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Re: Searching a late 1990s 3D pc game - Found Jurassic Park - Traspasser (1998)

Posted on 2022-08-12, 21:45

in Milliways

in Milliways

Yes this is the game! I also changed the topic title. Thank you folks! The game was released at the end of 1998. It is possible, that the demo I played is an earlier version, but I remember definetly, that my PC was very old for that game. According to some website it needs a 233 MMX cpu, what I did …

Searching a late 1990s 3D pc game - Found Jurassic Park - Traspasser (1998)

Posted on 2022-08-12, 18:14

in Milliways

in Milliways

Hello! I am searching a PC game. I met with this game at the end of the 1990s. I found the game on a Magazine CD as a demo game. I remember I had a slow P1 computer with an S3 video card, and the game needed some 3d acceleration, so I was almost unable to play. The framerate was so low and delay was …

Re: Terrible 3Dmark2001 scores on P3-S 1400 system

Posted on 2022-07-05, 08:54

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Hello! I have also a Fujitsu D1219 as Gex85 has. If I put a SL5QL 1266MHz Tualatin cpu into the mobo, it boots. I have also 2pcs 1400Mhz (one of them is SL6BY), but the mobo is not booting with them. Gex85, what CPU did you use, what was the cpu code? I have the latest bios, see top of the picture. …

Re: P-III Tualatin 1.4GHz overclocking

Posted on 2022-07-04, 18:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What is fsb? Front side bus. The cpu is communicating with the chipset on this bus. Because the multiplier is locked in the p3 processor, the only chance to overclock a processor is to increase the fsb. The fsb is important for the ram speed and also for the pci and agp, because all of that goes …

Re: Outrigger: an ongoing adventure with the OR840

Posted on 2022-06-27, 21:35

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I made some benchmark on my OR840 with WinXP SP2. I have a IDE->Sata converter from Delock, to attach the 600MByte/s Kingston SSD as a Windows System partition. I made a HDD benchmark with crystaldisk, I was curious what IDE 66 is able to. The result was about 10% of the SSD speed, see picture below …

Re: "Outrigger" OR840 build

Posted on 2022-06-23, 08:06

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

So the ACPI makes the problem? I tried now as MPS Multiprocessor, and it boots. The only problem, that the windows is not able to switch off the computer, I have to do it myself.

Re: "Outrigger" OR840 build

Posted on 2022-06-23, 01:46

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

ACPI Windows XP: the end? Yep. I ran into some trouble—finally—when attempting to replace the noisy Radeon 8500 with a GeForce4: after installing the nvidia drivers Windows would refuse to boot up just in the same way it refuses to do it when you force ACPI during install (POSTs, starts the boot up …

Re: Outrigger: an ongoing adventure with the OR840

Posted on 2022-06-23, 00:40

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I left the bootloop with the restart running. And after some time i could see the desktop. Which means sometimes it can boot succesfully. This is not good. It is enough for today, I am tired now.

Re: Outrigger: an ongoing adventure with the OR840

Posted on 2022-06-23, 00:31

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

PentAmd wrote on 2022-06-23, 00:22: I am going to check the latest driver. Nope! From NVIDIA website the latest "93.71_forceware_winxp2k_international_whql" does not do better. Same problem.

Re: Outrigger: an ongoing adventure with the OR840

Posted on 2022-06-23, 00:22

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

After reboot everything was fine. I could see the spinning cube in the dxdiag :D My happyness was to early. After the next boot it happened again. For testing purpose I disabled the 2nd processor, and the Windows boot was successful, many times. I thought first that my 450W PSU was not good enough, …

Re: Outrigger: an ongoing adventure with the OR840

Posted on 2022-06-22, 22:56

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I need a workaround to solve the problem, or at least find the root cause. Update: I booted in VGA mode. And installed the Detonator W2K_XP_V29.90 Driver. After reboot everything was fine. I could see the spinning cube in the dxdiag :D During the driver install the SW asked me to replace some " …

Re: Outrigger: an ongoing adventure with the OR840

Posted on 2022-06-22, 22:03

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

After a restart the WinXP load picture shows up, and then as the 3 LEDs on the keyboard lit on, the system restarts. And it hapens over and over again in endless loop. I tried to instal WinXP SP2, but the same happenes. I selected "SOS" boot without GUI (Graphich User Interface) in the "msconfig", …

Re: Outrigger: an ongoing adventure with the OR840

Posted on 2022-06-22, 20:29

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Yesterday I Memtest-ed my intel OR840 motherboard with 4x512MB rambus (PC-800) memory. I received "new" memory moduls from EBay. I got now time to install a Windows XP SP3 on my OR840 with a dual 933MHz Pentium processor. I used a Matrox Millenium PCI VGA card for the first trial. The XP installer …

Re: Outrigger: an ongoing adventure with the OR840

Posted on 2022-06-09, 20:34

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

I investigated my last question by reading the manual of the i840 chipset from this PDF: http://ww.ic72.com/pdf_file/8/81828.pdf According to the picture below, there is only one shared address/data bus between the 2 processors. That means, no matter how fast our RAMBUS ram is, every time when CPU1 …

Re: A question for those with years of experience with UPS systems.

Posted on 2022-06-08, 11:48

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you buy an inverter for a solar panel installation that does not offer a correct sine wave, there are more likely to be problems, considering what is explained here. To answer your original question, I suggest to buy a solar system with battery, if the power grid in your area not adequate. The …

Re: Outrigger: an ongoing adventure with the OR840

Posted on 2022-06-08, 11:41

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Yesterday I Memtest-ed my intel OR840 motherboard with 4x512MB rambus (PC-800) memory. I received "new" memory moduls from EBay. The mobo is dual channel, so the max RAM speed must be about 3200 Megabytes/s According to the math: 400Mhz (memory base freq) * 2 (both edge of the clock) * 16bit (rambus …

Re: A question for those with years of experience with UPS systems.

Posted on 2022-06-08, 10:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm not even remotely an engineer, but I do know that the first part of the conversion to DC is a transformer, a bridge rectifier and a capacitor You are wrong in 2022. What you are writing was true in the 80s and 90s electronics. I was a kid in 1996 and I had my first Pentium (from 1994) which …

Re: A question for those with years of experience with UPS systems.

Posted on 2022-06-08, 09:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Output shape is important for modern computer PSUs with active PFC, which require at least good sine approximation with short switchover time in case of power failure. Pure sine wave is naturally the best but not strictly required. Very old UPSes might not provide output that is good enough for …

Re: A question for those with years of experience with UPS systems.

Posted on 2022-06-08, 09:31

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was shocked when I read that article. Even brand name UPS turned out to be horrible, high power consumption by themselves and the absence of the sine wave, not even anything close to it, have left me petrified. As an electrical engineer I can tell you in 2022 you don't need sine wave for consumer …

Searching a Digital (DEC) Pentium P5 Computer

Posted on 2022-06-06, 19:34

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hello! I try to find my first pc which was made in 1994-1995. It was a digital (dec) computer . By design It resembles to the venturis family (maybe it was ventiris). Inside on the motherboard there was a socket 5 pentium 75 processor with passive cooling. Next to it there was an empty socket 4 slot …

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