Re: My guide for a Windows 98 SE PC (no focus on DOS)

Posted on 2023-03-21, 17:39

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Try that USB 2.0 card in an i440BX board. I'd say 66% chance it won't work. Same applies to a lot of SATA and IDE controllers and - infamously - cards with later Realtek NICs (RTL8139C or D) I did my homework when picking out which card to get and I have three of these in three different systems. …

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Re: My guide for a Windows 98 SE PC (no focus on DOS)

Posted on 2023-03-21, 14:46

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That's one great guide. Anyone following it will get a very usable, fun system :) Of course, given our propensity to dive down rabbit holes and be opinionated, people can and will niggle, so let me be the first :P - motherboard (1): You refer to Athlon as being susceptible to 'buggy' chipsets. …

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My guide for a Windows 98 SE PC (no focus on DOS)

Posted on 2023-03-21, 12:53

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I've been working on a proper Windows 98 PC for, oooh, 10 years or so now? Over these years I've been optimising my setup taking into account what items are most expensive, what has the longest lifespan, etc. and I felt it might help some for me to write down all the tips & tricks I've discovered …

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Re: Fan restoration on early 2000's graphics cards

Posted on 2023-03-15, 11:41

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How can you tell whether a card died due to heat? If you get garbled text during BIOS start up, it's almost guaranteed the chips got fried. Letting it cool down and it still gives artifacts = it's screwed. Sometimes it takes a while before it starts artifacting but if it does it even at low …

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Re: Bad socket 370 CPU?

Posted on 2023-03-15, 07:26

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Since we're on the topic of partially dead CPUs, let me tell you guys about a Pentium D 945 that's absolutely fine under XP, but will not run Windows 7, 10, or Ubuntu. It's the weirdest thing. Windows 7 and newer operating systems (Ubuntu 20 included) won't even install, usually rebooting before …

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Re: Bad socket 370 CPU?

Posted on 2023-03-14, 19:19

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I would actually rather suspect it being an ESD damage the 1GHz wasn't that overclocking friendly AFAIK. And actually, the only actual damages due to long term overclocking, I remember having heard of, is electromigration or "sudden Northwood dead syndrome" ... Interesting ... I've now installed …

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Re: Fan restoration on early 2000's graphics cards

Posted on 2023-03-14, 16:08

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I ended up adding a Zalman VF700-Cu on my GF4 but for the geforce 2 GTS i took the passive square heatsink of a geforce 4 MX applied it on the GF2 and then added a custom 50mm fan to it. I bought a very similar one for my Radeon 9800 Pro. It didn't help much since that card died after a year anyway …

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Re: Fan restoration on early 2000's graphics cards

Posted on 2023-03-14, 12:48

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Update: the 50mm works perfectly on the GeForce 4 Ti 4200 heatsink. Amusingly I'm not actually using the screws to screw into anything but by using three screws in the right place I added enough tension so that the fan is very snugly stuck to the heatsink without actually being screwed into anything …

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Re: Fan restoration on early 2000's graphics cards

Posted on 2023-03-14, 11:42

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I ended up adding a Zalman VF700-Cu on my GF4 but for the geforce 2 GTS i took the passive square heatsink of a geforce 4 MX applied it on the GF2 and then added a custom 50mm fan to it. I bought a very similar one for my Radeon 9800 Pro. It didn't help much since that card died after a year anyway …

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Re: Fan restoration on early 2000's graphics cards

Posted on 2023-03-14, 07:51

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- I assume that despite most of these fans being "inside" the heatsinks, mounting a superior modern fan on top instead of inside wouldn't harm the cooling aspect that much? Those fans inside the heatsink are rather small and don't move a lot of air, so any modern fan you mount on top will move …

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Re: Bad socket 370 CPU?

Posted on 2023-03-14, 07:48

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Older Intel Processor Diagnostic Tool runs on XP, might be worth a try. If its not daft it should test all instructions and processor modules. That's interesting to know - for now I'll be returning the first CPU since the second is very stable so far. After 5-6 hours of gaming & ripping CDs I've …

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Re: Bad socket 370 CPU?

Posted on 2023-03-14, 07:46

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Interesting. That proves that something's wrong with the first one. Puzzles me though, how it can run so much, and still be defective I've never known an Intel CPU of that era to fail but because the Pentium III was known to be easy to OC, it's possible someone went a little overboard and damaged …

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Re: Fan restoration on early 2000's graphics cards

Posted on 2023-03-11, 21:05

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I have recently been discovering the merits of a flood and soak method, that is when fans seem too tight that a drop of oil won't get them moving, just load them up and leave them sitting for a while, let it soak in. Often the original lube has gone very gummy with age and heat, needs a while to …

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Re: Fan restoration on early 2000's graphics cards

Posted on 2023-03-11, 21:04

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- these fans could be lubed to run smoothly again but there's not many tutorials on how to open a fan without breaking it. I actually broke a fin trying to dismantle one yesterday (luckily it was an old dud I was practising on). Is it even worth doing? Pixel Pipes has a video where he cleans and …

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Fan restoration on early 2000's graphics cards

Posted on 2023-03-11, 09:22

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You know what I mean: every darn card had a non-standard fan or even several with weird heatsinks and those fans were tiny and even back then were noisy. Now every single card I touch makes so much noise it's unbearable. Ideally I'd like to "fix" these old fans, the alternative being just removing …

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Re: Bad socket 370 CPU?

Posted on 2023-03-10, 16:18

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Another update: my second 1Ghz CPU (exact same model) arrived and ... zero issues so far. I've done a 3D Mark 99 bench and no crashes. I'll be installing Windows XP tonight and will be swapping my Voodoo 3 over with a GeForce 4 Ti 4200. I forgot I already had a Voodoo 3 3000 in my Pentium II 333 so …

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Re: Bad socket 370 CPU?

Posted on 2023-03-09, 18:25

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SL5QJ is Coppermine-T, so you should check compatibility with your motherboard if going down that road ... Yeah I read about that but found several articles & posts (also on Vogons) that basically said any motherboard that supports Coppermine would support Coppermine-T. I'll wait till the other CPU …

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Re: Bad socket 370 CPU?

Posted on 2023-03-09, 17:27

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So ... I decided to check another way to see if my motherboard is to blame or not. I took my 800mhz CPU, changed the voltage to 1,75V and overclocked it to 1Ghz. And ... surprise surprise, it's stable as a rock. I've done 4x 3D Mark 99 benchmarks so far without a single crash. Oddly enough the …

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Re: Nvidia Quadro4 750 XGL for Windows 98 SE gaming?

Posted on 2023-03-09, 11:19

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I have a Quadro 700 and I made a thread about the issue I had: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=85359 Thanks - I think I know what your problem was by the way. These cards were often shipped with workstations from Dell or HP and the BIOS on these cards were specifically designed for …

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Re: Bad socket 370 CPU?

Posted on 2023-03-09, 11:02

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Yeah, with that testing it sounds like the CPU though it is odd that it crashes right after the test no matter the speed the CPU is set to. If I were to take a guess, it crashes after Windows loads the desktop. The benchmark is full screen (at a different resolution) and then when it drops out to …

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