Re: Better scrollnig performance in browsers ?

Posted on 2018-01-31, 20:46

by

by schmatzler

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

XP is absolutely horrible on anything less than 1GB. I beg to differ. I have it running on a P3 800MHz with 768MB RAM and it works smooth as butter. Palemoon and Firefox in general are very overloaded for such a system, though. It's been a while since I used those but I remember scrolling always …

---

Re: Coolers for older graphics cards.

Posted on 2018-01-31, 20:40

by

by schmatzler

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Well, I once tried to mount this one, but I found it a bit harder to do then the Zalman VF700. It was as if I needed at least 3 hands but it surely looks very good! :D That is true. The very small (in diameter) screws of the Zalman ZM80 A can be a bit tricky. But it is still manageable, you just …

---

Re: Old computers for daily tasks?

Posted on 2018-01-27, 21:34

by

by schmatzler

in Milliways

in Milliways

vvbee wrote: I scan my documents on a p3-like system running windows 98. The scanner is from 2000 or so. Same here. I still have an old scanner with a serial connection that doesn't have any drivers for NT-based systems. Too useful to throw that away.

---

Re: s370 Cooler Recommendations

Posted on 2018-01-26, 20:32

by

by schmatzler

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There are a lot of Socket 370 coolers on Electromyne: http://www.electromyne.de/public/catalog_xmlxslproducts.aspx?suid=11565&zid=b24bb886-7ac4-4675-b959-deda9f709398&mcid=1001431838 They even had some with throttle controls a few weeks back, but they seem to have been sold out at the moment. I'm …

---

Re: Suddenly can't edit posts anymore?

Posted on 2018-01-25, 18:38

by

by schmatzler

in Milliways

in Milliways

All it does is prove to everyone the admins were right to ban her. Exactly. And the best thing to do would be to let the user remove all his posts just to make the annoying threats stop. I'm pretty sure this forum will live on without the contributions of one confused human being. There are so many …

---

Re: Remove BIOS password from IBM 570

Posted on 2018-01-23, 21:22

by

by schmatzler

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It is fairly simple to recover the password on these old Thinkpads with IBMPass. All you need is a second computer with a serial port, but you will have to build a simple adapter with two resistors, two diodes and a serial connector. It needs to be temporarily soldered to the 24RF08 chip that is …

---

Re: What Is the Best Way to Creating a Windows XP/98 Dual Booting Environment?

Posted on 2018-01-23, 00:19

by

by schmatzler

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I've set it up so each OS can see all partitions. Windows XP automatically sets up Windows 98 on the D: drive and I think it would work vice versa with an NTFS driver, but I never needed it that way around. With AntiX Linux, I can skip the BootUS step. It automatically sets up a nice boot manager …

---

Re: What Is the Best Way to Creating a Windows XP/98 Dual Booting Environment?

Posted on 2018-01-22, 23:48

by

by schmatzler

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Shout out to schmatzler! Thanks for this ridiculously simple solution! Glad I was able to assist. I refined this method over many years just to be able to install Windows 98 very quickly if something broke and get rid of this annoying D: drive in Windows. Some drivers and programs simply won't …

---

Re: Most frustrating part of working on old computers?

Posted on 2018-01-17, 21:49

by

by schmatzler

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Filthy smokers and their tar filled components. The components when purchased smells of shi* and is a bitc* to clean. Gross. Cleaning off the obvious dirt with water and dish soap, quickly drying it off and then putting the card into a sealed box with some coffee powder for a few weeks usually …

---

Re: Geforce 4 460mx unstable in SS7

Posted on 2018-01-17, 21:23

by

by schmatzler

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I can try to swap the power supply tomorrow but 350w should be enough for this card i think. The MX460 wouldn't boot in my system with a 300W power supply, whereas a GeForce 2MX and a Voodoo Banshee worked fine. I wouldn't rule out a power supply issue. You need enough beef on the +12V/+5V lines. …

---

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

Posted on 2018-01-17, 20:05

by

by schmatzler

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Today I recapped the GeForce FX5500 with leaking caps I found in the trash . Previously it wouldn't POST, so I swapped out all of the 1000uf caps, but I didn't have low ESR ones here. Turns out that was a mistake and I am not done yet. The card is POSTing again, but I have annoying flickering on the …

---

Re: Things you regret giving or throwing away?

Posted on 2018-01-14, 19:06

by

by schmatzler

in Milliways

in Milliways

I regret throwing away my old Trinitron CRT monitor when I was moving out of my parents apartment. That thing was able to do 1600x1200 @ 85Hz. I threw it out because it was huge and heavy back then, but now I want it back! 🤣

---

Re: Installing Half-Life GOTY (non-Steam version) on Windows 7 64-bit

Posted on 2018-01-11, 21:26

by

by schmatzler

in Windows

in Windows

Rekrul wrote: Does that work for the Gold edition? Yes. What else was I supposed to do back when I was in school? 🤣

---

Re: Coolers for older graphics cards.

Posted on 2018-01-08, 20:26

by

by schmatzler

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I note the one you used also seems to wrap about the back...is that really necessary? Is it for RAM chips or cooling the back of the GPU? Was it difficult to mount? The cooler is very easy to mount. It's basically just consisting of 4 metal parts and a heatpipe that are all screwed together with …

---

Re: I recently found this hardware, AKA the Dumpster find thread.

Posted on 2018-01-08, 20:11

by

by schmatzler

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I am living here for 10 years and the people in the neighborhood never threw out something useful. Until today. Someone had thrown out a PC with: - a PCChips M811 motherboard (Socket A) https://schmatzler.de/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/IMG_20180108_195514-150x150.jpg - a rather useless AMD Geode CPU …

---

Re: What Is the Best Way to Creating a Windows XP/98 Dual Booting Environment?

Posted on 2018-01-07, 11:59

by

by schmatzler

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I always do it like this: 1. I create a FreeDOS USB drive with Rufus and copy a newer fdisk with support for bigger harddisks on it afterwards. 2. I boot from the USB drive with PloP on a CD . 3. Now I run fdisk to create two primary partitions . One for 98SE, one for XP. I mark the first one as …

---

Re: Coolers for older graphics cards.

Posted on 2018-01-04, 21:16

by

by schmatzler

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Might not be enough for a Radeon X800, but I recently upgraded my GeForce 4 Ti4200 with a fanless Zalman ZM80A-HP. It's a pretty big beast and takes up an additional PCI slot, but I can't hear it. Paired with a BeQuiet! power supply and a CPU fan with throttle control it makes up for a very low …

---

Re: GeForce 4 MX 460 not working on Apollo Pro 133A

Posted on 2017-12-23, 13:30

by

by schmatzler

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My final update to this thread: The new power supply has resolved my problems and the GeForce 4 MX460 is working fine. Though the fan on the MX460 was completely broken. It was slowly turning and making a lot of noise - I replaced it with a passive cooler from an MX440 and the card can handle it …

---

Re: Good ISA Soundcard for Win98 regular and DOS modes

Posted on 2017-12-22, 13:36

by

by schmatzler

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I bought an OPTi 82C929A MAD16 Pro card and it's just excellent. The drivers are very modern (GUI with mouse) and it even supports Windows Sound System in pure DOS mode. I just bought it because of this review by philscomputerlab: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okxN4GVLJRI

---

Re: Windows XP graphics card recommendation?

Posted on 2017-12-22, 07:16

by

by schmatzler

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I wouldn't buy a new GT730 anymore, with its successor - the GT1030 - being out for a while now.

---