Re: Does the Intel VC820 Motherboard Support Tualatins at all?

Posted on 2022-05-16, 21:25

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by mastergamma12

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We haven't tried other BIOS's but Intel being Intel, I suppose chances are very slim indeed that it'll work with an unmodded BIOS. I had a D815EEA2 a few years back, Had to use an older bios or it would display a shutdown in 10 sec message whenever a Tualatin was inserted, ended up dumping the …

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Re: Does the Intel VC820 Motherboard Support Tualatins at all?

Posted on 2022-05-16, 21:19

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by mastergamma12

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Looks like you'll have to track down a P3C-E if you want an 820 with Tualatin.

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Re: Ati Rage Mobility M1 Laptop find and story, help with games

Posted on 2022-05-15, 18:28

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by mastergamma12

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This chip is not powerful at all and barely has memory to run age appropriate games but being 8mb of vram it can still do something. For example, I also had a toshiba portege 3440ct with only 128mb of ram, pentium iii at 500mhz and a S3 Savage graphics which is also 8mb of vram, minecraft did run …

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Re: Ati Rage Mobility M1 Laptop find and story, help with games

Posted on 2022-05-15, 18:01

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by mastergamma12

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Yeah, you're expecting far too much from this laptop, I've got a Thinkpad X21 and I also used to have a Thinkpad A22M with that chip but with 4mb of vram and yeah, game compatibility can be slim pickings. A lot of the stuff I've got on my Tuala-Bus rig in my sig can barely run on here at all.

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Re: Which driver for Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium for Win10/XP?

Posted on 2022-05-14, 00:33

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by mastergamma12

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Daniel K for both.

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Re: [Help]An acceptable Windows XP Gaming System

Posted on 2022-05-05, 08:46

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by mastergamma12

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Tetrium wrote on 2022-05-05, 06:50: mastergamma12 wrote on 2022-05-05, 03:51: If you want to use EAX and have more than 4gb of system ram, avoid XP 64. Is there actually any reason to pick XP64 over XP32 anyway? From my experience, no. On my XP rig, If I need to access more than 2-4gb of ram, I …

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Re: [Help]An acceptable Windows XP Gaming System

Posted on 2022-05-05, 03:51

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by mastergamma12

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If you want to use EAX and have more than 4gb of system ram, avoid XP 64.

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Re: P4 HT 670 / Asus P5P800 / FX5950U + V2 SLI / Audigy 2ZS + Vortex2 + X2GS / Win98

Posted on 2022-04-28, 01:49

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by mastergamma12

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How did you port the drivers? Ended up using a modified version of XP. That worked for me too. I followed your signature links to this page which links to a modified version of Windows XP POSReady 2009: https://www.google.com/search?q=%22Optional+Patch+Integrator+script%22 I now have Windows XP …

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Re: P4 HT 670 / Asus P5P800 / FX5950U + V2 SLI / Audigy 2ZS + Vortex2 + X2GS / Win98

Posted on 2022-04-26, 19:21

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by mastergamma12

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I tried putting together a Z270 based Windows XP system over the weekend and that was a recipe for pure frustration. I mostly tried this since I already had a Z270 system assembled. I was able to get it to install XP, but I couldn't locate drivers for most devices, and it crashed after installing …

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Re: P4 HT 670 / Asus P5P800 / FX5950U + V2 SLI / Audigy 2ZS + Vortex2 + X2GS / Win98

Posted on 2022-04-26, 10:02

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by mastergamma12

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I tried putting together a Z270 based Windows XP system over the weekend and that was a recipe for pure frustration. I mostly tried this since I already had a Z270 system assembled. I was able to get it to install XP, but I couldn't locate drivers for most devices, and it crashed after installing …

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Re: Water-cooling Windows 7 Gaming Rig

Posted on 2022-04-25, 22:46

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by mastergamma12

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Oh that thing looks sweet. I was considering doing GTX 480 SLI on my Windows XP/7 rig but that would've required me to drop either my USB 3 card or my Wifi Card. Funny that you mention that... one of the primary reasons for water-cooling my 480s is to make them single-slot cards. I even got single- …

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Re: Water-cooling Windows 7 Gaming Rig

Posted on 2022-04-25, 02:30

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by mastergamma12

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Oh that thing looks sweet. I was considering doing GTX 480 SLI on my Windows XP/7 rig but that would've required me to drop either my USB 3 card or my Wifi Card.

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Re: Popular games that you don't much care for and why?

Posted on 2022-04-21, 08:57

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by mastergamma12

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I assume "don't much care for" means what it says and not outright hate. Skyrim It's sad to see how entry-by-entry the series got "streamlined" to "increase accessibility" and "achive greater market penetration". It's got to the point where Skyrim is just plain boring. I don't have faith in the …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy2 ZS

Posted on 2022-04-21, 08:47

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by mastergamma12

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Nice rig, I'm also putting together a fast Windows 98 rig with an Opteron 254, an Asus SK8V, 2gb of RDDR 400 using RLoew's patch, an Elsa Gladiac Ultra and a SB Live with working dos audio Cheers! It's rare to see an Opteron in a retro build. That one runs at 2.8 GHz right? I tried using RLoew's …

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Re: Athlon64 3000+ / Asus K8V-MX / GeForce4 / Audigy2 ZS

Posted on 2022-04-20, 23:13

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by mastergamma12

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Nice rig, I'm also putting together a fast Windows 98 rig with an Opteron 254, an Asus SK8V, 2gb of RDDR 400 using RLoew's patch, an Elsa Gladiac Ultra and a SB Live with working dos audio

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Re: Retired build - Athlon64 3700+ / DFI LanParty / 9600GT / X-Fi Titanium

Posted on 2022-04-19, 09:48

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by mastergamma12

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RIP the board.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2022-04-16, 07:33

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by mastergamma12

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Setting up another Windows 98 machine with an Asus SK8V, an AMD Opteron 254, a ELSA Gladiac Ultra and an SB Live, wanted to use a Turtle Beach Santa Cruz but I can't get MPU401 working for Dos games under Windows 98.

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Re: Keep GeForce 4 to cards from dying

Posted on 2022-04-14, 00:21

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by mastergamma12

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.I wonder if they had the same issue as the 9700 Pro that resulted in most of those dying. Nope, R300-R350 chips often die from BGA memory failure, with graphical chip being intact. Regular 4200 had TSOP memory, which is not prone to suddenly lose contact with PCB. But apparently GPU packaging was …

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Re: Keep GeForce 4 to cards from dying

Posted on 2022-04-13, 23:34

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by mastergamma12

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In the past, I had 2 PNY Ti 4200's that both died to artifacting. I wonder if they had the same issue as the 9700 Pro that resulted in most of those dying. Cards looked like this

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Re: Repairing EDID info on a Viewsonic PF790

Posted on 2022-04-13, 21:22

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by mastergamma12

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EDID is normally housed in a small i2c rom. You can try to find that chip and reflash it. Or you can try to intercept the ddc wires and have a microcontroller fake things (which is what some hdmi edid emulators do). DDC/EDID is a comparatively new standard. It only appeared during the time PCI …

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