Re: Socket A (462) motherboard recommendations

Posted on 2023-08-30, 15:24

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One might argue that for your specs, some stable, good quality KT266A or KT333 board is completely enough. There are just so many of them. Read some old reviews from Anandtech and similar sites, they have good roundups of different boards. Are you using a PCI sound card and do you plan to use it …

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Socket A (462) motherboard recommendations

Posted on 2023-08-28, 13:18

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Hi, the motherboard (Gigabyte ga-7vtxe+) in my rig died recently due to a careless mistake (shot-circuit) and I am looking to get a good replacement. The motherboard would need to support an Athlon XP 1700+ and with a chipset able to cache at least 512mb, in a 2 x 256mb PC2100 (DDR-266) …

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Re: TexElec Quad-Flop (FDC) and Windows 95

Posted on 2023-08-17, 16:46

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Tested DC2.SYS and DRIVER.SYS instead of SDRIVE.SYS. Tests are not conclusive. As an end result: - sdrive.sys works but will affect all drives performance on Win95 by switching to MS-DOS compatibility mode (drives do not appear anymore in device manager) - dc2.sys detects the drive installed as 1st …

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Re: TexElec Quad-Flop (FDC) and Windows 95

Posted on 2023-08-17, 07:06

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Thanks for the link to the driver! I will give it a try. DC2.SYS was previously shared on the forum. Oh Cool, thanks. I had missed that. Thanks again for your help, SDRIVE.SYS did the trick! With ROM disabled 3rd & 4th floppy drives are recognized on DOS and Win95. Although at 1st boot Win95 …

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Re: TexElec Quad-Flop (FDC) and Windows 95

Posted on 2023-08-16, 17:07

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With rom disabled indeed Win95 can boot and read from 1st & 2nd FDD. 3rd & 4th drive are not recognized. The link to SDRIVE.SYS is unfortunately dead, there seems to be an alternative according to this guide http://www.seasip.info/VintagePC/floppies.html DC2.SYS can add bios support for 2 more …

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Re: TexElec Quad-Flop (FDC) and Windows 95

Posted on 2023-08-16, 16:07

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I'm guessing that disabling the quad flop card bios will allow win95 to start without problems. Unsure though if you can then get access to the 3rd & 4th floppy drive. According to https://texelec.com/product/quad-flop-four-port-isa-floppy-controller/ there is a driver to allow access to the 3rd & …

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Re: TexElec Quad-Flop (FDC) and Windows 95

Posted on 2023-08-15, 16:40

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disaster wrote on 2023-08-15, 13:26: Ok, so first thing - did you disable on-board controller? Yes I did, that is one of the requirement to get the FDC chip to work. Win95 can boot and initialize with 2 FDDs connected to the card but won't boot with 4 FFDs connected.

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Re: Graphics card drivers required in MS-DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2023-08-15, 16:33

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Tomb Raider ... w/o patch ... freezes Just to clarify, that'd be the default, non-accelerated exe? Odd. That one should run anywhere (but look "terrible", obviously). Did you try it without the s3drun wrapper? Btw you can switch the game to high res mode (still software rendered though) by pressing …

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Re: Graphics card drivers required in MS-DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2023-08-15, 15:29

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Thanks for a lot for the information about the drivers and S3D toolkit, for now I could only try Tomb Raider with and w/o patch + S3DRUN wrapper on the Virge VX but the game freezes right after the first EIDOS load screen. I hope it is not a compatibility issue with the VX as it is reported to work …

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Re: TexElec Quad-Flop (FDC) and Windows 95

Posted on 2023-08-15, 12:04

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Oh, I can see that this is brand new product. Did you buy it "as is" or did you assemble it yourself? Do you have information about that project? It was already assembled, link to the shop https://texelec.com/product/quad-flop-four-port-isa-floppy-controller/ And a link to a review https://youtu.be …

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Graphics card drivers required in MS-DOS 6.22?

