Re: Windows 95 OSR2.5 vs Windows 98 SE for a 486 build with 32MB of ram

Posted on 2020-09-04, 08:31

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by chinny22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The whole point of putting my 486 system together was pure nostalgia. I had one back in the day with a Pentium Overdrive 83MHz. Just reliving some fond memories. I guess it boils down to what an individual wants and for what purpose. To each his own. 486's especially are nostalgia boxes, they are …

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Re: 486 cache & CPU upgrade questions

Posted on 2020-09-03, 12:55

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Out of curiosity what BIOS options do you have for cache/RAM timings, and write-through vs. write-back L2 cache? I ask because I have a UM491F board where I have the trouble of not being able to go faster than 3-2-2-2, and write-back vs. write-through making no performance difference, and possibly …

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Re: SB16 Nirvana

Posted on 2020-09-03, 11:40

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ Sound

Are you hooking up external Midi device? if not that's one potential obstacle out the way. Quick and dirty way to check if it's a Vibra is to open mixerset, If your missing Bass,Treble,Reverb settings its a Vibra. Not a big issue if your powered speakers. If it was me I'd go with your preference and …

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Re: How do YOU mount your CF2IDE card?

Posted on 2020-09-03, 11:26

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

as all your front drive bays are spoken for and you don't want them sticking out the back... You could get the I/O mounted bracket style and mount that to the HDD bay with cable ties or whatever? Although as you have to open the case anyway, I'd prefer the ones that mount directly to the motherboard …

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Re: What is the purpose of "Restart into MS-DOS mode" for you ?

Posted on 2020-09-03, 10:55

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by chinny22

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Since the the 90's I used a PIF shortcut, I've never really used the inbuilt option. I cant remember why but it worked better at the time. This was out of necessity, a 486 didn't have the power to play games within windows. Even later I still played dos games in native dos, partly out of habit, …

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Re: Running games on Windowed Mode on Windows 98

Posted on 2020-09-03, 10:34

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by chinny22

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Some models had a button to cycle between the screens, usually Fn and one of the F keys. Simply closing the lid can force the primary screen to move to the external device. Another option quite common is the mirror rather then extend desktop so both screens show the same thing anyway. This all comes …

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Re: Should I invest in a UPS for my 486?

Posted on 2020-09-03, 10:20

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Been thinking the same thing, more so it acts as a big filter giving me nice clean power then uptime it's a good time to find them 2nd hand as well with more and more companies clearing out server rooms and moving into the "cloud" (stupid term) If you know anyone in the business you may be able to …

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Re: Advice for computing area.. garage a bad idea?

Posted on 2020-09-03, 10:01

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If that's all you got then that's all you got! I've got hardware that was stored in my parent's garage in Australia for 10+ years. Know it gets hot and enough humidity for a bit of surface rust to develop. plus general dust and dirt from dard working on his motorbikes, yet most hardware survived …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2020-09-03, 09:46

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Since everyone got sent home to work I've been using an old Dell 17" as a second screen. Few programs I use are obviously not 4:3 optimised but vast majority is fine and for the most part still prefer it over widescreen.

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Re: Gateway roadside rust bucket.

Posted on 2020-09-03, 09:31

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

For what it's worth, my Gateway from much later only gained a full screen Gateway splash screen after I updated the BIOS to the latest version. The earlier BIOS merely showed a small logo on boot up in the middle of the usual boot sequence. My Slot 1 and S370 systems had both options controlled in …

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Re: Recommend some 3d games to try on my POD100 Voodoo 2 system.

Posted on 2020-09-03, 09:17

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ Software

Carmageddon Need for Speed II Both of theses were 1 step to far for my DX2/66 so imagine would be good on a P100 with 3D Acceleration

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Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2020-09-03, 08:53

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This takes me back. I remember we had some distant relatives who owned a mill company. We were invited to them in 91. They had two xt clones at home and banana on the kitchen table. We had an Apricot at school and an Apple at home. Oh you mean an actual it of fruit, I was still just talking about …

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Re: Windows 95 OSR2.5 vs Windows 98 SE for a 486 build with 32MB of ram

Posted on 2020-09-03, 08:48

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Windows 95 will run better. But do not use OSR 2.5. It has Internet Explorer 4 and the associated bloated Shell Update (in which there is no shell, only Internet Explorer in file manager mode) which is 90% of what makes Win98 slower. Use OSR2 which has the USB update but no shell update. It is …

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Re: New to me - IBM Valuepoint 433DX/Sp

Posted on 2020-09-03, 08:29

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by chinny22

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Info seems to be pretty thin on motherboard specifics but all signs point to 3.3v only https://psref.lenovo.com/syspool/Sys/PDF/withdrawnbook/vpbook.pdf Cache chips are usually easy to buy, Video is a pain. You need to match the ram type (Looks to be DRAM in this case) and only source these days is …

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Re: Usability of this K7 3dfx Compaq I found and HW questions

Posted on 2020-08-28, 09:51

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by chinny22

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agree with everything already said. Slot A was dropped pretty quick by AMD so drivers aren't great and upgrades aren't cheap. They are however somewhat sort after by collectors so if you do decide to go with something else you may be better off selling this off complete. (You'll definitely get more …

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Re: 486 Pentium Overdrive build

Posted on 2020-08-28, 08:56

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by chinny22

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Nice list of hardware but no pics? :( Indeed the fact it came form an arcade machine is a nice little sidenote I own a DX2/66 5x85/133 POD83 Real world scenario in relation to gaming the faster CPU's aren't going in increase the number of games you can play. Anything that struggles on the 66 also …

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Re: Looking for Old Version of "Microsoft Upgrade Advisor" (floppy)

Posted on 2020-08-28, 08:38

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by chinny22

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in Milliways

Yeh when you mentioned it in the other post you jogged my memory but I had the preview (which if i remember right was kind of interactive demo?) What did you have to do in the game?

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Re: Today is Windows 95's 25th Birthday. Share your memories.

Posted on 2020-08-27, 16:43

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by chinny22

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When you put what if Win95 didn't happen like that it is interesting, especially if you remember NT 3.51 had only been released few months prior. People don't like change so imagine the upgrade path for the majority would still have been MS based dos to NT, rather then OS/2 but NT 3.51 was supposed …

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Re: New to me - IBM Valuepoint 433DX/Sp

Posted on 2020-08-27, 16:25

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by chinny22

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've actually removed the CD drive from 2 of my 486's that only have the 1 IDE channel. As long as you have large hard drives and networking setup you wont miss it, Most games that need a CD are better off on something a bit faster. but of course if you have the space then why not! You'll be doing …

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Re: Found a GXM-530D motherboard with GXm-266GP cpu and 128mb RAM. Cant find any info, worth keeping??

Posted on 2020-08-27, 15:40

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by chinny22

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hmm.. stupid question.. how do I connect keyboard to this motherboard? The odd big round contact? Mouse will be com port? Can I use an atari/amiga mouse? Not stupid, I didn't notice that either! Hard to tell with the photo but fair guess is that its a standard AT style keyboard, more technically …

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