Re: Compaq Premier Sound ES1869 ISA - Genius Sound Maker SM32 PCI - conflicting in Windows98SE?

Posted on 2023-08-30, 04:58

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Wish I could help but know next to nothing about running 2 sound cards at same time and not sure why any one would unless they are dedicating one to a Roland midi device, sorry am tired and brain ain't working ;p Hi Horun, thanks for the reply. I was under the impression that PCI cards are better …

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Compaq Premier Sound ES1869 ISA - Genius Sound Maker SM32 PCI - conflicting in Windows98SE?

Posted on 2023-08-30, 02:45

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Hello everyone, I recently got a Compaq Premier Sound ESS AudioDrive 1869 ISA card to complete a build made out of extra hardware that I had around. I also had a Genius Sound Maker SM32 PCI that I wanted to try out as it has a Crystal CS4280 and I was curious to see how it would perform. Plus …

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

Posted on 2023-08-24, 20:49

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Good thing I did this too, I found a load of corrosion on the Trident 8900CL-B card's RAMDAC that caused the display to go all crazy. It turns out this is also a fast ISA card once the 0-wait states setting is enabled, pretty good for a VGA card that can do 8-bit too. IMG_1750 (Custom).JPG Had been …

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

Posted on 2023-08-23, 16:44

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Hello, could you please specify the jumper you changed to enable 0-wait states on the card? I have a Trident Quadtel TVGA8900CL 1MB 16-bit ISA but didn't find a jumper for that option in the manual. Thanks! Maybe here? Oh wow never actually managed to find that manual, thank you! I only got the …

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

Posted on 2023-08-23, 15:32

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Well the 3rd 9700 Pro arrived, same story as the others, massive artifacting. Refunded. I give up, I actually don't think there are any working 9700 Pro cards left in the wild. Unless I find a fellow enthusiast selling one, this is clearly a waste of time. They're from probably early in the lead- …

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Re: ISA and PCI Soundcards in Windows 98SE - how do you do it?

Posted on 2023-08-16, 15:07

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Sorry for the bump but I'd like to know from your experiences, PCI soundcard hurdles aside, do I need to install the ISA soundcard in Windows 98SE or is it enough to point the DOS games to the card through setup? Is plug and play a helpful feature or should I look for a ISA soundcard without it? …

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Re: ISA and PCI Soundcards in Windows 98SE - how do you do it?

Posted on 2023-08-15, 00:09

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Hmm the Sound Blaster SB0410 is actually part of the Audigy family, a variant of SB0400 Audigy 2 Value. There were never any Win9x drivers ever released by Creative, just WinME and above as it was targeted for XP. This topic may help with getting it to work under Win98SE but not sure how that goes …

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ISA and PCI Soundcards in Windows 98SE - how do you do it?

Posted on 2023-08-14, 21:20

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Hello everyone, As the title says, I've been watching for some time many of your builds with several soundcards working, with no conflicts. But now I'm in a situation where I actually have to learn how it's done, my research left me confused still. I've been gathering some unsalvageable parts from …

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Re: Tualatin board with SB-Link connector

Posted on 2023-08-14, 20:55

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Did anyone in the meantime found out if it's compatible with Tualatin CPUs? Out of box - Nope. I don`t know any matherboard with Mendocino+Copermine&Tualatin support. Mendo+Copper ot Cu-mine+Tualatin. QDI#9 is first of its. But there is nothing complicated in real life. Tualatin already with an …

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Re: CRT experience

Posted on 2023-08-13, 14:55

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You have to remember a CRT is a hot box with precision resistors and capacitors degrading over time, a small deviation from there desired values causes problems. In addition to solder joints going bad from heating and cooling. Sony was early to embrace digital CRT chassis and continued to heavily …

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Re: Tualatin board with SB-Link connector

Posted on 2023-08-13, 00:32

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Look at the QDI Advance 9 (Via chipset and has PC-PCI) The manual doesn't specifically say that it supports Tualatins, but it might have been added in a later BIOS version. • Intel® 815 chipset: This chipset contains the 82815 GMCH and 82801AA ICH. This combo supports PC-PCI / SB-Link per the …

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Re: What do you do with hardware that you don't need (cases, monitors, drives, etc.)

Posted on 2023-08-10, 20:34

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On a little side note, it was curious for me to recently note that more and more people that I know of around me, as well as other collectors and even youTube related collectors are deciding to actively sell most if not all their retro collections, or just retro stuff - let alone dealing with …

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Re: How do I access the bearing to oil it? - Sapphire Radeon 2600XT

Posted on 2023-08-07, 15:26

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shevalier wrote on 2023-08-06, 06:55: You can write DOS on CD-R Oh that's good to know, thanks, will try it again when I have the time for sure!

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Re: How do I access the bearing to oil it? - Sapphire Radeon 2600XT

Posted on 2023-08-05, 22:44

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IIRC, FreeDos and FAT32 is good for AtiFlash. You may try first "AtiFlash -i" to identify card and flash chip "AtiFlash -i" in ATiWinFlash ends up like the other commands, abrupt restart and back to XP with "recovered from serious error". I'll retry via FreeDos boot when I have the time. My Asus …

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Re: How do I access the bearing to oil it? - Sapphire Radeon 2600XT

Posted on 2023-08-05, 17:54

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ATIflash.exe -unlockrom 0 ATIflash.exe -f -p 0 mb.rom Worked ati_ WIN _flash I can`t find. After many hiccups I decided to try AtiWinFlash and it was working per se, but I think that the original BIOS in the card is still locked. It started flashing and then restarted by itself and rebooted to XP …

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Re: How do I access the bearing to oil it? - Sapphire Radeon 2600XT

Posted on 2023-08-04, 20:32

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Informative video, I didn't know those types of fans could be disassembled. Not all. On the video - non-separable, because the brass bushing is torn out. The impeller, which is discussed in the topic, due to the split retaining ring, the impeller pops out without a brass bushing. how do I oil it up …

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Re: How do I access the bearing to oil it? - Sapphire Radeon 2600XT

Posted on 2023-08-04, 18:24

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Can I remove both halves without destroying it? Stick your all fingers between the turbine (yep, it's not a fan) and the base and push them in until the turbine pops out. Do not use tools, only fingers. Otherwise you will break impeller. like this video https://youtu.be/opB5Je1oqpA?t=59 Only at the …

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Re: How do I access the bearing to oil it? - Sapphire Radeon 2600XT

Posted on 2023-08-04, 01:06

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See edits, was still tweaking reply. Anyway, flip fan upside down, spray under the fan hub and fill it up, go out side and swing it around to throw off the excess, and wipe up the rest. Best you can do without disassembling. Again, probably best to actually replace it. Successful service of fans is …

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Re: How do I access the bearing to oil it? - Sapphire Radeon 2600XT

Posted on 2023-08-04, 00:54

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Okay, so here is the scoop. I worked on fans/motors like this professionally for decades. Basically many of those fans use a dry slip bearing. But not all. Ideally you would try to clean them and insert something like graphite in them, but good luck with that. Long story short, they aren’t supposed …

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Re: How do I access the bearing to oil it? - Sapphire Radeon 2600XT

Posted on 2023-08-04, 00:12

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The center circle could be a cap for the bearing, but just as well a groove left after trimming down flash from the injection molding or something. Hard to tell from your pics. The bearing is right behind it anyways. Check if you can remove it with a needle :) Thank you, tried the needle but didn't …

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