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Re: Are there any more aspect ratio ultratolerant people?

Posted on 2020-11-17, 08:24

in Milliways

in Milliways

I don't mind aspect ratio being a little off. 4:3 games on 5:4 doesn't seem like much of a problem. I've sometimes stretched 16:9 videos on my 16:10 monitor. It's more of a bother with videos of real people but I don't care much if it's just graphics. I have an old Samsung TN panel 16:9 monitor that …

Re: What display do you use for gaming ?

Posted on 2020-10-31, 04:43

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

For 2D era game consoles, and maybe a future MAME setup: I've held on to 3 CRT TVs, all from ~2005 when the last of them were being made. 14" Toshiba (14AF45?) 20" Panasonic Tau 24" Toshiba 24AF44 Of these I think I like the 20" Panasonic the best. I need to try making service menu adjustments on …

Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2020-10-31, 03:46

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm sure I was the laughing stock of the teacher's lounge. Here comes kids with computer written reports done in Microsoft Word 97' on a Pentium I or II running Windows 9x, in pretty fonts, and then here come's ole' Creeping Net, tearing the pinfeed edges off of his book report as he wanders into …

Re: Anyone went nuclear and replaced all AT PSUs with ATXs?

Posted on 2020-10-28, 11:22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I have 3 "normal" size AT PSUs. 2 of them are from reputable brands. This is the 3rd, most questionable one. Heatsinks are tiny which explains how light it is. The label calls it a 250W but the PCB is marked "CWT 200PA" which seems to imply a 200W design. Maybe "Data Well" is a brand owned by " …

Re: Anyone went nuclear and replaced all AT PSUs with ATXs?

Posted on 2020-10-28, 10:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What is not pictured is the front panel of power button and LED, please take pictures so I can help you set it up so you can switch it on or off. Sorry for being so unresponsive, I'm in the middle of moving and pretty distracted. :) I did get a picture of the wires going into the power switch and …

Re: Anyone went nuclear and replaced all AT PSUs with ATXs?

Posted on 2020-10-20, 01:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Shamino, Please show me photo of the Compaq server power supply, the label and another photo of the motherboard connectors please. That's three photos. Compaq server power supply is what I'm look out for. Cheers, I came across it recently, sorry it took so long to post photos. Maybe I should have …

Re: In an SMP system how does DOS/98 choose the CPU to utilise?

Posted on 2020-10-18, 16:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

In a functional SMP OS, dual CPUs explicitly *cannot* run the same process or thread at the same time, so there's no fundamental reason that they should have to be at the same clock. It makes sense that it could introduce software timing bugs though, like with that WinAPI timer function that was …

Re: Anyone know about this keyboard?

Posted on 2020-10-18, 14:36

in Milliways

in Milliways

That calculator feature is crazy. I've never seen that. Maybe not a bad idea though, especially for the DOS era when running a software calculator wasn't convenient. Never used that keyboard but I had a Wang keyboard from that era which uses "Alps White" switches - I think. All I really know is that …

Re: Hardest adventure game you've ever played (DOS/Early WIndows)

Posted on 2020-10-18, 13:29

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in Milliways

I can't think of any really hard adventure games I played on MS-DOS. I can't think of anything at all notable that I played in early Windows (which I interpret to mean pre DirectX?). But if I can go back a bit further, Ultima 2 (Apple II) seemed so broken it was basically impossible. Every time I …

Re: Everything You Wanted To Know About Tualatin

Posted on 2020-10-04, 15:28

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

1000/512/133/1.75V ?? That voltage is in line with a Coppermine but the L2 cache is 512KB. Maybe Intel was trying to squeeze a little more performance out of their 0.18u CPUs, but didn't end up needing to. I wonder if it was a prototype Tualatin design at 0.18u, or a legacy Coppermine design with a …

Re: Intel AN430TX doesn't complete POST

Posted on 2020-10-04, 15:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do you have a multimeter? I would try measuring voltages if you can (while the system is trying to run). Low voltage somewhere could cause problems like this. I'm not suggesting you swap PSUs, I'm wondering if you can verify that the voltages are actually good when using this board.

Re: Windows XP PC that I built today.

Posted on 2020-10-04, 01:21

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

It's been a while since I turned on my WinXP desktop, even though I still consider it one of my "current"/everyday usage PCs. But like xefe, I just run whatever is the last version of Firefox (52.something.ESR I think). Thus far I haven't run into any problems, but some bank web sites are starting …

Re: EPoX EP-61BXA-M 440BX SLOT1 (Dead)

Posted on 2020-10-01, 03:05

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah, I remember running into that site sometime back. The author really dug into that board. I think it had a bit of an enthusiast following for a while because it was one of the cheapest dual slot-1 440BX boards. A few years ago I got the KP6-BS on eBay. It was a pretty good lot of "as-is" boards …

Re: EPoX EP-61BXA-M 440BX SLOT1 (Dead)

Posted on 2020-09-30, 04:54

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Others that came up in search results were: SUD50N03-06P (Vishay) SUD50N03-09P (Vishay) These don't have the "L" or the "A", they're just plain D50N03. I forgot they had that "SU" prefix on them also. It seems like different manufacturers stick different prefixes like that on equivalent parts, so …

Re: EPoX EP-61BXA-MI SLOT1 (Dead)

Posted on 2020-09-30, 02:19

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looks same to me as how you read it. I found datasheets for D50N03L, and some other variants D50N03-whatever, but not A. This is the only site where I see the "A" version listed. The text on the search result implied they have a datasheet, but I don't see it. https://www.dzsc.com/ic/sell_search.html …

Re: Fixing geforce cards

Posted on 2020-09-29, 19:32

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in Marvin \ Video

Shamino, now that's a name associated with good quality products! My EVGA X58 Classified never misses a beat :D I had to look that up to figure out what you're referring to. :) But nah, I wasn't thinking of that when I made the username. Interesting freeze spray trick, does that make it worse or …

Re: Fixing geforce cards

Posted on 2020-09-29, 06:15

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

FX5800 had RAM failures mostly. Guess it's the DDR2, i'll hit the memory hard this time :) I had a similar problem on an FX5200 PCI. I tried using freeze spray for the first time ever, and it seemed to give me the answer. I sprayed each of the chips (including the GPU) with freeze spray and found …

Re: Windows XP PC that I built today.

Posted on 2020-09-28, 06:22

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Think we need to just have a dedicated thread for trim with performance and longevitity statistics and everyone link it in their sig. Getting really old. The safedisc and SecuROM issues are real, unknown about starforce. Use CD cracks and or make sure you make a backup image for easy restore. …

Re: Windows XP PC that I built today.

Posted on 2020-09-27, 12:02

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I was thinking of putting a kinston SSD there that I have lying around, but I was worried about windows XP not having the trim function. I don't know if there is software for kingston SSDs that allow you to do trim manually. I use "AData SSD Toolbox 2.0.1" on XP. It doesn't care what brand SSD you …

Re: Anyone went nuclear and replaced all AT PSUs with ATXs?

Posted on 2020-09-25, 23:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No, but I might thin them down a bit. I have I think 4 AT PSUs. One of those is a physically larger one from a Compaq server, not sure what I'll do with that since it doesn't fit in a normal case. One is a Seasonic 350W that is so clean inside I think it was never used. That's the one I intend to …

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