Socket 4 board (SI5PI-AIO) does not work with Nvidia PCI cards

Posted on 2022-07-09, 12:20

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by asdf53

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Hello everyone! I'm trying to make a childhood dream come true (upgrading a Pentium 60 machine with a 3D card and finally be able to play Quake). I bought an Nvidia TNT2 M64 PCI, but sadly it just gives me a black screen at boot. Since this card is quite power hungry and also has two of these AGP- …

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Re: Database of best NVIDIA driver revisions per card per OS

Posted on 2022-05-22, 04:47

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In my testing, I found that the optimal driver version also depends on what instruction sets your CPU supports. For example, it's generally recommended to use the 30.82 driver for an AGP4x GeForce4 Ti4200. However, I found that the 40.72 driver provides a non-trivial performance boost on my …

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Re: Database of best NVIDIA driver revisions per card per OS

Posted on 2022-05-21, 17:34

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I did some compatibility tests and benchmarks today. Card: Riva TNT2 M64 System: Socket 7 with AMD K6-2 OS: Windows 95 and 98 (results were exactly the same for both OS) Games: Need for Speed 3 and 3DMark 99 Drivers from https://www.philscomputerlab.com/nvidia-9x-graphics-drivers.html 2.08-12.41 …

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Re: Windows 3.11 NET START and not enough memory

Posted on 2022-05-08, 19:39

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by asdf53

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I had the same problem with DOS and Microsoft Network Client 3.0 (using TCP/IP). I got the following error on running 'net start': "Error 8: There is not enough memory available" Even after all the other network components have been loaded, "net start" needs a ton of free conventional memory to …

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Re: Windows 95 installation (no cd rom found)

Posted on 2022-05-06, 09:41

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Yeah, this is definitely a bug in the Windows CD versions. After the first setup phase completes and it reboots from hard disk, the DOS CD drivers will not be loaded anymore, and the Windows IDE/SCSI drivers are not installed yet. In this second phase it will try to detect and install additional …

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Re: Can the AMD K6-2 run on a K6 motherboard?

Posted on 2022-04-27, 17:50

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by asdf53

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That's good to know, I have never overvolted the I/O, thought it might be sensitive. Anyway, if anyone else has tried this, please share your experiences. There is surprisingly little info about this subject. If there are no objections, I will definitely try this in the following weeks.

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Re: Can the AMD K6-2 run on a K6 motherboard?

Posted on 2022-04-27, 07:29

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by asdf53

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I run a K6-3 on an Asus TX97-XE. All you need before the software tweaks are a compatible voltage supply and perhaps a BIOS update. Interesting. What CPU does it detect in the POST screen? Did you use the K6-Pro tool or something else? The K6-2 needs 2.2V, my board goes only down to 2.8V but I …

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Can the AMD K6-2 run on a K6 motherboard?

Posted on 2022-04-27, 07:14

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by asdf53

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I have a Gigabyte GA-586S (Socket 7) that supports the AMD K6, but not the K6-2. I recently stumbled upon this article: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/k6-2-2-3-resources.html There's a software called "K6 Pro" that apparently enables K6-2 features on unsupported boards: if your motherboard BIOS …

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Re: Need Bios 1.04 for Mainboard GA-586S , Rev. 1 .22C (or not?)

Posted on 2022-04-23, 16:29

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The manual even says that the board should support 75MHz FSB but there is also no info how to set jumpers ... 2020-06-11 15_19_01-586S - 586s.pdf.jpg I tried to use 75 MHz FSB on this board and came to the conclusion that it might not be possible. According to the manual, the only supported CPU …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-09, 18:06

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Ordered a Tandy CM-11 monitor off Ebay. I was admittedly nervous at the prospect of having a CRT monitor shipped. Congratulations, that is such a beautiful machine. I don't know much about computers from this era, but my goodness, those were the days of aesthetically pleasing hardware design. …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-09, 17:33

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Maybe "beautiful" isn't quite the right term, but it's certainly sleek and stylish and used to be high end. The backplate is missing but if it had one back then, chances are it wasn't cheap. Just a pity as the breakouts for the ports were used and without that plate, they stick out from the surface …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-09, 17:17

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I stumble upon them from time to time and sell them because I don't really like this design. Really? What would be a better looking one in your opinion? I've been scouring ebay for about two months now and have looked at 300-400 machines, and 95% of them are either ugly by design or in very bad …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2022-04-09, 16:59

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Here's something that I really wanted, but didn't buy in the end: https://www.ebay.com/itm/313941800168?orig_cvip=true Tell me this isn't the most beautiful tower case ever made! I didn't buy it because the seller sold it as defective, and he's sold lots of older PCs that look like they were sourced …

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Re: Is it possible to have 2 PCI graphics cards installed at the same time?

Posted on 2022-04-02, 11:00

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by asdf53

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Thanks for your replies and the helpful insights, everyone. Sadly I do not have an AGP slot, it's an older Socket 7 board. I understand that you can only have one graphics card in DOS / BIOS, but I was hoping that Windows + "driver magic" would maybe allow to switch to the second (inactive) card …

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Re: Is it possible to have 2 graphics cards installed at the same time?

Posted on 2022-03-28, 15:11

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I see. Maybe you could put them into PCI slots in such a way that the DOS card is recognized as primary, and then in Windows 95 device manager, disable the first card to make it use the second one? Would that work?

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Is it possible to have 2 PCI graphics cards installed at the same time?

Posted on 2022-03-28, 14:06

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by asdf53

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Does anyone have experience with running two PCI cards? I have a newer card for 3D games under Windows 95/98, but thought about adding an older card for better DOS/Windows 3.1 compatibility. What would happen if I boot into DOS with two cards installed?

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Re: How to get Sound in Dos Games on windows 98

Posted on 2022-02-20, 20:22

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by asdf53

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Remove the blaster-line from Autoexec.bat Install WDM drivers for your Soundcard. Open a Dosbox inside Win98 andy type set It should display a Blaster line with A220 I5 D1. Setup your game with these Resources. (Win98 has Build-in SBPro support if you use WDM Drivers.) This worked for me, thank you …

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Re: ATI Radeon 9200 AGP card in Windows 95?

Posted on 2022-02-17, 07:12

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I installed the working 9600 drivers, then I extracted just the old OpenGL driver file (atio9xxx.dll) from the 8500 drivers and put it into windows\system. I now had 9600 drivers with just the 8500 OpenGL driver. When that didn't work, I tried force installing the whole 8500 driver package by …

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Re: ATI Radeon 9200 AGP card in Windows 95?

Posted on 2022-02-16, 20:39

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I promised to report back and alas, it didn't work. The games crash with a memory violation using the old OpenGL driver. I also tried installing the Radeon 9700 and 8500 drivers from 2001-2002 for my 9600 Pro by faking the PCI ID, but the drivers fail to load and give lots of resource conflicts.

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Re: ATI Radeon 9200 AGP card in Windows 95?

Posted on 2022-02-15, 23:56

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That's a great idea! I looked into the older drivers and interestingly, their OpenGL driver (ati09xxx.dll) is much smaller than the newer ones (1.0 MB instead of 2.5 MB), so maybe this is the point where they moved to Windows 98 and dropped Windows 95 support. I will try it tomorrow and report back! …

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