Re: Tweaking a fresh Windows ME install

Posted on 2016-05-25, 19:59

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by Tetrium

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Well I for one have found ME a better OS than 98SE. So I'm looking forward to your instructions and files. If I wanted DOS, I'd install DOS! lol Back when it was new, I went from MacOS 7.5 on PPC, and Windows 3.11 on a winchip 200 to Windows 2000 on a VERY early Compaq P4 1.5. But even stock I have …

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Re: Tweaking a fresh Windows ME install

Posted on 2016-05-25, 17:55

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by Tetrium

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I've always failed to see what Windows ME did that Windows98SE didn't. (From a retro perspective). Do you prefer Win98SE or WinME? Whats your reasoning? It's here http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=47562 If you want, I can answer any additional questions for you over there, I'd prefer this …

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Re: "White TARDIS" - 3-in-1 Pentium 133 Retro Gaming Rig

Posted on 2016-05-25, 17:53

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by Tetrium

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Yea everyone works a bit differently. I also tend to put the PSU in at a later stage :) I don't think that anyone who has shown to be able to know how to build solid rigs (like many of us do here on Vogons) will be doing it in the only right way, so to speak. Much also comes down to personal …

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Re: High-End AthlonXP Build-up

Posted on 2016-05-25, 17:46

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by Tetrium

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Yeah this thermaltake volcano copper one I have keeps it about 65c - 70c gaming @ 2.5 ghz, idles about 50c-55c, much better.. but still hot. I'd water cool this one if I could find a compatible block for it. Definitely needs it. I've considered de-lidding a Core2duo chip and putting intel's metal …

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Re: What is with the prices on retro cards lately? (not a sale/appreasal post)

Posted on 2016-05-25, 17:37

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by Tetrium

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Insistance on using blower style coolers is also a factor. They dont provide the cooling needed and have no place on hot, high end cards - yet they were the standard for years and when it comes to refrence models, still are. Mind if I ask what a blower style cooler is? :blush: You mean those large …

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Re: What is with the prices on retro cards lately? (not a sale/appreasal post)

Posted on 2016-05-25, 17:24

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by Tetrium

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Stop over paying for stuff, problem solved. If we all put our foot down , then the sellers will either stop selling stuff or lower the prices. I bought 20 odd some video card off ebay for about 35$. Then you have real life deals. I gotten hole PC for free to 5-10$ from folks around town. Put a want …

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Re: What is with the prices on retro cards lately? (not a sale/appreasal post)

Posted on 2016-05-25, 17:18

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by Tetrium

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Jade Falcon wrote: EDIT: or we could all come together and make a ebay like site just for retro tech stuff and have a rule about asking crazy prices for stuff. Isn't this what amibay kinda is about? If I'm ever gonna start selling stuff, chances are good it's gonna be over there.

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Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"

Posted on 2016-05-25, 17:15

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My first attempt is here Tetrium's guide to Windows ME It's still very very rough, but I figure it's a good start (though it could've been better I admit 😊 ).

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Tetrium's guide to Windows ME

Posted on 2016-05-25, 17:15

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Notice: Any discussion like "ME is crap, 98SE rocks" and "why would any sane man even want to bother with Mistake Edition" can be done over here http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=47562 I'd prefer this thread to not become a discussion thread, we all know how these tend to turn out. If anyone …

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Re: New Windows 98 Build

Posted on 2016-05-25, 16:00

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by Tetrium

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wouldnt you have to disable the mobo cache to make use of the processors cacheable size? I don't think this is necessary, both caches should be able to work simultaneously. Afaik the disabling of the motherboard cache is mostly done on purpose when overclocking the FSB, as the onboard L2 cache (or …

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Re: What is with the prices on retro cards lately? (not a sale/appreasal post)

Posted on 2016-05-25, 15:55

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by Tetrium

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Insistance on using blower style coolers is also a factor. They dont provide the cooling needed and have no place on hot, high end cards - yet they were the standard for years and when it comes to refrence models, still are. Mind if I ask what a blower style cooler is? :blush: You mean those large …

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Re: Athlon XP 1700+ Build

Posted on 2016-05-25, 15:17

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by Tetrium

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Pretty nice. I have one of those boards in the closet. Decent no frills board. I changed the HDD to on Maxtor DiamondMax 80GB and installed Windows XP. I plan buy a new Athlon XP 2400+ because it was the original CPU on this computer but it has fried itself to death. But thank you for the comment, …

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Re: Socket 3 & 4 PCI Graphics compatibility/buying guide

Posted on 2016-05-25, 15:04

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by Tetrium

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Hi, since I recently bought a ton of higher-end PCI Graphics cards, just to find out what works and what doesn't, I want to compile the Results here and potentialls save other people time, buying a card that works. Things to consider: Chipset of Motherboard, Type of Graphics card Soon, I will …

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Re: "White TARDIS" - 3-in-1 Pentium 133 Retro Gaming Rig

Posted on 2016-05-25, 14:13

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by Tetrium

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Watched your video and it's actually quite fun to do so. One funny thing is that your order of assemblage is different in the way that you mounted the PSU after you had already mounted all of the PCB stuff, while I tend to first mount the PSU and only after that I'll mount the motherboard and other …

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Re: The 100% via biuld? Thoughts/ideas?

Posted on 2016-05-25, 13:47

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by Tetrium

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I tried a ASUS CUV4X board with a couple of C3's, the 866MHz worked but BIOS I.D'd as a Pentium II, the 1.2GHz didn't work. Oddly the best motherboard I have fround for C3's so far used a SiS chipset! lol Which one? And what chips worked on that board? So far the only SiS chipsetted s370 boards I …

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Re: Windows Me - "Misunderstood Edition"

Posted on 2016-05-25, 13:34

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Fascinating post! I guess you had got a good Win Me experience because you where one of the few who actually installed it correctly. Part of ME's bad reputation was caused by fact it mainly shipped as an upgrade and people installed it on top of an earlier, possibly broken installation (it was also …

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Re: High-End AthlonXP Build-up

Posted on 2016-05-25, 12:12

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by Tetrium

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So apparently in my early testing last night I discovered that these 2.2 ghz Barton core chips run extremely darn hot. As a user of a brand new system build around an Athlon Xp 3200+ which wasn't technically my pc, but eventually evolved into the owner not really caring about this system as there …

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Re: Senrew's Late Win98 Machine

Posted on 2016-05-25, 11:09

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by Tetrium

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So how's your rig been holding out the past month? Your rig doesn't really need those high amps for your configuration, so that should be fine. I dunno about the PSU itself though (never heard of the Ultra brand before and the label looks kinda cheap). I'm kinda interested how your sound card is …

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Re: The "Nothing Special" P1 100MHz Box

Posted on 2016-05-25, 10:30

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by Tetrium

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You got this thing spec'd out brilliantly! You've definitely got some flexibility in there if you use setmul to manipulate cache, probably down to a slow 386, and if your CPU supports test register (TR) options, you can probably get it to perform like a 486 too. Nicely done! Agreed. Sometimes it's …

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Re: My Pentium Pro machine

Posted on 2016-05-25, 10:24

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by Tetrium

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Scali wrote: Tetrium wrote: Most important part is that the PPro is alive 😁. Off cores! This is Pro stuff! His rig only has a single cour though.

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