Dell Optiplex gx300

Posted on 2023-09-07, 03:28

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by aaron158

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Does anyone know were i can find a factory restore disk for a Dell Optiplex Gx300. i looked on achieve but all that seems to be on there is t he users manual. i know i can just do a manual reinstall of windows but would like to see what the factory restore looked like.

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Re: Win98SE and ASUS V9999GT/TD/256M - GeForce 6800 GT?

Posted on 2023-03-26, 01:18

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by aaron158

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i ran a Galaxy GeForce 6800 XT on windows 98se with the last NVIDIA drivers and it work just fine. have u tired the card in another system. i know i had a radon 9700 pro at one point card did not artifact u could install the drivers no problem u could run a game in get though menus fine but as soon …

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Re: GTX 590 Windows XP

Posted on 2023-03-15, 19:12

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by aaron158

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so from what i can tell if u want to make an xp 32 bit machine and have the fastest possible storage the lsi 9280-24i4e is the way to go. with windows 2003 sever there driver support went a little further down the line but not much and i don't know how well windows sever 2003 would run games so not …

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Re: GTX 590 Windows XP

Posted on 2023-03-15, 03:42

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As an aside, which version of the UD7 is this? Version 1.0 is actually better (more robust for overclocking) than 2.0. When Gigabyte released the UD9 they went back and gimped the UD7 so it wouldn't compete with the more expensive board. This was controversial at the time. (Some people described …

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Re: Asrock X58 has very slow boot on bios when I set SATA to compatible mode

Posted on 2023-01-12, 00:20

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by aaron158

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why exactly are you trying to run windows 98 on an x58 system anyway that hardware is much to new for windows 98. there isn't going to be any official drivers for any of the chipset or ide/sata stuff. If you want performance, X58 will be faster than Pentium III/Athlon XP. Sure, for GPUs you are …

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Re: Asrock X58 has very slow boot on bios when I set SATA to compatible mode

Posted on 2023-01-09, 16:57

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by aaron158

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why exactly are you trying to run windows 98 on an x58 system anyway that hardware is much to new for windows 98. there isn't going to be any official drivers for any of the chipset or ide/sata stuff. u would be much better off getting a hold of something from the pentium 3 or early pentium 4 era on …

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Re: Manufacturing amount of large 17,3" laptop models ?

Posted on 2023-01-04, 19:17

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by aaron158

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years ago 18.4 use to be a common size u could get in gaming laptops. most of the 17.3 inch ones are gaming machines i don't think maybe people are buying the 17.3 inch ones beyond gamers. i doubt many people are buying that size for business or school they would want the smaller size for easy …

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Re: Geforce FX 5200 upgrade?

Posted on 2023-01-03, 18:17

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by aaron158

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the best ati card u can get that will work with both 98 and xp would be the 9800 pro. the 9600 card is ok but its was a budge card back in day it was a cut down version of the 9500 pro. the 9600 and 5200 preform about the same. if u keep an eye out u can get one 50ish bucks a bit more then the 9600 …

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Re: Windows 98 SIL3114

Posted on 2023-01-02, 17:04

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by aaron158

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those sli cards aren't very good for old pcs if u can get a PROMISE SATA 150 TX2 or the maxtor rebranded version those work great with basically everything and even have official windows 98 drivers offered by promise on there website under legacy drivers.

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Re: 4GB of RAM on a Pentium 4 mobo

Posted on 2022-12-21, 23:23

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by aaron158

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according to the specs it should support 4 gigs with 4 1 gb sticks. u try to get 4 matched sticks. but really if 3 sticks work probably easier just to stick with that i mean chances are u going to be using a 32 bit os? witch will only let u use 3.2 gigs of the 4 gigs anyway.

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Re: Snappy Driver Installer - Thoughts?

Posted on 2022-12-16, 18:05

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by aaron158

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99% of the time it works fine. there is the odd time that a driver it installs is buggy though and can brick things. some drivers its better to install manually are things like gpu. also sometimes its best not to mess with Raid/Sata/ide drivers as if the wrong or a buggy driver is installed it can …

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Re: GTX 590 Windows XP

Posted on 2022-12-09, 21:20

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by aaron158

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As an aside, which version of the UD7 is this? Version 1.0 is actually better (more robust for overclocking) than 2.0. When Gigabyte released the UD9 they went back and gimped the UD7 so it wouldn't compete with the more expensive board. This was controversial at the time. (Some people described …

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Re: GTX 590 Windows XP

Posted on 2022-12-09, 03:17

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by aaron158

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I found a GTX 590 review with some temperature tests: https://www.anandtech.com/show/4239/nvidias-geforce-gtx-590-duking-it-out-for-the-single-card-king/16 88C in Crysis... 92C after overclocking. :flame: I don't know if Furmark would be worse or not, but yeah, these are some toasty cards. Also, …

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Re: GTX 590 Windows XP

Posted on 2022-12-09, 01:04

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by aaron158

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Seems like with driver version 359.00 i can go nuts and stress this thing to max and everything works. i ran 10 passes of 3d mark 06. i ran pcmark 05. 1 hour with prime95 and furmark no blue screens or crashes. so it would seem as long as u don't use any of the last few versions of the drivers then …

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Re: What does jumpers do on 370CPU card adapter

Posted on 2022-12-08, 23:17

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by aaron158

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They do however P3 doesn't work and only Celeron I own is 1.1GHz and I'm not sure that will work. And before I'll confuse anyone, I did set 1.8V as this is the minimum my board accepts. :) Works with my other modified slocket1 at 1.8V. what p3 did u use. if its 440bx its best to use one that does …

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Re: GTX 590 Windows XP

Posted on 2022-12-08, 22:12

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by aaron158

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Errius wrote on 2022-12-08, 21:49: chinny22 wrote on 2022-12-06, 11:10: 368.81 & 368.69, Works but get errors on startup This is the Nvidia program that sits in the notification area. It's broken for some reason. You can disable it from loading using MSConfig. older versions seem to work fine.

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Re: GTX 590 Windows XP

Posted on 2022-12-08, 21:04

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by aaron158

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Update So i started with driver 368.81 the last release for xp this one had 2 issues. 1 when went in the nvidia control panel and tired to change sli settings it would crash. running 3d mark i could get though a couple test but it would lock up. 365.10 went back a few version to this one. on this …

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Re: GTX 590 Windows XP

Posted on 2022-12-06, 22:27

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by aaron158

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OK I see. I ran two 550 ti's in SLI for years but this was with Windows 7. I never tried with XP. Is this system stable in Windows Vista or Windows 7? It would be good if we could rule out hardware failure. well i can seemly stress test the gpu in furmak if i can get furmark to lunch sometimes it …

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Re: GTX 590 Windows XP

Posted on 2022-12-06, 18:11

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by aaron158

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97 degrees is very hot. Are you sure this is normal? I have a similar rig, but using the UD5 board, EVGA GTX 550 ti, 6 GB DDR3-1333 and Core i7-920. It is rock solid stable in both Windows XP and Windows 7 64-bit. I also am using the latest Nvidia drivers in both cases. ETA: The manual says this …

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Re: Old GPU fan headers

Posted on 2022-12-06, 07:33

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by aaron158

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if u still have the original fan u can clip off the connector. noctua 40mm fan comes with connectors they call OmniJoin adapter for splicing 2 wires together without soldering. so u can just splice the original fan connector on to the noctua fan and plug it directly in. if u don't have the original …

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