Re: How can I FAT32 format my hard disk?

Posted on 2016-01-01, 00:47

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Lots of good options have been posted. Some others I can think off: If it's a Seagate, boot from SeaTools for DOS and put a capacity limit on the drive. 120 GB for example, or 60 GB. The other option is a USB docking station on a modern PC and using tools such as mini partition wizard, great little …

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Re: AWE64 Value being recognized as SB16

Posted on 2016-01-01, 00:00

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No music playing in diagnose is not good :( Yes, play around with the PnP options. Your startup files have references to Windows, which is odd if you're using MS-DOS 6.22. But if you're on 6.22, that means CTCU will work. This is the CTCM folder. Type CTCU and you will be able to re-arrange …

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Re: AWE64 Value being recognized as SB16

Posted on 2015-12-31, 23:38

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Is that it? It should run you through an extensive set of options. In the BIOS, there are a lot of PnP options. Such as PnP OS is used. You can also try reserving some of the resources. Is this in a Windows 98 machine in DOS mode? If so, go back into Windows > Device manager and play around with the …

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Re: AWE64 Value being recognized as SB16

Posted on 2015-12-31, 23:28

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Hmm. Could you go into the SB16 directory and run DIAGNOSE? It will do a bunch of tests, and then have tests for the digital, FM and AWE part. The resources it assigned are a bit odd. What other cards are in the system? Go into the BIOS and disable resources you don't use, such as serial and …

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Re: Happy new year....

Posted on 2015-12-31, 21:09

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Waving from 2016 to people still in 2015 😀

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Re: suggestions for video card/sound card for XP build

Posted on 2015-12-31, 03:43

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I've got a new XP build in my lab/ H61 chipset board, 2.6 GHz Pentium, Two 2 GB sticks of RAM, a GTX 275 and a PCIe X-Fi Titanium. I am still testing out games and I want to look at using AA/AF to improve the graphics and how that affects performance. I ran some benchmarks though: 53099 for …

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Re: Advice on new parts for old system.

Posted on 2015-12-30, 18:46

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The FX doesn't come close to some Socket A/370 CPU coolers I have. I'm talking 7000 rpm or something silly 🤣

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Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2015-12-30, 18:44

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Thanks for testing this! Pretty obvious then that something in my setup is causing the crash, I will see if I have better luck with a nForce board.

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Re: What HDD do you recommend?

Posted on 2015-12-30, 08:50

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With a SSHD, the 8 GB of SSD are the cache.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2015-12-30, 08:49

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CelGen wrote: and a ROLAND MPU-401AT WITH AN SCB-& GLUED TO IT! 😲 Very nice! What sort of machine, what processor, is this? I see it has PS/2 ports like most OEM machines.

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Re: nVIDIA TNT2 64 driver problem

Posted on 2015-12-30, 00:21

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That's great 😀

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Re: Phil's YouTube and Website updates (philscomputerlab)

Posted on 2015-12-29, 22:05

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I actually had less temperature issues with the XP 3200+ compared to the P4. But this is purely because for the XP I had a brand new cooler: http://www.arctic.ac/worldwide_en/copper-silent-3.html And for the P4 I used this one, which is not rated to handle the 3.2: http://www.startech.com/Computer- …

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Re: Dual slot 1 rebuild

Posted on 2015-12-29, 22:02

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Lovely build! A nice retro sleeper PC 😀

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Re: What HDD do you recommend?

Posted on 2015-12-29, 21:10

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This could be interesting: SSD vs SSHD vs HDD I took a system image, restored it onto the other drives and measured how long it takes to complete a full restart. I did several restarts as the performance improves as you restart over and over.

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Intel Pentium 4 3.2 vs AMD Athlon XP 3200+

Posted on 2015-12-29, 21:00

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A day earlier, everyone enjoy a retro slide into 2016 :blush: Intel Pentium 4 3.2 vs AMD Athlon XP 3200+ Two iconic processor go head to head: Intel's Pentium 4 3.2 GHz against AMD's Athlon XP 3200+. Benchmarks features are 3DMark2001 SE, 3DMark03, Aquamark 3 and Codecreatures. Furthermore games …

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

Posted on 2015-12-29, 19:56

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Someone carries 3 bottles of water and a bottle of wine. Person trips and one bottle falls to the floor. It's the bottle of wine of course 🤣

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Re: What HDD do you recommend?

Posted on 2015-12-29, 19:54

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I would go for a SSHD. These are fast platter drives with an area of solid state that speeds up frequently accessed information. Seagate does one, and I believe WD does as well. But if you can afford it, a proper SSD + 2 TB platter drive would be even better.

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Re: nVIDIA TNT2 64 driver problem

Posted on 2015-12-29, 19:44

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I also had black screen issue in D3D games with later drivers. For my benchmarking project I went with driver version 29.42.

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Re: Voodoo3 1000 (or Velocity 200?)

Posted on 2015-12-29, 12:37

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I think that card deserves its own video. Glide gaming on a shoestring budget 😀

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Re: Kind of missing the point of building machines.

Posted on 2015-12-29, 12:36

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I think for me games provide the context. Running an old version of Excel doesn't do it for me :lol: I did try hard to play and finish some games. I got the furthest with Splinter Cell. Unreal was awesome with the mighty V5 and Glide. I built a machine just for that game. But I have so many projects …

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