Re: Has anyone ever installed windows 7 on a non acpi motherboard? If so how?

Posted on 2021-02-24, 23:39

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you could try, but acpi isn't only a bios thing, the motherboard must support and have all the necessary electronics for it to work clover only "emulates" an uefi environment, so that an os that needs that can boot, or like windows, that needs to be in uefi mode to be able to install it that way

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Re: Has anyone ever installed windows 7 on a non acpi motherboard? If so how?

Posted on 2021-02-24, 23:07

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right, windows xp was the last Microsoft os to support multiple (standard, apm ahci, multiprocessor and so on) hal, whereas in vista and later they only support single and multi processor ahci hal and in 7 is worse still that's not the biggest problem, assuming you can get it to work, you need to …

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Re: Has anyone ever installed windows 7 on a non acpi motherboard? If so how?

Posted on 2021-02-24, 22:41

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i think it's hardcoded to work only on acpi machines, still windows 7 has some problems with pre-pentium pro processors, don't know if is the sp1 that broke compatibility or if it fixes.

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Best VGA for 386 and 286

Posted on 2021-02-07, 22:20

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Hi, i have 2 machines that need an isa vga card, sadly i don't have many options available but it doesn't matter. 286 20 4mb sipp pcchips m209 board 386sx 25 4mb simm30 pcb-303 board (packard bell force 325) the 386 has onboard graphics, an OTI067 with 512kb of vram, but is way slow, even in dos …

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Re: Windows 7 on socket 7

Posted on 2021-02-06, 13:18

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at some time it existed a 32bit version even you can download the last beos personal edition from sites like Winworld

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Re: Windows 7 on socket 7

Posted on 2021-02-06, 06:34

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what is beos? unix? linux? Neither. BeOS is a multimedia-focused OS that almost became Mac OS X. In the 90s, Apple gave up on making their own next-generation OS in-house (see the Copland debacle) and decided to acquire one instead. They were choosing between BeOS and NeXTSTEP - Be was run by Jean- …

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Re: 3DFX Voodoo5 6000 Intruction Set and Registers Info?

Posted on 2021-02-06, 06:29

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tecnically is the same as the v5 5500 or the v4 4500, but 4 gpu cores instead of 2 or 1 respectivelly.

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Re: D3D GPU’s capable of 320x240 ish resolutions?

Posted on 2021-02-04, 00:56

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tecnically you can force that resolution in most d3d games, either via mods, or simply registry/config file modification. one example would be the original unreal and unreal tournament they'll show you the available and compatible resolutions, but you can force almost any via the config file

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Re: Halo Combat Evolved vs. FX 5500 256MB

Posted on 2021-02-04, 00:53

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in a similar machine , with windows xp and a FX5200, i get around 7 fps with everything maxxed out at 640x480, while in my gf6200 i get over 30 fps this game is known to use shader 2.0, the weak point of the fx series, even an gf4 series card will run it better simply because it uses an older shader …

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Re: Was Deus Ex rough on contemporary hardware?

Posted on 2021-01-02, 05:53

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Secondly, owing to its Unreal Engine roots, the game runs best on Glide. GeForce cards at the time had to use D3D which meant performance suffered even more. Eh, no. OpenGL renderer should be better and various iterations were provided even before DX9 renderer for Unreal Engine 1.0 was released. …

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Re: Quake 2 + 3DFX OpenGL issues with Voodoo1 4mb

Posted on 2021-01-02, 04:02

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http://falconfly.3dfx.pl/minigl.htm

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Re: Windows 95 OSR2.5 vs Windows 98 SE for a 486 build with 32MB of ram

Posted on 2020-12-07, 01:06

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The 1 MB L2 cache of my 486 covers full 256 MB in write through mode. more cache than many s7 boards, impressive. With 8 MB... well, maybe the original release of Windows 95 would be acceptable, but not for running anything bigger than Minesweeper. well, i had running windows 95 osr2.5 on my 386 …

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Re: FastDoom 0.4. A new Doom port for DOS, optimized to be as fast as possible for 386/486 personal computers!

Posted on 2020-08-23, 02:56

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can you fix the visplanes problem? so sigil wad should be playable on this build

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Re: overheating in jetway 625emp800 (c3)

Posted on 2020-04-08, 02:33

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i think the fan is always running at max speed is a standard fan that sits on top of the heatsink, if i connect it to the cha_fan connector it spins the same speed anyway in bios there are no options for adjusting the fan speed

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overheating in jetway 625emp800 (c3)

Posted on 2020-04-08, 02:15

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hi, i have a jetway 625emp800, that has a via c3 samuel2 800mhz processor soldered in the problem is overheating, the motherboard works okay but at times it would freeze, i've tried changing the thermal grease to no avail (a white, cheap one) what else to consider?

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Re: Crashes and low fps on three different machines

Posted on 2020-04-06, 23:35

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that would be right but... I've tested my gf 6200 512mb agp on all 3 pc and it worked flawless, same drivers, same windows, same games and benchs (i have a ghost image for each machine in my nas, so I've tested with basically a windows reinstall)

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Crashes and low fps on three different machines

Posted on 2020-04-06, 22:16

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hi, i have 3 machines that share common problems: -3dmark 2001 and newer crashes (3dm01 in point sprites, for example) -UT99, Unreal gold, and other UE1 games of the era have extremely low fps in D3D mode -Counter strike source (older build) crashes when starts rendering (at the beginning of a match …

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Re: HID compliant game controller (USB) driver for Windows 95?

Posted on 2020-03-22, 18:19

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i really doubt that, the hid driver only supports standard mouse and keyboard, bear in mind that usb was created in 96 but really started to be used in the late 99

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Re: HID compliant game controller (USB) driver for Windows 95?

Posted on 2020-03-22, 17:51

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windows 95 doesn't support usb out of the box, the supplement gives the system the capability to see and interact with such hardware, but drivers incorporated into it are very basic, hence it causes bugs and doesn't support correctly some hardware that is slightly different to the original spec. if …

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Re: "Burger Blaster" (1988) - extra colors under CGA composite

Posted on 2020-03-14, 04:37

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well that's how composite cga works, it uses ntsc artifacting to enable more colors on screen is more or less the same method used in other machines such as the Apple II series (the Apple II GS only in the compatibility modes), Atari 8 bit line of home computers and so

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