Re: Getting some old hardware....

Posted on 2014-06-02, 17:48

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by brostenen

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

About the AGP slots, I think you're confused, there is a 1x/2x slot and a 4x slot. The 4x slot doesn't have a notch in it while the 1x/2x slot does. The 8x slot btw also has a notch but in a different position. The FIX PA-2013 is different from the GA-5AX as the latter doesn't even use a VIA …

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Re: Getting some old hardware....

Posted on 2014-06-02, 16:39

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by brostenen

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

AlphaWing wrote: Wish I could get a non blurry picture, but my dumb Kodak camera will not focus on those small chips. 😠 Have the same problem. The only camera that does take decent pictures like this, is the one in my trusty Samsung Galaxy s3 Mini.

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Re: Getting some old hardware....

Posted on 2014-06-02, 16:35

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by brostenen

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Agreed. They can be really stable with the right setup and drivers installed. I used to have a Via MVP3 system back in the days, and never had any more problems with that than with any other system I've owned. I've got a Via MVP3 system now as well, with same type of motherboard, except with 1MB …

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Re: Getting some old hardware....

Posted on 2014-06-02, 16:21

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by brostenen

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LunarG wrote: Sure you could get Voodoo 3 PCI. At last the Voodoo 3 2000. Thanks for the info. 😀 Just an awfull lot of years since I have owned lagacy hardware.

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Re: Getting some old hardware....

Posted on 2014-06-02, 16:12

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by brostenen

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've orderd a geforce 5500 PCI just to be safe for the 2mb board. Its still strange the 1mb board went out that way... The Voodoo 3 is AGP 1x isn't it? I think it is? That was what was in it when it failed. Trying to get a picture of it but my camera Blurs it when I try to get close to those 2 …

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Re: Getting some old hardware....

Posted on 2014-06-02, 16:01

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by brostenen

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Hi, New here. I have this same exact board, acquired 2 of them NIB recently. A 1mb version and a 2mb. Updated the Bios on both so they can see the K6-2+ 500 I put in them. The 1mb board ruined itself after 1 run of 3dmark 2000 not even a complete run. It had a voodoo 3 3000 AGP in it at the time. …

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Re: Getting some old hardware....

Posted on 2014-06-02, 15:56

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by brostenen

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It is 16 megabyte according to the seller. Does not matter that much to me, as I will be running pure dos. Not win98, even though the seller is taking it out of a fully functioning win98 machine.

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Re: Getting some old hardware....

Posted on 2014-06-02, 15:25

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by brostenen

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Also I read many times people having problems with these VIA chipsets but again, no first hand experience. I used to have a Gigabyte Ga5AX board back in the late 90's or was it the early 00's. Shure it was utterley slow running XP. Besides that. It have been the most stable system I ever owned in …

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Re: Getting some old hardware....

Posted on 2014-06-02, 15:19

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by brostenen

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I might get a old hightower case for the price of a working Asrock P4V88, P4-478-3Ghz cpu and 512 megabyte of memory, a agp card and a dvd drive. Only if the seller is willing to trade. He's got 2 hightowers with psu, for the price of a little under 20 us-dollars or 13 euro so to speak. :-) I have …

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Re: Getting some old hardware....

Posted on 2014-06-02, 15:09

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by brostenen

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Tetrium: Well... I think that the seller will ship with aprox 128 megabyte of memmory. All three slots populated. Never the less, as 2x64 megs are 128, and it ships with 3 modules. Then memmory issues are nothing but removing a couple of modules. The psu is no problem at all. I have a old 300 watt …

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Getting some old hardware....

Posted on 2014-06-02, 12:58

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by brostenen

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey all. I will be getting me some old hardware, and I would like to get a comment on what and if there is any issues, that I should be aware of, when I start building a old retro MS-Dos machine. The motherboard: FIC-PA-2013 with 2 megabyte of cache and a cpu (somewhat between P1-133 and K6-2-500). …

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Re: Sb16 emulation "drops out" / "killed" by games.

Posted on 2014-05-22, 09:46

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by brostenen

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Okay.... Back with an answer. When I run memtest, and reboots my computer. Then the live makes a horrible loud screaming noice. If i turn off all power and makes a cold-boot, then I can play fine, untill i try another game. Then the emulation is lost.... It seems like something is written in the …

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Re: Sb16 emulation "drops out" / "killed" by games.

Posted on 2014-05-22, 09:19

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by brostenen

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Well... It was just a thought I had. For example. When I play doom, it is just fine and dandy, for the first half hour or so. Then the soundcard makes a pretty loud noice, and I have to reboot. When I play doom for 10 minnutes, then exit the game and load pinball fantasies, then I can play one table …

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Re: Sb16 emulation "drops out" / "killed" by games.

Posted on 2014-05-22, 01:17

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by brostenen

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Nope. Sorry. The live card it self, is located at IRQ-10 and IRQ-PORT-1000. The SB16 emulation is at IRQ5 and I have tried IRQ7 as well. These settings are correctly written, in the ini-file, located in the "dosdrv" directory as well. My matrox g400 is located at IRQ11, and everything else such as …

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Re: Sb16 emulation "drops out" / "killed" by games.

Posted on 2014-05-09, 07:42

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by brostenen

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That is the only thing that i can not do. Only two pci slots in the computer, sadly. :-( Prallel, serial and other devices are disabled too. Only vga floppy, ide and soundcard are given a IRQ in the system. Anyway.... I totally forgot to mention that the computer in question is a Hp/Compaq d530-SFF. …

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Re: Sb16 emulation "drops out" / "killed" by games.

Posted on 2014-05-08, 22:34

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by brostenen

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Well... Have tried it, yet of no luck. Just played some syndicate, and after some time, the sound just drops out. It is as if something is conflicting in my machine. EDIT I have tried a different IRQ for the sblive-board it self. Changed it from 10 to 11. The reason was, that the onboard gfx had IRQ …

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Sb16 emulation "drops out" / "killed" by games.

Posted on 2014-05-08, 21:04

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by brostenen

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in DOS

Hi all... I mentioned once, that i gotten sb16 emultion on sb-live working in dos. That is ok. My problem is, that whenever i try another game, the sb16 is somewhat killed. If i restart my computer, the emulation is back on. Have any of you, had this odd bug and how could it possibly be solved? When …

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Re: Composite on modern tv

Posted on 2014-05-07, 21:38

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by brostenen

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I had terrible video om my Sony ps2 om a bravia flatscreen. Then i used euro av (scart) connector and cable. That gave a great picture. Even amiga and ps1 is great this way.

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[SOLVED] Dynablaster sound

Posted on 2014-05-07, 21:26

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by brostenen

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in DOS

Hi all. After much problem and a lot of mobo's, i finally managed to ret sb16 emulation to work om my sblive. Now i want to get sound working in dyna blaster. Was dynablaster sb pro or did it use a specific irq or some special switches when typing Dyna? I only remember that sound was an issue back …

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