Re: A beast of a computer - Compaq Deskpro 84'

Posted on 2018-06-21, 13:03

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by chinny22

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I agree, amazing PC. Although first thing I thought was it must sound great starting up with the authentic floppy and HDD sounds on boot. Although I think its better using/enjoying hardware rather then letting it sit unused and it will still fail eventually. You could always boot off the HDD and run …

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Re: Voodoo 2 SLI "what was I missing back then?" build

Posted on 2018-06-21, 12:42

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by chinny22

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Hated these PC's back then, well the case design anyway. Even still they represent what a lot of people had back then (my parents been one) so its good a few are around in the wild I spose. Even 600Mhz is fast enough for a lot of Direct 3D Games, I would also go with what vandymachine said. I didn't …

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Re: Sound card not working + built in audio

Posted on 2018-06-21, 12:29

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by chinny22

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Plus removing the chip wont guarantee the motherboard still wont detect the soundcard, even if the chip is missing. Much better to work out what resources the onboard device is using and work around them. Do you have an option to turn PNP off? that way you can set the resources manually. Early PNP …

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Re: 486 Cooling

Posted on 2018-06-21, 12:15

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by chinny22

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Even back then the most common way was to glue the heatsink on the CPU. If it was good enough for the period I think your ok.

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Re: Easiest way into "authentic" DOS gaming - recommend me some hardware!

Posted on 2018-06-21, 12:07

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by chinny22

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386 era games will be more aimed at adlib (Yamaha OPL) and SB Pro. SB16 and greater reverse the stereo so watch out for that. There is a post around here for adding CMS support to Sound Blaster 2 cards, but cant for the life of me find it now! However Nerdy pleasures lists the cards that are …

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Re: New Voodoo2 SLI build!

Posted on 2018-06-21, 11:18

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by chinny22

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Ha that green things sounds familiar, I almost did the same thing for awhile as well. I'd actually say your currant setup is pretty good, depending where you want the bottleneck to be and maxing out the Voodoo's is a pretty good option A PII 233 is an uncommon choice and will have plenty of power to …

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Re: AMD K6 3+ vs. P3 500mhz.

Posted on 2018-06-21, 10:53

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by chinny22

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If your using a Voodoo3 and sound Blaster Live I would go with a P3 as it will be fast enough for Win9x Glide games that the Voodoo is better suited for. And with that AWE64 in the isa slot you will still be able to drop back into pure dos and play majority of DOS games, and even then sometimes you …

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Re: Question about Windows versions

Posted on 2018-06-14, 23:22

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by chinny22

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The very original release of Myst needs 3.x apparently, but our copy we purchased sometime in the mid 90's ran on Win95 so you may be ok. The thing is you don't really need most of this stuff. I cant think of a single dos game that wont run from booting into Win9x's version of dos (not counting …

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Re: Socket 4 system

Posted on 2018-06-14, 22:56

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by chinny22

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I'm surprised but quick google of the various numbers on the motherboard doesn't bring up a part number for a Dell xyz. Another quick google and its hard finding Dell's from that era at all! But that's what I would spend some more time doing, once we know that the motherboard is say from a Dell …

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Re: Question about Windows versions

Posted on 2018-06-14, 16:23

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by chinny22

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So your pure dos is already the dos/win9x crossover, and you even have glide covered. I wasn't going to get into that yet! So really this will be D3D gaming rig. You could go as far as a socket 478 and GeForce 6800 with official Win98 drivers. This would be massively overkill and getting into Win9x/ …

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Re: ABIT BX6 not detecting hard drive

Posted on 2018-06-14, 15:58

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by chinny22

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Still wont matter, the hardware (motherboard) still cant address the drive so wont matter which OS you use BUT all is not lost! You can use drive overlay software as a work around. Phil's even got a video on it https://youtu.be/8LzCB6kDVC8

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Re: ABIT BX6 not detecting hard drive

Posted on 2018-06-14, 15:38

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by chinny22

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I wouldn't trust that at all! BX chipset is limited to 160GB, you need a chipset that supports 48bit LBA for larger drives. While we are at limits.. Win9x needs c:\ to be smaller then 137GB as it uses 28bit LBA Finally earlier Fdisks don't allow partitions greater then 64GB, they did realise an …

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Re: Question about Windows versions

Posted on 2018-06-14, 15:00

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by chinny22

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What are the specs for your pure dos PC? Depending how fast/slow it is will depend if you need a Dos/Win9x crossover PC. Pentium 3 era makes a good Win9x gaming PC's, but you may want something with an ISA slot to fill the gap for later DOS games that the pure DOS pc isn't fast enough for. WinXP was …

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Re: Need help getting a Prolinea 5133 to recognize larger HDDs

Posted on 2018-06-14, 12:24

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by chinny22

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This should be the correct Diagnostics and Setup (aka BIOS) disk for your PC, maybe a later one not sure. ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp16001-16500/sp16085.txt ftp://ftp.hp.com/pub/softpaq/sp16001-16500/sp16085.exe Some systems force you to create the partition, others will happily run off the disk …

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Re: Some unusual ISA cards from a radio station

Posted on 2018-06-14, 11:55

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by chinny22

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Rackmount At case nice! I keep throwing around the idea of racking my old PC's (I have enough of them) but I know I never will really. ATX era would be fairly easy, AT's would be almost impossible to do without compromises. The fact it is rack mount pretty much confirms it probably sat mounted with …

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Re: Pentium II Win'98SE Retro Rig.

Posted on 2018-06-14, 11:44

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by chinny22

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Fingers crossed, I had bad luck earlier in the year with some Kingston 133 RAM, 3 out of 5 were bad from 2 different sellers. Not trying to say its a bad brand or anything, it's old and even brand name stuff dies eventually. I just wish it was me that purchased it new with its lifetime warranty.

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Re: Pentium 3 restoration.

Posted on 2018-06-14, 11:35

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by chinny22

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I like to max out my HDD's as well, too much storage is never enough 😀

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Re: Apple Mac G4 Build

Posted on 2018-06-14, 11:32

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by chinny22

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Hackentoshes are nothing new but not sure this is usually what they have in mind 😉 I agree the G5 is a nice case, but it ways a ton, this is much more kinder to your back. You going with OS9 or 10, or both?

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Re: Motherboards for win95/98?

Posted on 2018-06-14, 11:17

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by chinny22

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I'm not that worried about cleaning my PC's . I'll usually give it a good clean when I first get something and quick dust if I have to open the case for any reason, either by a brush or simply blowing it away with my breath is enough. accept airflow I don't know of dust hurting anything and think …

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Re: The millenial troll PC - A Socket 423 Rambus build

Posted on 2018-06-14, 11:03

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by chinny22

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This was brilliant! It was so well written I can see why a few people missed the sarcastic tone. RAMBUS system is nice to have in a collection, much like VL-BUS, it's an interesting to have now as its a bit of tech that was obsolete before it even really started.

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