[SOLVED] NEC MultiSync 1850e stuck at 640x480 16-bit color in Windows 98SE

Posted on 2018-10-21, 08:53

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by bjwil1991

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Long story short, I purchased a used and in working condition, an NEC MultiSync 1850e to replace the LCD1530V. Installation was a cinch, however, I hit a major snag: the monitor resolution is stuck at 640x480 with 16-bit color mode in Windows 98SE on an nVidia GeForce 6200 PCI video card. I tried …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-10-21, 08:24

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Upgraded my Windows 98SE machine's monitor from a 15" LCD to an 18" LCD display, and it's stuck at 640x480 resolution at 16-bit colors for no reason.

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Re: Bought these games today

Posted on 2018-10-21, 02:06

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Bought the following games within the past few weeks to today: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri in fantastic shape for $0.10 Call of Duty: Finest Hour with the Medal of Honor: European Assault disk in there (2 for the price of 1) for the Xbox Original (still have the system and it still works) The …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-21, 01:59

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Bought the following during my thrifting adventures (rainy day): NEC MultiSync 1850e monitor with dual VGA ports (this'll be perfect for my Windows 98SE machine with 2 GPUs inside) for $4.99 which could use some cleaning, otherwise is good shape NIB SIIG I/O Controller Board Game Port/Serial …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-20, 02:37

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Ajit Pai Google: Did you mean Ashit Pai?

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Re: Digital DOS games (GOG, Steam...) Retro PC Compatibility Sheet: We need your input!

Posted on 2018-10-20, 02:35

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Source: https://youtu.be/5fw58T6bUag?t=735 Just listend to it, are you (or is he) sure this is the Tandy sound? It sounds exactly like the PC Speaker to my ears. The tandy music is definitely not the same as the pc speaker music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aqTcG2gRuQ This is pretty much the …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-10-19, 21:00

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by bjwil1991

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I lost a cap on my AM2+ motherboard that caused the system to shut off without warning. Heck, my Dimension 4550 motherboard has 4 bloated caps and it still works, and my Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus has no bloated or broken caps of any kind (24 years old and still running, even though I had the …

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Re: The Weekend Thread (Fri-Sun)

Posted on 2018-10-19, 19:33

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Friday: brother has dance night tonight Saturday: brother has bowling, going thrifting, and possibly replace the power steering pump assembly (pump and reservoir) on my car Sunday: laundry day

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-10-19, 16:02

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Love where this is heading, man. Planning on installing a VRM on my Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus as well, or just purchase a Packard Bell Plus 1150, assembly required part lot that has a Kingston AMD 5x86 CPU (pictures unclear) that has 5V supported.

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Re: 286 motherboard does not boot anymore

Posted on 2018-10-19, 14:57

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Make sure you're using the right cap since some of them are more than 16V or less than 16V. In fact, recap the whole motherboard since that'll be the issue right there. Think of the tantalum capacitors as the older Christmas lights: one light goes out they all go out, and finding that one bulb can …

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Re: Digital DOS games (GOG, Steam...) Retro PC Compatibility Sheet: We need your input!

Posted on 2018-10-19, 13:34

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The games work with the Tandy 3-voice card that I have since those games came out the same year for the Tandy (just add -t at the end of the game exec). Source: https://youtu.be/5fw58T6bUag?t=735

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-10-19, 13:09

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Re: Sound blaster version and performance.

Posted on 2018-10-19, 02:46

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My $0.02 as well.

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-10-18, 21:06

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That board looks amazing, man.

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Re: Athlon 64 with voodoo2?

Posted on 2018-10-18, 19:22

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Install the FastVoodoo2 v4.6 drivers since the older drivers were pretty messy on systems faster than a Pentium/MMX/Pro and the VooDoo2 Tweak software to underclock your VooDoo2 card(s) since they can run hot. I have one installed inside my Socket 462 motherboard and it works without issues.

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RGB Mod on a Sony PVM-9L1: good idea or bad idea?

Posted on 2018-10-18, 19:19

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I've been watching a fellow YouTuber's video about modding a consumer CRT with an RGB mod for certain consoles, especially the C128 that uses the 80-column mode, and it looks amazing. However, I want to figure out if there's a way I can make my Sony PVM-9L1 to mod it with RGB in/out with the …

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Re: ISA network card works fine with mechanical HDD but can't find an IRQ when running off SD to IDE adapter

Posted on 2018-10-17, 21:35

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Also, some 486 motherboards were stuck at the 504MB limitations, whereas later boards (like my old PCChips M912 v1.7 with genuine L2 cache) supported up to 7.8GB and what size is the SD card? My Packard Bell Pack-Mate 28 Plus would throw a fit if there was a hard drive bigger than 3.2GB installed, …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2018-10-17, 20:22

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That board is pretty darn cool. I didn't know they used the same style battery the Macs used. Does that also take a 486 processor as well, or am I wrong about that?

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Re: ISA network card works fine with mechanical HDD but can't find an IRQ when running off SD to IDE adapter

Posted on 2018-10-17, 20:21

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by bjwil1991

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Good point right there.

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Re: Older hdd imaging software

Posted on 2018-10-17, 15:36

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I've used Norton/Symantec Ghost 7.5 on my Windows 98SE machine to clone a 32GB HDD to a 60GB HDD (after prepping the HDD, formatting, and copying the system files) successfully (took about 4 hrs before, and it went down to 1 hr for copying every file).

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