Re: How do YOU mount your CF2IDE card?

Posted on 2020-08-30, 14:15

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by mbliss11

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I like having front access to the drives. I was able to dig up a 3.5 CF2IDE bracket and mount that into a 3.5 to 5.25 bay on my Win95 and DOS rig. There is also an ebay seller who does 3d prints for a similar bracket but for SD cards as well. If you have a 3d printer I believe he listed the project …

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Re: Quality of Life Programs and Additions

Posted on 2020-08-24, 11:30

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by mbliss11

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Hey canthearu! Hard drive size limitations was one of the first things I remember discovering after I first started getting into the hobby. My socket 5 has an 8gig limitation which is unfortunate in my 95 installation however I recently discovered dynamic disk overlay software and was able to …

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Re: Quality of Life Programs and Additions

Posted on 2020-08-24, 10:55

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by mbliss11

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Thanks for the insight Creepingnet! Networking is one thing that I have yet to get into with my rigs but it has always interested me. I was able to get a few nic cards late last year with drivers up on a few of my 98 machines but I noticed afterwards their boot times increased significantly as a …

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Re: Quality of Life Programs and Additions

Posted on 2020-08-23, 00:12

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by mbliss11

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Thanks for the suggestions! I have been playing around with Daemon tools on my SS7 build for a bit but am having trouble getting CD audio working. Thinking that it could just be a limitation with the chipset but I will have to do some more experiments. That is awesome that you got the terminal …

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Quality of Life Programs and Additions

Posted on 2020-08-22, 19:20

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by mbliss11

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Hey everyone! I am starting to finally settle on a few of my machines and will be giving them a permanent home on my desk. I am starting to look for applications or other mods to make using these old treasures more enjoyable. I recently discovered cdbq which is an excellent dos application that can …

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-08-10, 23:50

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by mbliss11

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Hey Mumak - thanks for all of your hard work! I was wondering if you could help with a troubleshooting issue that HWINFO is strangely fixing for me. I have an old Optiplex GL5100 and a Voodoo3 PCI running in a pure DOS environment. For some reason the board/bios will not detect the Voodoo3's VBE …

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Re: Voodoo 3 PCI Socket 5 Issues

Posted on 2020-08-10, 17:24

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by mbliss11

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After more research I stumbled upon this post with someone having similar issues to what I am experiencing but with a Voodoo5 https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=63&t=62560&p=700450&hilit=hwinfo%20univbe#p700450 He ran HWINFO and everything seemed to work after that. Super super strange. There …

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Re: Voodoo 3 PCI Socket 5 Issues

Posted on 2020-08-10, 14:40

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by mbliss11

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Hey Serpent Rider! Thanks for the suggestion and I think you are on to something. No luck with NOLFB but I used HWINFO to check out details of the card and when I launch benchmarks and other tests sure enough everything works just fine. Wondering if HWINFO has UNIVBE or something similar. I am going …

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Voodoo 3 PCI Socket 5 Issues

Posted on 2020-08-09, 17:39

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by mbliss11

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Hey everyone! I recently acquired a Voodoo 3 PCI that I was going to throw into my Socket 5 Dell Optiplex Gl5100. Posts fine and displays under my DOS installation at 320x200 normally but anything higher res I get corruption and really horrendous performance. Card works great in my Pentium 3 …

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Re: 3D games run slow. Slower than my old voodoo 1 and geforce 2 gts of the time.

Posted on 2020-07-29, 16:43

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by mbliss11

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Does your computer have any l2 cache? Also how much RAM do you have in the computer? You could have some performance issues if you have more than 64megs

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Re: Windows 95 installation (no cd rom found)

Posted on 2020-07-22, 17:14

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by mbliss11

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Just thought too your installation floppy should have an OAK CD ROM Driver on it when it boots do you see that? Are you using a Win95 or 98 boot disk? You can get floppy images of these boot disks from winworld or other locations.

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Re: Windows 95 installation (no cd rom found)

Posted on 2020-07-22, 17:11

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by mbliss11

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Had an issue with my Optiplex GL5100 and a CFtoIDE card with CD rom read errors. Think the board just didn't like it. Once you format the SD card copy the Win95 CD to a directory on there and run setup from CMD line after booting with the boot disk. See if your install works correctly and then try …

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Re: Retro gpu upgrade advice - is it worth it (TNT2 M64)

Posted on 2020-07-09, 10:49

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by mbliss11

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That's awesome! Glad it worked out! I will check out those drivers with my M64 as well and see how they fair. I cannot remember which I used when I installed mine however none of the additional settings worked when I tried to adjust anything in the control panel. On another note I have decided to go …

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Re: 10GB drive + Award BIOS problems

Posted on 2020-06-28, 20:03

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by mbliss11

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Does EZ-Drive support FAT32? I went the OnTrack route because of its support for larger harddrives. If EZ-Drive supports FAT32 and can be accessed on a Windows 10 machine that would be ideal. I recently had to spin up a virtual Inwodws 7 installation just to read data off of my OnTracked SD card

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Re: Ontrack 9.57 on CF card - can't view on modern PC

Posted on 2020-06-27, 23:48

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by mbliss11

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After some searching around I was able to dig this thread up: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=84793 I used the second link in the thread from dell. Was able to install and all is good. I can officially open the SD card on the virtual machine and copy files from there. Man what …

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Re: Ontrack 9.57 on CF card - can't view on modern PC

Posted on 2020-06-27, 21:26

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by mbliss11

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anetanel - thanks for the info! I am attempting to spin up a windows 7 VM for this very reason however I cannot for the life of me get USB support to my VM. Any chance you are using virtualbox and could offer some insight? Need drivers for USB3.0 support in win 7 but none that I have tried will …

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Re: Retro gpu upgrade advice - is it worth it

Posted on 2020-06-23, 18:17

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by mbliss11

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My cards came in - I was able to get a modest improvement in dos 3dbench (132 up from 127) and it has worked very well with all games that I have tried with it on my system. If you are going to be playing around with other old systems it never hurts to have a stack of hardware on hand for benching …

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Re: Retro gpu upgrade advice - is it worth it

Posted on 2020-06-22, 00:07

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by mbliss11

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Use Phil's computer lab dos benchmark utilities: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/dos-benchmark-pack.html It has a bunch of them on there. Use option 2 for 3dbench 1.0c and if you'd like you can upload your other benchmarks as well

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Re: Gpu upgrade advice - is it worth it

Posted on 2020-06-21, 15:32

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by mbliss11

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I am actually in the exact same boat and considering a similar upgrade from my integrated S3 Trio64+. My build is a socket 5 with a pentium 200 mmx overdrive currently getting 127 fps in 3D Bench and have contemplated putting in a different 2D card but don't know if it will really affect performance …

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Re: Introducing my socket 2 system: Dell Optiplex 4100/LE

Posted on 2020-05-15, 02:12

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by mbliss11

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I have a very similar computer - Optiplex GL5100 It is a socket 5 board Have modified the crap out of it the last few months and having a blast tinkering and playing old games with it. If you need to enter the BIOS hit CTRL ALT Enter took me several months to figure that one out had to search the …

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