Windows 98SE - USB Flash Drive with two drive letters

Posted on 2016-10-16, 17:16

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by DoomGuy II

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Anytime I leave the USB Flash Drive plugged in, Windows does see the drive as a Removable Disk (F:), but there's another drive (Local Drive E:) which is an unreadable duplicate. The motherboard in question is an EPoX EP-8RDA3I. The thing with this one is when I turn the PC on with the Flash Drive …

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Troubles networking Windows 98SE and Windows 7

Posted on 2016-09-18, 14:51

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by DoomGuy II

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've been having so much trouble trying to network my Windows 98SE and Windows 7 machines properly. Now, I can be able to access the W9x machine from W7 with no issues, even with password protection and made sure it had the same username. The trouble is trying to connect to Windows 7 FROM the …

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Re: Dang Small Linux on Panasonic CF-25 - No Sound

Posted on 2016-09-12, 01:58

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by DoomGuy II

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

i was actually able to get ALSA up and running via MyDSL and did sndconfig in the terminal to set my sound driver as OPL3-SA2. Unfortunately, I still can't get any sound whatsoever. And yet, this computer works perfectly fine with sound in Windows 95.

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Re: Dang Small Linux on Panasonic CF-25 - No Sound

Posted on 2016-09-11, 17:51

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by DoomGuy II

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

No luck. Says "no such device". Also, my model of the CF-25 has the OPL3-SA3 based chip, in which I've used OPL3-SA2 for that. It seems to go through just fine over the command line, but when I try and playback a sound file, it doesn't freeze, but it gives me a "couldn't open audio" error. I even …

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Dang Small Linux on Panasonic CF-25 - No Sound

Posted on 2016-09-11, 17:25

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by DoomGuy II

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So, I've gotten the opportunity to install DSL on my Panasonic CF-25 alongside Windows 95 and it works wonderfully. The only problem is that I'm missing sound. Supposedly, there is support for the OPL3-SA chipset, which the laptop itself has, but for some reason I can't seem to get it to work. I've …

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Re: Connecting WFW 3.11 to XP via LAN /w Password - Access Denied

Posted on 2016-09-03, 11:39

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by DoomGuy II

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Maybe you ned to edit some policies on the XP machine that it accepts the Win3.x Machine. The farthest that I've tried with policies is that I have set permissions for the user. Again, the usernames are all the same. And I even tried adding a username like "//486/ " and it doesn't accept it. Does …

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Connecting WFW 3.11 to XP via LAN /w Password - Access Denied

Posted on 2016-09-03, 05:11

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by DoomGuy II

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've been having some serious trouble trying to connect my 486 with Windows for Workgroups 3.11 to my server running Windows XP via my local network. The latter is password protected which is mandatory for me. I've searched on Google and have gotten very few results pertaining to this problem. Tried …

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Re: What is the best graphics card for Super Socket 7? My journey :D

Posted on 2016-08-12, 09:39

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by DoomGuy II

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Nice video series, Phil. I've actually decided to go ahead and revisit my ASUS P5A motherboard with the Diamond Viper V770 (TNT2 Ultra), which I had so much trouble with in the past. I disabled AGP Turbo and lowered the Graphics Aperture Size, although the lowest I can go is 16MB. What I also did …

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D "Could not detect MPU-401" when MPU-401 works well otherwise

Posted on 2016-03-20, 14:41

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by DoomGuy II

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's a Casio WK-1630, which is an electronic keyboard. In addition to playing it as an instrument, it also serves as a MIDI device for games.

