Re: Need air flow help in a minitower....

Posted on 2023-04-25, 05:24

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by tomcattech

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Do you have an unobstructed wide shot of the whole case (open)? It's hard to tell what you're working with from the provided pictures. Agree ! Your pics do not show anything of value as far as what the case has.... most all my old ATX cases had a place for front case fan and some type in rear. I …

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Need air flow help in a minitower....

Posted on 2023-04-24, 23:52

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by tomcattech

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Need some airflow help on a mini tower for a 98\DOS build Running an Athlon 1 GHz that needs some air circulation bad. I'm adding some pics but the situation is this: The CPU is RIGHT underneath the PSU and there is pretty much no intake air path for the case. (The intake air fan spot is blocked by …

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Re: Radeon X800 GTO PCI-E not recognized on 98SE

Posted on 2023-04-18, 23:35

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by tomcattech

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've found that hacking around with 98 to recognize\use pci-e interfaces\cards just isn't worth the time. Good Luck!

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Re: Early Win98 \ DOS Mode Setup - Athlon 1.1 GHz or Athlon XP 2800 - Throttle the Throttle!

Posted on 2023-04-18, 23:15

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by tomcattech

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Bad News\Good News Update for the 98SE\DOS project: Bad News: The Ecs k7vta3 went up in smoke.... taking the Athlon with it. Good News: I got a cool Retro Case for the project (attached) We are now down to: Gigabyte GA-7VT600 AsRock K7S41GX Got both a 1 Ghz and 1.2 Ghz Athlon on the way so we should …

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Re: Radeon X800 Pro 256M faulty?

Posted on 2023-04-08, 04:24

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by tomcattech

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Agreed.... it's dead.

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Re: Windows 98SE poor gaming performance

Posted on 2023-04-08, 04:19

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by tomcattech

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As others have said... motherboard? Get rid of the Celeron. Also, I've never been a fan of that mx400 card....

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Re: Early Win98 \ DOS Mode Setup - Athlon 1.1 GHz or Athlon XP 2800 - Throttle the Throttle!

Posted on 2023-04-08, 04:03

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by tomcattech

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Neither cpu is unlocked. I'm currently leaning toward the following: Ecs k7vta3 mb Athlon 1.1Ghz GeForce 2 ultra SB Live Does anyone think that the extra horsepower of the Athlon xp would be needed?

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Early Win98 \ DOS Mode Setup - Athlon 1.1 GHz or Athlon XP 2800 - Throttle the Throttle!

Posted on 2023-04-07, 23:47

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by tomcattech

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Looking at putting together a 98\DOS system that will not be so overpowered that I'm messing with throttling utilities etc that I've been dealing with in some games on my P4s. I have both of these boards that may do well: ECS K7VTA3 Ver6.0 Gigabyte GA-7VT600 Processor contestants: Athlon 1.1 Ghz …

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Re: My first attempt at retro PC

Posted on 2023-04-06, 17:12

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by tomcattech

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in Marvin \ System Specs

The Drive IR issue was a PITA for me as well. My guess is that it is a driver issue. Some resources: https://support.creative.com/Products/ProductDetails.aspx?prodID=572&prodName=Live!+Platinum+5.1 https://archive.org/details/creative-sb-live-5.1-platinum-install https://archive.org/details/creative …

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My First IBM! (Netvista)

Posted on 2023-04-04, 20:03

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by tomcattech

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Wasn't even really looking for anything when I came across this steal on the Bay. Would only boot to bios but I took the risk. Changes\Work: Repainted the case with a new coat of black Inop hard drive replaced Inop CD-Rom replaced with a CD-RW Installed a 5.25 Drive Bay caddy Upgraded Processor to a …

