Re: Anyway to Change Monitor Type Shown in Nvidia Control Panel?

Posted on Today, 12:14

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AFAIK, the limit for digital refresh rates above 85Hz is a driver issue + XP issue, or one of those things on their own. Whether anyone ever came up with a solution has not been made apparent to me.

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Re: Anyway to Change Monitor Type Shown in Nvidia Control Panel?

Posted on 2021-01-23, 04:17

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...Driver 352.86 officially supports the 900 series except the 980 ti, as it was released prior to the launch of the 980 ti... You need to INF mod the driver like this: https://mattpilz.com/windows-xp-drivers-nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-980-980-ti-titan-x/ I already tried that, and although the card …

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

Posted on 2021-01-16, 17:17

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Are all memtest86 errors "very bad" and likely to cause crashes when using a PC? Test 7 Error confidence value 163 Lowest to highest address 518.9MB to 601.9MB 1 bit in error. I have 4x 512mb DDR1 installed. That makes me think it's stick 2. It's a dual channel board So I am not sure how that …

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

Posted on 2020-12-27, 13:31

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Spitz wrote on 2020-12-27, 12:16: Well ... I bought another retro PC ... My wife is surely gonna make me homeless now 🙁 I heard if you buy enough retro machines, you can stack them up on top of each other to create a rudimentary hut. 😜

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

Posted on 2020-12-25, 16:30

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by the_ultra_code

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Doing some S478 water-cooled OCing today. See how far I can safely push these chips (I'll stop at about 1.6V Vcore in OS at idle - that seems to be a safe max voltage on water for my Netburst and Core CPUs). Merry Christmas!

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

Posted on 2020-12-20, 18:40

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by the_ultra_code

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AFAIK, Nvidia FX cards only suck in DX9 games. Their legacy DX8.1 and prior performance is still good.

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Re: A (Very Short) Guide to Having USB 2.0 in Windows 98 SE with a NEC-Chipset USB 2.0 PCI Card

Posted on 2020-12-19, 18:47

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by the_ultra_code

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1. from my txt file spec, i'm not sure, is it usb 1.1 or 2.0 that i have in my system? If we are talking about Slot 1, the motherboard will have USB 1 ports, but that NEC card is USB 2. 2. it connect to usb flash drive no problem. but when i connect it to smartphone cable data, it can't do data …

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Re: How Do I Remove These Big Blobs of Solder?

Posted on 2020-12-14, 20:27

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by the_ultra_code

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Great, but have you soldered back the Stack cool? :D God no. I wanted it off. It adds unnecessary extra motherboard thickness for my Noctua cooler's mounting bracket to deal with, and if I want to replace capacitors it'd make it difficult. It'll never go back on, ever. If that was a joke, though, …

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

Posted on 2020-12-14, 17:13

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Only thing I'm missing is an I/O shield for my motherboard. If anyone has one they'd be willing to give to me, let me know. :) I don't know where you are, but there is one on eBay that isn't expensive and has free shipping to at least EU and USA. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/170959618740 Bought it …

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

Posted on 2020-12-14, 16:09

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by the_ultra_code

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Just finished rebuilding my Pentium 4 machine. Same CPU (Pentium 4 672) as before, but: New motherboard + RAM (Asus P5AD2-E Deluxe + 4GB Crucial DDR2-533 RAM) New GPU (PNY Nvidia GeForce 7950GT) New CPU cooler (Noctua U9B) I sacrificed flawless Win9X compatibility for better performance. Anyways, …

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Re: How Do I Remove These Big Blobs of Solder?

Posted on 2020-12-14, 16:02

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by the_ultra_code

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Back. Been a while. So I finally bought myself a new Hakko soldering station as well as a tunnel tip for it that would reach both ends of the inductors and the blobs of solder on their ends holding that Stack Cool PCB to them. https://i.imgur.com/JlyvfL5l.jpg It was a rather janky process, but I was …

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Re: A (Very Short) Guide to Having USB 2.0 in Windows 98 SE with a NEC-Chipset USB 2.0 PCI Card

Posted on 2020-12-08, 08:19

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by the_ultra_code

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yo man you still alive n kickin! thanks for replying. i already install nusb package but it didnt work. only one driver missing. its the PCI COMMUNICATION DEVICE driver. i try looking for it in the internet right now. do you know anything about it? *i'll burn installation cd as a last resort. …

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

Posted on 2020-12-07, 13:30

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by the_ultra_code

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I prefer my drives to be easily swapped so for a SATA SSD I'd either have to buy a SATA IDE adapter to use it in my current HDD rack or buy a new SATA drive bay. An IDE drive is just around 5$ or less and I'm also concerned about the wear on the SSD under Windows XP even if most people say it's not …

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

Posted on 2020-12-07, 11:09

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by the_ultra_code

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The only had 2 issues. 1. The 80GB hard drive is a little small. I'm left with 17GB free space and there are still a couple of games I'd like to add. Maybe I should buy a 160GB one. 2. I had a CRC error on SW:KOTOR disc1 which is weird because my Lenovo could install it with no issue and that one …

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

Posted on 2020-11-27, 20:43

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by the_ultra_code

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wiretap wrote on 2020-11-27, 17:26: The user manual says to use only 2 DIMMs when using DDR400, or else you can get unstable performance. Try 4 DIMMs of slower RAM and see if it works. I tried running the RAM at 333Mhz, no die.

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

Posted on 2020-11-27, 00:56

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by the_ultra_code

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Before updating your bios, you didnt had any problem?? Try to flash the older bios back and hope on the best. And if you trying the use a BETA bios, be aware that not al BETA bioses are working flawless. Best is the keep on the original releases if you can, because those where getting tested by the …

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Re: A (Very Short) Guide to Having USB 2.0 in Windows 98 SE with a NEC-Chipset USB 2.0 PCI Card

Posted on 2020-11-26, 18:40

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inondesia wrote on 2020-11-25, 02:32: my question = do we still need to provide installation cd? cause i don't have it. Um... no, I don't believe so. I'd think that the NUSB package would contain all of the drivers you need. Not sure though. If you need a replacement install CD, head over to …

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

Posted on 2020-11-26, 18:38

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by the_ultra_code

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Finished cleaning and updating the BIOS on my Asus A7V880 Socket A motherboard, and I've run into a weird issue. https://i.imgur.com/Nxu8H4Rl.jpg I get this error from a "slow boot" (i.e. not a Quick Boot) when I populate all 4 DIMM slots on the motherboard with 1GB sticks of DDR-400 (I've tried …

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Re: How Do I Remove These Big Blobs of Solder?

Posted on 2020-11-21, 23:04

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by the_ultra_code

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You can try adding the flux directly onto the wick, it won't hurt anything. Hakko FX-600 is 50 watts and that might be way too low for wicking out the solder here, because that coil is connected to huge ground and power planes, which act like a heatsink and are sucking all the heat. So even if you …

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

Posted on 2020-11-21, 22:24

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by the_ultra_code

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I've been kinda sitting on this task for too long. Now is a good time for me to stop being lazy and update it already. :| I never updated a bios using floppies. So I've been kicking the can. Don't fret. It's ez. Create a bootable DOS floppy disk (from 9x works), throw onto the disk Asus's AFUDOS …

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