Re: Windows 3.x at above 60Hz

Posted on Today, 04:24

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1024x768 interlaced was definitely a feature being offered by cheap monitors an VGA cards, but did anyone actually use it? I thought it was more of a check mark on advertising list. I don't know anyone who actually used it. You would think someone who needed 1024x768 back then would have been a …

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Re: Windows 3.x at above 60Hz

Posted on Today, 03:19

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60Hz was pretty nasty to look at for sure, especially above 640x480. I don't know how people managed to run 800x600 and 1024x768 at 60Hz in the late 80s and early 90s. They must have had filters on their screens or something, or just had high tolerance for migraine headaches. Interlacing was more …

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Re: Tirtanium benchmark

Posted on Today, 02:51

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swaaye wrote on Today, 02:27: Does anyone have this archived? I can't seem to find it anywhere anymore... tirta190.zip http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/fclick/fclick.php?fid=61 seems to work . EDIT: I took the liberty of re-compressing it so it would fit within 5MB and so I could attach it here . Filename …

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Re: Soyo SY-5EMA+ v1.1 BIOS files

Posted on Yesterday, 23:34

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by darry

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The archive.org link that I posted in my first post in the thread has working downloads for BIOS files . Here it is again, for your convenience : https://web.archive.org/web/20040327042549/http://www.soyo.com.tw/dl/bios/586new/ EDIT : 01/06/2000-VP3-586B-8669-2A5LES2BC-00 pretty much matches up with …

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Re: AT PSU voltage question

Posted on Yesterday, 23:32

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Hi everyone, First off, this forum has been incredibly helpful! I haven’t been able to find a clear answer to my situation, but I’ve learned a lot just reading through nearby issues. I recently acquired a 486 rebuild from Europe and shipped it to the US where I am. Very excited, but: the PSU is a …

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Re: Soyo SY-5EMA+ v1.1 BIOS files

Posted on Yesterday, 20:03

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by darry

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I believe that these are the two most recent BIOSes for your board . Source : https://web.archive.org/web/20040327042549/http://www.soyo.com.tw/dl/bios/586new/ One of them is newer than the one that you found a reference to . The BIOS from 2000 that you are referring to is actually for the 5EMA ( …

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Re: Anyone here had Creative Fatality or Sound Blaster Blaze headphones ?

Posted on Yesterday, 01:08

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Panasonic RP-HTX7 user since about 2007 here . Really happy .

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Re: Radeon 9700 Pro - Artifacts on Boot

Posted on 2020-08-08, 22:30

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by darry

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Thanks darry! I'm going to skip the oven and try replacing the thermal compound cement and see what happens. I was sold as-is so no returns. If the card is already borked, that is unfortunately unlikely to work . One thing you could try is applying pressure to the memory chips while the card is on …

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Re: Radeon 9700 Pro - Artifacts on Boot

Posted on 2020-08-08, 22:16

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by darry

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nwsw wrote on 2020-08-08, 22:15: Thanks, is it even worth trying the oven trick? If it was sold as working, I would return it . Even if it works, the oven trick is a short term solution .

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Re: Radeon 9700 Pro - Artifacts on Boot

Posted on 2020-08-08, 22:16

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Suggestion: a) Get a 9700 non Pro from an OEM like Dell as they had lower factory clocks and less chance of having died by overheating . b) Remove the shim around the GPU core and replace thermal compound/cement (WD40 works relatively well for that) . c) Optional - replace the thermal solution ( …

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Re: Dell GX260 Graphics Card

Posted on 2020-08-05, 20:34

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by darry

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Does anyone know what the built-in graphics card in a Dell Optiplex GX260 is or what it's comparable with? The system didn't come with any cards and most of the cards I have are pretty old. I'm looking for a decent card for late 90's/early 2000 gaming that will fit in this machine. It doesn't have …

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Re: Where can I find an actual HDMI -> RGB SCART converter (not composite)?

Posted on 2020-08-05, 16:23

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by darry

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Why not just get something that can output analogue RGB at the proper frequency and required sync and connect it to the proper pins on a SCART shell ?

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Re: I have an Aztech Sound card that I cannot seem to get the drivers working for.

Posted on 2020-08-04, 04:05

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by darry

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Card is a "NOV16E Sound Galaxy Nova 16 Extra Card Updates - FCC-ID:I38-MMSN811" according to picture and ftp://ftp.aztech.com/SUPPORT/DOWNLOAD/sg/index.txt Drivers are here : ftp://ftp.aztech.com/SUPPORT/DOWNLOAD/sg/NOV16E/ All DOS drivers you need will be installed if you install NOV16E-1 ZIP , …

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Re: Old rusty power supply works, fancy new power supply does not.

Posted on 2020-08-04, 02:57

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by darry

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Hello! I've recently starting trying to build a 486, because it's the first computer I had growing up. One thing I wanted was to find a new PSU, because 30 year old power supplies seem. . . risky. I ended up getting one of these: Sparkle SPI-300G Well, today I finally had some time to try and piece …

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Re: DosBox at FULL SPEED - MAXIMUM SPEED. (''LIGHT SPEED'' if possible).

Posted on 2020-08-04, 02:42

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I assume you've read this or something equivalent --> https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Performance and especially this --> https://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Performance#Emulated_CPU_equivalency The questions are what physical CPU are you using and what emulated CPU speed are you expecting ? EDIT: Have you …

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Re: Something wrong with AT PSU - hissing noise and not powering on

Posted on 2020-08-03, 03:46

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by darry

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How about providing the brand and model number of the PSU along with some high resolution photos of its innards ? You may not see anything wrong, but someone with more experience might see something of interest and point you in the right direction . I will likely not be that person (not my field of …

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Re: Budget Isa with windows acceleration

Posted on 2020-08-02, 22:52

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by darry

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FPU won't help unless you run a program that actually uses FPU (Windows as such do not). The FPU won't help with GUI acceleration. Sure seems like it does though. I don't think there is conclusive evidence that it does not I would imagine that would depend in part on whether the driver for the card …

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Re: Types of capacitors to recap computer stuff (motherboard and PSU)

Posted on 2020-08-02, 19:20

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by darry

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Main issue is discussion is going wide and large and this is really grand. Yes, I studied electronics, researched capacitors and was member of a badcaps once. But this forum fell apart and full of spams. And incidentally I liked to get bulk purchases at good price of Samxon but they are no longer …

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Re: Help identifying and troubleshooting old 386 PC

Posted on 2020-08-02, 18:50

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by darry

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I managed to source a Sound Blaster AWE 32 PnP (CT3670), which I have now successfully installed into the machine. I also wired the PC Speaker sounds from the PC Speaker header on the mobo to the PC Speaker input header on the sound card. All of this is working surprisingly well. The battery issue …

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Re: If you were able to go back say 15-20 years ago what one motherboard would you buy ?

Posted on 2020-08-02, 18:29

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Abit SH6 .. AFAIK only ever made slot-1 i815 An interesting curiosity, most certainly, but the only actual use case I would have seen at the time would have been somebody with a dead slot-1 board wanting to re-use the CPU . EDIT: On a different note and to be clear, I have no regrets per se either, …

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