Re: Best memories of Windows or OS?

Posted on 2019-05-19, 09:06

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by chinny22

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Good question, not best OS but best memory and surprisingly like most it's Win95! We had only had the PC for 3-6 months and got a legit Win95 OEM CD for $30au from a mates dad. Cant remember when but it was before December so was a VERY good deal. Installed it on our DX2/66 and hated as I didn't get …

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Re: AST BRAVO 486/25

Posted on 2019-05-19, 08:49

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by chinny22

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Does BIOS allow you to set your own HDD geometry or are you stuck using Type 1, Type 2, etc. I'm going to assume bios limit is 500MB going from the age of the PC but you can add something bigger and see how much is recognised as a simple test. I use a HDD for C:\ and CF for everything else. this way …

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Re: Compaq prolinea 486

Posted on 2019-05-19, 08:08

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by chinny22

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Another option is to snap the pin off the vga cable as cables are cheap. As everyone has said and you are noticing with the motherboard Compaq (pre HP merger) parts were always good quality it the non standard that's the only issue, but It'll accept isa cards, CPU's, IDE drives fine and the LPX form …

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Re: Duel Pentium Pro build

Posted on 2019-05-19, 07:43

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by chinny22

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superb build Chinny, luck you for that NIB motherboards. I'm fan of Pentium Pro's too. But why Nt 3.5 and not NT 4.0 with SP6 instead? Pentium PRO's will work little better on NT 4.0 in my opinion. Few reasons, I've already got NT4 on my Compaq Proliant 1600 with duel P3 600's running NT4, and to …

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Re: It is worth upgrading Pentium iii pc?

Posted on 2019-05-08, 14:24

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by chinny22

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The ES1370 is the same as the Soundblaster 64 PCI and about 1 step up. In dos the Es1370 emulates SB Pro vs SB16 of the Live! In Windows the Live will give you EAX support. The Live was released back when Win98 was king although perfectly fine for XP. I'd choose an Audigy or more specifically Audigy …

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Re: FB Marketplace Gateway Rebuild - Beginner Build Log!

Posted on 2019-05-07, 11:49

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by chinny22

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First off I would remove everything accept for video and 1 stick of ram and see how far you get. Your not even getting as far as "no OS installed insert a boot disk" so your not even passing the post test. If it fails try a different stick of ram, basically you want to be REALLY confident your ram …

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Re: Duel Pentium Pro build

Posted on 2019-05-07, 11:40

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by chinny22

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What made you want to have two Pentium processors fight each other? Is it going to be Mortal Kombat rules or Street Fighter rules? Fight? They are best buddies ;) I checked the serial numbers almost consecutive! L7513157-0189 and L7513157-0191 Looks great man, although either the camera lens is …

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Re: A 440BX platform with Asus P3B-F

Posted on 2019-05-07, 10:36

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by chinny22

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I actually prefer the large passive heat sinks, As your talking about front panel connectors I'm guessing you are using a modern case. As long as you have good airflow you don't need to worry. Re the front USB and Audio connectors, they didn't exist back then. You can get PCI USB cards with an …

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Re: FB Marketplace Gateway Rebuild - Beginner Build Log!

Posted on 2019-05-07, 10:20

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by chinny22

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Have you cleared the bios? Manual will tell you how but basically: 1) Pull the battery and set the jumper (probably the one closest to the battery) 2) Turn it on, system should boot just like normal. Go into bios, set to defaults, Save and shutdown. 3) Put Jumper and battery back, system should boot …

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Re: What would be the fastest XP Setup with XP Era Hardware - theoretically?

Posted on 2019-05-07, 10:11

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by chinny22

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I'd say Socket 775 was the end of XP Era (or 771 if we want to include workstations) Alot of these were downgraded to XP for whatever reason. SLI isnt as easy as you would think as SLI was dropped well before the cards were. I found this out the hard way when I got 2 GTX 590's. The card is supported …

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Re: SE440BX-2 BIOS

Posted on 2019-05-07, 09:37

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by chinny22

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The BX-3 is the "OEM" motherboard for the likes of gateway, Dell. The BX-2 is the "official" Intel board which is why you don't have any logo's If you don't have a floppy, you can use a HDD, just make sure you bypass the startup files by pressing Shift F5. (that's all the boot disk is doing) …

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Re: K8U-X build

Posted on 2019-05-07, 09:24

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by chinny22

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Well it's different. Case is real nice though

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Re: Best video card advice for AMD 5x86 ?

Posted on 2019-05-07, 09:07

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by chinny22

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Problem is even a 5x86 struggles at 3D so really you'll be focusing on 2D You could try out some of those early 3d API's that didn't kick off https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=33483 S3 Virge S3D is the most interesting as it has the most games, I have this in my 5x86, the games run but struggle …

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Re: It is worth upgrading Pentium iii pc?

Posted on 2019-05-07, 08:57

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by chinny22

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Like others have said if you want a noticeable difference you'll need to get something with a larger difference in Mhz. Upgrading from Katmai to Coppermine isn't going to make much difference in real world gaming. I'm assuming the 1GHz machine is 133 FSB, which will give it a bit of a boost against …

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Re: The best PPro system (HP Vectra VA with cooling mods)

Posted on 2019-05-07, 08:36

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by chinny22

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Nice rig, Heat is why I moved to modern cases. My duel PPro for instance runs cool to touch with an Antec 3000 case. Although I totally understand the appeal of period cases with bad airflow. besides if was good enough back then then it should be good enough now. Adding modern fans with better …

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2019-05-02, 08:45

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by chinny22

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My little bit of the haul is up and running if people are interested in what happened to some of this stuff Duel Pentium Pro build

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Duel Pentium Pro build

Posted on 2019-05-02, 08:40

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by chinny22

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So here is my little part of the Great PPro Haul of 2018 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=62788 The Motherboard, CPU’s, Ram were all NIB from the haul. 2 200Mhz 1MB CPU’s and 4 sticks of 64MB EDO RAM. That was the motherboard maxed out. Also got the VRM and heat sinks off liqmat as well. …

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Re: IPX network on MS-DOS

Posted on 2019-04-30, 13:21

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by chinny22

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethernet_frame#Novell_raw_IEEE_802.3 Gives an idea what all this is and why. but in over simplified terms 802.3 was Novell's non standard packet while 802.2 was the standardised fall back. Think of it like TCP/IPv4 & TCP/IPv6. Even though they are both TCP protocol, if …

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Re: IPX network on MS-DOS

Posted on 2019-04-29, 21:10

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by chinny22

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Try this the V3.80 files should be fine https://support.advantech.com/support/DownloadSRDetail_New.aspx?SR_ID=1%2BGE%2B482&Doc_Source=Download You want the files in NWClient\DOS folder. copy them into same folder as lsl and ipxodi The "Missing "net.cfg" is actually here as it's part of the NIC …

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Re: Games not detecting CD Rom ? Windows 98

Posted on 2019-04-29, 20:58

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by chinny22

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ah redbook, yeh that does complicate things. You can get cd audio with daemon tools but need WDM drivers. I'm a EAX kinda guy so I'm screwed as well. So its a clean install + SP3 with with all cards pulled out accept video? In which case it cant be the sound card conflicting. Yeh guess you could try …

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