Re: Voodoo 3 problem with 3D Mark 2000
Posted on 2022-04-12, 07:30
Alright guys, thanks for the input. I'll try different drivers and maybe do a fresh install on a different motherboard.
Re: Voodoo 3 problem with 3D Mark 2000
Posted on 2022-04-05, 13:03
No, I'm most definitely using 3D Mark 2000. First benchmark is a military helicopter (Apache?) and the second is the medieval town. I don't know where I got that dragon part from but I clearly remember it from the past. Weird...
Voodoo 3 problem with 3D Mark 2000
Posted on 2022-04-05, 10:55
I have this problem which I've been having with all of the Voodoo 3 cards that I came across so far and I find it very puzzling. Whenever I run 3D Mark it runs fine until it gets to the part where the dragon flies over the medieval town. That's when it freezes at some point. The test bed is ASUS P5A …
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2021-08-25, 09:21
imi wrote on 2021-08-24, 18:36: Half-Saint wrote on 2021-08-24, 17:50: Now I have to decide which one to keep. duh... both obviously. I already have 5 CRTs now... don't know where to put them 🤣
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2021-08-24, 17:50
Remember that amber hercules monitor from the other week? Well, a couple of days ago I found its black & white brother at the same recycling centre :D Now I have to decide which one to keep. I'm biased towards amber but I already have my mum's old amber NEC from 1986/87. IMG_20210824_153032735.jpg
Re: Too many old hard drives
Posted on 2021-08-24, 17:45
This thread is still alive? Amazing! I now have even more hard drives than before 🤣 😀
Re: Troublesome 486 boards and what to do with them
Posted on 2021-08-24, 17:44
moumiaq wrote on 2021-08-17, 18:32: Do you still have this motherboard or the bios ? No, sorry, I think I gave them away for the price of postage several years ago 😀
Re: Toshiba 310CDT problem with optical drive and video resolution in games under Win98
Posted on 2021-08-08, 20:39
So far I tried two different optical drives and had no luck with either. One I couldn't even fit without shaving off a milimeter of the faceplate, the other gives me a HDC error at bootup. Will try a few more different drives tomorrow.
Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?
Posted on 2021-08-06, 18:40
Wow, where do I start. This is my to-do list for the next couple of months :D 1) I need to find a replacement speaker that I managed to destroy in my main retro laptop, the Satellite 310CDT. Next I need to find a better optical drive. The one that's built in is having trouble reading media. 2) need …
Re: Suggested Sound card for 386SX
Posted on 2021-08-06, 06:46
I used a SB Pro 2.0 Deluxe in my Pentium PC back in the 1990s because I didn't feel like I needed an upgrade. A friend had an AWE32 and it was amazing but I was perfectly happy with my old card 😀
Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.
Posted on 2021-08-04, 13:26
I saved an amber Hercules monitor from the trash earlier this week as well as a Samsung 206BW monitor which probably just has some bad caps. Filename DSC_0668.jpg File size 432.52 KiB Views 592 views
Re: Toshiba 310CDT speaker repair - help needed
Posted on 2021-08-04, 07:26
BitWrangler wrote on 2021-08-03, 19:35: There's two tiny hairlike wires that go through the cone to the coil. You won't get them back on. Well sh*t... time to look for a replacement.
Toshiba 310CDT speaker repair - help needed
Posted on 2021-08-03, 17:16
I wanted to swap optical drives in my Toshiba 310CDT laptop. I forgot to unplug all the cables and ended up yanking off the small PCB that's normally attached to the speaker. What puzzles me is that I can't see how this even worked in the first place? The wires are attached to what seems to be a …
Re: Sapphire Radeon HD 3850 AGP with artifacts
Posted on 2021-08-02, 11:26
sirotkaslo wrote on 2021-08-02, 11:14: Mind telling me which board you're using it with? I have cold boot issues with my nf3 s754 board. Sure, it's Gigabyte GA-6VTXE.
Re: Sapphire Radeon HD 3850 AGP with artifacts
Posted on 2021-08-02, 10:39
That card can have one or two poor quality capacitors (was it KZE or KZG?) Those cans usually dries out, although they were fine in my card. Maybe a good point to start from. Yes, the original caps are KGZ. I finally got to replacing them with Panasonic FK caps today. Unfortunately I ordered two …
Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT
Posted on 2021-08-01, 20:04
I don't run Windows 98 on my 430CDT. Windows 95 performs very noticeably faster and I don't lose any features I care about either (perfectly stable, usable, etc). Anyway, under Win95 I can run games at 800x600, yes (e.g. Seven Kingdoms). I have not tried 3D games at that resolution (would run …
Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT
Posted on 2021-07-29, 23:12
RetroLizard wrote on 2021-07-29, 21:17: But which ones? I doubt it'll even support any 3D games. I know I tried Heroes of Might and Magic 1 as well as Curse of the Monkey Island. Both only ran in 640x480.
Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT
Posted on 2021-07-29, 21:04
RetroLizard wrote on 2021-07-29, 20:31: I haven't tried yet, no. Mostly because I don't know of any good games to try. How about.. try any Windows game that supports that resolution? 😀
Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 430CDT
Posted on 2021-07-29, 20:01
Have any of you Satellite owners managed to run games in full screen in 800x600 under Windows 98?
Re: What do you drive?
Posted on 2021-07-29, 12:14
Yeah no, sadly they stopped making them in 2013. It's a great little car, easy to park, has enough power for its size and it's surprising spacious inside! Sadly at 13 years old it's beginning to show its age.
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