Re: Original Bitcoin Client works on Windows NT?

Posted on 2023-09-11, 13:25

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Thanks for technical explanation on things! I suspected that win nt 3.51 would be too old. Also as you mentioned, Dependency Walker may not be ideal experimentally speaking because the client could want SSE. Not sure how to check that. I wonder which service pack for NT 4 is needed to run the early …

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Re: Original Bitcoin Client works on Windows NT?

Posted on 2023-09-11, 06:15

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It states that first few versions of Bitcoin client support windows NT (check this link) https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Original_Bitcoin_client also this link, scroll down to see NT being mentioned https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoind#cite_note-76 I am curious as to which of the Windows NT (3.1 / 3.5 / …

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Re: dISAppointment - LPC to ISA adapter - ISA on modern motherboards

Posted on 2023-09-08, 13:33

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Would the TPM header on the MSI A520M-A PRO be compatible with this adapter? I'm afraid most 500 series motherboards have switched to use SPI TPMs so the LPC bus is no longer exposed anymore. To find out whether the board's TPM slot is SPI or LPC, check the motherboard manual and look for TPM- …

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Re: dISAppointment - LPC to ISA adapter - ISA on modern motherboards

Posted on 2023-09-08, 00:56

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Also I should add that other ports (e.g. soundblaster base port at 0x220) also abort so this isn't just a problem with the port used for the fintek chip Since Ryzen the FCH is in the CPU not the chipset, so in theory the chipset you're using should not matter. I'm not sure about any possibly …

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Re: dISAppointment - LPC to ISA adapter - ISA on modern motherboards

Posted on 2023-09-07, 04:07

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One thing you can try is make the chip react to 2E+2F instead, by pulling pin 128 low, perhaps 4E+4F are indeed blocked by something... Assuming it is available. Both of these addresses are used by SuperIO components from what I have seen. Can more than one LPC device share the same register? By …

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Re: Quadro FX 1000 Repair

Posted on 2023-09-05, 13:28

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Not sure if the circuit beneath the regulator is still okay... A regulator should never be *that* hot. It's obviously fried, as its surroundings are turning brown. I once had a sound card suddenly stopped working (BSOD) and then it could no longer be recognized, and I found a fried regulator that …

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Re: Good places to find game patches since patches-scrolls.de is down?

Posted on 2023-09-05, 08:48

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It pointed here: https://www.patches-scrolls.de/patch/3348/7/29726 Just tried that page on Archive and I was not able to reach the actual file... after all, Internet Archive is not that good when it comes to JavaScript-powered pages. Sharedigger.com can be useful when looking up specific filenames. …

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Re: Good places to find game patches since patches-scrolls.de is down?

Posted on 2023-09-05, 00:17

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I was trying to find the 3.2 patch for Michelin Rally Masters: Race of Champions, and while PCGamingWiki is usually pretty good about hosting patches themselves, their link to the patch is hosted on patches-scrolls.de which is currently down. Are there any other good patch sources (other than this …

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Re: NVIDIA Kepler/Maxwell/Pascal VESA Bios Bug (workaround found)

Posted on 2023-09-02, 05:02

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Can you test dike3d on your card with mskvbef7(from 1st message in this thread) and without? Compare fps pls (type 'dnrate' while in game to show) It seems MSKVBEF7 can significantly improve performance even on my Quadro 2000, and fixes (not frequent) flicker issue when playing DUKE3D on 800x600. …

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Re: NVIDIA Kepler/Maxwell/Pascal VESA Bios Bug (workaround found)

Posted on 2023-09-01, 13:38

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Hmm, seems i has a bug in psave Please try again this Tried your second PSAVE on my system. Looks like it's producing something useful. I'm getting a 395-byte PMTABLE.BIN file with more contents. In case something might be different depending on system configurations, I did two PSAVE under the same …

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Re: dISAppointment - LPC to ISA adapter - ISA on modern motherboards