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D "Could not detect MPU-401" when MPU-401 works well otherwise

Posted on 2016-03-20, 05:50

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by DoomGuy II

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I was actually able to solve this problem. I wasn't able to fix the issue with the onboard MIDI, but here's what I did. I've completely uninstalled the SB Live! drivers that I had on my computer (LiveWare 3.0 presumably) and installed the WDM drivers (Version 4.12.01.0905). From what I understand, …

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D "Could not detect MPU-401" when MPU-401 works well otherwise

Posted on 2016-03-20, 03:28

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by DoomGuy II

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Alright. I changed the settings a little bit (changed the IRQ to 9 under Windows) and this time under Windows, it said that the MPU-401 device is in use by another application when trying to set it up in the Duke 3D setup program. Otherwise, still the same old "Could not detect MPU-401" error.

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D "Could not detect MPU-401" when MPU-401 works well otherwise

Posted on 2016-03-20, 03:05

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by DoomGuy II

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Tried what you suggested. Nothing works. I actually have the MIDI port of the Sound Blaster Live! set at 300 and it does work just fine when I select it under Duke 3D. What I was trying to get working was the built-in MIDI on the motherboard, which is set at 330 with an IRQ of 7. I couldn't get that …

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D "Could not detect MPU-401" when MPU-401 works well otherwise

Posted on 2016-03-20, 02:16

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by DoomGuy II

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yes. Everything's working. No hardware conflicts either.

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Re: Duke Nukem 3D "Could not detect MPU-401" when MPU-401 works well otherwise

Posted on 2016-03-20, 01:22

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by DoomGuy II

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Yes. It's my only sound card and I am running Windows 98 SE. I've also tried running MS-DOS mode with Duke 3D as well. Still no dice.

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Duke Nukem 3D "Could not detect MPU-401" when MPU-401 works well otherwise

Posted on 2016-03-20, 00:53

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by DoomGuy II

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So, here's the gist. I have a custom built Pentium III computer with an A-Open AX3S Plus motherboard. Currently running Windows 98 SE on that machine. It has an onboard MPU-401/Joystick port and as far as MIDI, it works like wonders. Plays MIDI files just fine and tested it under DOOM and also plays …

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AOpen AX3S Plus (Pro II) Questions

Posted on 2016-03-08, 12:21

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by DoomGuy II

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I recently got an AOpen AX3S Plus motherboard, which is a Pentium III based computer. Works very well. Aside from the usual stuff, it has Dr. Voice which actually tells you what problems the motherboard may be having as opposed to a sequence of system beeps, which is pretty cool. There are a couple …

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Re: AOpen AX3S Plus (Pro II) and Sound Blaster Live! = LOUD BEEP in Windows 98!!!

Posted on 2016-03-08, 01:43

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by DoomGuy II

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

...Nevermind. Just inserted the SB Live into another PCI slot and it finally decides to work. Actually used the very bottom PCI slot at first which I normally do, but for some odd reason it doesn't like it. Can't figure out why, but in any case, it works now. 😀

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AOpen AX3S Plus (Pro II) and Sound Blaster Live! = LOUD BEEP in Windows 98!!!

Posted on 2016-03-08, 01:05

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by DoomGuy II

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've gotten myself a Pentium III based motherboard from EBay, specifically this one. http://www.ebay.com/itm/141906694589?_trksid=p2060353.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT It works well as it should, but one problem is that when I tried to install my Sound Blaster Live! in this computer and …

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Re: AMD K6-3+: Problems with some DOS games

Posted on 2016-02-24, 05:00

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by DoomGuy II

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Just tried patching Dark Ages with the RTE200 patch, at least two of them that I could find (PATCHCRT.EXE and TPPATCH.EXE). Unfortunately, both didn't work for me. Even went as far as decompressing the EXE files and using the TP7P5FIX.EXE TSR. No dice.

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AMD K6-3+: Problems with some DOS games

Posted on 2016-02-23, 06:51

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by DoomGuy II

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I have an AMD K6-3+ build that I use for DOS games from around the 386 era to the Pentium era as well as games made specifically for Windows 95 before 98 came around. It works very well, but there are some problems with some older DOS games. Here are a couple to note: CD-Man v1.5 [L1 and L2 disabled …

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