Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-08-07, 07:11

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by Warlord

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The only game I been able to test so far is Tyrian in pure dos. I go YFMIRQ 11 DSDMA SWAPIRQ /i11 /i5 Then FM (real OPL3) and SB16 work in pure dos (at least in tyrian under pure dos) In windows, using the VxD drivers Dos4g game such as tyrian work just fine with FM and SB16 Give me other game to …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-08-06, 23:59

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Good news. Was able to modify the 14 inch hinges to work with the 15 hinges fixed. still waiting on the new cmos battery to arrive. till then we are partially together New power brick arrived. Laptop works. 1st ever geforce laptop is alive. But is it the perfect laptop? At this point the laptop …

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Re: IBM Thinkpad 760EL

Posted on 2020-08-05, 18:34

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It's a think pad so it has ultrabay. Try find one of these. https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/UltraBay_Thick_CD-ROM_Drive Example. https://www.ebay.com/itm/85G1914-IBM-CD-ROM-M … swAAOSwqpJe8Uy6

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Re: System hangs while booting DOS off floppy - only when HDD is present

Posted on 2020-08-05, 02:14

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by Warlord

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change the ide ribbon cable for the ide drive? Try a different hard drive. Either way sounds like faulty hardware.

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Re: Want some Arctic Silver with your Duron?

Posted on 2020-08-04, 23:20

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by Warlord

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

reeeeeeee

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Re: SYS.COM freezes machine

Posted on 2020-08-04, 23:17

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http://wp.xin.at/archives/1449 after u do that just copy dos to the partition.

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Re: SYS.COM freezes machine

Posted on 2020-08-04, 23:15

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try command FDISK /MBR then just manually copy command.com, io.sys and msdos.sys Although I disagree with using dos for formatting and partitioning solid state media. I use other tool for this. http://wp.xin.at/archives/1449

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Re: Intel Advanced∕EV motherboard

Posted on 2020-08-04, 22:16

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boot the computer with a windows 98 startup/bootdisk. change drive to letter to whatever it assigned your CD and type setup. go look on google for a 98 bootdisk floppy img.

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Re: Pentium M Build Log

Posted on 2020-08-04, 18:40

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Requires some experimenting. Becasue its not a net burst, and its more like core architecture, it has 2 MSRs that control its speed and utilities like cachectl.com work. so it can be slowed down much more than a Netburst. Se thread https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?t=60428 There is unlocked …

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Re: Pentium M Build Log

Posted on 2020-08-04, 17:00

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This to me is the ultimate single core 98se AGP build. That is 100% compatible with zero hacks. This build to me, is like a Pentium 3/Tualatin build on steroids. It is like a 2ghz PIII with SSE 2 and DDR, with AGP 8x Is compatibility better with a P-M, compared to using a normal Socket478 P4 and …

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Re: Retro PC without ISA. What sound would you choose?

Posted on 2020-08-03, 22:59

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I would try and get a 815 chipset with sblink and yamaha XG, gl finding one.

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Re: Pentium M Build Log

Posted on 2020-08-03, 22:41

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Thanks. More coming soon. Small update. My video card. It's not ready yet for the build but heres a teaser. As far as I know it's real gold plated.

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Re: early Pentium 4 build with Rambus DRAM, Kyro 2 graphics & Win 98SE

Posted on 2020-08-03, 19:22

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by Warlord

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what a piece of history. nice transitional build.

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Re: Undo partition damage

Posted on 2020-08-02, 23:59

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you should recover the data. before attempting to fix it. worst case scenario then you can reformat the drive and copy the data back. Sys commanding the drive only works if you dont have NT installed on the drive. If you have a NT based MBR u need another tool.

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Re: Undo partition damage

Posted on 2020-08-02, 21:36

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You can try something like recuva, that's the only free one I know about but there is better software than this out there. Ive used a program called getdataback by runtime software for years. specifically version 3.66 for fat and ntfs

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Re: Adding usb to an isa machine

Posted on 2020-08-02, 20:47

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I don't even use USB on my modern machines. Once you have networking setup you really don't need physical media of any kind after the initial OS install (and maybe not even then) usb is actually far easier for me as I only need a usb drive , but with networking I have to have not only a compatible …

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Re: Slow compact flash adapter performance

Posted on 2020-08-02, 08:36

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by Warlord

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try using smartdrive or some other disk cache, real hard drive might be faster since it has it's own disk cache chips.

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Re: 440BX - BIOS shows 756MB and CPU-Z shows 1 GB: Which is right?

Posted on 2020-08-02, 07:05

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very few very late 440bx boards had proper AGP/PCI dividers. So if your board doesn't have that, or you don't bother to set it correctly you are effectively overclocking the AGP and PCI bus by running the memory at 133 mhz. poor stability is one thing. Frying expansion cards is another, or frying …

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Re: The quest for the perfect retro laptop: a saga

Posted on 2020-08-02, 05:55

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Well see what happens. I plan on making a full review if this thing tests good. The hinges I had to order are not specifically for this model. Although I suspect the actual hinge part is the same, the LCD bracket is for a 14 inch. I am going to combine the two. or just mod the 14inch if I break the …

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Re: Does the thermal compound between chip and heatspreader go bad in a cpu?

Posted on 2020-08-02, 00:16

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it can dry out.

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