Re: New toy - AGP GAINWARD BLISS 7800 GS+ Golden Sample GoesLikeHell edition. Possibly.

Posted on 2022-09-15, 03:09

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by Horun

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Nice ! Yes all the old vid cards should be checked for dry spooge (AKA: heat sink goop ;p) Can you run GPU-Z and take a screen shot ? Curious what it says.... added: my Gainward GF2 and GF3 red cards still work perfectly. They were a very reputable company back then.

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Re: Logitech Wingman Warrior Spinner on Windows 10

Posted on 2022-09-14, 02:37

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by Horun

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Yes I mis-typed using "sc start xxx.sys", figured you would know what I meant or figure it out. Good to know you can start those. Are you sure the Warrior Spinner works proper ? Have you connected it to an older board and checked it ? As a test of your USB-Serial adapter you could hook up a true …

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Re: Need help finding BIOS update for Soyo Dragon P4I865PE Plus board

Posted on 2022-09-13, 02:21

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by Horun

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Will go look around but sounds like an ACPI BIOS issue. Can you can boot DOS off floppy ok ? Which cpu are you running ? Hoping PC Hoarder Patrol with his keen search skills might find something if he see's this post.

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Re: Disable Nvidia second monitor

Posted on 2022-09-13, 02:11

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by Horun

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Need to know which exact vid card currently and what driver version. Never heard of a 1999 game needing to detect a Vid card on Win9x+ system. By default if no monitor is connected to the second port then there should not be an issue unless you played and set up a second monitor at some point in the …

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Re: Logitech Wingman Warrior Spinner on Windows 10

Posted on 2022-09-13, 01:54

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by Horun

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Ok my best guess is that the USB to Serial adapter is using the HID USB protocols and drivers which would not require Serial support and those Serial drivers expect a true 16550 compliant serial port. (just a guess the USB adapter is not). Have you tried a regular serial mouse on that USB adapter to …

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Re: Moi 5124 ps/2 issue

Posted on 2022-09-13, 01:35

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by Horun

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Early boards I never expect mouse to work in BIOS but yes if you are using a 10 pin header to ps2 adapter then it may be wired wrong. PS2 like Keyboards is actually simple. There may be many header pins but only 4 are needed. the +5v and Ground should be easy to find. The two remaining required are …

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Re: Logitech Wingman Warrior Spinner on Windows 10

Posted on 2022-09-12, 23:46

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by Horun

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Hmm. Ok my bad. Was from MS and a forum that talked about serial mouse problems and how to fix them but it relied on having a genuine com port or with something like the Startech PEX2S553 Do you have a COM port in Device manager ? Do you have a genuine serial port ? Or are you trying to use a USB to …

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

Posted on 2022-09-12, 04:24

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by Horun

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Can I replace those tag tantalums with modern electrolytics or should I stick with tantalums? I would replace with equal Tants but you could go with Electrolytics if you already have them but if you have to order them with stick with identical replacements. And replace them all, if one or two go …

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Re: Best DOS/Win9x software for stress testing a 486

Posted on 2022-09-12, 04:20

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by Horun

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Phil’s computer lab has a benchmark suite. Could try that For cache and ram memtest86+ is a good one. Can make boot disks for it +1 as the first thing to run ! Being a test that runs not off the HD or with any OS drivers loaded it can show more deeply if a Ram, cache, cpu hardware issue is at fault …

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Re: Missing power cable for SB Audigy 2 EX Platinum - is a floppy power cable a solution?

Posted on 2022-09-12, 04:07

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by Horun

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Yes it appears to be a standard 4 pin Molex/peripheral to 4 pin floppy adapter. They were very common from 1990's thru late 2000's. Too bad the picture ScreenHunter_01 Sep. 12 04.09.jpg is so poor but from what I can see any standard cable should work and appears same as the many I have for …

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Re: Drivers for Hornet Technology VL-200 cached IDE VLB controller?

Posted on 2022-09-12, 03:43

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by Horun

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OK, so this shows that the Hornet VL-200 actually allows to access to full memory plugged into it. The card is actually a multi-function card: It's a quite decent cacheless VL IDE interface based on the Adaptec 25VL01Q chip, as well as an ISA multi-I/O controller based on the Acer M5101 chip (cheap …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2022-09-12, 03:13

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by Horun

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Kept forgetting to upload these: full set of floppies for Evans & Sutherland Freedom (workstation OpenGL card). Drivers for Windows NT 3.51, demos and utilities. Couldn't find anything for Win9x or WinNT 4.0, unfortunately. https://i.imgur.com/hj7C3i6m.jpg?1 Evans & Sutherland Freedom.zip Sorry but …

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Re: "best" driver for a GeForce 2 MX on W98?

Posted on 2022-09-12, 02:50

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by Horun

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Sounds like a failing MX200. Curious what version of DirectX are you running, iirc the MX200/400's only support thru DX7 where the FX5200 thru Dx9. It could be a DirectX issue but doubt it..... Supports DX9 and actually being able to use DX9 are two very different things for the FX5200, I would …

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Re: What keyboard do you use for Windows 9x?

Posted on 2022-09-12, 00:30

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by Horun

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I like the older Keytronic Win type E03601Q models with the big enter key (e03601ql-c AT or e03601qus201-c PS/2). The E03600QL-C is also decent with smaller Enter key. They are good AT/PS2 compatible and are decent full keyboards, usually get a good working one for +/- $25 if you look around...

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Re: PC DOS 2.0 boot disk

Posted on 2022-09-11, 21:29

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by Horun

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Yep needs to be imaged to the floppy, also pre DOS 3.3 needs IO.SYS written to the floppy first before Command.com and MSDOS.SYS plus the other files iirc.

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Re: "best" driver for a GeForce 2 MX on W98?

Posted on 2022-09-11, 17:52

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by Horun

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Sounds like a failing MX200. Curious what version of DirectX are you running, iirc the MX200/400's only support thru DX7 where the FX5200 thru Dx9. It could be a DirectX issue but doubt it.....

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Re: Logitech Wingman Warrior Spinner on Windows 10

Posted on 2022-09-11, 16:13

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by Horun

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Under Win7 thru 10 a serial mouse uses sermouse.sys where a usb mouse uses mouhid.sys and mouclass.sys iirc. Win10 has serial mouse support but serial devices are not commonly Plug n Play so generally not loaded or started..... You may have to force the sermouse service kernel driver to start (using …

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Re: How much does 4 cores matter w/ Windows XP?

Posted on 2022-09-11, 03:47

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by Horun

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FWIW: I still occasionally play BF42, BF Vietnam, BF2, Halo, Tiberian Sun, Call of Duty World at War, etc on that same system with XP (sp3 32bit) and Q9650. Am using a era equal vid card Geforce-8800GT and it all works just fine. added: am still using driver 6.14.11.7516 from May 2008 for vid driver …

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Re: Does anyone have the TR4 Bios for the Dell CPI-D?

Posted on 2022-09-11, 03:31

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by Horun

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Sphere478 wrote on 2022-09-11, 02:06: Please re host the file incase the link goes dead. Does ultimate retro have it? I upped it to our Library here as a backup. Thanks PCHP ! http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?file … 7&menustate=0,0

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Re: Siemens Nixdorf Scenic Pro D6

Posted on 2022-09-10, 22:35

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by Horun

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Is your Scenic Pro D6 the Single P.Pro board ? Which board # (is it D983??) Just curious....

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