Re: Problem with upgrading Pentium 3 slot 1 CPU

Posted on 2012-01-09, 06:50

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by pinkdonut666

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was able to get my computer to let me post images it might take me a couple posts though. the only stuff on the cards is the speed and build date. the 650 from 99 and the 1000 from 00

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Re: Problem with upgrading Pentium 3 slot 1 CPU

Posted on 2012-01-09, 06:44

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by pinkdonut666

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I Know it needs a bios update now, don't know for sure if that will fix it though. IT SHOULD according to dell. And no it's not a 370 socket adaptor, it's a copermine 1000. I would post pics but It's being ass and won't let me. My bios is Two stages out of date, according to dell the update i …

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Re: Problem with upgrading Pentium 3 slot 1 CPU

Posted on 2012-01-09, 05:36

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by pinkdonut666

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I also get an "other failure" according to the boot lights.

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Re: Problem with upgrading Pentium 3 slot 1 CPU

Posted on 2012-01-09, 05:18

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by pinkdonut666

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

the original CPU was a 650

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Problem with upgrading Pentium 3 slot 1 CPU

Posted on 2012-01-09, 05:17

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by pinkdonut666

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so I'm building a P3 machine and wanted a CPU upgrade. I had a buddy with a Pentium 3 1000 he took out of a machine. (he sells parts and want's an excuses to upgrade from it) The machine was a dell XPS 650r with a P3 650, From what i can find in manuals, and online my mother board supports up-to a …

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Re: How do you use SB live PC Speaker insted of mothe board speaker in win98

Posted on 2011-12-31, 16:48

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by pinkdonut666

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Thanks that solved my problem right there. funny I never noticed that before. But I'v had that sound card for 15 years!

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Re: How do you use SB live PC Speaker insted of mothe board speaker in win98

Posted on 2011-12-31, 05:32

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by pinkdonut666

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I have seen options for PC speaker in the creative set-up's that did not seem to effect the pietzo speaker.

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Re: How do you use SB live PC Speaker insted of mothe board speaker in win98

Posted on 2011-12-31, 05:29

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by pinkdonut666

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and I'm an idiot?

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Re: How do you use SB live PC Speaker insted of mothe board speaker in win98

Posted on 2011-12-31, 05:26

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by pinkdonut666

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or not to sound like an idiot is this just an input?

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How do you use SB live PC Speaker insted of mothe board speaker in win98

Posted on 2011-12-31, 05:24

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by pinkdonut666

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in Windows

So I'm building my win98 gaming rig and I notice on my SB live there is a conection for a PC speaker, it just so happens I have a speaker laying around. The reason I'm asking how to use it is because I play dos games on this machine and the tiny thing mounted on the mother board sucks (more than a …

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Re: planning new win98 build, wanting feed-back

Posted on 2011-12-30, 18:46

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by pinkdonut666

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in Windows

The only reason for me to put more than 512mb's of ram in the machine is cause thats what i have laying around. If I'll run into some sort of issue it's not a problem for me to install only 512mb's.

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Re: planning new win98 build, wanting feed-back

Posted on 2011-12-30, 07:44

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by pinkdonut666

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in Windows

The main reason I'm building this machine is just to run old games. Before that hard-drive went berserk I could run anything from duke nukem 2 to half life and even more new stuff than that. Win98 SE has great dos backward compatibility (as well as SB live's SB 16 emulation) which makes it a great …

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Re: planning new win98 build, wanting feed-back

Posted on 2011-12-27, 04:49

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by pinkdonut666

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My mother board dosn't support over a 256mb sdram card. which sucks cause i bought a 512 and had to take it back for 2 256mb cards, I'm gonna put in three for the maximum 768mb's of ram the system will support. this machiene dosn't have sata it's only got IDE as it should from the time period. One …

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Re: planning new win98 build, wanting feed-back

Posted on 2011-12-24, 07:12

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by pinkdonut666

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in Windows

I was using the machine with 640mb of ram and it ran just fine, mind you I only own 640mb right now. 256+256+128 the maximum it supports is 256+256+256

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planning new win98 build, wanting feed-back

Posted on 2011-12-24, 06:49

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by pinkdonut666

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in Windows

I'm re-building my old win98 gaming rig and i wanted to know your guys thoughts on the whole deal. It was a dell dimensions xps 650r with a 40gb HD 128mb of ram, DVD rom drive, and a nvidia rivia tnt 2 32mb video card. After 15 years of being the family computer bitch, It's pretty well cooked. I'v …

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Re: Lego Racers

Posted on 2011-10-22, 04:53

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by pinkdonut666

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in Windows

That was the first PC game I bought to! good to see you got it working. I still keep the old machine i played it on around, but it will run just fine on my XP machine too. That game to me back then was such a B****! man how things change. i can beat it if under an hour if i'm board

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Re: ATI radeon 7000 driver issues?

Posted on 2011-10-22, 04:44

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by pinkdonut666

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I ended up just getting a radeon 9000 pro 128mb card for super cheap and it works great.

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Re: ATI radeon 7000 driver issues?

Posted on 2011-10-11, 06:14

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by pinkdonut666

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in Windows

sometimes it won't even freeze the screen, it just goes black. BTW if it's of any relevance the games i'v tried: Demolition champions, muscle car 76, lego racers. I'v got other( perhaps better) games but if theses didn't work i'm not going to waste time installing others till i get my problem …

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ATI radeon 7000 driver issues?

Posted on 2011-10-11, 05:11

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by pinkdonut666

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in Windows

hey, I have a pentium 3 650 with 384mb or ram running win98. I'v installed an ATI radeon 7000 64mb video card, installed drivers from ATI.com but i'm still having problems. I'll load up a game, and a couple seconds (say 10 or so) after the game goes into 3D mode, the game crashes and i have to …

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