Re: Networking in Win 98SE: cannot get a DHCP lease

Posted on 2021-08-27, 21:44

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I have an RTL8139 card which also has some odd eeprom behaviour. ( https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=81518 ) On the Realtek drivers page ( https://www.realtek.com/en/component/zoo/category/network-interface-controllers-10-100m-fast-ethernet-pci-software ), you can find the "DOS Diagnostic …

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Re: DOS Shareware Collection CD

Posted on 2021-08-27, 16:36

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Great title screen 😁 Yeah almost any name will sound corny, but that's part of the charm of these discs.

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Re: How do I run DOS games on my Windows 98 PC?

Posted on 2021-08-27, 16:08

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Go to https://www.philscomputerlab.com/sound-blaster-live.html and take a look at the section labelled '​Audigy 2 ZS drivers for Live!'. There's two screenshots there, the left one shows the set of five driver installs for Sound Blaster Live! cards, and the right one shows the devices that appear in …

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Re: DOS Shareware Collection CD

Posted on 2021-08-26, 11:50

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These discs are very fun. :) I've had the urge to make a compilation disc myself, even though there's plenty out there already. A couple of things I'd suggest: - Giving the disc a name. Is it just called 'MS-DOS Shareware Collection'? That's fine if it is. :) I've been adding '... by gaffa2002 2021_ …

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Re: How can I test the IDE chipset on a motherboard, any utilities?

Posted on 2021-08-24, 13:37

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Thanks for that idea Warlord. I hadn't considered that it would be possible to have an IDE controller card to compare it against.

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Re: How can I test the IDE chipset on a motherboard, any utilities?

Posted on 2021-08-24, 07:48

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https://imgur.com/a/iX15XN8 This is the power supply it's using. Nothing fancy.

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Re: For anyone that needs ASound Drivers

Posted on 2021-08-16, 21:31

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Appreciated. 😀 Asound cards are cool.

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Re: How can I test the IDE chipset on a motherboard, any utilities?

Posted on 2021-08-06, 16:23

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20 year old PSU.... yeah, it should be recapped at the very least. Best is to replace it with a new ATX PSU that is at least 80+ Bronze rated from a respectable brand such as Seasonic or similar. You'll have infinitely cleaner power being supplied to everything and the PSU will run way cooler and …

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Re: How can I test the IDE chipset on a motherboard, any utilities?

Posted on 2021-08-06, 14:29

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Both the PSU and the board are twenty years old and not recapped. I've just bought a replacement motherboard of the same type (with its own CPU and memory) and I'm having the same issues with this SD card adapter! I definitely recommend not buying Medion hardware! ^_^; If data integrity of the IDE …

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Re: How can I test the IDE chipset on a motherboard, any utilities?

Posted on 2021-06-17, 07:11

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weedeewee wrote on 2021-06-17, 06:34: I'd suspect the SD-IDE adapter. Have you tried using a real hard drive ? I bought the SD adapter because of weird behaviour I was getting with the original hard drive. :)

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Re: How can I test the IDE chipset on a motherboard, any utilities?

Posted on 2021-06-16, 03:42

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Thanks for the advice so far. I was worried that there wouldn't be any good diagnostic stuff, yeah. It also didn't occur to me that the chipset driver might be incorrect or faulty. I'm using the Intel (application accelerator?) driver from MSI's website, since I don't have a Medion recovery CD for …

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Re: How can I test the IDE chipset on a motherboard, any utilities?

Posted on 2021-06-15, 20:54

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I haven't! That didn't occur to me, heh thank you. When I get a new IDE cable though, is there anything I can run to test that the system is stable?

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How can I test the IDE chipset on a motherboard, any utilities?

Posted on 2021-06-15, 05:07

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Is there a boot disk/CD that I can use to test the IDE chipset on a motherboard? I have a motherboard that's been acting intermittently strange and don't know how to diagnose it. I was getting strange performance and file corruption so I tested and replaced a RAM stick and bought an SD-IDE adapter. …

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Re: PCem v17

Posted on 2021-06-13, 15:36

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PCem main website is showing a blank page.

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Re: MS-DOS Mode reboots when running Tyrian or Jazz Jackrabbit with SB Live SB16 Emulation (SB0100)

Posted on 2021-06-08, 15:47

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This is not true. The SB Live's SB16 + Midi emulation can work with protected mode games. Doom, Descent, Duke 3D and other games on Build engine, Warcraft 2 etc. are all protected mode games using DOS extenders and work without problem with SB Live. Posting to second this. The SB Live's soundfont …

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Re: Windows 98 program to list all D3D display modes?

Posted on 2021-06-08, 13:05

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I'm running Powerstrip 3.90 and I can't find anything that enumerates display modes, D3D or otherwise.

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Windows 98 program to list all D3D display modes?

Posted on 2021-06-05, 15:25

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Is there a simple program that will output a list of all the possible D3D display modes my card supports? I know some ways I can get the info (it's a built-in function of DarkBASIC so I could use that to print it...) but I'm surprised that Everest Home doesn't detect and show a simple list of …

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Re: MS-DOS Mode reboots when running Tyrian or Jazz Jackrabbit with SB Live SB16 Emulation (SB0100)

Posted on 2021-06-04, 00:39

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Unfortunately not. In the PnP/PCI Configuration screen of the BIOS, the options are: Copy code to clipboard 1 PNP OS Installed: *Yes*/No 2 Reset Configuration Data: *Disabled*/Enabled 3 4 PCI/VGA Palette Snoop: *Disabled*/Enabled 5 Assign IRQ For VGA: *Enabled*/Disabled 6 Assign IRQ For USB: * …

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Re: MS-DOS Mode reboots when running Tyrian or Jazz Jackrabbit with SB Live SB16 Emulation (SB0100)

Posted on 2021-06-04, 00:02

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Also you might be thinking of the WDM driver behaviour where running games in a DOS box in Win98 does use the Win98 midi device (and so the soundfonts): The New Creative Labs Sound Blaster Drivers Collection. (Updated 6th Jan. 2014)

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Re: MS-DOS Mode reboots when running Tyrian or Jazz Jackrabbit with SB Live SB16 Emulation (SB0100)

Posted on 2021-06-03, 15:53

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Posting to second this. The SB Live's soundfont support on the emulated MIDI device for late protected mode games makes it a very good fit for Duke3D and Doom. :) Doesn't the SB Live only support soundfonts in DOS games if you're running from a DOS prompt in Win9x? In my experience SBEINIT.COM runs …

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