Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 1 dead ? or I'm doing something wrong???

Posted on 2023-05-19, 11:44

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by drosse1meyer

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Are you using a pass through or manually changing the VGA cable to the voodoo's VGA-out? Are the games running? For example, do you hear any game noise when you get the blank screen? Does your LCD support the resolution mode of 512x384? That is the lowest default mode voodoo will start with iirc

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Re: Macintosh LC III+ VS Performa 476

Posted on 2023-05-18, 12:16

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by drosse1meyer

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So it will certainly be much faster overall despite the lack of a fpu? I would figure since I have seen YouTube videos of the 475 responsiveness and how fast games play such as sim city 2000. it should be decently faster but like you said anything that can take advantage of FPU would have to rely …

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Re: What motherboard do I have?

Posted on 2023-05-18, 12:09

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by drosse1meyer

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cyclone3d wrote on 2023-05-18, 00:25: You've got no L2 cache on there. The performance must really suck. What is the BIOS string that shows at the bottom of the screen at POST? 🙁

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Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 1 dead ? or I'm doing something wrong???

Posted on 2023-05-17, 23:06

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by drosse1meyer

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I'm not an expert on mojo.exe but the output looks OK. Detects the FBI, TMU, memory and doesnt hang at any point. Have you tried the DOS tomb raider 3dfx ver? (This could point to a problem with your Windows 3dfx drivers and/or installation)

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Re: Cirrus Logic CL-5446

Posted on 2023-05-16, 23:00

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by drosse1meyer

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I had that card in childhood Am5x86 PC (MB-8443UUD). As stated it's a bit "out of date" for a Pentium III, and in the other thread about this chip, it's stated that it actually might be a bit better compared to the S3 Trio64V+, but the problem was that it was late, so it was relegated to budget …

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Re: 3Dfx Voodoo 1 dead ? or I'm doing something wrong???

Posted on 2023-05-16, 22:44

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by drosse1meyer

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you shouldnt need heatsinks for voodoo1. even voodoo2 didnt come with heatsinks. however its not a bad idea to finagle a cooling solution for longevity's sake. +1 to the mojo / dos test idea

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Re: windows 10 on core2 quad 9300

Posted on 2023-05-16, 22:22

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Hello All I have an old PC here that is in its twilight years... an HP corporate SFF with a C2D e6550 Win 10 runs ok but I was curious if a Q9300 would help breath a bit more life into it. They're fairly cheap on eBay. Thoughts? I have an amd e300 dual core, 4 times slower than that c2d, and im ok, …

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Re: windows 10 on core2 quad 9300

Posted on 2023-05-15, 19:24

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I agree; many Haswell prebuilts are getting retired and thus getting thrown out at dirt cheap prices. An i5-4570 will absolutely smash up the Core 2 Quad while also having newer standards like SATA 3. Even if not buying a full prebuilt, the boards from them are dirt cheap (HP Prodesk 400 G1 boards …

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Re: windows 10 on core2 quad 9300

Posted on 2023-05-15, 12:17

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by drosse1meyer

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Really though, aside from the fun in playing with something, it's not worth spending more than a few $ on this hardware. Much faster, much newer hardware is cheap as well. Like Skylake-based corp hardware for example. I agree; many Haswell prebuilts are getting retired and thus getting thrown out …

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Re: windows 10 on core2 quad 9300

Posted on 2023-05-15, 01:09

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Xeon E5450 has a TDP of 80w https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/ark/products/33083/intel-xeon-processor-e5450-12m-cache-3-00-ghz-1333-mhz-fsb.html while Xeon X5470 has a TDP of 120w https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/sku/35430/intel-xeon-processor-x5470-12m-cache-3-33-ghz-1333-mhz …

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Re: windows 10 on core2 quad 9300

Posted on 2023-05-14, 01:52

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by drosse1meyer

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if there is an SSD and enough spare ram (depends on how much the board can take) then the e6550 is pretty good imo, but would suspect the quad might give you a little spare processing capacity, perhaps more noticeable if going online when there can be extra threads happening i had recent experience …

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Re: windows 10 on core2 quad 9300

Posted on 2023-05-13, 11:23

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by drosse1meyer

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Hello All I have an old PC here that is in its twilight years... an HP corporate SFF with a C2D e6550 Win 10 runs ok but I was curious if a Q9300 would help breath a bit more life into it. They're fairly cheap on eBay. Thoughts? More Ram and a SSD would likely speed it up more than a Q9300 would, …

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windows 10 on core2 quad 9300

Posted on 2023-05-13, 02:12

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by drosse1meyer

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Hello All I have an old PC here that is in its twilight years... an HP corporate SFF with a C2D e6550 Win 10 runs ok but I was curious if a Q9300 would help breath a bit more life into it. They're fairly cheap on eBay. Thoughts?

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Re: SD to CF adapter issues

Posted on 2023-04-05, 20:36

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by drosse1meyer

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FWIW i use the FC-1307 in many machines from 486 onwards with zero issues / conflicts. i actually like them very much, cant be beat for the price. I had a Gateway board with phoenix bios, i420ex chipset and a CMD PCI0640B IDE controller. It couldn't negotiate a viable PATA communications with a FC- …

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Re: SIV detection of AMD Am486 vs. Intel i486 from within Windows

Posted on 2023-04-04, 18:05

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by drosse1meyer

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red-ray wrote on 2023-04-04, 17:42: drosse1meyer wrote on 2023-04-04, 17:06: CPU: A80486DX4-120SV8B Thank you, the AuthenticAMD confirms it has CPUID support so it's easy for SIV and all other programs to correctly report it. 👍

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Re: SIV detection of AMD Am486 vs. Intel i486 from within Windows

Posted on 2023-04-04, 17:06

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by drosse1meyer

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See attached CPU: A80486DX4-120SV8B https://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/80486/AMD-A804 … X4-120SV8B.html

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Re: SIV detection of AMD Am486 vs. Intel i486 from within Windows

Posted on 2023-04-04, 15:29

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I only have win 3.1 on my 486, does this app work with that OS? Thank you for your interest and no, I looked into making it work on 3.1 using WIN32S, but did not get very far, further I suspect most systems that only have 3.1 are tight on memory, SIV really needs >= 32 MB to run with reasonable …

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Re: SIV detection of AMD Am486 vs. Intel i486 from within Windows

Posted on 2023-04-04, 12:28

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by drosse1meyer

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I only have win 3.1 on my 486, does this app work with that OS?

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Re: SD to CF adapter issues

Posted on 2023-04-04, 00:50

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by drosse1meyer

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OK, old thread however I think I've finally solved it. As I have been testing various boards over the years it became apparent it was working fine (with what I had) on every motherboard except Gigabyte boards. I noticed a few other people had ones with a firmware version of 'Sintechi hightspeed SD …

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Re: PC Chips M912 BIOS update for Am5x86 and Cyrix 5x86

Posted on 2023-04-02, 18:30

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by drosse1meyer

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@Chkcpu, any news? I've just got this board with 5x86 P75 and now see that it will require your patch :) There was another board from that seller of v1.7 with not so fancy black ISA slots that detected that CPU as DX4-486-100S (or something like that) but I preferred this one that doesn't even boot …

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