Re: Which Sound Blaster drivers can I comment out?

Posted on 2016-01-01, 17:40

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Probably because it is not: Some other PnP device might be grabbing it. Still, unless you use a daughterboard or an external module this is a non-issue, as OPL3 music doesn't use the MPU-401 UART interface. Alright. I do have a DreamBlaster S1 on its way, so I will have to fix this. First stop is …

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Re: Which Sound Blaster drivers can I comment out?

Posted on 2016-01-01, 17:34

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Does DIAGNOSE complain about anything if VIBRA16.SYS is commented out? Okay, making some progress. The reason digital sound weren't working with VIBRA16.SYS commented out was because I also commented out DIAGNOSE /S from AUTOEXEC.BAT. Once I re-enabled that, then sounds work without VIBRA16.SYS. …

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Re: Which Sound Blaster drivers can I comment out?

Posted on 2016-01-01, 17:13

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alexanrs wrote: Leave the SET lines alone, remove stuff from CONFIG.SYS. This is what I usually do. It seems if I rem out the VIBRA16.SYS line in CONFIG.SYS, sound effects stop working in games (music still works though).

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Re: Which Sound Blaster drivers can I comment out?

Posted on 2016-01-01, 16:34

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Thanks, Phil. Looks like CTMMSYS.SYS does use 10kb.

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Which Sound Blaster drivers can I comment out?

Posted on 2016-01-01, 16:24

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Happy New Year guys! Just got my CT2800 Vibra 16 yesterday! I used the Vibra 16 driver disks provided in the driver archive here. After setup, there are loads of things added to autoexec.bat and config.sys. I've already done some experimenting and it seems that sounds and music in games work fine …

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Re: Happy new year....

Posted on 2015-12-31, 22:41

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Happy New Year, all!

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Re: What would you do with these motherboards?

Posted on 2015-12-31, 14:41

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So I've had time to test the socket 7 board at 550Mhz all the way down to 166Mhz, with and without L1 (L2 no effect). My benchmark for 386 performance is speedsys and Wing Commander 1. I could not get speedsys scores less than 33. I think WC wants this to be between 8-10. What I like about this …

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Re: What would you do with these motherboards?

Posted on 2015-12-31, 03:04

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The other contact cleaning technique is to use an eraser. I keep forgetting about this one and even though I never tried it myself, it kinda makes sense and it seems lots of people here use that technique :) At least on NES cartridges, I've had the best success with a combination of rubbing alcohol …

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Re: What would you do with these motherboards?

Posted on 2015-12-31, 01:13

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No turbo button on case either. 🙁 Thanks, though.

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Re: What would you do with these motherboards?

Posted on 2015-12-31, 00:27

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Hi alexanrs, I'm not aware that there is a Turbo button on these motherboards. Would that reduce the speed even more than I manually (by jumpers) did? I dropped the 550Mhz cpu to 166Mhz by reducing the FSB to 66 and multipler to x2.5, then disabled L1 cache with SETMUL after that and it was still …

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Re: What would you do with these motherboards?

Posted on 2015-12-30, 22:00

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My mistake, I thought you were trying the 32MB SDRAM modules with the 2x8 smaller chips (8 on each side), those are typically not for 100MHz, though some of them are. The newer 32MB ones (often just 4 larger chips in total on the module) typically could do 100MHz without issues, but those were …

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Re: What would you do with these motherboards?

Posted on 2015-12-30, 21:37

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K6+ chips can change the multiplier in DOS (AFAIK through SETMUL). It doesn't work on regular K6-3. SETMUL says it cannot change the mult, only the L1 cache. With L1 disabled it's still too fast for Wing Commander. for fun, I underclocked via jumpers as low as possible (2.5x66=166), then disabled …

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Re: How many computers do you own?

Posted on 2015-12-30, 20:51

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I found my Nintendo consoles in the attic yesterday (I had misplaced them), but I was looking for other stuff so I set the box apart. Still had at least one NES controller and that zapper thing in it. Hah. I had a similar experience earlier this year going through my mom's attic and finding a CIB …

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Re: What would you do with these motherboards?

Posted on 2015-12-30, 19:12

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Back in the day I had really bad luck with the combo: socket 7, SiS and integrated video. They were always buggy and unstable and using an add-in video card didn't help anything. . So far the onboard SiS graphics is very fast. I compared it to a modernish GF 8400GS PCI and it is much faster than …

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Re: What would you do with these motherboards?

Posted on 2015-12-30, 19:02

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If I'm not mistaken that board has an updated bios that can run k6-2+ and k6-3+ CPUs. Nice thing about that is you can change multipliers using software in dos and that allows you to throttle the plus CPUs as needed depending on how much power you want. Yeah, I think that is true because when I …

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Re: What would you do with these motherboards?

Posted on 2015-12-30, 17:09

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Your K6-2 is probably running at the 100MHz FSB, which most 32MB modules and lower cannot run at (these are usually PC-66 and you'll probably need PC-100 rated memory or better). You could try lowering the FSB to 66 and see if the smaller modules will work that way (just keep the CPU multiplier the …

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Re: What HDD do you recommend?

Posted on 2015-12-30, 14:19

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I have not much to do with SSD drives since the ones with 500GB - 1TB capacity still have sky high prices. I use small cheap SSDs (120GB) in low profile / less critical machines though (like my daughters PC and our HTPC). I too am slow to adopt SSDs. I have an SSD in my work laptop and to be honest …

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Re: What would you do with these motherboards?

Posted on 2015-12-30, 12:41

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I may test the SiS as a pure DOS system. Since both of these came out of HPs, their bioses are crippled with HP variants. Seems like the options are few and far between. I did have time to test memory in the SiS and for some reason it would only work with 64MB or higher modules. If I put a 32 or …

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Re: How many computers do you own?

Posted on 2015-12-30, 04:12

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So impressed with everyone's collections. As it is, my wife thinks I have too many, and I've only got a handful: -i5-4750S gaming rig I built for my son (Win10) -Pentium E2180 OC 2.67Ghz WinXP gaming rig -Core2Quad Q6600 Ubuntu file/Minecraft server -Packard Bell Multimedia C110 Pentium 120(DOS …

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Re: Couple of DOS questions

Posted on 2015-12-30, 00:10

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For me the solution was to run defrag with the file sort option. Then you don't have to mess with dir.

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