Re: What Is the Best Way to Creating a Windows XP/98 Dual Booting Environment?

Posted on 2018-01-07, 11:59

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by schmatzler

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I always do it like this: 1. I create a FreeDOS USB drive with Rufus and copy a newer fdisk with support for bigger harddisks on it afterwards. 2. I boot from the USB drive with PloP on a CD . 3. Now I run fdisk to create two primary partitions . One for 98SE, one for XP. I mark the first one as …

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Re: Coolers for older graphics cards.

Posted on 2018-01-04, 21:16

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by schmatzler

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Might not be enough for a Radeon X800, but I recently upgraded my GeForce 4 Ti4200 with a fanless Zalman ZM80A-HP. It's a pretty big beast and takes up an additional PCI slot, but I can't hear it. Paired with a BeQuiet! power supply and a CPU fan with throttle control it makes up for a very low …

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Re: GeForce 4 MX 460 not working on Apollo Pro 133A

Posted on 2017-12-23, 13:30

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by schmatzler

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My final update to this thread: The new power supply has resolved my problems and the GeForce 4 MX460 is working fine. Though the fan on the MX460 was completely broken. It was slowly turning and making a lot of noise - I replaced it with a passive cooler from an MX440 and the card can handle it …

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Re: Good ISA Soundcard for Win98 regular and DOS modes

Posted on 2017-12-22, 13:36

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by schmatzler

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I bought an OPTi 82C929A MAD16 Pro card and it's just excellent. The drivers are very modern (GUI with mouse) and it even supports Windows Sound System in pure DOS mode. I just bought it because of this review by philscomputerlab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okxN4GVLJRI

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Re: Windows XP graphics card recommendation?

Posted on 2017-12-22, 07:16

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by schmatzler

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I wouldn't buy a new GT730 anymore, with its successor - the GT1030 - being out for a while now.

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Re: Do you need an original IDE CD-ROM drive?

Posted on 2017-12-21, 23:44

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by schmatzler

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idspispopd wrote: That's why you should slow down such drives through software. For DOS you can use CDBeQuiet!. For Windows 9x there are several tools AFAIK. CDBremse (German for "CD Brake") is a very useful tool: http://ulrichhanke.de/16/CDBremse.html

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Re: Windows XP graphics card recommendation?

Posted on 2017-12-21, 23:32

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by schmatzler

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BeginnerGuy wrote: Nice! Any chance you have borderlands (2009) and can test that? I have played Borderlands with maximum details on 1680x1050 with that card and it's never dropping frames. I imagine it can even go higher, but I don't have a better monitor. The GT730 is more than suitable for that …

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Re: Most frustrating part of working on old computers?

Posted on 2017-12-20, 02:18

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by schmatzler

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Modern power supplies on old ATX boards. Even a beefy one might not have enough power to drive the hardware.

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Re: GeForce 4 MX 460 not working on Apollo Pro 133A

Posted on 2017-12-19, 17:43

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by schmatzler

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Just a quick update: I bought another card, a passively cooled GeForce 4 MX 440 and while that one boots up, it displays graphical errors and the power supply produces a very loud humming sound with that card. Guess that solves the mystery without a doubt, then. My current power supply is rated 16A …

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Re: GeForce 4 MX 460 not working on Apollo Pro 133A

Posted on 2017-12-19, 01:44

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by schmatzler

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Yes, it does work with a GeForce 2MX.

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Re: GeForce 4 MX 460 not working on Apollo Pro 133A

Posted on 2017-12-19, 01:22

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by schmatzler

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I have already flashed the latest BIOS for my mainboard. But I'm beginning to think that the card may be tripping the power supply. When the computer is in idle, the power supply is producing a very high pitched noise that is barely audible. It has a sticker listing +5V standby on it and no Off- …

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Re: Windows XP graphics card recommendation?

Posted on 2017-12-18, 20:36

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by schmatzler

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Thanks guys. I got a good deal on a brand new GT730 on Amazon so I went with that. Was less than half the price I could find a 750TI for, new or used, so I'm happy. I'm only driving 1024x768 so it ought to be powerful enough and I won't worry about fan noise since it doesn't have one. The GT730 is …

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Re: Can anyone tell me a little about Terratec 512i?

Posted on 2017-12-18, 20:30

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by schmatzler

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According to Amazon the card is based on a ForteMedia FM801 chipset. DOS, 9x and NT drivers for that card are available here: http://www.hwdrivers.com/ftp/fd_-slash-Audio-slash-Forte_Media-slash-FM801-slash-.html The FM801 has the advantage, that the DOS drivers might still work on newer …

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Re: DVD Movies on Windows 98: More trouble than it's worth??

Posted on 2017-12-18, 20:13

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by schmatzler

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K-Lite Codec Pack 3.4.5 should be enough to play all kinds of file formats directly in Windows Media Player. It's the last version still supported by Windows 98/ME. https://web.archive.org/web/20141116072239/ht … klcodec345f.exe

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GeForce 4 MX 460 not working on Apollo Pro 133A

Posted on 2017-12-18, 18:58

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by schmatzler

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Hello Vogon users, I decided to upgrade the GeForce 2MX in my board (GA6VXC74X) with a Geforce 4MX 460, but I cannot get this card to boot up. The model of the card is the one that philscomputerlab made a video about here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qWvc94DjJE The card itself works fine in …

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Re: Suddenly can't edit posts anymore?

Posted on 2017-12-16, 02:23

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by schmatzler

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it sure would be sad if one told Disney about how this site is using their IP without permission That sounds like something my 10 year old nephew would say if I refused to give him what he wants. :D I hope the mods at least get a few good laughs out of this drama. :cool: Regarding fake e-mails, …

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Re: PCI sound cards and Chipsets from various manufacturers...

Posted on 2017-12-16, 02:08

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by schmatzler

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Fortemedia FM801 It uses a proprietary technology to ensure compatibility, but it's not as compatible as ESS' TDMA. It uses about 1.8K of base memory, but many programs would crash with runtime errors or something, especially on my K8T890-based motherboards. I can confirm that some games don't like …

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

Posted on 2017-12-16, 01:53

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by schmatzler

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I wanted to play some DOS games today, but didn't get any sound out of them with my SoundBlaster Live! Value card. The DOS emulation driver loads up fine, but it just doesn't work on my Apollo Pro board. It does on an old Socket 7 board, so I guess the newer board is just incompatible and doesn't …

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Re: Suddenly can't edit posts anymore?

Posted on 2017-12-15, 11:22

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by schmatzler

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Then how about just restoring the posts that were deleted, locking them and issuing a warning? Vogons do have a dual database backup system like facebook right? I believe the latest versions of phpBB keep an edit history, so if someone deletes all characters from a post, the post is still there in …

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

Posted on 2017-12-14, 20:52

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by schmatzler

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Today's just been one of those days. I came back home from work and wanted to play a bit of Homeworld on my Apollo Pro board (GA6VXC74X). It didn't POST. Great. So I opened it up and checked if maybe something got loose and reseated all of the connectors. Still didn't POST. I put it out of the ATX …

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