Re: 2006-8 build opinions

Posted on 2022-12-08, 10:42

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No, P35 is fine. It's not much different from P965 on stock settings. Yeah my problem is just chronological, since all the pieces are pretty much perfect for 2006\7 it kinda pisses me off that the mobo is newer even though it behaves just like a mobo from 2007, even more so since i don't plan to …

---

Re: 2006-8 build opinions

Posted on 2022-12-08, 10:27

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

IMHO the CPU is a bit too old for this MB. You don't need this build for Win9x so pick a 45nm CPU. In fact your Win7 build (for the record, P5G41C-M LX uses DDR3 instead of DDR2) can run WinXP with blazing speed. Oh i know, i'm just creating one of the many extra PCs with the stuff i have laying …

---

2006-8 build opinions

Posted on 2022-12-08, 08:32

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So i pretty much finished building a pc from that time period, the hardware: Intel Core 2 Duo SL9S8 E6600 Mobo P5KPL-AM EPU x1900XTX DDR2 PC2-6400 Initially i was using an older motherboard with a P4 HT but it was bottle necking the GPU pretty hard and a core CPU is more period correct, my only …

---

Re: Need help with a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi SB0670

Posted on 2022-11-04, 10:07

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

It was a stupid problem, the internal HD audio device was left active in the BIOS, this probably kept the IRQ for the PCI occupied and didn't let the card to be recognized, i always forget that this is a common thing with PCI.

---

Re: Need help with a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi SB0670

Posted on 2022-11-03, 19:05

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Update, the card was sold as 0670 but it ended up being a 460, the card seem to be one of those not provided with the EMU20K1 chip BUT just to be sure i took the heat sink out to have full conformation, it seems to be a fully capable card but now, which driver?

---

Re: Need help with a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi SB0670

Posted on 2022-11-03, 17:54

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Well, that didn't work, i tried the modded driver and 5 different drivers, can you link me the HP ones?

---

Re: Need help with a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi SB0670

Posted on 2022-11-03, 14:33

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Thank you a lot!

---

Re: Need help with a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi SB0670

Posted on 2022-11-03, 13:27

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

mihai wrote on 2022-10-31, 10:29: It is a full card, I also have one of those and it works well. Have a look at daniel k’s drivers for painless usage / instalation. The driver doesn't see the card even though the system sees an HD audio device, os there a specific driver i should look for (XP) ?

---

Re: Need help with a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi SB0670

Posted on 2022-10-31, 10:50

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

mihai wrote on 2022-10-31, 10:29: It is a full card, I also have one of those and it works well. Have at daniel k’s drivers for painless usage / instalation. Nice, i found the drivers, thank you!

---

Need help with a Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi SB0670

Posted on 2022-10-31, 09:39

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I'm almost done with another period correct build from 2005\6 and yesterday i thought of putting a period correct sound card into the mix, admittedly i took for granted that just choosing any X-Fi card would give me hardware EAX 5.0, that was before i learned about "Xtreme" shenanigans... Apparently …

---

Re: Dos 6 conventional memory tricks

Posted on 2022-08-27, 14:53

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Never mind, it works after a bit of tinkering

---

Re: Dos 6 conventional memory tricks

Posted on 2022-08-27, 14:45

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

It tells me that SHSUCDX can't open CD driver optical That was an example of what they use. You need to use the same CD drive identifer you're currently feeding to MSCDEX. (/D:MSCD001 rather than /D:OPTICAL) The /D:mscd001 on your oakcdrom.sys line in config.sys creates the name and then the /D: …

---

Re: Dos 6 conventional memory tricks

Posted on 2022-08-27, 14:26

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

It tells me that SHSUCDX can't open CD driver optical

---

Re: Dos 6 conventional memory tricks

Posted on 2022-08-27, 12:54

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Jura Tastatura wrote on 2022-08-27, 11:03: I would also try to use UMBPCI if you have supported chipset. Ok, i was able to get a bit of memory, i would like to use SHCDX but i can't find a decent guide anywhere.

---

Re: Dos 6 conventional memory tricks

Posted on 2022-08-27, 10:57

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I'd use CTMouse instead mouse.sys and SHSUCDX instead of MSCDEX. Never had any compatibility problems with it. Also, do you really need that display.sys and country.sys lines? I like to not use that and leave default code page so ASCII and ANSI art doesn't look like rubbish. Oakcdrom.sys is ok, but …

---

Re: Dos 6 conventional memory tricks

Posted on 2022-08-27, 10:37

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I need help to free up some memory, i'm using VGA240 and it's taking way too much conventional memory (87kb) AUTOEXEC LH MSCDEX /D:MSCD001 /L:E C:\AZT1008\AZTPNP.EXE /D:C:\DRIVERS\AZT1008 /DEFOPT C:\AZT1008\DOSMIXER.EXE /AUTO LH C:\mouse\mouse.com LH C:\dosgames\VGA240.exe /install mode con codepage …

---

Re: Intel CPU sweet spot for DOS games and pre-1999 Windows games on Socket 370

Posted on 2022-08-26, 05:16

by

by iraito

in Windows

in Windows

Uhm a Pentium III going for 300Mhz but i think a pentium MMX 233 using setmul + a voodoo 2 is what you are searching, a pentium 3 will be too fast for a number of DOS games, also i wouldn't describe softwares limiting speed emulation, setmul does just that and it's 100% going to give you the real …

---

Exec that can change the refresh rate in DOS

Posted on 2022-08-24, 15:55

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I remember using it years ago to change the refresh rate from 70 to 60, it was here on vogons but i can't find it for the life of me.

---

Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2022-08-24, 15:21

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

After getting all the pieces together i was able to create the cheap capture setup i had in mind, i'm using a VGA2SCART ---> GBS control ----> vga to hdmi converter to get these results, i blame the cheap capture card for most of the blurriness but all in all it seems decent. https://streamable.com/ …

---

Re: PS/2 keyboards to USB converter gives me some issue

Posted on 2022-07-26, 14:50

by

by iraito

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Well, apparently buying a no brand cheap as all hell converter solved all issues, it works like a charm. Good news! TBH, I am sure there are good unbranded ones around and you obviously got one. However, it is luck of the draw as to whether a random one of the Internet will work well or not. IMHO, …

---