Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy cards

Posted on 2017-06-06, 23:40

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ Sound

.I'm getting another Sound Galaxy card that I purchased on Amibay.com in the mail sometime: an Aztech Sound Galaxy WaveRider 32-3D for my K6-2 300 machine that has a Sound Blaster 16 WavEffects CT4170 (predecessor of the AWE64 series) and both the AWE64 and 16 WavEffects have one thing in common: …

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Re: Have you opened your SC-55 to check the battery inside?

Posted on 2017-06-05, 06:30

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ Sound

I have an SC-55 MKI myself (not GM, only GS), and unfortunately, it never holds notes when playing a specific MIDI file, such as the original RuneScape opening theme. I replaced the battery since it was on its last legs, tried cleaning the MIDI ports for any success, and no success to fix the note …

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Re: Aztech Sound Galaxy cards

Posted on 2017-06-05, 05:27

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by bjwil1991

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I only have one Aztech Sound Galaxy card in my collection that a friend of mine had since 1993: NX Pro, I've had the card for over a year, and Windows 98SE seemed to detect the card as a Sound Blaster Pro card, which in theory, the sound was echoing, and there was no MIDI whatsoever. I now have it …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-06-03, 03:45

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My K6-2 300 machine has a bit of issues hither and thither: trying to reinstall/"fix" Windows 98SE, and I hit a major snag when it was installing my drivers, and it gives me a Fatal 0E error has occurred at a VXD file VSB16(04) and it's been giving me these issues constantly, so I had to force to …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-06-01, 20:00

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Mounted a fan on my GeForce 256 DDR, now fully functional and authentic. Got a GeForce 256 SDR in the main, the fan was DOA; fortunately this one didn't have the heatsink glued on with thermal epoxy so I popped it off and replaced it with a new GPU cooler for 100% win. I will now go ahead and waste …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-06-01, 18:58

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Purchased an Aztech WaveRider 32-3D to be in place of my Sound Blaster 16 WavEffects that's in my K6-2 300 due to resource "conflicts," it doesn't sound happy, and the lack of a real FM Synthesizer, which it doesn't have.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-06-01, 18:47

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by bjwil1991

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Put a Promise Ultra66 PCI controller in my Slot 1 rig. The motherboard's onboard IDE controller is ATA33 and I have a newer (well, for the time) 40GB HD for it. I don't really notice much of a speed difference. My K6-2 300 system detects my 200GB HDD as an ATA133, which is weird. Guess it depends …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-05-31, 04:12

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Either Halo or Macs OpenGL implementation are garbage. I remember it lagging on my eMac @ 1024x768 and my eMac is the model with the Radeon 9600. No excuse for that. It's probably a bit of both, I've never found Macs to be particularly well optimised for gaming. I'm running Halo at 800x600 on this …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-05-30, 16:17

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Upgraded the memory in my iMac G3/600 from 512MB SDRAM to 768MB SDRAM successfully, and it kept the time and date this time after I replaced the battery in it last month.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-05-30, 04:17

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm selling 2x Intel Pentium II Xeon 400MHz Slot 2 server CPUs right now on amibay.com since the server I had lost all 3 PSUs, and luckily, the processors are still in great shape and the server was unplugged at that time, and the PSU was pulled out since only 1 was allowed since the server took a …

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Re: Another high-end 486 back in action (ASUS GX4 conversion success! Tons of pictures)

Posted on 2017-05-29, 06:06

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Been having some fun with the machine and done a couple more things to it :) I had some I/O port/IRQ issues with my Music Quest PC MIDI card clone - I could output to it just fine, but couldn't receive input from one of my synthesizers. Windows 95 was detecting 3x MPU401s and the AWE32 MIDI …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-05-28, 07:02

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Trying to install NHL 96 on my K6-2 300 desktop, and it goes south by throwing me this error: cdromdirectoryentry - error 2 reading directory /data\game.ksf The CD has light scratches, and when I run: dir \data\game.ksf It shows the file and I might try to copy the CD onto my hard drive to see if …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-05-28, 03:39

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by bjwil1991

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oeuvre wrote: got this and set it up nicely http://imgur.com/a/5VID5 Nice rig you got there.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-05-28, 02:38

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Trying to install NHL 96 on my K6-2 300 desktop, and it goes south by throwing me this error: cdromdirectoryentry - error 2 reading directory /data\game.ksf The CD has light scratches, and when I run: dir \data\game.ksf It shows the file and I might try to copy the CD onto my hard drive to see if …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-05-26, 02:36

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Had to swap the video card in my K6-2 300 machine... AGAIN due to the GeForce4 MX 4000 having issues going to 640x480 with the images being chopped off at the left and right side of the screen with my STB Velocity 3D (S3 Virge/VX) PCI card and it works without issues, and my machine would BSOD when …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-05-25, 04:55

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by bjwil1991

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Tried to get an Audigy 2 ZS Laptop PCMCIA card working in Windows 98. It only officially supports Windows 2000 or higher... and I couldn't get it to work. Tried both WDM and VXD drivers from the Audigy 2 as well as the drivers from an Audigy. Guess that answers that question... :blah: Try getting …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-05-25, 02:23

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I decided to download my Ms-DOS animated background (GIF) onto my K6-2 300 desktop to see if it'll work as a background image, and it works without issues! I'm typing this on my desktop right now. Here are the images: backgrd1.jpg backgrd2.jpg I also downgraded the RAM to 64MB, and it's holding up, …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-05-25, 01:43

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I once again got reminded how much I hate Socket 423/603/604 CPU mounting clips, especially the ones belonging to Intel Xeon "fan tunnel" heat sinks. In theory they are easy to remove, you just push on one end of the clip and it unhooks it self... In reality you often have to use a screwdriver and …

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Re: Music Quest MPU clone cards, anyone interested in them?

Posted on 2017-05-17, 21:56

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by bjwil1991

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in Marvin \ Sound

I'm also interested in the card as well.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2017-05-16, 02:31

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by bjwil1991

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Reviewing two products for data transfer of IDE hard drives to USB 3.0. There are a lot of USB 2.0 devices out there, but not USB 3.0 it seems. There are the "loose" adapters, they are more flexible as you can also use optical drives, and there are the docking types which are a bit nicer to use in …

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