS version, that is what it's supposed to do. Second of all that's not DOS, Windows XP is based on NT and does not have any trace of DOS at all. That is just a command shell. Calling it DOS 8.0 would be completely and totally wrong. XP …

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