Re: Need some driver help with a Windows 98 SE Build

Posted on 2020-11-12, 09:37

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by BushLin

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Also do I technically even need to install the onboard sound drivers just because I will not be using anything going into the mb because the soundblaster itself will be hooked in with the drivers for that. In a word, no. You could install the drivers and disable the device perhaps if you were …

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Re: Need some driver help with a Windows 98 SE Build

Posted on 2020-11-12, 01:22

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by BushLin

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Also guys do I need service packs for se or anything like that? I would avoid unofficial "service packs" which often involves replacing system files with those from later Windows versions to enable features you probably don't need. Perhaps mass storage drivers / USB 2.0 support could be handy. Down …

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Re: Need some driver help with a Windows 98 SE Build

Posted on 2020-11-11, 20:32

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by BushLin

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Also guys do I need service packs for se or anything like that? I would avoid unofficial "service packs" which often involves replacing system files with those from later Windows versions to enable features you probably don't need. Perhaps mass storage drivers / USB 2.0 support could be handy. Down …

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Re: Win98SE poor network/ide performance on fast system

Posted on 2020-11-11, 20:00

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by BushLin

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Have you installed the chipset drivers and enabled DMA in Device Manager? 60MB/s isn't indicative of a hardware issue and Windows 98 is plenty fast for working with files if the setup isn't garbage.

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Re: Win XP - Raid 0 SSD

Posted on 2020-11-11, 18:17

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by BushLin

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Have tried 2 and 4 disk RAID 0 arrays on various XP systems. Sequential throughput is limited by the controller. P45/ICH10R chipset maxes out around 500MB/s. Z68/Z77 gets to somewhere around 1GB/s.

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Re: Win98SE poor network/ide performance on fast system

Posted on 2020-11-11, 18:11

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by BushLin

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Make sure you have the blue end of the IDE cable plugged into the motherboard. Listen for a high pitched clicking noise from your HDD, you may have a "deathstar" GXP60 Try another disk anyway if you have one.

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Re: Need some driver help with a Windows 98 SE Build

Posted on 2020-11-11, 18:08

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by BushLin

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For your graphics card, the 45.23 drivers are regarded as the best for Windows 98. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/win9x-4523/

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Re: What to do with a Laserjet ?

Posted on 2020-08-19, 09:35

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by BushLin

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The Laserjet 5 are old enough to have drivers for old versions of windows and more likely to work on old DOS applications, plenty of people on this very forum would highly value such a printer. If there's an issue with a pickup roller (picking paper up from the tray) they're the cheapest part to …

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Re: Compatibility questions - Socket 775 w/ 865G chipset

Posted on 2020-08-16, 19:37

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by BushLin

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For post 2001-ish stuff I have GTX750TI on a third generation Core I3 running XP . Funnily enough, the last XP drivers for the GPU give a black screen over DVI on my 2018 vintage Acer EB321HQ 1080p monitor . I had to roll back a few versions to get something that worked . Did you try the final XP …

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Re: Compatibility questions - Socket 775 w/ 865G chipset

Posted on 2020-08-16, 19:01

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by BushLin

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Btw, for reference, my Win10 machine has an i5-4690K (Haswell) CPU and a GTX 960 GPU on a Z97 motherboard - mid-high end for 2015, when I built it. I could be wrong (and please correct me if I am), but I suspect it’s at least hardware -compatible with pretty much anything post-WinXP (other than …

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Re: Compatibility questions - Socket 775 w/ 865G chipset

Posted on 2020-08-16, 16:39

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by BushLin

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Are there any games that wouldn’t be playable on WinXP with a Core 2 Duo and an FX5900 that also wouldn’t be playable on Win10? I can’t think of any offhand. Test Drive Unlimited stumped me on Windows 7, only runs on XP and would suck on an FX5900, if it ran at all, if it did it would be stressed …

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Re: Compatibility questions - Socket 775 w/ 865G chipset

Posted on 2020-08-16, 15:28

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by BushLin

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I run such a setup. A 800Mhz FSB (200Mhz QDR) CPU can be taken down to 1.2Ghz; in DOS, you might start seeing freaky things start to happen above 2Ghz on things like Sierra games. I can't talk for implementions on other boards but the 775i65 support for 1066Mhz FSB is a fudge which performs worse …

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Re: ATI 9600 Pro vs. FX5600 full screen / resolution issues on Win98

Posted on 2020-08-15, 11:33

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by BushLin

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Try the 45.23 driver having uninstalled the old one first, generally regarded as the best performing under Win98 too. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/win9x-4523/ That was the first one I tried. I also installed 61.76, 53.04 and 56.64 for sure, can't remember if I tried with 71.84 as well. …

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Re: Super Duper printers

Posted on 2020-08-15, 10:41

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by BushLin

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... They are just easy to use. Once you learn how to set them up properly. I was lucky that I worked for a computer education center that taught me allot about the HP printers and setting them up. ... Do you mean HP are great and easy when you can lean on the experience of seeing various models …

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Re: The best Sound Blaster Live! for Windows 98 gaming

Posted on 2020-08-15, 10:02

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by BushLin

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There are Win98 drivers for the Audigy 2 ZS also.

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Re: ATI 9600 Pro vs. FX5600 full screen / resolution issues on Win98

Posted on 2020-08-15, 10:00

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by BushLin

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Try the 45.23 driver having uninstalled the old one first, generally regarded as the best performing under Win98 too. https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/win9x-4523/

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Re: Super Duper printers

Posted on 2020-08-15, 09:42

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by BushLin

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The usual rule of thumb is Epson for inkjets and Brother for laser. High end HP laser printers can be alright but are huge things designed for heavy office use, however, they all have the same support... ... Dude in an Indian call center, reading a script you can get from their website, they can't …

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Best Geforce driver for Windows 2000?

Posted on 2020-08-10, 19:41

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by BushLin

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Please could you share your personal experiences of Windows 2000 Geforce drivers, which one(s) you prefer and why? I'm wondering if it's best to stick with drivers which officially support W2K (somewhere around 169.21 to 182.50) limiting you to something like a Geforce 8800... or... Is the effective …

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Re: what SSD for XP ?

Posted on 2020-08-04, 19:58

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by BushLin

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kasfruit wrote on 2020-08-04, 15:05: but didn't know anything about the 950 which is by the way one out of the few rare drives with OPTION ROM so I can even get the NVME version for a legacy BIOS (not UEFI) based mobo. The 950 option is interesting, very interesting, but do you know if you can boot …

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Re: what SSD for XP ?

Posted on 2020-08-04, 19:53

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by BushLin

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.. [*] Overprovision the drive by leaving some space unpartitioned. I recommend around 25% unused space, but if you're using a drive larger than 250GB you would probably be fine with less. SSD over-provisioning is a feature found on high end drives (e.g. available on Samsung Pro but not Evo models) …

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