Re: Motherboard and PSU for 24/7 run?

Posted on 2023-10-10, 23:57

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by deksar

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Cool suggestions, but @pentiumspeed said; "Use OEM oriented memory modules; Micron, Samsung, Hynix and Crucial for reliability. Never the third-party memory even gamer oriented, even not Kingston!" And I was about to include Kingston memories. So why not Kingston but OEM ones? This is a Playout …

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Motherboard and PSU for 24/7 run?

Posted on 2023-10-09, 10:19

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by deksar

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Hello everyone, Which is the most durable PC motherboard and power supply for a non-stop, 24/7 computer usage? In the past, I remember there was "Military Grade" Gigabyte boards even for desktops/regular consumers, but I don't see them anymore, around. And how about PSUs? Anyone ever tried Seasonic, …

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Re: Strange conflicts in Windows 95

Posted on 2023-05-03, 22:26

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by deksar

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Disable Plug and Play (PnP) support in the BIOS. This allows the BIOS to configure devices, and Windows will use those allocations instead of assigning (or reassigning) what it thinks is best. Windows 95 being Windows 95, this option might be hit-or-miss altogether, though. If possible and if you …

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Strange conflicts in Windows 95

Posted on 2023-05-02, 18:24

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by deksar

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Hello there. I'm having the attached conflicts in my system, Windows 95C. However, the device manager indicates no red/yellow marks whatsoever, but Display Adapter's "Resource Properties" there showing: Conflicting device list: Memory Range FD000000 - FDFFFFFF used by: PCI standard PCI-to-PCI bridge …

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Re: Slot Pentium III - Thermal restoration - confused

Posted on 2023-04-30, 18:14

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I don't want to criticize, it's boring. It 2 square centimetres of area and a TDP of 30 watts. Are you seriously discussing the choice of thermal paste? For reference. Replacing the fossilized thermal grease on Zalman STG-2 under the heatspreader`s in Tualatin P3-S 1.13GHz reduces the temperature …

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Re: Slot Pentium III - Thermal restoration - confused

Posted on 2023-04-30, 16:21

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by deksar

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I just use Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut on everything, can’t be bothered to buy “lesser” paste for older kit, might as well just use one massive syringe for everything, retro or modern. Actually regarding Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut, I usually hear too many bad things, like it damages the components and …

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Re: Thermal Solution For P3 Slot 1 CPU

Posted on 2023-04-30, 10:28

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by deksar

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Sorry for necropost, but I have the same situation and planning to apply pad, if BIOS doesn't show the CPU temperature, how can I see it otherwise? (P 3 - 667 Mhz slot here) on Windows 95/98.

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Slot Pentium III - Thermal restoration - confused

Posted on 2023-04-29, 19:19

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by deksar

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Hello there. It's my first time disassembling a Slot 1 CPU - Pentium 3 667 Mhz (from my IBM PC 300GL computer) for thermal paste renewal. At first, I thought it'd be easy to remove it but it was truly hard and very annoying (paying attention to not break the cpu) to push those four plastic tabs with …

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Re: High-end Windows 95 gaming PC?

Posted on 2023-04-27, 20:53

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by deksar

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My motherboard is Asus P4V800-X. No L1, L2 Cache settings in BIOS neither. Well, I think it's time to give up. Thanks a lot, anyway, everyone!

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Re: High-end Windows 95 gaming PC?

Posted on 2023-04-27, 20:28

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Before I start the installation, I actually disabled almost anything you mentioned above.. ACPI, APIC, Onboard LAN, LAN Boot ROM, Serial-ATA Boot ROM, Audio, Serial Port, Paralel Port and so on.. And the HDD is IDE. There's no active AHCI/RAID/SATA settings in BIOS. I get the error just after the …

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Re: High-end Windows 95 gaming PC?

Posted on 2023-04-27, 20:15

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by deksar

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I think it's impossible to play with my CPU freq./FSB speed. Please see the attached image. It seems those settings are locked. I somehow entered into the Safe Mode, installed amdk6upd.exe, it said the installation was successful, rebooted and tada, the same protection error again..

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Re: High-end Windows 95 gaming PC?

Posted on 2023-04-27, 17:17

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Pair that with a Voodoo 3, TNT2 Ultra or even a Geforce 256 (geforce 2 MX 400 would be a good budget option) and you have a rig that can run anything win95 can handle much faster then it needs to And by the way, I wonder what would you think about having Inno3D Tornado GeForce 4 MX 440 AGP 8X 128MB …

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Re: High-end Windows 95 gaming PC?

Posted on 2023-04-27, 17:10

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by deksar

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Quite useful and informative replies, thank you all, one by one. Noted them all down here. And Win95 Guide was one of the best retro guides I've been reading here, great effort! Thanks for this, leonardo. You guys know what, I installed Win95 to that PC of mine and and I was then, greeted with the …

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Re: High-end Windows 95 gaming PC?

Posted on 2023-04-26, 17:00

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Well, I do have a separate Windows 98SE system for several purposes. I just wanted to have a separated PC, one for Windows 95, for regular gaming. (Again, no DOS at all), and wanted to learn if 1.6 Ghz is too much..

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High-end Windows 95 gaming PC?

Posted on 2023-04-26, 16:09

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by deksar

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Hi. I've an Asus P4V800-X motherboard and socket 478 Intel Pentium IV 1.6 Ghz cpu, 128 MB DDR Ram system. I just bought an Inno3D Tornado GeForce MX 440-8X AGP 128 MB vga card, for Windows 95 gaming purposes. Is my CPU, being a 1.6 Ghz one, too fast for Win95 gaming platform? (I don't plan having …

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Re: IBM KB-8926 pressing two buttons at once after cleaning?

Posted on 2023-04-22, 17:46

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The issue goes like (from top to bottom): Key 2: Outputs 23 Key W: Outputs we Key S: Outputs sd Key X: Outputs xc and to the right; Key 3: Outputs 23 Key E: Outputs we Key D: Ouputs sd Key C: Outputs xc

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IBM KB-8926 pressing two buttons at once after cleaning?

Posted on 2023-04-22, 16:11

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Hello everyone. I have IBM KB-8926 keyboard (https://i.imgur.com/mqF1mns.jpg), it was dirty and followed this guide to clean. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDCI1LK-CSA Now, when I press w, "we" appears, same goes for 2, 3, x, s, d, c - neighbouring buttons. Just that side, though. I only washed …

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Re: CMOS battery started to leak - quick suggestions?

Posted on 2023-04-21, 04:34

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Thanks for your reply and the idea. So having 3xAA (1.5 Volt each?) batteries set like this; https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51cd3prsiIL._AC_.jpg and connecting + to the pin1 and - to the pin4 would solve it all? Do I need extra diodes in case like this? I got a jumper in pin2 and pin3 by the …

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CMOS battery started to leak - quick suggestions?

Posted on 2023-04-21, 04:15

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by deksar

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Greetings. I got an 386 motherboard with an ntegrated on-chip AM386DX-40 CPU. The battery seems started to leak on the motherboard. I got two spare batteries, however, I got also EXT BAT jumper, and instead of, removing whole the motherboard and soldering and such - each time the battery dies, I'm …

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Re: The most compatible vga for a Windows 95 gaming box?

Posted on 2023-04-19, 07:46

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The Serpent Rider wrote on 2023-04-18, 18:11: Realistically - GeForce 4 MX, as a card with older driver support. Although your card is more or less on par with GeForce 2 MX400, by performance metrics. Hi again. What driver would you recommend for an MX 440 AGP card on Windows 95? Something …

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