Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2024-04-23, 02:15

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by VDNKh

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45.23 and lower do not work! Only 50 series and up work! It works totally fine and exclamation mark doesn't add anything meaningful to identifying the problem you are running into. Post your entire config and elaborate on how exactly it "not work" Why does it only show 3.18 GB (3264 MB) of RAM …

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Re: What hasn’t been done?

Posted on 2024-02-04, 14:51

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by VDNKh

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What about an ISA sound card like the Pico Gus that just plugs into a TPM header. Why can't we adapt Socket 479 Pentium Ms and Socket M core 2 Duos to 479 Boards. Like the CT-479 but more universal. That's a brilliant idea! You could slot it into a PCI slot or PCIE slot for power and use a ribbon …

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Re: Windows 98SE + MSI K8MM-V woes

Posted on 2024-01-31, 02:15

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by VDNKh

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it seems like i'm affected by the GART bug, and after flashing the oldest possible bios.... it still says 0 bytes, on top of not knowing what my CPU is edit: i found another thread with a similar chipset , and with the information from that thread, the earliest version of the bios for this …

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Re: Windows 98SE + MSI K8MM-V woes

Posted on 2024-01-30, 21:31

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by VDNKh

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so i tried these, and i'm getting... more issues, the IDE/SATA driver refuses to install, says it failed and gave me a code -14 first and then just doesn't give me an error after subsequent retries, i'm going to ignore it for now since as far as storage speed goes it still seems fine and i'm still …

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Re: Windows 98SE + MSI K8MM-V woes

Posted on 2024-01-15, 20:43

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by VDNKh

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faster than dealing with the full format from the 98 setup You can quick format the drive outside of the Windows installer by choosing "Start Computer With CD-ROM Support", from the 98 install disk, and running this command: D:\win98\format C: /q Where "D:\" is whatever drive letter your CD drive …

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Re: Bad Floppy Controller on ASRock 775i65G R3.0?

Posted on 2023-12-10, 02:50

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by VDNKh

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This topic is quite interesting to me as I've one motherboard revived with non-original BIOS and pretty much the same symptoms with FD-drives. Because I had only had two Sony MPF920 FDDs on hand, I got a different make and model FDD to test. A Mitsumi D359M3. Turns out the motherboard's floppy port …

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Re: Bad Floppy Controller on ASRock 775i65G R3.0?

Posted on 2023-11-23, 02:59

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by VDNKh

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I've used a warm oven to dry GPUs. ~90C for 10-15 mins. I've also used oil heaters and time, and just plain air and time. No high pressure. But you say it's clean, so let's focus on the controller. I believe based on a goggled image, it's this: https://pdf1.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/download/ …

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Re: Bad Floppy Controller on ASRock 775i65G R3.0?

Posted on 2023-11-20, 02:17

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by VDNKh

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Just because it's easy, and it works as 5.25 I'd flash the bios to be sure it's not just some random corruption. I'd probably also chuck it in the dishwasher to rule out weird dust issues but most people baulk at that (no soap if you do it) Reflashed (again) and no change in behavior. I'm not going …

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Re: Bad Floppy Controller on ASRock 775i65G R3.0?

Posted on 2023-11-20, 00:21

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by VDNKh

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The floppydrive should have a resistor network on the pcb near the connector for termination. On some really old drives you could remove the resistor network, on newer drives it is not removable. You're right, I just measured resistance with everything hooked up over the second connector on the …

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[Solved] Bad Floppy Controller on ASRock 775i65G R3.0?