Posted on 2023-08-15, 11:59

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I am new to using MS-DOS 6.22 and would like to install 1 of 2 graphics cards available. - ELSA S3 VIRGE VX (preferred option among the 2 cards) - Diamond Fire GL1000 Pro All drivers that I could find are for Win9x. Although the instruction found in the Virge driver folder indicates 2 files S3DRUN. …

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Re: TexElec Quad-Flop (FDC) and Windows 95

Posted on 2023-08-15, 00:40

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I have tried with both settings enabled/disabled for PnP as I am not sure if the card is PnP. Either state does not seem to affect the card or help Win95 to initialize. The card has one FDC chip to manage all 4 drives. There are also DIP switches to set different parameters which I think are set …

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TexElec Quad-Flop (FDC) and Windows 95

Posted on 2023-08-14, 15:50

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I recently build a computer with four floppy drives using the Quad-Flop ISA card. While it took me some time to set it properly (due to lack of knowledge at my end), the controller card works wonders and allows me to manage multiple disk format on a single computer. The card works fine in MS-DOS 6. …

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Re: Win98 with Socket A ga-7vtxe+ / nusb33e nusb36e error

Posted on 2023-07-29, 01:53

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Tried the 2.2 driver after installing the OS, but it did not work. The motherboard and the driver do not seem to be compatible and I'll leave it at that. There are other ways to quickly transfer files. Thanks again for your help!

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Re: Win98 with Socket A ga-7vtxe+ / nusb33e nusb36e error

Posted on 2023-07-28, 23:10

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It manual it says what to do in the readme file. Native USB (NUSB) 2.2.1 update Only .INF file!!! Use only after installation of the NUSB 2.2 ! For installation copy the file USBSTOR.INF in the hidden catalogue folder WINDOWS\INF\ and replace the old file. I mean the NUSB 2.2 (not the update) does …

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Re: Win98 with Socket A ga-7vtxe+ / nusb33e nusb36e error

Posted on 2023-07-28, 17:50

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There is no .exe so 2.2e is a manual install? meaning that I need to indicate the folder when win98 prompts for driver after detecting the new device?

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Re: Win98 with Socket A ga-7vtxe+ / nusb33e nusb36e error

Posted on 2023-07-28, 17:15

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Is it 98 or 98se ? The NUSB is for 98se, I dont think it works on regualar 98 I could be wrong. Try the NUSB 2.2 Drivers from this page. You could of corrupted the install though and may have to reinstall windows before you try. The newer NUSB drivers, go to0 far imo they start adding files from XP …

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Win98 with Socket A ga-7vtxe+ / nusb33e nusb36e error

Posted on 2023-07-28, 15:51

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Hi, I ran into issues setting up the USB drivers in Windows 98 for the below rig. Socket A ga-7vtxe+ (chipset VIA KT266A), Athlon XP 1700+, 256mb of ram. Win98 runs perfectly fine, until I install the nusb drivers, tried with both 33e and 36e. I must mention that I follow the installation procedure …

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Socket 478 WinXP

Posted on 2023-07-22, 05:45

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I see that P4 with socket 478 are mostly used for Win98, but it is my WinXP rig below. P4P800 with P4 3.0GHz and 2GB DDR400 (2 Dual Channels) GeForce 6800 GS 256mb by XFX for Graphics and SB X-Fi for sound. The C drive is set to RAID0 thru dedicated VIA IDE RAID controller with 2 IDE 80gb Seagate …

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Re: Graphic card and SDRAM recommendation for MSI MS-5158 motherboard

Posted on 2023-07-16, 06:20

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Just a quick update on the socket 7 build and parts I did received so far. The seller finally sent the Ms-5158 and it works well. I flashed the patched bios as recommended above. Indeed it does now recognize the 80gb HDD. Chassis and power fan pin headers are not populated so I'll work on that next. …

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