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Re: How can I test the IDE chipset on a motherboard, any utilities?

Posted on 2021-06-17, 06:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If data integrity of the IDE interface is suspected, I would say go in the BIOS and try to downgrade the performance level. Maybe you can drop it from ATA66 to ATA33, or DMA mode 2, or even PIO. Slow things down and see if it becomes stable. I had to do that for a certain HDD on a Pentium III once. …

Re: PIII + ATI Radeon 9800 proven ATI driver for Windows 2000 OpenGL? and debugging why its not working for my install..

Posted on 2021-05-17, 00:13

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

ruthan wrote on 2021-05-16, 22:16: In both is some strange code end is not searching for atioglxx.dll.dll Did you try to change atioglxx.dll to atioglxx in the registry? Under OpenGLDrivers\ati2dvag\Dll ? Because mine doesn't have the .dll extension:

Re: PIII + ATI Radeon 9800 proven ATI driver for Windows 2000 OpenGL? and debugging why its not working for my install..

Posted on 2021-05-16, 20:15

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

ruthan wrote on 2021-05-16, 18:13: OpenGL device is still pointing to wrong driver.. or needs to be some hook for OpenGL32 to call ATI OpenGL driver, which is not working. OpenGL32.DLL should call LoadLibraryW to load atioglxx.dll. Maybe you can find it with a debugger and check the error code.

Re: PIII + ATI Radeon 9800 proven ATI driver for Windows 2000 OpenGL?

Posted on 2021-05-15, 16:03

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

ruthan wrote on 2021-05-15, 00:38: I tried Blackwingcats drivers, but 9.x and 10.xx seems to support only newer cards Did you try the Radeon Legacy drivers? http://blog.livedoor.jp/blackwingcat/archives/967121.html I used one of these (can't remember if it was 9.8 or 10.2) with an X1300 and it …

Re: Windows 3.1 max requirements

Posted on 2021-05-15, 15:44

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I remember somebody analyzing windows drivers for timing loop issues when run on faster machines. He found that even in Win3.1x it has a very similar issue to the k6 bug in Win95. It might be in a specific version, like Win3.1 or Win3.11 or WFW. But I can't remember the name of who did this, but it …

Re: Hp Vectra VE 4/100 to 5x86 133mhz but slow mem performance

Posted on 2021-05-15, 15:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nicely done. With a different config_addr I guess it could work for other chips too that use PCI config registers.

Re: Windows 3.1 max requirements

Posted on 2021-05-14, 14:27

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I used to run Win 3.1 on a Cyrix MII-300 with 32MB RAM, S3 Trio64, and the motherboard's C-Media sound

Re: V.90 or V.92 56k Serial Modem w/ DOS, WFW 3.11, Win98 support

Posted on 2021-05-14, 14:12

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Shouldn't any external serial modem work under any OS? Only Winmodems needed a driver, and they were internal (or perhaps on Cardbus card) Dial-up did have one advantage over the internet: peer-to-peer. Everybody with a phone line had a phone number. Everybody with an internet connection does NOT …

Re: Is it possible to do a linux dd in Windows?

Posted on 2021-05-10, 13:05

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Wouldn't a sector editor do the same thing as dd?

Re: How to Run Cinebench 2003, which Calls for SSE Instructions from the GPU Driver, on CPUs without SSE?

Posted on 2021-04-30, 23:54

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Short of going in with a debugger and identifying the exact code path that crashes, I'm thinking that one solution might be to drop an OPENGL32.DLL from a software renderer into the cinebench directory so that the nvidia opengl doesn't get called. Search for DarkGL and give that a try.

Re: Hp Vectra VE 4/100 to 5x86 133mhz but slow mem performance

Posted on 2021-04-27, 00:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

just tried TweakBIOS v1.53c. Unfortunately it says "Checking for supported BIOS... Not supported." while starting. It then only shows settings for an AGP device it somehow claims to have found? LOL, maybe it is too buggy. That version does have a file called SIS496.DAT though doesn't it? Do you …

P-ST8 utility for Win32 on AMD CPUs 10h, 15h

Posted on 2021-04-23, 01:13

in Release Announcements

in Release Announcements

I want to run Windows 2000 on a socket FM2+ system so I needed a program to handle CPU power management, overclocking, and whatnot. So I made one. http://www.hyakushiki.net/misc/p-st8.zip It was tested on an Athlon X4 760K (Richland) and on an Athlon II X2 280 (Regor) on Windows 2000 with extended …

Re: Hp Vectra VE 4/100 to 5x86 133mhz but slow mem performance

Posted on 2021-04-20, 23:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Try to get the old TweakBIOS utility... I think it has support for Sis496 so you can fix the memory timings after booting and regain the performance.

Re: Use ESS1868 IDE port for hard disk in 286 with MFM support only?

Posted on 2021-04-16, 13:47

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, you don't need the XT-IDE interface card but just the XT-IDE BIOS: http://www.xtideuniversalbios.org/ With that you should be able to use the sound card or any other card with an IDE interface. You just need somewhere to place the BIOS ROM (eg. an ethernet card with socket)

Re: dual boot attempt: invalid boot.ini ntdetect failed

Posted on 2021-04-07, 17:07

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Did the same thing even after creating a separate FAT32 partition. But then I remembered that my laptop with the bum CPU fan has the exact setup that I was trying to acheive here. It shipped with Win7, then I shrunk the partition, created a separate FAT32, installed Win98 DOS on there, and then …

dual boot attempt: invalid boot.ini ntdetect failed

Posted on 2021-04-03, 01:44

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I borrowed an HDD from a system with Win7 installed to try out a motherboard I recently acquired. Win7 detected the new hardware and came up fine. I also wanted to take another crack at running Win2000 on it, but without using a separate drive for it because the board only has SATA ports, no IDE, …

Re: Golden age of computing for personal computers

Posted on 2021-04-02, 22:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

1985-2005: Rapid advancement, falling prices, many choices, and the customer was actually the customer rather than the product.

Re: OPN music on an ISA sound card?

Posted on 2021-03-24, 18:49

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Interfacing OPN to the ISA bus is quite simple, most of the circuitry on the card would be for the audio. It would be pretty similar to an Adlib card, even using the same Y3012 DAC, the only difference is the need to mix in the SSG sound. OPNA would be more complicated since it is meant to have …

Re: Graphic card underclocking questions, memory bandwidth DDR2 vs DDR3

Posted on 2021-03-24, 18:20

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So just by underclocking DDR3 with worse timings, will be performance slightly worse? Yes, I think you are correct here. The timings at 700MHz would be looser than at 400MHz.

Re: OPN music on an ISA sound card?

Posted on 2021-03-22, 16:14

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

YM2203 is right at home on an 8-bit ISA card. OPN/OPM family generally sound a lot different than OPL. I can't think of any soundtrack for one that might be mistaken as coming from the other. Maybe the OPL3 4-op mode would sound similar but it's hardly used and still lacks detune and some of the …

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