Re: You fly into space once and you're an astronaut
Posted on Yesterday, 06:02
I plunged a toilet today, am I a plumber now?
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-07-19, 22:54
Playing around with CMS on my Snark Barker SB1.0 replica. Someone on another forum was having trouble with his SB2.0 with CMS in combination with the game and wanted to know if it was just him/his card. It wasn't: starting the game with DOH B resulted in a complete hang of the computer at the TAITO …
Re: ~20 Windows 98 SE Installs later....STILL isn't 100%, ever
Posted on 2021-07-09, 14:31
not all do garbage collection :) Even then, if you have a drive being mostly static the garbage collection doesn't need to be ran as often as a boot drive in a modern use system. If you dual boot would a modern OS perform the garbage collection on all partitions it can see even if the delete …
Re: Voodoo 5 Throttling
Posted on 2021-07-06, 04:43
Just wondering, Does anyone think I'll see a performance difference between a 1Ghz Athlon MP vs an Athlon XP 2600+ with the Voodoo5?
Re: Voodoo 5 Throttling
Posted on 2021-07-04, 04:04
It has to do with timings on the VGA cable. I have the same issue. It is a 4:3 card after all from a CRT age. It can sort of do 1920x1080, but not really. Not on most modern displays. Older displays can stretch the image to fill the screen horizontally. Thanks that clears up the last of my issues. …
Re: Voodoo 5 Throttling
Posted on 2021-07-03, 21:04
SSD's will definitely throttle themselves if they get too hot. How many amps does your power supply have on the 5 volt rail? I'm not sure, got everything working and don't want to go digging in again right now. I do have one other question though. How come the output of the Voodoo 5 is squished at …
Re: Voodoo 5 Throttling
Posted on 2021-07-03, 04:28
That sounds like your power supply isn't able to keep up with the power demands under a heavy load. The voodoo 5 and your CPU don't have anyway to thermally throttle. I'd check your power supply rail voltages under load especially the 5 volt rail. The CPU doesn't have thermal throttling but the …
Re: Voodoo 5 Throttling
Posted on 2021-07-03, 00:49
I went in and reapplied thermal paste to the cpu and it seems like it cooled it by 5c. I still have to run it without the case on it or it overheats and does all kinds of weird things. I think this is a case of the CPU thermal throttling or even the chipset on the Shuttle getting to hot, because …
Re: Voodoo 5 Throttling
Posted on 2021-06-28, 01:54
As an additional question can anyone tell me why the Voodoo 5 outputs all its resolutions in a manner that squishes them on my monitor, no other card I own does this. 1920x1080 for example doesnt fill the screen.
Re: Voodoo 5 Throttling
Posted on 2021-06-28, 01:25
It seems heat related to me, giving the machine a rest brings it back to its full performance. Voodoo5 has no temp sensor or ability to downclock in an attempt to throttle and protect the chips from overheating. Neither do the Athlons until perhaps Athlon 64(?). These concepts would largely emerge …
Re: Voodoo 5 Throttling
Posted on 2021-06-27, 21:37
I'm using driver v 4.12.01.0666 , Where would I find this setting, I only see anything about vsync under OpenGL and its off. The benchmarks are in DX. It seems heat related to me, giving the machine a rest brings it back to its full performance.
Voodoo 5 Throttling
Posted on 2021-06-27, 20:03
I recently got a Voodoo 5 and it appears to be in peak condition , however sometimes it seems to have half the performance it could have, I've seen it bounce back and forth between those performance levels during a benchmark. So I was wondering does it do any internal throttling or disabling half of …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-06-10, 00:09
Erasing some 27C256 EPROMs. (10 of them) -- one pass of 60 seconds got 6 out of 10 fully erased. One more pass of 60 seconds of the remaining for erased those. The ST M27C256B's are the ones that required a little extra time for some reason. https://i.imgur.com/hjiRaIGh.jpg https://i.imgur.com/ …
Re: Worst tips from tech support
Posted on 2021-06-09, 16:25
It's a good point. But I suppose that the different levels logic most of the times remains to the first level like the problem is often when not always the customer and I suppose and understand many times it might be probably but sometimes there're also customers that before calling for a tech …
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2021-06-07, 18:00
We live in a fully disposable society. We're the outliers who try to fix our broken stuff instead of just tossing it in the trash can. I'm wondering: will our collection end up in the trash can after we die? I'd like to think it won't. I'd like to think the same as well. Hell my son loves to help …
Re: Worst tips from tech support
Posted on 2021-06-07, 04:11
I got a Sony external CD-R USB drive I think it was 4x, and at the time was pretty good. I got nothing but buffer overrun errors trying to burn at 4x speed so I called their tech support. I shit you not the guy told me that a new CD-R is like a new car, you don't want to run it full out, it takes …
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-05-24, 23:54
Got some of the hard drive situation under control on my Wyse WY-2108 system, however, it doesn't like any DOS version past 6.22 on a hard drive, let alone a Windows 95 boot diskette. The BIOS ROM on the Promise EIDEPro doesn't like the system for some reason due to being the version 1.03, which …
Re: post up pics of your "computing area"
Posted on 2021-05-17, 20:58
If I ever end up in L.M.o.E. situation, I want you all to know I will take good care of your hardware. Leave notes if you have special concerns =P
Re: Far Cry poor performance WinXP SP3
Posted on 2021-05-17, 05:05
I'm using Catalyst 8.12 on my 9800 Pro and it runs terrific there at up to 720p, though I play it on this setup at 1024x768. I don't think 8.12 supports the HD5xxx but it does support the HD4xxx , so maybe something around that version?
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2021-04-27, 04:16
Picked up my Amiga 4000 today. Seller didn't know if it worked, so I got a hefty discount. First boot and it's good to go. It even had the OS installed already, lol. It needs a little work - two broken RAM clips, a few broken front faceplate pegs, and it needs a better coin cell battery holder. …
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