Re: EMM386 and A20 gate control under Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

Posted on 2020-05-22, 01:45

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Long shot : are you running MS-DOS version 7.0 or higher ? That will automatically load himem.sys , even if absent from config.sys , and load DOS high . You need to add noauto to your DOS= statement in config.sys to avoid that . E.G. DOS=NOAUTO According to https://community.idera.com/developer- …

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Re: EMM386 and A20 gate control under Microsoft Virtual PC 2007

Posted on 2020-05-22, 01:20

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I can't get a beat on how the A20 gate is supposed to behave under Microsoft Virtual PC. I'm trying to get a 16-bits DPMI program running under MS-DOS as a VPC 2007 guest provisioned with 16MB RAM. The DPMI tests all failed under VPC 2007, although the exact same configuration seems to work as …

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Re: Multichannel DOS mixer for DOS sound builds v0.49 for Live, v1.01 for Audigy

Posted on 2020-05-22, 01:12

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by darry

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Wold this work with a Live Drive or Audigy drive ?

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Re: Getting Sata to work in IDE mode on WIndows 98 - Help Please

Posted on 2020-05-22, 01:04

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by darry

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jakethompson1 wrote on 2020-05-22, 00:48: I'll add, if driver+mscdex work, that will be a way to at least make it accessible in Windows until you find another solution. I once had one of those Philips external drives with a proprietary ISA controller card that I used this way. Let me guess, a …

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Re: Getting Sata to work in IDE mode on WIndows 98 - Help Please

Posted on 2020-05-21, 23:25

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by darry

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gigabyte ga-ep45-ud3l is the motherboard I'm using. It doesn't have win98 drivers but I figured I'd put in a compatible graphics card, sound card, and it should be able to work otherwise. I'm not sure what other hard drive would matter but got half gig of ram, an old generic VGA video card, and …

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Re: HD4850 - Win XP Replacement?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 23:12

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I think the gtx5xx series are the last that work well with earlier games that use things like bump mapping. By gtx9xx series, it had definitely become a problem, not sure about 7xx series. But we are talking about a 2014 gpu for XP....I doubt they were testing XP era games by then. Good point, I …

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Re: Geforce 6 / Radeon X800 DVI ouput is shaking on 16:10 monitors, in 4:3 mode - explanation and fixing..

Posted on 2020-05-21, 23:00

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by darry

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I have seen that with marginal cables , and when using DVI to HDMI converters. Some cards are more picky than others.

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Re: Geforce 6 / Radeon X800 DVI ouput is shaking on 16:10 monitors, in 4:3 mode - explanation and fixing..

Posted on 2020-05-21, 22:56

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Hmm, true is that i didnt see it inside to Dos, if im not wrong so.. it could be resolution related, i saw it in Linux for sure. Yeah, im using 1920x1200 monitors - I have old HP IPS 24 (ZR24w and LP2475W) ones... and cards are set to 1600x1200 for modern OS. Do you thing that decrease resolution, …

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Re: HD4850 - Win XP Replacement?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 22:42

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750TI has aTDP of 60 Watts . 560TI has a TDP of 170 Watts . Considering the primary issue is fan noise, I do not believe the 560TI is a step in the right direction .

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Re: Geforce 6 / Radeon X800 DVI ouput is shaking on 16:10 monitors, in 4:3 mode - explanation and fixing..

Posted on 2020-05-21, 22:39

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By that generation, both ATI and Nvidia had integrated TMDS functionality (that generates the DVI signal) into the GPU . Two cards with GPUs from different manufacturers having the same symptom is odd . Are you using a DVI switch or splitter ? I have had weird issues with those before . Are you …

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Re: Help with fix CD/DVD Drives?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 22:15

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by darry

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Why even bother? Even if you could find a replacement laser assembly, just buying a new drive is easier and cheaper. And unlike with game consoles, there's no market for the laser assemblies used in these old drives anyway. Also, you need to adjust various things on the pcb after a laser- …

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Re: Small capacity SSD PATA/SATA benchmarks

Posted on 2020-05-21, 22:08

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This is, again, in a P3 1400MHz 512K system with an i815ep/ICH2 ATA66 controller and Jmicron JM20330 this time hooked up to a Samsung 860EVO (so the drive is not a bottleneck) and running Windows 98 SE. Filename atto_ich2_jm20330_860evo.png File size 13.2 KiB Views 3346 views

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Re: Small capacity SSD PATA/SATA benchmarks

Posted on 2020-05-21, 22:05

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While some people have gotten a lot of free time from the quarantine, I have not. Really sidelined my storage benchmarking project. One thing I've learned is that some of those cheapo counterfeit SD cards you can get from the grey market have some truly atrocious throughput and uneven performance. …

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Re: Rant: please stop linking to "Stason .org" for Total Hardware 1999 (TH99) pages

Posted on 2020-05-21, 21:27

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Searchable by vendor, name, & bios string would be great Would also be great if people could submit new entries for missing boards, bios images for existing boards, drivers for integrated devices, and if we are getting crazy, bench marks. That would be fantastic . IMHO, the primary focus should be …

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Re: What's rarer: AMD X5-160, AMD K5-PR200, Cyrix 5x86-133GP, or Cyrix MII-433GP

Posted on 2020-05-21, 19:30

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Unknown_K wrote on 2020-05-21, 19:23: Anybody here snag this? https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Evergreen-48 … U-/353073570841 My whole vintage setup did not cost that much . My pockets aren't deep enough

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Re: HD4850 - Win XP Replacement?

Posted on 2020-05-21, 19:28

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Shagittarius wrote on 2020-05-21, 19:08: 750ti - Seems to run about 60 USD. I can't comment on how loud they are though. Very quiet when idle. Very efficient design . https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/geforce- … ew,3750-21.html

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Re: VGA Capture Thread

Posted on 2020-05-21, 18:50

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by darry

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You might be right. Actually I happened to bump into Gefen VGA-DVI Scaler Plus without power cable on ebay for reasonable price (about 30€) and the results are literally like night and day. I still have to adjust some settings before I stream but so far I'm 100% satisfied. I contacted the seller …

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Re: Any modern psu's that have large 5v rails

Posted on 2020-05-21, 14:46

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I believe it. the TX-650W runs it all OK with 30 on the 3.3/5 but it doesnt POST until I start strapping extra drives to it, fun times. My guess is it wants a minimum load on the 12V before it's happy enough flip power-good to ON . I wonder if I will have the same issue with the RM850x . My P3 …

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Re: Rant: please stop linking to "Stason .org" for Total Hardware 1999 (TH99) pages

Posted on 2020-05-21, 03:14

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by darry

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How about somehow integrating the data from TH99 into the vogons wiki ? That would solve the issue and add an extra mirror of sorts . EDIT: Somebody suggested that in 2015 already . I also imagine that the DATA is still in a legal grey area, so that doesn't help .

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Re: Booting from SSD with sata2ide adapter on Asus P3V4X / Apollo Pro 133

Posted on 2020-05-21, 03:01

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Interesting new find: I connected a 250GB samsung 750 evo to the SATA2IDE adapter and it was picked up the same as the 250GB HDD which looked as follows: 101AEF65-5817-4291-BDF5-7DEFFC000A87.jpeg 3DF69B63-2A11-4F1E-96A5-130A3EE66C36.jpeg Which leads me to believe that the 250GB may be bootable like …

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