Posted on 2023-09-01, 00:47

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It's still passing port 0x80 to a test card but port 4E won't respond to anything. AFAIK in the past some motherboard vendors including ASUS do have boards with TPM slots that double as a debug card connector when not using it for TPM, and they also made such debug cards before. Don't know if this …

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Re: NVIDIA Kepler/Maxwell/Pascal VESA Bios Bug (workaround found)

Posted on 2023-08-30, 13:35

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I have an idea. If someone with gtx5xx or 4xx can extract and post here protected mode procedures from his videocard, then i will look at this and try test and adopt to newer cards. So i hope we will have working doublebuffering. So, if you want to help, download attached psave.com , run it and it …

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Re: NVIDIA vbe function 0A fix for gtx 9xx and newer For warcraft II and maybe other games

Posted on 2023-08-28, 05:17

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Excellent work. I wonder if there are any detailed tools to test the functionality of the functions in question after applying this fix. Does this fix supersede MSKVBEF7, or that both fixes can coexist?

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Re: A useless short analysis on PCIX to PCIe bridge performance on Tualatin

Posted on 2023-08-19, 03:39

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I put it right into a pcie slot if I recall on the core2 setup Okay, but getting only a few kBps is definitely not normal. Did you try this on a more recent Linux distro? Debian Jessie is quite dated. I think it was around late 3.x kernel and I'm not sure how NVMe worked with that generation of …

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Re: A useless short analysis on PCIX to PCIe bridge performance on Tualatin

Posted on 2023-08-19, 03:22

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No, I was just talking just about NVME for some reason NVME on PCI express lanes is very CPU speed dependent. It seems other storage technologies aren’t as dependent. (with dma and whatnot) Like I said when I tried it, it seems as if it was always running into some sort of cursed PIO mode.. I mean …

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Re: A useless short analysis on PCIX to PCIe bridge performance on Tualatin

Posted on 2023-08-18, 09:02

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In my tests with the pcie to nvme adapter it seemed the transfer speed was very dependent on cpu power which makes it a non starter for retro PCI-X definitely isn't that slow for a pair of 1.4GHz Tualatins. On my P3TDL3, I was able to reach near full SATA2 speed (~300MB/s) with a SATA SSD connected …

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Re: A useless short analysis on PCIX to PCIe bridge performance on Tualatin

Posted on 2023-08-18, 04:28

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Oh we are talking nvme on adapters now? :p hehe. Unfortunately I have come to ruin the dream :( once upon a couple years ago I tried it. If you want to try it grab yourself debian jessie and a boot drive for grub and plop an adapter in that adapter and plug in the nvme. When I tried it, it did seem …

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Re: A useless short analysis on PCIX to PCIe bridge performance on Tualatin

Posted on 2023-08-18, 02:49

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How about the real deal: _20230817_234618.JPG _20230817_234702.JPG _20230817_234401.JPG _20230817_234559.JPG Yeah, that's exactly what I'm thinking about. Glad to see the real thing existed. It's not just modern RAID controllers (HBAs). Provided the adapter being reliable enough one could put a …

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Re: Audigy 2ZS and Windows 3.11?

Posted on 2023-08-16, 07:26

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Good afternoon! I was wondering if Sound Blaster has Dos driver for Sound Blaster 16 emulation, then, should it be able to be used in Windows 3.11? I never tried but I doubt Windows 3.x could utilize a sound card's legacy emulation using its default Creative driver (regardless of vendor)... And I'm …

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Re: A useless short analysis on PCIX to PCIe bridge performance on Tualatin

Posted on 2023-08-16, 02:27

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I have this vague memory of user sdz making something along those lines with a mention of releasing schematic & pcb, though the exact post is lost to me. He does have a reverse one, pciex4 to pci on his website. http://sdz-mods.com/ Would be great if he sold those. I didn't find it. The problem is …

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