Re: Dell Dimension XPS T500 upgrades.

Posted on Today, 01:26

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by chinny22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Does anyone know whether PCI-E GPUs from 2006ish are supported under Win2000? Given the huge premium for 98SE-friendly AGP stuff, I wonder if something like, say, a 7900GT would work under Win2000. (There seems to be a 94.24 WHQL driver at nvidia.com so... maybe) A 7900GT was an absolutely …

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Re: Problems with making a shared folder for Windows XP to 10 computers

Posted on Today, 00:19

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by chinny22

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First off I'd recommend focusing Server 2012 and Win10 working as they are from the same era. Once we know that's working we can look at XP but that'll will require some fine tuning depending on if you want to use SMB1 or 2 Network discovery can be a bit dodgy Are you able to browse to the computer …

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on Yesterday, 23:57

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The Serpent Rider wrote on Yesterday, 15:47: Meanwhile I will continue hoarding decent 875P boards... yep, I'll bet my BX motherboards these will become the next defacto reto PC starting point for many in the coming years

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Re: 775 Xeon fun

Posted on Yesterday, 07:27

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As the Xeon 5xxx family has SMP capability, you now need to wire up a 2nd socket somehow 😉

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Re: Dell Dimension XPS T500 upgrades.

Posted on Yesterday, 07:13

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by chinny22

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To be clear, I have nothing against Win2000. My T700r is the machine that soured me on 98SE (biggest mistake I ever made ordering that machine was picking 98SE instead of 2000) - the machine itself was very stable, but you'd run out of system resources after potentially a few hours of 'heavy' …

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Re: Dell Dimension XPS T500 upgrades.

Posted on Yesterday, 01:16

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by chinny22

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You can use this list on wiki for an idea on CPU's as long as the FSB is 100Mhz your ok. It maybe you can get a faster S370 CPU and slocket adapter then a slot 1 CPU, I doubt it but maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Pentium_III_processors So from that wikipedia article can I …

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Re: Dell Dimension XPS T500 upgrades.

Posted on 2024-05-22, 07:58

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by chinny22

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This era of PC is very sort after now as it can run both Win9x and dos games really well. I built my PC about 10 years ago when prices weren't as crazy, no way could I do it now! You can use this list on wiki for an idea on CPU's as long as the FSB is 100Mhz your ok. It maybe you can get a faster …

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Re: Many, many issues with my DOS, Win98, WinXP tri-boot system

Posted on 2024-05-22, 07:49

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I also like to keep things simple If it was me I'd forget about dos and just install Win98 and XP. You can always set it up, so you drop back to win98's version of dos. Win9x and XP can live happily together with XP's bootloader. I've never had much luck with 98's inbuilt "boot into previous version …

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Re: What do you drive?

Posted on 2024-05-22, 07:32

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by chinny22

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not driving so much, but does anyone else watch those "will it start?" and rescue type videos? You bet! Probably more than computer related video's I like fixing up old PC's and making them live again. Fixing up old cars isn't that far off the same subject matter. Helps that getting an old car …

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Re: Dell Dimension XPS T500 upgrades.

Posted on 2024-05-22, 07:10

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by chinny22

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The Motherboard is a BX motherboard made by Intel themselves, so rock stable Officially it supports 100Mhz FSB slot 1 CPU's so fastest is a 1Ghz Coppermine (which is what I have in my T500) You wont find one of those cheap but maybe something around 700 or 900Mhz? you can also get a slocket adapter …

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Re: Is it safe to connect to internet under Windows 95 or 98SE?

Posted on 2024-05-21, 01:59

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by chinny22

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another thing to consider - you can use a firewall etc, all good practice, and the risk is then fairly low but if you *never* connect that 9x machine to anything else, never take data from it on floppy, usb or otherwise and the machine's particular set up isnt precious to you (or you have a …

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Re: Pentium3 to look for?

Posted on 2024-05-21, 01:55

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am not convinced that this is because of "youth rigs". If all software would work on todays hard and software just as well, many people wouldn't bother. It will be interesting in the future, when it is the games that are failing to run, not the machines. Likely, there will be no way back, even if …

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Re: For Win98 games you don't need a build faster than [...]

Posted on 2024-05-21, 01:47

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by chinny22

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Off the top of my head the only games I own that don't work on XP are Return Fire Road Rash Dark Reign? (or is that just the installer) Need for Speed 3, 4 Porsche (which is my fault as many other people have succeeded) Main other use for 9x is when I want to use my 3dfx cards. Again, Need for Speed …

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Re: Is the Pentium 4 underrated for retro computing?

Posted on 2024-05-21, 01:35

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by chinny22

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Which sound card? Also which magazine thought a Williamette S423 with RDRAM was the best system? :D Some Hercules thing, I think it was, with a crazy external breakout box. (And I call it a "crazy external breakout box" as someone who owned an Audigy Platinum eX at the time... this thing is much …

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI Retro Sleeper Build

Posted on 2024-05-21, 00:43

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Love those V2 coolers and very lucky you got the same case as back in the day. Think you have a great PC

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Re: Finalizing my 486 retro computer - advice is welcome

Posted on 2024-05-20, 23:59

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by chinny22

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486/40! That makes for a nice change from the endless 66Mhz and above builds (which I'm also guilty of) I like the idea of VLB I/O controller. Even if performance doesn't really change it's just nice to use VLB as it's what makes 486's a little different. Personally I don't see the big deal is with …

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Re: Voodoo/TNT2/GeForce or Voodoo/GeForce for Windows 9x?

Posted on 2024-05-20, 07:06

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by chinny22

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I thought about installing two identical Voodoo 2s 12MB in SLI in HP Vectra VEi8 PCI slots and connecting its onboard Matrox GPU to Voodoo as 2D signal that Voodoo 2 needs/lacks. What max 2D resolution gives that Matrox GPU? That could be the first PC. Is it bad that it is 3D accelerator and not …

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Re: Late era 486 build

Posted on 2024-05-20, 02:43

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by chinny22

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Beeper is definitely your 1st step. Good chance the PC is trying to tell you whats wrong by giving you a beep code that you have a ram/video/whatever error Even a cheap piezo buzzer will do. (proper speaker is preferred if playing PC speaker games though) https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/182990065587?_ …

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Re: Gotek Floppy Emulator problem - ACCESS DENIED

Posted on 2024-05-20, 02:32

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by chinny22

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I know once your newer than XP the software is pretty buggy (and it's not exactly amazing in XP) This video is for Win10 but would think it still works for 11? https://youtu.be/Of9aVq_cQQQ?si=-zECKqLIlXSdwOEI Must admit I copy files from my modern PC's across the network to my XP rig and use the …

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Re: Pentium3 to look for?

Posted on 2024-05-20, 02:11

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Pentium 3 have massive retro tax slapped on them already. And there's not that much on sale, anyway. There's a ton of Pentium 4, but there doesn't seem to be much demand for them. I still think the P4 is a bit underrated for retro gaming especially when paired with an industrial board w/ ISA slots. …

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