Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-07-02, 13:28

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I picked up this PCV-W20 which was recently reloaded with a fresh copy of XP, but it crashes for obvious reasons. Here's an update on that PCV-W20, all poly-modded, the PSU is recapped and the system is up and running again--snappy response and quick loading, now. Couldn't even get past the post …

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Re: 586 + Voodoo 2 performance

Posted on 2015-06-30, 13:33

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I know it has been a LONG TIME since I had the system I would have used to run Quake in 3D, but these framerates seem off. IIRC I had a Pentium 60 when I first started playing Quake, online. I recall that during this time I eagerly added a Voodoo1, which was leftover by a friend of mine who upgraded …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-06-26, 20:05

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I picked up this PCV-W20 which was recently reloaded with a fresh copy of XP, but it crashes for obvious reasons. No worries because I have a bag of Polymers to fix it with. I think I'll opt for a small SSD as well.

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Re: CRT vs LCD?

Posted on 2015-06-24, 15:33

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0.26mm is considered good for an aperture grille, they don't get much better than that. I think the best ones are 0.24mm or so. Flat trinitrons often have variable pitch though, to make up for the varying beam width across the screen. Usually you'll see something like 0.26mm in the center and 0. …

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Re: CRT vs LCD?

Posted on 2015-06-23, 14:03

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CRT > LCD. shadow mask > aperture grille. Eizo 0.21mm > absolutely everything. Like this is even worth a discussion anymore. The real question should be, is there anything better than a 0.21mm Eizo? (Not counting that 0.20mm eizo, I'm starting to give up hope of ever finding one...) Your mention of …

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Re: "Standard" 1 MB RAM AWE64

Posted on 2015-06-23, 02:22

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There must have been an important piece of misinformation, even back in the day because I have come across very, very old forum posts by coders who were also trying to figure out why their "1MB" AWE64's were experiencing all sorts of problems when trying to access over 512KB. I think it's safe to …

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Re: CRT vs LCD?

Posted on 2015-06-22, 14:47

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The analogue revival in audio isn't about audio fidelity though, it's about the tangible experience of owning and using records. I'd wager that most of the people buying vinyl today will take it home and play it on a cheapo Chinese USB turntable. People chasing audio fidelity and "pure-ness" are …

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Re: Got myself a new MBO , but it has no JUMPERS ON IT.

Posted on 2015-06-21, 14:17

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First result on Google was the Vogons driver library: http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid=681

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Re: corsair sdram giving spd checksum error

Posted on 2015-06-21, 14:11

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Maybe those particular pieces of memory do not have SPD?

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Re: Types of games that age well

Posted on 2015-06-20, 00:45

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Some games don't really age at all... sort of: I enjoy a game called "Gazillionaire", which is an economic strategy game, which can actually be very involving, plus the game takes into account how long you take to do everything so for instance, you travel to one planet to buy a product at a cheap …

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Re: Sound Blaster Re-Capping

Posted on 2015-06-19, 14:48

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Not that we all like to be this nit-picky, but when dealing with capacitors that are on the input/output channels, it's always good to buy a handful of whatever value they are and then run a meter on them all to pick a pair which are as closely matched in value as possible so the theoretical output …

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Re: Packard bell legend 620 problems

Posted on 2015-06-19, 14:23

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When I get a system like this, I usually bread-board it out on a table, first--take everything out of the system and hook it up while laying out on a table to eliminate any strange ground problems. I periodically (back in the 90s) had systems which didn't want to boot due to some strange ground-loop …

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Re: Sound Blaster Re-Capping

Posted on 2015-06-18, 14:20

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I replaced the capacitors on all the incoming power traces of my Sound Blaster Live with Panasonic FM's or FC's, and it was much quieter--the sound was more black. Then I replaced the caps in the signal path between the EMU10K and the output opamps with mylar films, and the sound was ridiculously …

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Re: Sound Blaster Re-Capping

Posted on 2015-06-18, 01:16

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I'm suspicious that you're either having a driver issue or you have one of the volume sliders maladjusted and don't know it... did you mention which version of windows you're running? I didn't see that info in your post. The last time I went to recap my SB16, it was still pretty loud, and it had …

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Re: Capacitor replacement rules?

Posted on 2015-06-17, 14:54

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Lets say you have a 10v 1000uf capacitor. So the max voltage this capacitor can receive is 10v, and its capacitance is 1000uf. If this capacitor needed to be replaced, is there anything wrong with replacing it with a higher spec capacitor? What if I replaced it with a 25v 1500uf capacitor? So now …

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Re: Windows 98 on SSD - No DMA mode

Posted on 2015-06-17, 14:36

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Could the OP's SSD be improperly aligned for use with a vintage OS, thus hurting performance?

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Re: Help with a Dual Pentium Pro Board sporadic behavior

Posted on 2015-06-12, 14:20

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To me, the symptoms you describe just SCREAM "replace the caps". Even if they look okay, its been long enough that some are going out of tolerance and causing issues. When you "stress" them by adding full banks of ram, they just cant cope. Get some nice, high quality caps and goto town. If you cant …

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Re: Fastest Windows XP ,plain, SP1, SP3 ?

Posted on 2015-06-12, 14:11

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I'm sure both were stock ACPI installs, in SP2+ they removed the ability to install with no ACPI. Now, I want to run some benchmarks. I unintentionally did a fresh install of SP2 without ACPI recently, so it must be possible. However, this was on a PII machine. It just didn't load the ACPI drivers …

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Re: How is Windows 95 on a 486SX 25MHz with 4mb ram?

Posted on 2015-06-12, 01:02

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YEARS ago, in '95 I had a regular customer come in with her heavily loaded 386, in as much as it was full of newer hardware. The little, middle-aged lady who owned it just had this thing about using high-quality, name-brand parts. IIRC her particular 386 was a DX-33 which had 16MB of RAM, a VLB …

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Re: Non-upgrade Windows

Posted on 2015-06-12, 00:51

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Back when '95 came out we just had to sys the C: drive so we could get a command prompt, run a generic CD-ROM TSR, run the setup on the Windows 95 Upgrade disc, and when it looked for a previous version of windows, it would ask for the install location, and all we had to do was insert Disk 1 of the …

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