Re: P3-850 on Abit BH6 v1.01?

Posted on 2021-07-31, 18:10

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by teiresias

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Just a quick update. I was able to get a P3-850 SL4BW off of ebay, and it works just fine on my BH6. It wasn't able to autodetect the settings on it, but I just had to manually set the FSB and it's been running for a few hours without a hitch. I ran my standard batch run of 3dMark99 and it actually …

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Re: P3-850 on Abit BH6 v1.01?

Posted on 2021-07-27, 16:18

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by teiresias

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H3nrik V! wrote on 2021-07-27, 16:08: So, 1133 on a 566? Pretty impressive! Must have been a late stepping? Actually no, that was a 66fsb part wasn't it? So I must have upped that to 100fsb to get 850 on its 8.5 multiplier, so the bus overclocking wouldn't have come into play anyway.

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Re: P3-850 on Abit BH6 v1.01?

Posted on 2021-07-27, 15:47

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by teiresias

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This is the exact same board I had back in the day. It's been sitting in my old closet at my parent's house for 20 years along with the two CPUs I had on it back then (first a Slot 1 Celeron 300A and then a socket-370 Celeron566 on an Abit slotket). There are a couple of Slot 1 P3-850s on ebay right …

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Re: P3-850 on Abit BH6 v1.01?

Posted on 2021-07-27, 13:05

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by teiresias

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BTW was it not possible to change your FSB to 100 instead of 133 with your P3 600E? 133 MHz FSB CPUs cannot run at lower FSB? It runs fine at default 100fsb, I just wanted to see if I could get it overclocked, hence the push to 133fsb (I could do the 112 or 124fsb too, but this is mainly for fun …

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P3-850 on Abit BH6 v1.01?

Posted on 2021-07-26, 18:12

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by teiresias

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Hi all, I currently have a Slot 1P3-600E on my Abit BH6 v1.01 that seems stable enough running with a 133fsb for a 800Mhz CPU, I say stable enough because I've had a few issues. I've had a few in-game and in-3dmark crashes, but am not really sure of the culprit . . . whether it's the graphics card ( …

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Re: MP32L - Lite version of MP32 : Pi based MT32 synth

Posted on 2021-07-12, 23:43

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by teiresias

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Thanks for the info!! This definitely has my interest peaked even if just for an MT32 solution! I didn't mean to actually ask an X2 question, I was just trying to describe why I was considering getting an MP32L at all, but thanks for pointing out the stereo switch in the preset editor, I'd never …

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Re: MP32L - Lite version of MP32 : Pi based MT32 synth

Posted on 2021-07-12, 20:40

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by teiresias

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So there's a myriad of midi solutions flowing right about now that have me confused about the possibilities, and I've been very happy with my Dreamblaster X2 on the wavetable header of my Yamaha OPL3 ISA card. However, I've been wanting to move that outside the card to run off the gameport as to …

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Re: Roland Sound Canvas Prices

Posted on 2021-07-02, 22:39

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by teiresias

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It's not just the MT-32, I bought an Aureal Vortex 2 for like $50 a few months ago and now all the listed ones are north of $100.

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Re: X2GU : New GM bank for DreamBlaster X2

Posted on 2021-06-30, 18:49

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by teiresias

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Here's a package that can help you. For switching your X2 to MT-32 mode use 'MT32.BAT'. To switch back to GM/GS mode use 'GM.BAT'/'GS.BAT' correspondingly. https://www.vogons.org/download/file.php?id=66257 Sorry to ping on a somewhat old post, but can these be used in batch files to change a mode …

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Re: Aureal Vortex 2 + King's Quest 6 (DOS Floppy version) problems

Posted on 2021-06-29, 20:16

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by teiresias

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Well, still no idea why these games can't detect the digital side of the vortex 2, but I figured out why I wasn't hearing the mpu-401 output from my Dreamblaster X2 - I had the speakers, apparently, plugged into the rear speaker connector, which still carried regular stereo output over it but did …

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Re: Aureal Vortex 2 + King's Quest 6 (DOS Floppy version) problems

Posted on 2021-06-29, 17:38

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by teiresias

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Hmmm, just installed my CD version of Betrayal at Krondor and it does the same thing with the MIDI music where it has no instrumentation and is all piano.

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Re: Aureal Vortex 2 + King's Quest 6 (DOS Floppy version) problems

Posted on 2021-06-29, 17:31

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by teiresias

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I'll have to try that later when I have some time. I've never used setmul before. Since music and most sound effects (aside from speech) seem to work with the music driver, I'm mainly interested in figuring out the instrument swapping when using midi for music though, it's just really weird.

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Re: Aureal Vortex 2 + King's Quest 6 (DOS Floppy version) problems

Posted on 2021-06-29, 17:24

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by teiresias

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I still get the unable to initialize message with the thunderboard driver.

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Re: Aureal Vortex 2 + King's Quest 6 (DOS Floppy version) problems

Posted on 2021-06-29, 17:05

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by teiresias

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The resource.cfg is fairly terse, here's how it is when configured with general midi for music and sound blaster for "speech": videoDrv = VGA320.DRV soundDrv = GENMIDI.DRV audioDrv = AUDBLAST.DRV joyDrv = NO kbdDrv = IBMKBD.DRV mouseDrv = STDMOUSE.DRV memoryDrv - ARM.DRV minHunk = 204k language = 1 …

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Aureal Vortex 2 + King's Quest 6 (DOS Floppy version) problems

Posted on 2021-06-29, 15:28

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by teiresias

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I'm not sure if this is the right forum, but since this is exclusively an audio issue I'm having I figured here would be good. I have an Aureal Vortex 2 in a Win98 machine (440BX, P3-600Mhz) with the unofficial SP3 installed. I've had few issues with the Vortex2 and older games so far (aside from my …

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Geforce 2 MX400 crashes out of 64MB Texture test on 3DMark2000

Posted on 2021-03-21, 03:31

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by teiresias

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So I've finished putting together a retro system that consists of the following: Abit BH6 Mobo Pentium 3 600Mhz 512MB RAM Sparkle GF2 MX400 64MB - similar to the one in this listing (the bios chip may be different): https://www.ebay.com/itm/SPARKLE-NVIDIA-GEFORCE2-MX400-64MB-AGP-SP6800M4T-/ …

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Re: Abit Slotket III Jumper Question

Posted on 2020-10-19, 13:52

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by teiresias

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Thanks both of you for the insight! Hmmm, maybe I would have been ridiculous and set everything back to default since both the voltage and fsb jumpers are set to auto (I guess the fsb would have been better controlled via the BH6 BIOS anyway). Looking around, perhaps I was stable with the bios …

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Abit Slotket III Jumper Question

Posted on 2020-10-19, 03:17

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by teiresias

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Does anyone have this slotket and can tell me what the "CPU Type Selection" jumper actually does? The instructions say the two positions distinguish between either "PPGA370" or "Coppermine". Is this really just trying to distinguish between a PPGA and a FC-PGA (were all coppermines FCPGA?). If so …

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Re: Munt issue with Windows 10

Posted on 2020-08-11, 22:20

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by teiresias

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Extracted mt32emu_win32drv-1.5.1-win32-amd64.zip from: https://sourceforge.net/projects/munt/files/munt/2.3.0-Updates/ to a temp directory and then ran the following from a command prompt where I extracted the archive: infinstall_x64 install -sign Drivers updated to .. Driver Date: 6/20/2020 Driver …

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