Re: Win98 Graphics Card Not Found

Posted on 2024-03-22, 15:49

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by AndrettiGTO

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Reinstalling the motherboards .inf files corrected the problem and allowed installation of the GeForce4 drivers. I'm can only guess that installing multiple games after, it somehow corrupted the Windows install. As an added measure, I've uninstalled the unofficial sp3. Thanks for the input.

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Win98 Graphics Card Not Found

Posted on 2024-03-21, 03:26

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by AndrettiGTO

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Having difficulties installing drivers after upgrading my retro build. I have a Slot 1 MS-6119 v1.1 440BX with a P2-450 and 3.3v AGP. It's running Windows 98 with SP2 and unofficial SP3. All MS-6119 chipset .inf are installed. It's running Voodoo2 SLI and initially had a GeForce2 Ti 64mb AGP 4x as …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-14, 14:02

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by AndrettiGTO

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BetaC wrote on 2024-03-14, 07:40: Yesterday I effectively declared an intent on getting something in the future Be prepared, a lonely flashing cursor is the only thing you’ll see during the long boot up of a 5150 with full memory! You’re off to a great start. 😀

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-03-14, 14:01

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by AndrettiGTO

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BetaC wrote on 2024-03-14, 07:40: Yesterday I effectively declared an intent on getting something in the future Be prepared, a lonely flashing cursor is the only thing you’ll see during the long boot up of a 5150 with full memory! You’re off to a great start. 😀

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Re: Best CGA & Hercules monochrome games

Posted on 2024-02-20, 01:57

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by AndrettiGTO

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PS: I've taken some more pictures, for you and Grzyb. It's about Blockout on CGA. Depending on the CRT monitor, the dithering really works. ^_^ Excellent example of a game designed to maximize the hardware it’s running on. CGA had many unsupported display modes that several publishers of the time …

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2024-02-17, 01:48

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by AndrettiGTO

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StriderTR wrote on 2024-02-13, 06:37: Just got done re-playing Serious Sam 4, again, with mods. 😀 Love the entire Serious series! Some games never grow old!

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Re: Successful 3dfx Voodoo 3 2000 AGP repair and upgrade to 5ns memory

Posted on 2024-02-07, 00:22

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by AndrettiGTO

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Another one saved, nice work!

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Re: Image quality fix for Voodoo1 and 2 cards

Posted on 2024-02-07, 00:15

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by AndrettiGTO

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Has anyone tried to retrofit a mechanical switch? I think one brand used them. Prior to reading this thread, I never realized the amount of signal degradation the pass through introduced. I checked my Win98 system today and yes, far dimmer and not as sharp with pass through. Reluctant to modify my …

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Re: Voodoo2 SLI cooling

Posted on 2024-02-03, 02:15

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by AndrettiGTO

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I used 2 Asus fans that I never used from a P6T Deluxe 1366 motherboard. Cut slits in the fan cages and hung them on the end of the boards then tie strapped to tighten. Very quiet and push air on both sides of the boards. I see their still sold at Newegg https://www.newegg.com/p/1YF-003V-01VG7

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Re: What game are you playing now?

Posted on 2022-10-27, 22:44

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by AndrettiGTO

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That looks like something I’ll try! I enjoy my main gaming system and have a pretty massive installed library that I try to keep to years 2016 and up. Other systems I have are generally kept period correct matching hardware and software. Recently I broke my rule and installed “Hard Reset” on my …

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Compaq III Keyboard Directional Keys

Posted on 2022-07-10, 19:14

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by AndrettiGTO

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Wondering if anyone has run into this issue before and could possibly give me some advice. I’ve built up a modded Compaq Portable III (had a bad display then PSU died) using an AMD X2. Under Win98, Win7 and Win10 I’ve found many older games don’t respond to the directional keys, however, in any of …

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Re: Help locating Sound driver for MicroSolutions BackPack Bantam 181200

Posted on 2022-07-10, 18:15

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by AndrettiGTO

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Do the ones I posted near the beginning of the thread not work for you? I noted earlier in this thread that the ones you initially posted worked on my 180200, allowing both the CD and sound to function properly. Maybe those original drivers only works on the 180200 and not the 181200. Anyone know …

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Re: Replacing Vintage Compaq LTE Lite 4/25 Hard Drive & Compact Flash Card Problems

Posted on 2022-03-27, 00:04

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by AndrettiGTO

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EDIT - WARNING: DO NOT TRY AND INSTALL AN IDE TO CF ADAPTER IN AN LTE LITE MACHINE. IT FRIES THE HDD CONTROLLER. ...The next and main problem is that I'm not even sure the original drive is a standard 44-pin 2.5" IDE drive - even though it's presented in the BIOS as such, and has the standard (what …

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Re: (Factory image) Compaq LTE Elite 4/75CX Laptop (90s) with Windows 3.1

Posted on 2022-03-26, 23:45

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by AndrettiGTO

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Thanks for the offer of help kleung21 . An update on my attempts to create a "correct" dual partitioned CF card. For now, I've created a fresh Win95 install on a Transcend2GB 133x card with no diagnostics partition. I'm aware many people say this particular card is not compatible ( https://www. …

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Re: Help locating Sound driver for MicroSolutions BackPack Bantam 181200

Posted on 2022-03-26, 22:49

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by AndrettiGTO

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I also really want to thank cyclone3d for posting those image files! Found myself with my original unreadable floppies and the only drivers I could find online, other than these, were ones that didn't support sound. Didn't realize this until after I installed them. About the install, I too ran into …

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Re: Slave Zero crashes in XP

Posted on 2022-03-24, 00:18

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by AndrettiGTO

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That’s a great game. I have it on my Win95/3Dfx system and always thought it was well designed. Never tried an install on XP

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Re: (Factory image) Compaq LTE Elite 4/75CX Laptop (90s) with Windows 3.1

Posted on 2022-03-19, 13:27

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by AndrettiGTO

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Created several belts using VHS tape and no more slippage but it still fails to read even with the stepper activity. I think it’s related to the loss of full 5v at the ribbon. Even though I’ve supplied it, I think other parts of the controller must be bad too. So I now have the disc image working on …

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Re: (Factory image) Compaq LTE Elite 4/75CX Laptop (90s) with Windows 3.1

Posted on 2022-03-16, 01:15

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by AndrettiGTO

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urbanus , wondering how you made out. I've been struggling with the exact same issues as you and have tried two different CF adapters and five CF cards ranging from 256mg to 2gb. All the effort results in the same "missing operating system" message. I initially tried the raw image file that urbanus …

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Re: The AT cases with built-in stereo speakers thread!

Posted on 2021-07-27, 00:20

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by AndrettiGTO

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kolderman wrote on 2021-06-08, 09:10: I love that case. It's so incredibly late-90s. It is impressive! My new favourite in this thread. 😀

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Re: Compaq LTE Elite 4/75cx - Not Loading OS

Posted on 2021-05-11, 00:13

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by AndrettiGTO

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Yes the belts are an issue but I ended up using an elastic band and it handled the torque well. Problem was with the "601" error, it never gets any head/track movement unless I manually crank it in, then on powerup it moves back to track 0/1.

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