Re: Looking for a compact DOS machine

Posted on 2022-07-22, 02:35

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by henk717

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Give the T5710 a look, they can be bought cheap. Got ATI Radeon 7000 graphics and with an unofficial utility you can get soundblaster support under DOS. On top of that you can add some soundcards using PCI if you need one.

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Re: When PC became soulless for you?

Posted on 2022-07-20, 22:06

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by henk717

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The Vintage stuff I have though is not that hard either, which is probably good because it's pushing me to actually USE it for things rather than spend all my time tinkering and tweaking and tuning settings, or buying more and hot-rodding and modifying them. I've been at this retro-PC thing before …

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Re: When PC became soulless for you?

Posted on 2022-07-20, 14:02

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by henk717

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Relatively recently, mostly with the introduction of Windows 10. It used to be a skill to install computers, even though it is no where near as hard I could be hired by someone to reinstall their computer and was able to show off that skill. I had 90% of the drivers of any random PC shown to me, I …

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Re: [RAM patch] Windows 98SE - 4GB Ram - DOS Sound

Posted on 2022-01-16, 07:46

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by henk717

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On my own system 512MB indeed works for most but not all, 256MB is safer which is why i use 512MB inside 98 and 256MB inside DOS. Might even lower it further in the future on my own config since does really doesn't need that much.

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Re: [RAM patch] Windows 98SE - 4GB Ram - DOS Sound

Posted on 2022-01-09, 04:13

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by henk717

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I also had issues with Rloew's before, but judging the patch set it contains quite a lot of stuff for something that can be done pretty simple (Although a proper pack would be valuable). But of feedback from personal experience, NUSB is not the best USB driver you could use. That credit goes to …

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Re: Best windows xp based memory testing program?

Posted on 2022-01-05, 19:41

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by henk717

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Windows XP has no good ones, for Windows 7 (And maybe Vista) you would have the built in memory tester in windows which reboots the PC and does it properly. The best thing you can do for your Windows XP machine is burn a CD (or USB stick) with Memtest86+ which you can download from here : http:// …

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Re: Not Another Ultimate Windows 98 Build

Posted on 2021-12-20, 02:29

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by henk717

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Could you try my modded driver available here? https://storage.henk.tech/Drivers/VIA_HyperionPro_V514HM.exe Initially when building my own system i also had a significant gap between 98 and XP. That driver i modified to detect some of the devices the new installer leaves out and this slightly older …

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Re: Not Another Ultimate Windows 98 Build

Posted on 2021-12-18, 01:35

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by henk717

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Could you try my modded driver available here? https://storage.henk.tech/Drivers/VIA_HyperionPro_V514HM.exe Initially when building my own system i also had a significant gap between 98 and XP. That driver i modified to detect some of the devices the new installer leaves out and this slightly older …

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Re: Nvidia 6800GT Retro PC suddenly corrupts VGA output, where do i go from here?

Posted on 2021-06-08, 00:12

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by henk717

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Ill definitely try the heat-gun first then, given our cards died in exactly the same circumstances i do have a theory of what happened. Both our rooms were warm, so the temperature inside the cases would have been hotter than usual. You were playing a game, my CPU is overclocked so it would have …

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Re: Nvidia 6800GT Retro PC suddenly corrupts VGA output, where do i go from here?

Posted on 2021-06-07, 23:26

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by henk717

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Damm Namrok! I did not expect that at all, i was literally searching for 6800GT but didn't get your topic as the result otherwise i'd have replied there instead. It really puts me off buying another one because it indeed literally looks like your photo's, i also read about the baking method. Whats …

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Nvidia 6800GT Retro PC suddenly corrupts VGA output, where do i go from here?

Posted on 2021-06-07, 22:53

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by henk717

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey Everyone, Today i decided to enjoy my retro computer, the room has been hot multiple times this week, but i first cooled it down to a reasonable level with the AC and wasn't doing anything intensive. All i did was letting it run Autopatcher. I had one error on shutdown and then on the boot after …

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Re: HP T5710 windows 98 build

Posted on 2021-05-17, 01:30

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by henk717

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I don't understand why the thin client would reject it in both methods, so ill just post some general steps i'd take that work for me fine with my kingston USB stick. The easiest method that works for me is the reformat on whole device option which unlocks if you run the tool as administrator. This …

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Re: HP T5710 windows 98 build

Posted on 2021-05-09, 10:31

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by henk717

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in Marvin \ System Specs

Updated the link, its been changed a lot since i last posted that with much better tools and tweaks. In case i dropped the mentioned gdisk command the following command should do the partitioning : fdisk 2 /clearall /auto If what you want is just a pure dos build run SETUP C: D: without adding the …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2021-04-15, 16:05

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by henk717

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I have a driver to contribute, I have found the official ESS Solo-1 driver online for Windows 3.11 but unfortunately the package was awful (wrong folders, random autoexec.bat file) and the installer was broken despite coming from the official archived website. Attached is a .zip file I put together …

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Re: Good looking CD / DVD drive

Posted on 2021-04-13, 18:00

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by henk717

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For me i ended up picking the NEC ND-2500A (Try find the ND-2510A instead, same drive but better calibration i used a firmware mod to get dual layer functionality but the 2510 will have it out of the box). Why this one? Because it has that perfect plain generic cd-drive look that fits the older …

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

Posted on 2021-04-11, 18:25

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by henk717

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

As expected from my previous post today was the theme of reviving the ASUS A8V motherboard from its USB Over Current bios bug that was preventing it from functioning. I still do not fully understand what causes the error, but i know i have a pretty high chance of triggering it after a cmos reset as …

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

Posted on 2021-04-11, 07:07

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by henk717

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Reprogramming the chip seems to be more expensive than the board but i did find a place that would ship a brand new chip programmed with a bios of choice. I still think it will be salvagable with a cmos reset, i had this board error out on me in the past resetting itself. I am not sure if i had the …

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

Posted on 2021-04-10, 23:16

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by henk717

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I bricked my retro build by testing a bios cmos utility... First i used it to make a backup of the cmos settings, which seemingly went well. Then i used it to reset the cmos as a test, this indeed reset the bios to its corrupted setting state and i chose to load the default settings. Apparently i …

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Re: ESS Solo-1 easy(ish) setup with ESSOLO.INI (No Windows/ESSOLO.SYS Required!)

Posted on 2021-03-21, 03:30

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by henk717

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in Marvin \ Sound

Its from here : https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=856316 Doesn't need anything, you can use this without any memory messagers and it won't run in the background. To my knowledge a Audigy 2 version was never made, so you will need either a soundblaster live using the version they provide, or an …

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Re: ESS Solo-1 easy(ish) setup with ESSOLO.INI (No Windows/ESSOLO.SYS Required!)

Posted on 2021-03-19, 22:13

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by henk717

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I also used Kamarat's method as well (ESSINIT) but Kamerat's file in WBDMA gave me worse results than setting it to TDMA with 16-bit addressing. On TDMA and 16-bit Addressing its giving me great results in games like Doom.

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