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Re: USB 2.0 Driver Issue

Posted on 2023-03-10, 03:38

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by tomcattech

in Windows

in Windows

Never mind.... NUSB to the rescue.... 🤣

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USB 2.0 Driver Issue

Posted on 2023-03-10, 01:38

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by tomcattech

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Well, I'm at my wits end trying to clean up Device Manager for a recent 98 SE install. This Compaq Evo absolutely WILL NOT install the USB 2.0 controller driver. I've thrown everything I can at it from the normal Compaq install utils, and I either don't have the correct driver or it is in a .CAT …

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Re: Confused by EMS and EMM386

Posted on 2023-03-02, 23:05

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by tomcattech

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I just hexed v4.05 of Waveint.exe from the Trident 4Dwave package and inside are these line plus some others: "WARNING: EMM386 is running ... You may need to remove EMM386. from CONFIG.SYS and reboot your system... " "WARNING: EMM386 is running ... Your Wave board may not work correctly on. 440LX- …

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Re: Confused by EMS and EMM386

Posted on 2023-03-02, 22:58

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by tomcattech

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

kolderman wrote on 2023-03-02, 22:53: Doubt it. Plenty of people use SB Lives in DOS, never heard of this issue before. I was thinking this myself. I would think this has more to do with "waveinit".... maybe there is a switch you can add to the command to make it play nicely and\or have it load in …

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Re: P4 Win98 Small Form Factor? - AGP Video Card Issues....

Posted on 2023-03-02, 20:33

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by tomcattech

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

UPDATE: The 2.8 CPU upgrade went off without a hitch. I replaced the CD read only drive with an HP CD-RW unit that I had laying around (Keeping the HP\Compaq theme going) I added a small expansion slot fan to get the air moving System runs great and I may try to get my hands on a Voodoo3 AGP for an …

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Re: Radeon 9550 SE and Voodoo2 on Compaq EVO D510s (Power issues?)

Posted on 2023-02-27, 19:52

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by tomcattech

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in Marvin \ Video

It is weird. I've looked high and low for a power draw number for the Radeon 9550 SE and so far, Google has come up with nada. Best I've seen is that it "recommends" a 200 W PSU..... but that's about it. The ventilation is a great point about this case and usually I'd put one of those PCI slot fans …

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Re: Radeon 9550 SE and Voodoo2 on Compaq EVO D510s (Power issues?)

Posted on 2023-02-27, 18:52

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by tomcattech

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

The PCI bus tops out at 25W as far as I know, and the Radeon 9550SE is probably also around 20W. Having both should be somewhere around 9A on the 5V rail. The PSU is rated for 8A on its 5V rail so it's already overloaded with assuming nothing else uses 5V in your PC. That was pretty much my fear. …

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Radeon 9550 SE and Voodoo2 on Compaq EVO D510s (Power issues?)

Posted on 2023-02-27, 06:09

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by tomcattech

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in Marvin \ Video

OK, Well the cool little Win98 Small Form Factor rig is up and it is awesome. I'm thinking hard about sticking a voodoo2 in there but the Radeon 9550 SE is already in the AGP slot and the power supply is downright ANEMIC at 175 Watts. The PCI slots are on a riser board which plug directly into the …

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Re: P4 Win98 Small Form Factor? - AGP Video Card Issues....

Posted on 2023-02-27, 00:44

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by tomcattech

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

UPDATE: Resolved the Radeon 9550 issue. For some reason it HATED the DMS-59 to VGA adapter I used. What would make it not even boot is weird to me. I put on a DMS-59 to dual VGA splitter and it came right up.... interesting. Everything up and running except for the CPU upgrade. I've tried a few …

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Re: P4 Win98 Small Form Factor? - AGP Video Card Issues....

Posted on 2023-02-26, 05:23

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by tomcattech

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

OK so new update\issue: The Radeon 9550 is not playing well at all with the unit. When installed it will power on and then nothing..... no post beep.... no beep codes.... no video. I know it isn't the motherboard because the old GeForce2 MX works just fine. The Radeon card shows as a "universal 1.5v …

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