Re: If we were to accept 15 years ago as retro....

Posted on 2021-02-11, 09:50

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by henk717

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Given my retro build i started last year is a 2005 build i certainly consider it retro. That said it was a turning point so some of these builds are more retro than others. To me to qualify as retro the following needs to be the case : - Contains a BIOS with no UEFI update being availible to …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-12-16, 03:56

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by henk717

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Managed to finally find a ESS-Solo1 in my region for a great price (Or at all given they never popped up in my searches before) , last year i went with the YMF744 instead. I absolutely love the ymf! Its such a great card. But pure dos gaming has been really hit and miss for me with its dos extender …

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

Posted on 2020-12-14, 00:59

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by henk717

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It has been a great second day for my first serious retro pc build (Only having the T5710 prior). It rocks the following specs for context: GPU : 6800GT AGP 256mb CPU : Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Motherboard : ASUS A8V (Via chipset) RAM : 4GB DDR from Kingston HDD: 300GB Sound: YMF744 Where yesterday was …

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Re: [Solved] Help! My new 2005 era build is not posting.

Posted on 2020-12-12, 16:42

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by henk717

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This one : https://www.gpuzoo.com/GPU-GIGABYTE/GeForce_6 … 68T256DH-N.html (The seller mistakenly added a NX instead of N, so its also possible i did not actually get the -n version and he made a mistake there to) but gpuzoo lists both as nv48.

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Re: Help! My new 2005 era build is not posting.

Posted on 2020-12-12, 01:42

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The machine has come to life! We already tried the RAM one by one, resetting the CMOS, etc to no avail today. So this time we tried checking the CPU without its cooler to see if the CPU would get warm, when suddenly the GPU jumped to life and it booted. After another time of adjusting both the CPU …

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Re: Help! My new 2005 era build is not posting.

Posted on 2020-12-11, 21:44

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by henk717

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Here is an update on the project answering everyone's questions. Can you confirm the PC beeper was the one beeping and not the card itself? Did further testing with the card and the speaker unplugged and its still beeping, so the beep is now confirmed to be the GPU and not the motherboard beeper. …

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Re: Help! My new 2005 era build is not posting.

Posted on 2020-12-10, 19:39

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by henk717

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Thanks for the help so far guys, i have also managed to translate a chinese version of a troubleshooting manual and it does indeed have functioning error code beeps although the manual does not say much more than that. I also found an official compatibility listing of the ram, indicating the ram is …

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Re: Help! My new 2005 era build is not posting.

Posted on 2020-12-10, 18:40

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by henk717

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I will clarify, the motherboard on its own provides no beeps as far as error messages go, but does have a functional beeper unless its the GPU itself providing the beep. Which i think is unlikely since the volume of the beep seems to indicate its the case's built in speaker and not a small beeper on …

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Re: Help! My new 2005 era build is not posting.

Posted on 2020-12-10, 18:05

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by henk717

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The purchase cheap spare parts is indeed the likely strategy, but i am hoping to collect some feedback on what i should order first based on what others think its most likely. As far as beeps go there are no beeps at all (Unless i hook the GPU up wrong on purpose, so the beeper itself works), i know …

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[Solved] Help! My new 2005 era build is not posting.

Posted on 2020-12-10, 17:17

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by henk717

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I am currently trying to build a 2005 era retro PC project and have all the essential components. Unfortunately the system is not posting and based on my research i may have been unlucky in my motherboard choice with no post code troubleshooting available. The parts used are based on parts i have …

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Re: HP T5710 windows 98 build

Posted on 2020-10-30, 03:52

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by henk717

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The T5710 maps USB sticks as a harddrive trough BIOS emulation, so all you need is a regular USB stick. Windows 3.11 can be done, but Rufus is not the way to go for that. You want to use the HP USB Storage Format Tool and the DOS files of your choosing. I do have it running with a modified copy of …

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Re: HP T5710 windows 98 build

Posted on 2020-06-13, 15:23

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by henk717

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The T5710 maps USB sticks as a harddrive trough BIOS emulation, so all you need is a regular USB stick. Windows 3.11 can be done, but Rufus is not the way to go for that. You want to use the HP USB Storage Format Tool and the DOS files of your choosing. I do have it running with a modified copy of …

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Re: My Socket-939 All-in-One DOS/Win98/XP Gaming PC

Posted on 2020-06-12, 20:03

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by henk717

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I already got a single boot floppy complete with all the memory manages i might need JEMMEX included but i mostly noticed its useful for newer systems that do not run stable with EMM386 (Have not been able to solve EMM386 instability yet regardless of the parameters i try on HIMEM(X) and EMM386). …

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Re: 64bit replacement of ntvdm

Posted on 2020-06-12, 19:57

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by henk717

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For DOS programs i just use Dosbox, for (some) Windows 3.11 applications I also use WINEVDM : https://github.com/otya128/winevdm Some applications work well, others do not unfortunately. Another approach i like to use for problematic applications is just emulating Windows 98 in dosbox.

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Re: My Socket-939 All-in-One DOS/Win98/XP Gaming PC

Posted on 2020-06-12, 16:09

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by henk717

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I already have the YMF744B from AOpen so that will be going in the machine. OS wise its designed to cover as many as possible, so Windows XP all the way to DOS, using a combination of CPUSPD from you and Slowdown to try and cover as much area's as possible. But ill also use 2GB of ram in combination …

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Re: My Socket-939 All-in-One DOS/Win98/XP Gaming PC

Posted on 2020-06-12, 11:56

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Love this build! I am attempting to build something very similar but unfortunately could not find this motherboard anywhere. I went for the ASUS A8V, Geforce 6800GT, and Athlon X2 4200+ instead. I still hope it will all come together nicely as i do not yet have the required parts to test my build …

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Re: HP T5710 windows 98 build

Posted on 2020-06-10, 20:56

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by henk717

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Interesting, i had the reverse experience with it working fine in the T5710 but not on other systems. Unfortunately the way the built in writer handles USB sticks is not perfect. The alternative you can try is the HP USB Format Tool which has a option to make a bootable USB disk. Use the option to …

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Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win98 Retro Gaming

Posted on 2020-06-10, 03:45

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by henk717

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Interesting stuff, Is there a reason this program requires protect mode or could it in theory also work on real mode? Some older games require real mode and it would be nice to be able to set the cpu multiplier for them without resorting to the bios.

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Re: HP T5710 windows 98 build

Posted on 2020-06-10, 00:01

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by henk717

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Hey guys, thanks so much for responding! The linux option sounds easy enough, don't know why I didn't think of that. And henk, thanks for the drivers and the image creator, I will give this a shot, but I gotta wait for my Ide-SD adapter shipping from china, then I'll get to work on it :) I actually …

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Re: PCI sound card issues in MS-DOS on modern PC

Posted on 2020-06-02, 14:52

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by henk717

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I would not go that far, for most cases the Yamaha Drivers are better, the midi sounds nicer (Default wave table midi on Yamaha is extremely loud and Yamaha XG is clearly superior in sound) and in Win98/DOS they are required to even have audio. But specifically for the use case of wanting the FM …

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