Re: Is the interest in retro PC hardware is decreasing?

Posted on 2024-11-12, 19:09

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Me removing the build has nothing to do with the fact they thought it was a dumb build which in all honesty, running 2 18 year old cards in SLI with a custom water loop is dumb, but doesn’t that make everything else we collect, build and love, all the software we emulate and run on our hardware …

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Re: Weird Issue With RTL8139 in Windows 98

Posted on 2024-10-27, 10:05

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It's maddening when this kind of thing happens. - Just to be clear as it's a long thread: is 98se reporting the card is working (yet you don't get a connection) or is it saying the card has a problem? - if windows is saying it's working, then go through your network connection settings as maybe …

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Re: Weird Issue With RTL8139 in Windows 98

Posted on 2024-10-24, 17:37

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Sure, I took it as a general possibility that one OS could mess things up for another OS in some arcane way involving card eeproms, hot and cold boots etc.

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Re: Weird Issue With RTL8139 in Windows 98

Posted on 2024-10-24, 15:46

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Maybe look at this thread RTL8139 works in Win98SE, but unreliable in DOS (or DOS mode)?.

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Re: Weird Issue With RTL8139 in Windows 98

Posted on 2024-10-24, 12:23

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Could this be a chipset driver issue?

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Re: Can untested AGP card damage a 478 motherboard?

Posted on 2024-10-19, 10:13

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MikeSG wrote on 2024-10-19, 09:29: The long 48 pin IC underneath the gold northbidge heatsink appears to have some golden legs - does this get IC get hot when the PC is running? Seems to be the clock generator according to the link above.

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Re: LGR's home severely damaged by Hurricane Helene

Posted on 2024-10-19, 09:48

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what tune should i sing that post along to, its structure seemed like a song/poem ? :) (i know, not a relevant response really, just an impression i got from seeing it) Maybe "Whistle While You Doomscroll", it's like "Whistle While You Work" with a chorus from Chopin's Funeral March.

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Re: Favorite Cleaning Solution for Circuit Boards (the really dirty)

Posted on 2024-10-14, 11:44

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the water here is very hard and leaves marks wherever it dries - basically limescale. i saw somewhere to spray with iso-propyl alcohol after washing with water, to drive the water out.

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Re: windows 98 on low end modern ish laptop drive no longer showing up

Posted on 2024-10-13, 21:20

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aw nice, good luck with that - glad you got 98 working again.

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Re: windows 98 on low end modern ish laptop drive no longer showing up

Posted on 2024-10-13, 09:32

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if your new partition was a primary one, it could change the partition numbering of logical drives in an extended partition. i thought 98 had to be on a primary partition, but if it was installed on a logical drive in an extended partition, and the 30gb space was at the end of the drive, that might …

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Re: windows 98 on low end modern ish laptop drive no longer showing up

Posted on 2024-10-12, 20:39

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if the problem started after you created another partition, that's where i would start.

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Re: windows 98 on low end modern ish laptop drive no longer showing up

Posted on 2024-10-12, 20:06

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so... - you had 7 installed already - there was free space so you created a 30gb partition and installed 98 there - you were able to boot into 98 at that point - but then you changed something and now you can't boot into 98, you get the error about being unable to find command.com - but you can …

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Re: windows 98 on low end modern ish laptop drive no longer showing up

Posted on 2024-10-12, 18:55

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i do not follow i'm afraid, what do you mean "booted back into usb"? you have a single, 160gb drive in your laptop? you already have 7 installed on that hard drive? and now when you boot into 7 you can see the 98 partition? but you can't boot 98 itself? it would probably help if you set out what …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-10-11, 12:26

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I found the card! It’s a Videologic SonicVortex 2. Nice, thanks, always confused me about what was or wasn't a Superquad so it's good to get to the bottom of it. When I used the card it worked fine, drivers installed, 3D audio worked. Think I switched from a Santa Cruz to this and then stopped …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2024-10-11, 11:08

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Got this card. Sold as “Aureal Vortex 2 SQ2500” but the SQ2500 had the B0 revision not the A2. Does anyone know what it is? ABD9BC06-6ED4-47A5-8C71-AD263862D036.jpeg That looks the same as my first aureal vortex card which I decided must be this http://www.gamesfirst.com/articles/aureal_vortex2/ …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2024-10-11, 08:58

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Dimitris1980 wrote on 2024-10-06, 11:04: Today's pictures of my retro living room That is pretty what I planned to have one day, great stuff!

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Re: Problems with AGP in Soyo 5ehm 1.3

Posted on 2024-10-11, 08:56

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Living wrote on 2024-10-11, 00:22: same problem maybe its sp3 that dont work very well with SS7 and MVP3? i may try sp1 Did you reinstall the voodoo driver afterwards? In 98, I had to do that after installing the chipset drivers.

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Re: Dynamic Pictures Oxygen 202 drivers

Posted on 2024-10-11, 08:43

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Irinikus on irixnet seems to have one running in a DEC AlphaStation https://forums.irixnet.org/thread-1058.html

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Re: windows 98 on low end modern ish laptop drive no longer showing up

Posted on 2024-10-10, 22:47

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This may give you some clues: https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=63961

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Re: Problems with AGP in Soyo 5ehm 1.3

Posted on 2024-10-10, 22:44

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Have you installed the VIA 4-in-1 driver such as you find here https://theretroweb.com/chipsets/497#driver

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