Re: ASUS V3800 (TV) WIn98 black screen

Posted on 2023-07-27, 19:08

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by Boohyaka

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Yup you must be right. I wasn't exactly sure how, but as the card appears with an exclamation mark and says the hardware cannot be started (code 10), I suspected something like this to be happening. Oh well...as said, not the worst loss but it's a cool little card, with all the optional connectors …

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Re: ASUS V3800 (TV) WIn98 black screen

Posted on 2023-07-27, 14:58

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by Boohyaka

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The plot thickens...kinda. Installed a fresh XP on the same hardware, card is detected, installed the official XP drivers off ASUS' website. Card is identified correctly in device manager, but has a yellow exclamation mark and "device cannot be started". Yet it works, and under XP has no problem in …

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Re: ASUS V3800 (TV) WIn98 black screen

Posted on 2023-07-27, 08:11

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by Boohyaka

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I'm not sure whether it can help but I've got the official driver CD that came with my ASUS AGP-V3800 Ultra Deluxe. It is labelled with "Drivers & Utilities Rev.2.08" and V083. (...) Are you sure you have installed the GART Driver too? Thanks for the offer but don't think that's necessary, I have …

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ASUS V3800 (TV) WIn98 black screen

Posted on 2023-07-27, 06:59

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by Boohyaka

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Hi there! I have this TNT2 based card from ASUS that I like and that is giving me headaches. To summarize: - In Win98, anything but 640x480 in 16 colors will produce a black screen on login. It works fine as a standard vga adapter before any driver is installed, but as soon as the drivers are …

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Re: Modified BIOSes for ASUS P3B-F, P3V4X, P3V133, CUBX, CUBX-E/L and P3C-E

Posted on 2023-07-21, 08:03

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by Boohyaka

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Hey Deniz! Just wanted to let you know that I've restored my P3B-F and programmed the latest BIOS, the -5V rail monitoring error is gone as expected - can choose between Ignore and N/A in HW monitoring, guess that's the desired result 😀 big thanks as usual!

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Re: Cool things to do with an Adlib Gold/GoldLib

Posted on 2023-07-15, 10:27

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by Boohyaka

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@mods thinking about it maybe it would be worth merging dionb's post and this post? I believe they're similar enough in content and goal Re: AdLib Gold 1000 games support

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Re: Cool things to do with an Adlib Gold/GoldLib

Posted on 2023-07-15, 07:11

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by Boohyaka

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I tried BASS quickly, and it does seem to work, for music at least. I should really setup a proper recording connection to produce comparisons... a few quick observations as I didn't have much time yet: The install menu still gives you the resources configuration when selecting the Adlib Gold option …

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Cool things to do with an Adlib Gold/GoldLib

Posted on 2023-07-14, 12:10

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by Boohyaka

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Hey, lucky owners of an Adlib Gold, what about sharing things to do? Of course Adlib Gold screams "Dune" to almost anyone. And I just checked a major item of my bucket list: completing the game on my 486DX33, CRT and GoldLib. It was absolutely glorious. I played quite a lot of it when I was younger, …

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Re: Final Fantasy VII and VIII definitive MIDI thread

Posted on 2023-05-24, 20:24

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by Boohyaka

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It does occasionally use some of the built-in ROM samples, instead of the instruments from the PlayStation version, and that is where most of the differences come from. Ah! that makes a lot of sense. Heh, that's kinda when I start losing interest as well. But after taking a break, things usually …

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Re: Final Fantasy VII and VIII definitive MIDI thread

Posted on 2023-05-24, 19:34

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by Boohyaka

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I've been playing around with this recently so I decided to write a quick guide for getting the highest quality music from Final Fantasy VII when using an AWE card. Here's what you need: Windows 98SE (not sure if this works on later Windows versions) The retail CD version of Final Fantasy VII for …

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Re: Interview with AdLib employees! [done on 17/12/2016] - currenty being Edited

Posted on 2023-05-22, 13:04

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by Boohyaka

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Amazing stuff! Good luck with the health issues, but what a cool project. I can't wait to see more, and the final product 😀

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Re: Mitsubishi 355C 252M write 1.44mb floppy, but other drives can't read it

Posted on 2023-05-21, 11:39

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by Boohyaka

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Hmm, that might be possible, I did clean the drive (put new grease on the steppe motor and some lube on the carrage) but didn't remove the steppe motor (only the readhead) from what I've seen it does take a long time. I do have screws on top of my readhead, but I think fiddeling with the steppe …

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Re: Mitsubishi 355C 252M write 1.44mb floppy, but other drives can't read it

Posted on 2023-05-21, 11:29

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by Boohyaka

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Fixing 2, I hope you didn't unscrew the heads away from each other. It's probably more work than fixing 1, but can be done. (...) I agree with Boohyaka on IMGDisk. It's a great tool for fixing this kind of stuff. Though I prefer not to sacrifice an original factory app/game disk for this mission, …

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Re: Mitsubishi 355C 252M write 1.44mb floppy, but other drives can't read it

Posted on 2023-05-20, 22:11

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by Boohyaka

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Most probably your Mitsubishi drive is out of alignment. Pretty much the first (and maybe sole) symptom of a misaligned drive is that it's the only one able to read the disks it writes - just picture it as the heads' track 0 position is slightly shifted from the normal position, so they actually …

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Re: Wave Blaste Drivers

Posted on 2023-05-18, 15:16

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by Boohyaka

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Hi, it would probably be a good idea to give more details about your hardware setup, and detail what you did to "fix" the drivers?

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Re: Turbo button activation options

Posted on 2023-05-12, 10:39

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Maybe your mobo supports a soft shortcut (usually ctrl shift +/ctrl shift -, or ctrl alt +/ctrl alt -) so you can live without a physical switch?

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Re: AdLib GOLD clone is now a reality

Posted on 2023-05-10, 10:29

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by Boohyaka

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Heya! After a quick back and forth vacation to Greece, my Adlib Gold is back home, safe and sound in its case. And I am happy to report the VLB+floppies issue is definitely gone! Thanks a ton keropi 😉

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Re: best mouse

Posted on 2023-05-10, 10:18

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by Boohyaka

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Uncontested number 1: Logitech MX510/518 - just a perfect shape and design for those like me with somewhat bigger hands. Nothing comes close. Honorable mention: Intellimouse Explorer 3.0 - still rocking the one I bought when it was released, it completely changed the game with its precision at the …

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Re: ASUS P/I-P55SP4 - GPU compatibility is atrocious

Posted on 2023-05-09, 19:43

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by Boohyaka

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I've had a rocky start with the exact same board I recently purchased....this is the tale as I sent it to the seller: I configured the jumpers for my P90 and it started fine. Then booting up, XMS reported a memory error I've never seen, then the computer went crazy and displayed multicolor ASCII …

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Re: Orpheus II soundcard thread

Posted on 2023-05-05, 10:27

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by Boohyaka

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And, frankly, if there is every such a thing as a completely finished, never to be tinkered with, Retro PC - I've not seen it. Truer words have rarely been spoken :) it's regularly discussed in here and I guess a vast majority of us spend more time tinkering with their hardware than actually using …

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