Re: Secondary Hard Disk detected in the BIOS but not in Windows.

Posted on 2018-04-05, 10:39

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by tayyare

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As far as I know, Windows 98 will not recognize unprepared disks (i.e: not partioned) unlike NT based Windows do. You need to make it partitioned with something like fdisk or any other partitioning utility. Already goes witout saying but, partition must be FAT32, not NTFS. Also make sure that both …

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Re: What games are recommended for a 386?

Posted on 2018-04-05, 09:05

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by tayyare

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These below were the most memorable ones that I had been playing on 386 class machines during the days (an SX16 and later a DX40) Wing Commander 1 & 2 Wolfenstein 3D & Spear of Destiny Doom Corridor 7 Blake Stone Rise of The Triad Comanche Maximum Overkill Alone in the Dark Larry 1, 2, 3, 5 (and 4, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-04-05, 08:19

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by tayyare

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About to place an order for this card; can anyone spot any issues with it visually? Some capacitors seem to be unpopulated but I can't be sure they fell off later.. An old listing on eBay has even fewer capacitors. The steel back plate is rusty :lol: PS: Capacitors does not seem to be fallen of, …

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Re: How to share Keyboard/Mouse between retro computers (and modern PCs)?

Posted on 2018-03-30, 14:27

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by tayyare

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Of course there are USB KVM switchs. There are even PS/2 and USB (at the same time) KVM switches. I suggest you go to "Aten" site: http://www.aten.com/global/en/products/kvm/desktop-kvm-switches/ I don't know what is their current range of products, but the one I use can connect both PS2 and USB …

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No stereo from SB AWE64 Gold

Posted on 2018-03-30, 14:00

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by tayyare

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I have a Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold card, which recently decided to give sound only from the right speaker. I tested every other thing (cables, speakers, etc.) and they are all working properly, so the problem is definately with the card. I checked simples things (like TOS connectors' solder quality, …

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Re: How many floppy disks do you have? And what do you do with them?

Posted on 2018-03-30, 13:47

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by tayyare

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Around 100-120 3.5 floppies (20 of them in active use for Retro needs - drivers, boot disks, bios updates, masterbooter, pqmagic, ghost, etc.) and about 25-30 5.25s. Once I had about 400 3.5 and 100 5.25 disks, but already got rid of them years ago, just saving some (the current number) as spares. …

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Re: How to remove rust from components (backplates etc.?)

Posted on 2018-03-30, 13:30

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by tayyare

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Not an easy job. Cleaning rust is not enough, you need to make them electroplated (zinc, nickel, chrome, etc.) or painted (some black covers for example) again. Rust means the plating is nomore, so there is no corrosion resistance anymore, and it means it will rust again after cleaning the rust. …

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Re: Does anyone know if this old AT case has a brand or name?

Posted on 2018-03-30, 13:22

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by tayyare

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

This is the exact case that my first ever PC came in. An 386SX16, purchsed in 1992 from a chop-shop kind small computer store(?) that was building systems from cheapest components available. It was a rather popular case used for building cheap noname 386 class machines.

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Re: Do you prefer to use the same OS on multiple rigs or a different OS for each rig?

Posted on 2018-03-26, 15:11

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by tayyare

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Well, I do have many OSes in a single rig (i.e. my signature), so does it count? PS: In the past, I had a rig that is multibootable with around 14 different OSs, including two versions of NT, two versions OS/2, 98, 95, 2000, XP, FreeDOS, three versions of MSDOS, Beos, and several different flavours …

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Re: post up pics of your "computing area"

Posted on 2018-03-23, 14:33

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by tayyare

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Am I crazy for still using LGA775 along with a Xeon E5450? :lol: My main rig is a LGA775, too. CPU is C2Q 9550 and I still use Win7 32bit. I also have a modded Xeon E5450, waiting for me to install it but I'm lazy :lol: Not the sharpest thing at home, my daugters PC is a bit more modernish (Phenom …

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Re: Something worth in this pile of cards ?

Posted on 2018-03-13, 13:41

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by tayyare

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What is the big black port next to VGA on some of those cards? My Matrox Millennium has one and I have no idea what it does. These two display adapters are probably Matrox Millenium or Mystique. They have this black midi/joystick type connectors to be used together with their Rainbow Runner …

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Re: Replacing HDD on 486 laptop with modern 2.5" drive

Posted on 2018-03-13, 13:30

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by tayyare

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Thanks a bunch for the quick reply! No problems at all! :lol: I see, so is that an entirely different process than just making a 8 GB primary active partition with something like Partition Wizard or Diskpart? Yeah, somehow it is. It will limit the size of your disk to something smaller, so your …

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Re: Processor soldered or stuck to socket 7 ?

Posted on 2018-03-13, 13:12

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by tayyare

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As far as I can tell, this probably is a LIF (low insertion force) socket. Actually, I'm at a loss, since I never seen them used in motherboards anything for newer than a 486. Starting from Socket 3 everything was ZIF (zero insertion force. i.e. sockets with levers), or this is what I experineced …

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Re: Replacing HDD on 486 laptop with modern 2.5" drive

Posted on 2018-03-13, 11:29

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by tayyare

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There are at least two ways to do it. - If you are happy with only an 8GB (or less) HDD, you can use a utility like Seagate Seatools to adjust it as a "fake 8GB (or less) drive" (i.e. limit its capacity to 8GB or less), so there will be no BIOS issues. - If you want the whole capacity, you need to …

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Re: My very first Win 98 Retro Gaming Rig - Build Advice

Posted on 2018-03-06, 09:58

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by tayyare

in Marvin \ System Specs

in Marvin \ System Specs

Some advice that may already be of interest to me: If I'm to create a multiboot environment with Windows XP and Windows 98, what precautions should I take? Any insights on, Install order, boot loader, disk setup,... Two approaches: - Install Windows 98 first and let the XP installation later take …

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Re: My very first Win 98 Retro Gaming Rig - Build Advice

Posted on 2018-03-01, 11:35

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by tayyare

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in Marvin \ System Specs

OK. OP said early to Mid 2000s in his post so anything from 2000 to 2005 is what he wants... As such I will be able to support DirectX 9.0c games (the latest on offer in Windows 98SE). As said, I want as powerful a machine as possible, while getting every last feature from Win9x possible. :) It is …

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Re: Windows 95 or 98 Pentium Box

Posted on 2018-02-26, 18:12

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by tayyare

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Why not both of them? Multiboot is another option. (look at my sig for the DOS/W9x/W2k setup) Because having Win95 installed too makes no sense if you can run Win98SE. Win95 on a Pentium has no advantages over 98SE. ...and what we do with our ancient hardware and software here in vogons, makes all …

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Re: Windows 95 or 98 Pentium Box

Posted on 2018-02-23, 11:12

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by tayyare

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Why not both of them? Multiboot is another option. (look at my sig for the DOS/W9x/W2k setup)

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Re: Old MFM Hard Drive, how to access?

Posted on 2018-02-02, 13:44

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by tayyare

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I don't know about an XT (it should probably require an MFM/RLL controller with a boot BIOS) but I used MFM/RLL drives in both 286 and 386 machines with controllers without their own BIOS. It's not any different than installing an IDE HDD and controller into an 386 or 286 anyway. Just choose the …

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Re: IRQ conflicts

Posted on 2018-01-03, 12:02

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by tayyare

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

What kind of a card is your sound card? Does it require setting up jumpers or using a setup utility to adjust its IRQ settings? I've seen machines in the past which recognizes a PS2 mouse as soon as you connect it and assigns IRQ12 to it. This might be the case in your situation. Probably your best …

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