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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages

Posted on 2020-05-09, 22:27

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Update on the drive - turned out it was bad my others on order came in today and were fine. Everything is working great with the exception of the dos game blood which hangs when playing audio from the CD. Other than that very happy with it. I may try a different driver in DOS and see if that …

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Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages

Posted on 2020-05-04, 15:26

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I am thinking it is just a bad drive. Did some research and found that to be the case with some others experiencing similar issues. Hopefully a different drive will solve the issue and all will be well. I really like that caddy setup and may throw similar ones in some of my other builds. Looking …

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Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages

Posted on 2020-05-03, 17:29

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CD sound is working great was rocking out to NIN playing a little Quake this morning! However anything I try to install off of the CD has file corruption. Not sure if it is the drive or the board. I ended up buying a few of each off ebay and hope to get those in this week and will try it out again. …

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Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages

Posted on 2020-05-02, 03:13

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Just wanted to say that all of the components came in and everything is working wonderfully! Thanks again Tali! 😀 Filename IMG-1209.JPG File size 1.28 MiB Views 1445 views Filename IMG-1207.JPG File size 1.22 MiB Views 1445 views

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Re: A couple (or, perhaps, quite a bit more) rigs for all ages

Posted on 2020-04-28, 11:35

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Hey Tali! Very nice build and I want to thank you for showing us that CD/FDD caddy from Dell! It is the perfect upgrade for my Dell Optiplex GL 5100. I have one bay currently occupied by a CD drive and I removed the floppy drive to install a CF Card reader (it is a pentium 100 that I am using for my …

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Re: CRT Scaling and Voodoo 2 Help

Posted on 2020-04-19, 15:17

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Hey derSammier! Thanks for your response and input! No OSD - there are knobs at the bottom for all adjustments (horizontal, vertical etc.). Just strange that not changing resolution only refresh rate would cause this. I did notice that pin 9 was missing from the VGA cable of the monitor but I don't …

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CRT Scaling and Voodoo 2 Help

Posted on 2020-04-19, 13:01

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Hey everyone! Was wondering if I could pick your brains with some help with my crt monitor and some issues that I have been having with it. Its a Pentium 233mmx build running Windows 98SE with a ATI Rage Pro AGP and a Voodoo2. Anytime I change the resolution from Adapter Default the scaling gets all …

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Re: Dimension 4100 Intel BIOS

Posted on 2019-12-17, 01:43

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KT7AGuy - I used the BIOS listed by ElementalChaos on the first page of the thread the P10 version. It was an Intel board bios but not modified. Mounting the heatsink I ended up bending the tension arm so it didn't apply too much force on the processor. All was well with that too :) I think you can …

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