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Re: General advice for building first retro gaming pc

Posted on 2023-05-27, 07:43

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The K7S5A was a surprisingly decent board, was built on a relatively powerful and modern SiS 735 chipset, offered the option to use old SDRAM modules when switching from an older platform and later to purchase a newer and more powerful DDR and made from ECS attracted mainly the price. If I remember …

Re: I got defeated by a case

Posted on 2023-05-26, 08:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I had something similar with MSI 6309 socket 370. The board lying on the table with the components both ran and functioned normally, so it was fitted to the case. Nothing happened after it was turned on - no post, no beep. I took it out of the case again, tried it on the table, and started running …

Re: Restored C: from backup but Windows 98 is not the same

Posted on 2023-05-20, 07:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For me, if I want clone system disk with W98SE, work good XCOPY from Windows - type in the command line xcopy C:\ X:\/h/i/c/k/e/r/y/s where X is the letter of the target disk (D, E, F etc). An exact copy of the 1:1 source disk is then created on this disk. Tested on IDE as well as SATA and SSD …

Re: SIerra Swift II GUI, another obscure 16bit VGA?

Posted on 2023-05-14, 10:33

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Vendor Sierra Semiconductor (then PMC-Sierra, lastly Microsemi): seems like Sierra Swift II 1MB ISA, unfortunately no more info about this.

Re: Need help installing VIA VT8237A/VT8251 HD audio controller in Windows 2000

Posted on 2023-05-06, 08:29

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Glad to hear you've been able to solve the problem.

Re: Why floppy drives are important

Posted on 2023-05-06, 07:55

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Which board did you use for your Phenom II setup? My next build is gonna get an optical drive, if only because my current (temporary) system doesn't have one and I still like to go watch a DVD movie from time to time. This one: https://www.asrock.com/mb/amd/a770de+/index.asp It was the last board …

Re: Need help installing VIA VT8237A/VT8251 HD audio controller in Windows 2000

Posted on 2023-05-05, 10:20

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

If there is Realtek HDA codec (something like HDAUDIO\FUNC_01&VEN_10EC&DEV_0262&SUBSYS_103C1720&REV_1002), you can use Realtek HDA driver. Audio part in southbridge VT8237A/VT8251 is connected to some HDA codec, which could be Realtek, VIA and so on. Drivers on VIA website are intended for VIA …

Re: Why floppy drives are important

Posted on 2023-05-05, 09:36

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For practical reasons, I don't need FDD for a long time, but for nostalgia and for the chance to read old files on floppy disks from a long time ago, I had it last with the Phenom II setup. For the same reasons, I have a CD/DVD drive on my PC even today.

Re: Any use for S754-system with PCIe ?

Posted on 2023-04-07, 11:39

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Because of the drivers for the W98 I voted nF3 and GF6800, with utilities from R.Loew my daily driver with dual boot 98SE/XP looks like this. It's probably more complicated with PCI-E, but you can try - the XPs themselves will be fine.

Re: AWE synthesized music not playing on Sound Blaster 32 CT3600 after installing memory.

Posted on 2023-04-07, 11:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I tried 2x1MB SIMM (Goldstar with parity) on the card and no problem on the AWE test, that's all I can help, unfortunately.

Re: Audigy 2 ZS SB0350 with SB0010D front panel

Posted on 2023-04-06, 10:25

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I saw here somewhere in the thread, that Live! and Audigy (first) have same connector for Audio Drive (front panel) and could be used both on these cards. Audigy 2 has different pinout, so it can not be used with AD from Live! or Audigy.

Re: Any use for S754-system with PCIe ?

Posted on 2023-04-05, 09:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My idea was to rebuild my actual system from back then with the exact same boardmodel, CPU, cooler and RAM. So I wanted to know if this combination has any practical use except for nostalgia :) As you say, for WXP you have way better build and for W98 there are no drivers for chipset (nForce4)- for …

Re: Any use for S754-system with PCIe ?

Posted on 2023-04-04, 13:59

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The performance benefits from dual channel on these platforms were negligible at the time (I had a s754 A64 3200+ and a s939 A64 3500+, both 2.2GHz and similar systems overall). Using some benchmarking tools the difference was just a few percents and the difference while gaming was unnoticeable. …

Re: Any use for S754-system with PCIe ?

Posted on 2023-04-04, 10:04

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes, it was a dead end - dual channel memory was becoming standard at the time and so s.754 was a brief episode with no future (similar to s.423 at Intel). On the other hand, both boards and CPUs are cheap because of this, yet the system built on them is powerful enough for the needs of the W98 …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-03, 11:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

2008 isnt it? thats now 15 years ago. it's kinda retro :) in 2015 we would have though of a year 2000 cpu as retro (though things were still moving fast back then) anyway, this purchase could be the beginning of some adventures for you! I bought it for the first time in 2010 when I look at my …

Re: Any use for S754-system with PCIe ?

Posted on 2023-04-03, 11:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hmm, wait a minute, please - what kind of CPU was on the market when WXP was released? Athlon XP and Pentium 4? So from that perspective, I don't see your Sempron64 2600+ as a completely weak CPU, let alone for W98SE/ME. For me is build, based on nForce3, Turion, Audigy and GF6800, dailyrider for …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-02, 10:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PcBytes wrote on 2023-04-02, 09:52: Am I anywhere near right in thinking this was the predecesor of the Phenom II X2 550 in terms of unlocking? 😁 (probably not, but at least I tried 😀 ) Yes, but X2 550 work with both DDR2 (AM2+) and DDR3 (AM3) , these X2 5000 with DDR2 only (AM2+). But both are in …

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-02, 08:29

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Still not retro, but can´t resist - I bought the mysterious Phenom II (Deneb), hidden under the Athlon X2 5000 "cloak" - a once desirable piece of hw for unlocking on boards with ACC (NCC) feature.

Re: Dead Slot 1 motherboard A-Trend ATC-6310M [Solved]

Posted on 2023-03-29, 10:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I remember PC Partner board with AT/ATX and i440LX, where was jumper for setting, which PSU is used (seems it is not presented on your board) and even in BIOS setup was option for AT/ATX selection. But must say, board work with ATX PSU even with option AT in BIOS, as this was default settings.

Re: PC Case Identification

Posted on 2023-03-28, 10:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looks like some kind of Acutake cases, but who know?

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