Anyone go this to work? I tired the i740 drivers and after running the DOS setup program it installed a load of "CHIPS #### x ####" drivers. But these don't work with the 815 chipset. I have a video bios tool so I could flash the bios to a different version, but I didn't want to do this as it' not …

TBH I've probably been having more fun playing around with the systems than actually playing games on them. It's a Compaq Deskpro SFF. PIII 1GHz, 512MB 133mHz RAM. I'm running Win98SE, but for fun I'm going to dual boot Win3.1. As the mobo has no AGP slot, I'd not really looked at bothering adding a …

I have a Compaq with no AGP and a 815 chipset. The spec of the GPU are here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_graphics_processing_units What could I put in that would be an improvement? I have a cirrus logic GD54M30 to hand, and I think I have an S3 something or other somewhere. IS there …

So a little more info on this.. I've reinstalled Win98 many times and played around with different bits of hardware and this is what I've found... * Setting MaxPhysPage to values under 40000 disables the pagefile altogether. I thought 20000 would be a good setting as it limits it to 512MB ram. …

I've got this card working fine in Win98 and I copied the DOSDRV folder to my DOS 6.22, tried to run SBEINIT but got an error about there being no config. I tried the release notes and played around with the other EXEs but can't get anything to work. What am I missing here? Can someone explain the …

I settled on Acronis OS selector, which works well, supports up to Win7 and looks pretty. I may try BURG just so I can customise it further at some point.

I've got this issue with an Intel 865G chipset, makes no difference if I use PATA or SATA, or disk/partition size. I don't have the same issue with my PIII I've added the MaxPhysPage line to system.ini to get around the excessive ram, could this have caused it? The system only has 512MB installed at …

I might try and build my retro rig into a compact case, so mATX + Low profile PCI cards. The Audigy seems to be the oldest creative card that comes in low profile, I can see Win98 drivers exist, but does anyone know about SB16 emulation in DOS? Is there a better choice?

Could I really run Win 3.1 and Win10 on the same HW? Lets find out :D Yes you can, and I can prove it. Here's my thread about doing it on something newer : http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=56460 No VMs were used to make this possible. As for your setup : 512MB limit should work OK (for …

Ah, yes BootMagic I don't know why that didn't come up when I was googling earlier.

Back in the day I had some fairly simple boot manager software but I have no idea what it was called. You ran a program under Win9x/XP to configure it, it was really simple to use and allowed you to hide the partitions from the other OSes. The boot menu itself was pretty nice looking with …

if you were wondering what the fastest cpu for that specific board was you should specify that aparently the board has support for the 65nm pentium D. the fastest 65nm was the Pentium D 960. it's a tossup if that spcific model will work but supposedly it should. the board doesn't appear to support …

Just looking into it now and that mobo lists an 800mHz FSB, most the Core2s have a faster FSB so I wonder if I'd be limited to the 800mHz FSB - in which case I'd be looking at an E4700. I'm just speculating here, hopefully someone will know more!

There aren't any Core2 CPUs on that board's compatibility list, just Pentium 4/Celeron/ Pentium D. Although is that just because the list was made before Core2 and they would actually work?

Hi all, I've been lurking for a while, I bought a Compaq P3 for £10 a few weeks ago and got it looking and running like new. I now know that P2/3's are going for a premium on eBay so pretty chuffed with myself :D Anyway, I now want to try something else. I'm aware you can build a P4 Win98 rig using …