Posted on 2023-11-19, 22:38

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by VDNKh

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Hello Vogons, I think I have a problem with my floppy controller or port on my ASRock 775i65G R3.0 motherboard. I have a Sony MPF920 floppy drive that can't read, write, or format in Windows, DOS, or use as a boot device. I've confirmed that the floppy drive and cable do work in another machine ( …

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.86GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2023-07-13, 23:01

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by VDNKh

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Hi, can you share what drivers you used to get the XFX GeForce 7950 GT (PV-T71J-YPE7) to work? Really appreciate it. Cheers I used the unofficial 82.69 drivers and applied RLoew's NVSIZE VBIOS patch to the card before installing the drivers. Note that you need a Windows 98 system with more than 512 …

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2023-07-10, 22:49

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by VDNKh

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if you go with an older one, you can avoid this bug Hi do you know for certain such old bios versions for 775Dual or 4CoreDual? For example, thanks to user Repo Man11 we know there are ones for Asus K8V SE Deluxe. The very first driver for 775Dual-880Pro might not have the bug if they were …

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Re: PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2023-07-10, 22:16

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by VDNKh

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Thanks for that info VDNKH. The 775Dual VSTA does not appear to be effected by that bug. AGP Texture acceleration is enabled in Dxdiag. Interesting. Can you provide some more info? What BIOS are you using? In the BIOS, what is your AGP Aperture Size set to? Spoiler https://www.legitreviews.com/ …

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Re: PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2023-07-10, 17:05

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by VDNKh

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You are probably experiencing the AGP memory bug present in PT880/K8T800 chipsets in Windows 9X. This bug was introduced, in Asus motherboards, by a BIOS update in either BIOS version 1006 or 1007. Version 1005 is confirmed by multiple people to not have the AGP memory bug. Ah, ASUS quality strikes …

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Re: PCIE Graphics Card

Posted on 2023-07-09, 22:08

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by VDNKh

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Can't say for sure, never had serious issues with Q3 timedemos on Nvidia cards. Well, on AGP cards with fully functional GART driver that is. Systems specs: K8V, A64 3200+, Quadro FX 3000 Under AGP settings tab of the Nv control panel. Only Fast Writes looks to be disabled, and won’t stay enabled …

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.86GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2023-07-02, 00:36

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by VDNKh

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Nice, great results 💪💪 This shows that the CPU is always bottlenecking Windows 98. I wonder if a 3rd gen CPU/motherboard can be fully supported, maybe one i7-3770K overclocked core can push this even further with an overclocked 7900GTX. Z68 motherboards could be a good contender for 98 …

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Re: (NEW RECORD) "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build 7900GTX + 4.89GHz E8600 + 2GB DDR2 1066MHz + ASUS Maximus II For

Posted on 2023-06-19, 18:39

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by VDNKh

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I still prefer my Madness PC (WAY more versatile and far less deadly to components) : 3DMark 01 SE 7800 GTX.png 3DMark 03 v2.jpg More here : LINK I could definitely find a lower stable overclock with more sane voltages, but where's the fun in that? Like I said, I'd only use these voltages and clock …

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Re: NFS Porsche Unleashed freezes on P4 based system

Posted on 2023-06-19, 12:24

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by VDNKh

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Strange, felt for sure this game would run no problem with win98SE installed. My specs: P4 2.4 ghz. 512mb ddr333 Geforce 2 Ultra 64mb Nvidia drivers 45.23 directx 8.1 It starts fine but once in the menu setting up a "driver" it freezes. Strangely it wakes up when I either pull the usb gamepad or …

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Re: Asrock 775Dual VSTA & Core4Dual thread

Posted on 2023-06-19, 11:44

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by VDNKh

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So what is the overall consensus for those Asrock 775Dual-VSTA & Core4Dual motherboards? Are they good candidates for Windows 98/XP machine? It seems they don't have official Windows 98(SE)/ME support like 775Dual-880Pro and P4Dual-880Pro. But people seem to use them with Windows 98(SE)/ME even …

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Re: "Ultimate" Windows 98 Gaming PC build with 7900GT + 4.86GHz E8600 + 4GB DDR3 + ASUS P5Q3

Posted on 2023-06-18, 09:07

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by VDNKh

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Please break my record :) Okay. 5ghz_x58_3dmark99.png 5ghz_x58_3dmark01.png 5ghz_x58_3dmark03.png 4.89GHz E8600, meet my 5.00GHz X5690 with a surprisingly 98 friendly Asus P6T motherboard. Working SATA ports in AHCI mode (thanks to RLoew), Intel PCH chipset drivers ported to 9X (thanks to …

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