Re: Opinion on Ati X800/850 on Pentium 3/Tualatin?

Posted on 2025-01-17, 05:48

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My power supply is 400W currently. This says exactly nothing...I had a 420 W power supply (PS) back in 2004 (can't remember the manufacturer anymore), but unfortunately it was a China bomber and put my 80 GB HDD six feet under. You have to look at the brand and technical information on the PS. I …

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Re: Future Power FP-SI630E

Posted on 2025-01-15, 07:15

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...im having issues with the usb2.0 controller. it says its SiS 7001 USB controller... The SiS 630E doesn't support USB 2.0, it has just USB 1.1 support. If I remember correctly there never was a USB 1.x driver by SiS!? I had a look right now and it seems SiS took their old drivers offline!? The …

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Re: Opinion on Ati X800/850 on Pentium 3/Tualatin?

Posted on 2025-01-15, 05:53

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by soggi

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Hm...a Tualatin is a bit slow for games until 2003, isn't it? You can put it together with a ATI X8x0 if your motherboard and power supply are strong enough, can't say anything about the DOS compatibility. I can't understand why it is so slow...it's just a single player game (no ressource hungry big …

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Re: Army Ranger: Mogadishu error "Failed to initialize the renderer"

Posted on 2025-01-15, 04:34

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by soggi

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... and be able to play Army Ranger: Mogadishu without a video card instead of buying one? You have no video card / GPU!? How do you get an image, how did you read the error message, how do you want to play the game? This makes no sense to me. As said above, you need a GPU with T&L to play the game …

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Re: Integrated graphics good enough for windows 98?

Posted on 2025-01-13, 06:07

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by soggi

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Weren't there some with integrated voodoo chips - banshee maybe? Or is that too old for what you want to do? This would be really great, but there never was any chipset with an integrated 3dfx GPU. There were only a very, very few boards with a onboard 3dfx Voodoo3 (and dedicated VRAM, separately …

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Re: Incoming in Windows 98 SE very slow

Posted on 2025-01-13, 04:28

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by soggi

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Oh yes, haha...how could I forget...sometimes there were no download sections and even no information on the game's page...but in the FAQ! I will have a deeper look at it... *rollingeyes* BTW I always try to get original files from the primary source (or archived primary source), for some time I …

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Re: Incoming in Windows 98 SE very slow

Posted on 2025-01-13, 02:21

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Back in 2014 I downloaded some (supposed) official updates for Incoming: … It baffles me why Rage Software couldn't/wouldn't produce a patch to integrate all of these fixes. I also thought there was at least one patch for an OEM version… It‘s the time when Incoming has been released - there where …

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Re: Patches and updates for games

Posted on 2025-01-12, 05:26

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So what's the right version number and the right spelling (with or w/o v/V)? Irrational Games themselves don't mention a version number at all (-> http://web.archive.org/web/20030604064820/http://www.irrationalgames.com/shock2/), a third party FAQ which was also linked to from the official page …

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Re: Incoming in Windows 98 SE very slow

Posted on 2025-01-11, 22:56

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Yeah...that's another thought I also had and which I forgot to write down. kind regards soggi

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Re: Unknown BIOS Error

Posted on 2025-01-11, 22:49

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by soggi

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Are you able to export the BIOS and post it here? Can you see if the screenshot is from an AMI (U)EFI or classic BIOS? Maybe surprisingly to some of you, I don't have any experience with (U)EFI and on my BIOS utility/tools page there are only classic BIOS tools hosted. If it is a classic BIOS, the …

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Re: Incoming in Windows 98 SE very slow

Posted on 2025-01-11, 22:30

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Did you try Incoming only with nglide and dgvoodoo? I know both only by name, never used them...but why are you using them with the config above? Incoming is a D3D game, it doesn't support 3dfx Glide - it's one of the many what I would call "false positives". People think it supports 3dfx Glide …

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Re: I've got a DEC Alphaserver ES40 !

Posted on 2025-01-11, 21:44

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Starcat wrote on 2025-01-10, 18:21: Cool find! Congrats! Second this! ----------- BTW which CPUs are in there? I only had a few DEC Alpha CPUs (~4-5) in the last 2 1/2 decades but no other hardware (especially no motherboard). kind regards soggi

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Re: Found 3 Houses Stacked Full of Vintage Computers

Posted on 2025-01-10, 02:33

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OK...this is...interesting...maybe I'll have the time to watch the whole videos at work tomorrow... kind regards soggi

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Re: Army Ranger: Mogadishu error "Failed to initialize the renderer"

Posted on 2025-01-10, 01:46

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The answer by the Publisher of the Game (Groove Games) to this question is the following: Hardware T&L Not Supported ('Failed to Initialize the Renderer' error) 'Failed to Initialize Renderer' means that your video card does not fully support the features required by Army Ranger. Specifically, your …

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Re: Getting my first 3dfx card. Any advice?

Posted on 2025-01-06, 02:21

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by soggi

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Some thoughts on the Acorp 8VIA81 motherboard. I already had a look for this and it doesn't exist...but then you wrote: The motherboard is Acorp 6VIA81 with VIA Apollo Pro+. Yes...this one really exists. But is it really this one? Could you post a photograph of the P.O.S.T. screen with BIOS ID (by …

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Re: What it is ? Heatsink to ground ? (Matrox G450)

Posted on 2025-01-06, 01:05

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by soggi

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I also have some G450 cards and noticed this many years ago, also never saw this on other boards. kind regards soggi

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Re: Help needed - motherboard not posting

Posted on 2025-01-04, 23:31

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Congratulations! That's exactly what I expected - UniFlash does it when everything else fails. I know, at first glance it's one of the last things you want to do with a running motherboard - removing a chip from its socket, but it works and is the easiest way if you don't have a flasher/programmer. …

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Re: Help needed - motherboard not posting

Posted on 2024-12-31, 08:14

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by soggi

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I am from India and yet to come across anyone into retrocomputing in my vicinity. So this seems like a dead end. There's at least one other from India here (-> BEEN_Nath_58 ) - I know, India is a very large country and I don't know if shipment costs are the same for the whole country no matter if …

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Re: Help needed - motherboard not posting

Posted on 2024-12-30, 07:02

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Yeah...like Horun said, a programmer is very valuable - especially if you don't have another board to hotflash (for that it mostly only needs support for the same type of EEPROM/Flash, the rest doesn't matter normally). Because I own a wide range of boards, I don't have a programmer until now...but …

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Re: Help needed - motherboard not posting

Posted on 2024-12-30, 04:27

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stealthjoe: If you have the possibility to flash the BIOS with a programmer or via hotflash then DO IT, don't fiddle around with this floppy recovery stuff. If you can avoid diskettes when it comes to flashing the BIOS (or other critical stuff) then AVOID them! When hotflashing the BIOS on another …

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