Re: Any others given up on the hobby?

Posted on Today, 06:05

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by darry

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My collection consists of the machines I have built to play games on and parts that I bought to replace pieces I expect to possibly fail at some point in the future. The only other pieces I own are the pieces I bought mistakenly, either because I thought I was going to use them or they ended up not …

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Re: Windows XP DVI and limited resolutions

Posted on Today, 05:47

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by darry

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What driver version are you using? The latest nvidia drivers for XP are pretty bad. Rolling back a release or two can actually restore a lot of features that they took out for no god reason. If you monitor supports VGA I would use that. Trying an older driver is a god idea indeed . Using VGA …

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Re: Windows XP DVI and limited resolutions

Posted on Today, 05:44

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would guess that the monitor thinks that it is in portrait mode rather than landscape mode Yeah, it's a weird one. The NVIDIA settings have options to rotate the display but the moment I switch to 1200x1600, then rotate, it switches the resolution back to 800x600. And then also, why only report …

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Re: ASTVision 5L

Posted on Today, 05:14

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by darry

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in Marvin \ Video

Hello, I just picked up an ASTVision 5L 15 inch color monitor for $4 at a local thrift store. It's in pretty good condition. Does anyone know of a good site or link where I may find the user manual for this monitor? Thanks That is an OEMed Daewoo CMC-1502B . I had two issues when I go mine for 500 …

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Re: Windows XP DVI and limited resolutions

Posted on Today, 05:09

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I would guess that the monitor thinks that it is in portrait mode rather than landscape mode . See manual page 23 https://www.sharpnecdisplays.eu/p/download/v/5374cfe841245822571bd20342fdcd3d/cp/Products/DesktopLCDs/Products/CurrentProducts/P_PA_Series/Shared/ProductManuals/P212/P212_CD_EN_V04.pdf? …

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Re: Windows XP/Windows 7/Windows 10 - TRIPLE BOOT - Is It Possible?

Posted on Yesterday, 22:59

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by darry

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My approach to multi-booting is to use one boot drive per OS and to use the BIOS' boot drive selection ability to choose which OS to start . This has proven very reliable for me and avoids pretty much all potential issues related to MBR/bootloader over-writing or corruption . It also makes re- …

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Re: Windows XP/Windows 7/Windows 10 - TRIPLE BOOT - Is It Possible?

Posted on Yesterday, 19:59

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by darry

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You should be able to first install XP, then Win7, then Win10, and let BCD manage it all, on a single drive. Yes indeed, done it (and variations with Vista, 8.1 etc) many times. The only problem is that every time you start XP it'll wipe all of your restore points on the later operating systems. If …

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Re: Windows XP/Windows 7/Windows 10 - TRIPLE BOOT - Is It Possible?

Posted on Yesterday, 17:40

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by darry

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My approach to multi-booting is to use one boot drive per OS and to use the BIOS' boot drive selection ability to choose which OS to start . This has proven very reliable for me and avoids pretty much all potential issues related to MBR/bootloader over-writing or corruption . It also makes re- …

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Re: Attn admin: Best pci NICs by cpu usage.

Posted on Yesterday, 14:33

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is an interesting idea, but the scope is too wide, IMHO . Other than the difference the OS can make, there are these concerns : - CPU usage results would need to be run on identical CPUs to be comparable - different motherboards/chipsets can influence maximum NIC bandwidth performance and, …

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Re: Audigy Platinum EX with Audigy 2 Breakout Box?

Posted on Yesterday, 14:10

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by darry

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Audigy 1 can use 5.25 inch panel from Live!, but you can't use it on Audigy 2. I could only assume same thing applies to breakout box, i.e. you probably can route it to Live! card somehow, but not Audigy 2. Maybe I used the wrong wording for the things. I am referring to the 5.25in drive bays in …

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Re: Windows XP/Windows 7/Windows 10 - TRIPLE BOOT - Is It Possible?

Posted on Yesterday, 14:00

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by darry

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in Windows

My approach to multi-booting is to use one boot drive per OS and to use the BIOS' boot drive selection ability to choose which OS to start . This has proven very reliable for me and avoids pretty much all potential issues related to MBR/bootloader over-writing or corruption . It also makes re- …

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Re: GPT disks on windows XP SP3 (partially solved)

Posted on Yesterday, 00:04

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by darry

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If using USB then verify that the drive works in the enclosure on a modern os. The hardware in those enclosures have limitations as well. If it works there with gpt and all the space then make it an mbr with a 2tb partition and try it on the xp machine and troubleshoot from there. I faintly …

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Re: GPT disks on windows XP SP3

Posted on 2021-02-26, 04:50

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by darry

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in Windows

Darry I have some initial results for ya. 3megs/sec at 80% cpus usage with usb 3.0 gigabit nic 4.5 megs a second 70% cpus usage with 10/100 pci nic These results are kinda weird. Obviously neither neither the network, the cpus or the pci/usb are saturated. I wonder what is slowing it down... This …

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Re: Gotek Floppy emulator using IDE?

Posted on 2021-02-26, 03:37

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by darry

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You only need a Gotek for the older systems. Your RyZen system would just use the usb sticks directly and you use the Gotek or similar software to read/write to the Gotek formatted usb sticks This is what I meant . Additionally, you do not absolutely need need to use FreeDOS to make your images . …

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Re: Sluggish mouse performance in DOS mode compared to win9x Dos box

Posted on 2021-02-26, 03:32

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by darry

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Okay, I was able to get USBUHCI and USBMOUSE loaded (but only using conventional memory, not using an EMM386 configuration so I don't have sound working) however the same problem still occurs with the mouse snapping back to its original position. I didn't see any option in the BIOS to disable PS/2 …

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Re: Gotek Floppy emulator using IDE?

Posted on 2021-02-26, 00:45

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by darry

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Hello I have this great LS120 mb Floppy drive hooked up to my ryzen system. It reads and writes 1.44mb disks fine. I use FreeDOS a lot and make images from and to floppies to my other systems. The board does not have a fdd port understanably, so I was wondering if an IDE gotek drive exist. I don't …

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Re: GPT disks on windows XP SP3

Posted on 2021-02-25, 20:37

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by darry

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Darry I have some initial results for ya. 3megs/sec at 80% cpus usage with usb 3.0 gigabit nic 4.5 megs a second 70% cpus usage with 10/100 pci nic These results are kinda weird. Obviously neither neither the network, the cpus or the pci/usb are saturated. I wonder what is slowing it down... This …

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Re: Sluggish mouse performance in DOS mode compared to win9x Dos box

Posted on 2021-02-25, 17:51

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by darry

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you have no PS/2 port on your motherboard you can also try real USB driver for DOS. Of course first you should disable PS/2 (usually called legacy mouse support) emulation in your BIOS. Be aware the such USB DOS drivers occupy a lot of memory and are not compatible with all USB controllers: …

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Re: Sluggish mouse performance in DOS mode compared to win9x Dos box

Posted on 2021-02-25, 06:29

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by darry

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've been trying to play some late era DOS games like Duk3d and Blood on a (not period accurate) win98 machine which provides very good performance and mouse response (using a Logitech G305) in a Win9x dos box. However, I'm using a PCI sound card (YMF744), so I can't enable sound effects those …

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Re: GPT disks on windows XP SP3

Posted on 2021-02-25, 04:21

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by darry

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Other than the potential stability concerns brought up by DosFreak, I would be worried about potential file corruption on a hacked up setup like that . Then there is the issue of speed . A Pentium 1 166MHz server does not seem fast enough to even fully saturate 100Mbps Ethernet with Iperf when used …

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