Re: Help me pick parts for 486dx4

Posted on 2018-05-17, 23:15

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by chinny22

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I'd say go with what you can get. The motherboard will be the hardest thing to get for a fair price. Once you find that you'll have a clearer idea of where to go regarding ISA/VLB/PCI graphics. Sound will be isa no matter what. DX4 is too new for a creative sound blaster pro IMHO, I would go with a …

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Re: Questions about a P4 build

Posted on 2018-05-17, 22:49

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by chinny22

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Good work on cracking the 4GB issue. I gave up on my similar P4 Win98/XP PC and got the rlowe patch. I've Since used it on another 2 builds so feel I've gotten value out of my purchase but always feel like I took the easy way out. I guess the "full support" is if you use raid (if this motherboard …

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Re: Got myself a Mac G4 -Help!

Posted on 2018-05-17, 16:20

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by chinny22

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@Jo22 Good point about backward compatibility not being an issue with an entire separate OS for that! Keeping an eye of for a Ti4600, well not really but I like the idea of one but not the price. Otherwise the currant video card will do. Have no desire to flash a GF2 or anything like that. @ …

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Re: Avoid Warcraft 2 DOS/4GW Pro throws error?

Posted on 2018-05-17, 15:31

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by chinny22

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So its not end of the world but another good reason to battlenet instead. The downside is that in DOS version you have real MIDI music which you can play with whatever fancy synth you may happen to have, while the Windows version has pre-rendered .WAV files of "well... okay" quality. The original …

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Re: Very frustrated with Win95 - Boot failure - Help!

Posted on 2018-05-17, 15:15

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by chinny22

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The shutdown issue is well known and only fixed in WinME, so its not just your PC. (I don't know If that is good or bad news though) You are correct that Dos7 but you wont notice unless your tying to say run some old strange bit of hardware like a printer or scanner, use Dos antivirus, or other …

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Re: Best DOS/3.1x applications from the early 90's?

Posted on 2018-05-17, 14:47

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by chinny22

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Got our first PC around the same time I'd say (1995) and it was upgraded to Win95 end of year just as we got dial up internet as well. School still had Win3.x and what I remember from before the upgrade. Dos Qbasic and gorillas Dos Shell Both of these were on the "Dos supplemental disk" from memory …

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Re: PSA: HP is deleting old product pages/drivers from their website

Posted on 2018-05-17, 14:18

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by chinny22

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yeh its ashame most companies are doing this. But I lost all respect from HP when they announced you cant download BIOS updates unless its covered by a valid warranty. I'm ok with existing hardware, but newly acquired hardware down the track will become a drag.

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Re: Build Log: 486 DX2 66 with S3 Vision 964 VLB, SB16, and GUS Classic

Posted on 2018-05-17, 13:55

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by chinny22

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I'm actually jealous of the case. You have the option to upgrade to a dX4/100 or above now! But a DX2/66 VLB is always a nice thing to have 😀

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Re: Need a NE2000 setup/config program

Posted on 2018-05-17, 13:45

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by chinny22

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Sorry I don't, and cant find any drivers for it at home. I guess its something I lost when I repartitioned the wrong HDD a few years ago and haven't noticed I'm missing them as I've got plenty of brand name cards now. I remember I got it going, changed something and it didn't work again, so just …

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Re: Gateway 2000 486dx-33 Restoration

Posted on 2018-05-17, 13:15

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by chinny22

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Re the Hard drive. You can use drive overlay software to get around the limitation, Phils computer lab has a video on it as well as more info here somewhere. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Edmg43t28jg I'd upgrade the CPU. you can always take it back to original once you find a motherboard. Rest of …

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Got myself a Mac G4 -Help!

Posted on 2018-05-10, 16:27

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by chinny22

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I've been kicking round the idea of getting an old Mac for awhile but it was never more then an idea, something I'll do someday until I found a beige G3 in a dumpster along with a Slot A PC. The Slot A was complete, just missing the HDD but the Mac was missing some of its casing, HDD and most …

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Re: DOS packet drivers for 3COM 3C515-TX?

Posted on 2018-05-10, 15:07

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by chinny22

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https://files.elektroda.pl/537642,3c515.html Don't have the card so haven't tried any though

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Re: Recommend me a cheap keyboard switch

Posted on 2018-05-10, 14:49

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by chinny22

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If you can find a cheap kvm, you could still get that and just not attach the mouse or screen.

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Re: Is it Time to Consider Resurrecting DOS Games' VR Capabilities?

Posted on 2018-05-10, 14:45

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by chinny22

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That issue seems similar to the triple-monitor support in DOOM : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2TG7VCms3Q You can see distortions in the walls near the seams, as if there was insufficient overlapping done. That's probably due to Doom viewing angle been 90 degrees from each screen, which in real …

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Re: Dual Booting Windows 98 and XP

Posted on 2018-05-10, 14:22

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by chinny22

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I'd also use fdisk, your 100% guaranteed Windows will understand the partitioning then Create a 20GB primary partition, set as active as mentioned above Create a extended partition, assign it the rest of your HDD create 2 logical drives, 20GB and 40GB (or other way around see below) Format c: and …

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Re: MY 486 won't accept my CD-rom drives :(

Posted on 2018-05-10, 13:57

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by chinny22

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Just relied to your Windows post as well. A lot of your problems will go away once you have a good working combination to build off. As your finding out a lot of this old hardware is down to finding the right combination of parts. Quite often 2 bits of hardware simply didn't like each other. I would …

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Re: Windows 3.11 Workgroups fails after splash screen

Posted on 2018-05-10, 13:46

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by chinny22

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strip it back to basics just the motherboard, minimal ram, standard VGA remove 1 of the floppy's, soundcard, ontrack so as little as possible can go wrong. you can slowly build the system up part by part and see where it all goes wrong. You didn't say are you using an actual HDD or some kind of CF …

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Re: Why I sold all my Voodoo rigs

Posted on 2018-05-10, 13:38

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by chinny22

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If your happy with the price and they were happy with the price then it was a good deal. I get it though, sometimes I really want to just play a game on a specific PC just for something not to work. but then other times I'm in the fixing mood and everything is working perfectly. If you want that old …

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Re: Yet Another P4 Win98/ME Build

Posted on 2018-05-10, 13:30

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by chinny22

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Looks to be a good build. I have 3 Audigy 2 ZS cards. Fairly common, last card to support WIn98 but great WinXP compatibility as well. Drivers are pretty straight forward, accept for the WDM/VXD side of things for Win98, but this doesn't affect WinME CPU is plenty fast for WinME, I doubt anything …

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Re: My builds, parts and doubts...

Posted on 2018-05-10, 13:16

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by chinny22

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As you already have a XP and Win98 PC you could make the P2 a crazy fast Dos/ Win3x PC. All your Video cards have good DOS compatibility and 3.x drivers. Otherwise I'd turn the P4 into a Win2k PC as that OS is actually plays 90% of WIn9x games fine and loads more stable (and gives you an excuse for …

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