Re: DMA Mode check does not stick in Windows 98SE?

Posted on 2021-04-04, 22:45

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

bloodem that is definitely not a BIOS issue, that is HDDs newer than UDMA33 (most of them) working properly only at their native UDMA 66/100 or PIO. That is true for Seagate and IBM drives. That's also half of famous W98 shutdown bug. Because of that many people suggest using third party …

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Re: ASUS P2B-D - XP/2000 Setup Blue Screen and Weirdness

Posted on 2021-02-13, 17:40

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

IDE could be a problem, since BX only UDMA33 and most newer HDDs may have DMA CRC errors , but if you have W98 with DMA transfers and it working without issues like painful slowdowns or file system errors, problem should be elsewhere. External UDMA100/133 or SCSI card (+HDD) is good to have if not …

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Re: CD/DVD drive selection for Win 98 SE build....does it matter?

Posted on 2021-01-11, 23:55

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Old drives let's say CD-ROM upto 24x and CD-RW upto 12/8/32 may be very picky then coexist with other devices on same channel and have troubles with transfer modes past MWDMA/PIO4.

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Re: ASUS rising prices

Posted on 2021-01-11, 20:39

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Prices are high and so is the demand at the moment so that's not going to change anytime soon. Unless you are some power user or always want to play AAA titles maxed out on 4k, you can still have a enjoyable PC experience with hardware from 5 to even 10 years ago. I've been looking into the newer …

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Re: ASUS rising prices

Posted on 2021-01-10, 02:54

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In desktop graphics cards: selling lesser quantities for more $ per unit seems to have been the general market tactic (necessity?) for a couple of decades now. It's been a sound business strategy in an era of declining desktop PC popularity. Buoyed by the loyal AAA gaming cadre and the burgeoning …

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Re: Distorted audio in certain games with X-fi (win2k/winxp)

Posted on 2020-12-10, 14:02

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in Marvin \ Sound

Suggestions... Yamaha or Aureal, or even semi professional cards like ESI/M-Audio if you not interested in EAX, thats IMO, because to my ears early 3D or positional sound mostly produce strange sound, but later software engines used by devs produce very accurate and pleasing sound stage. But... …

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Re: Distorted audio in certain games with X-fi (win2k/winxp)

Posted on 2020-12-07, 03:30

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Creative cards know to have problems with wrong PCI latency. Maybe with ID engines you have too tight data transfers to VooDoo so it affects SB performance. IRQ is irrelevant with ACPI and XP, OS using "virtual" IRQs.

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Re: Strange issue with Jetway l401-R motherboard, black screen after hour of use.

Posted on 2020-12-07, 03:09

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yep, those cards some times set very high refresh frequency during cold boot and in about 100 cycles it killed flyback transformer.

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Re: Strange issue with Jetway l401-R motherboard, black screen after hour of use.

Posted on 2020-11-25, 00:27

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Maybe too modern display and unsupported video mode. I seen strange behavior with cheap MX440 and 9250 cards, once they even manage to kill testbed 19" Diamondtron (don't get me wrong, 2010 and dealing with old stuff like 478 P4).

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Re: Windows 95 vs Windows 98

Posted on 2020-11-04, 04:14

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Pentium II-300 and lower with 128MB RAM and lower = W95, from software point of view Direct X3/5 = W95 W98 is nice, but with all patches, DX6+ and so on is better for PIII systems with 256MB RAM

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Re: Pentium II build for replacing an Pentium 233MMX system

Posted on 2020-11-02, 03:00

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

And i might consider SCSI as well, because i dont like that UDMA 33 controller. Should really be UDMA 66 at least. An Scsi U160 36gb will probably do 80MB/sec on such a board. You overestimate CPU and RAM speed capabilities in saturating PCI bus and not fully understand how SCSI work, besides the …

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Re: Best external disc drives?

Posted on 2020-11-01, 18:27

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In my experience laptop drives made after ~2003 lives much longer than conventional 5.25 models. And slot loader models if that is not SCSI Pioneers even worse, especialy Plextor (i have 3 716 external USB/FW) and all of them scratch discs upon insertion or injecting.

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Re: Pentium II build for replacing an Pentium 233MMX system

Posted on 2020-11-01, 02:04

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As i remember after 1997 you wouldn't find many CPU sensitive games, one comes in mind Motoracer, which run too fast on 200MHz and above. So IMHO PII-233 is straight replacement for regular Pentium MMX with some benefits like AGP and better RAM speed, if you want faster system you may use PIII up to …

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Re: Downgrade BIOS on TUSL2-C from Windows

Posted on 2020-11-01, 01:34

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For flashing BIOS i use separate bootable HDD with just DOS stripped from 98SE and some DOS based utilities for partitioning, diagnoctics, etc.

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Re: Intel SE440BX-2 ("Seattle") & IRQ 9

Posted on 2020-10-30, 05:00

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boxpressed wrote on 2016-09-25, 18:52: IRQ 12 and 15 do not work with the Maui in my BX, by the way. Only IRQ 5. But one IRQ is all you need. IRQ12 - PS/2 mouse IRQ15 - second IDE channel if you disable that, it will work with such IRQs

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Re: what hardware were you using in 1999?

Posted on 2020-10-30, 01:41

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

built in 1998 K6-2/333 LS 5MVP3 64MB Ram Matrox G200 8M ESS 1869 4.3GB Seagate + 2.1GB Fujitsu HDDs (this one from old P-166 system) Teac 24x CD-ROM AT case 15" Viewsonic G series monitor in second half of the year 1999 CPU > Pentium 2-300@450 (used OEM from Siemens Workstation) Mobo > Chaintech …

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Re: SOHO-FAST/RE NIC drivers for Windows 98?

Posted on 2020-10-30, 01:29

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

according to picture that is Realtek, one of the 8139 probably, look at main chip

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Re: Nvidia nForce 2 & ATI Catalyst Stable Driver Combination for XP?

Posted on 2020-10-17, 10:51

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As i remember most trouble free drivers for this generation of Radeons was something like 6.10-6.12, but i was on intel platform, so that's mostly in terms of visual glitches, missing or garbage textures, general ability to work with semi- and professional software. Q3 is OpenGL, others i assume D3D …

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Re: performance benefit of dual-channel memory (or not)

Posted on 2020-10-12, 01:34

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

You will see difference in compilation, databases, VMs, archiving, etc, not in "rendering", because this things usually optimized for small memory footprint and with chunks of data matching cache lines. Some games past ~2012 have advantages when using dual-triple-quad channel memory.

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Re: Most compatible early 00's AGP cards for a Windows 98 build with a picky motherboard

Posted on 2020-10-11, 18:49

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I think replacing VIA with i815 would be more appropriate, it saves you from troubles searching for videocard. Coppermine boards still cheap and plenty.

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