Re: Confused about the AGP slot on my motherboard

Posted on 2023-07-30, 08:29

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Ydee wrote on 2023-07-30, 08:21: i815 chipset support AGP 4x, so even 1,5V signalling voltage. I'd be surprised if it was different on your motherboard. Yet it's proven to be quite picky... Well, I suppose I'll just have to keep trying to see which cards work and which don't. I suppose I could also …

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Re: How long before one is no longer a "Newbie"?

Posted on 2023-07-30, 07:43

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shevalier wrote on 2023-07-30, 07:41: amigopi wrote on 2023-07-30, 06:34: Thanks, but I'd prefer to just know the magic number. 42 ? Of course, it has to be, hasn't it? Should've figured it out myself. 😄 Edit: it's not 42. 🙁

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Confused about the AGP slot on my motherboard

Posted on 2023-07-30, 07:28

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Check out the attachment. Apparently my motherboard only supports 3.3 V voltage, yet it claims to be 4x compatible. Isn't this just plain wrong? I thought 3.3 V was meant for 1x and 2x only. I wonder if this is why about half of the AGP cards I own have failed to work with the board; yet, physically …

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Re: How long before one is no longer a "Newbie"?

Posted on 2023-07-30, 06:34

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Thanks, but I'd prefer to just know the magic number.

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How long before one is no longer a "Newbie"?

Posted on 2023-07-30, 05:27

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I'm guessing it's related to the amount of messages one has posted? Asking because it'd be nice to be able to send PMs.

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Re: Geforce FX 5200 upgrade?

Posted on 2023-07-30, 00:32

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Hey, which driver version did you use for the Geforce FX 5200 on Win98? I literally used the exact same motherboard and gpu, but have some weird instability issues with it. Try the 45.23 version, works fine with my FX 5200 on Win 98 SE. Of course my hardware is otherwise different. --- In defense …

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Re: IBM APTIVA MASTER RACE!

Posted on 2023-07-25, 04:51

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BitWrangler wrote on 2023-07-25, 04:41: Usually you have to disable the onboard by jumper... it might be more than one in locations spread across the board. Okay, thanks. Wish I had the manual...

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Re: IBM APTIVA MASTER RACE!

Posted on 2023-07-25, 04:29

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Do the (early) Aptivas with just ISA and PCI slots allow one to use graphics cards other than the integrated one? I recently got my hands on a 133 MHz Pentium model (a 2168 of some sort) but its image output via the VGA port is blurry enough to hurt my eyes.

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2023-06-12, 21:23

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So, yeah, Q4OS Trinity running from an SSD on a P3-733 with 512 megs of RAM and 3.5 gigs of swap: it's somewhat usable, but it ain't pleasurable. Everything I tried seems to work, but nothing is snappy, not the way Windows 98 is; instead it's kind of like using an Atari ST with just one floppy drive …

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Re: Motherboard refuses to see other IDE hard drive

Posted on 2023-06-12, 14:57

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sata-pata adapters are usually hard wired for master, they might not even support slave drive on same cable. IDE master/slave actually requires some logic in drive controllers https://www.os2museum.com/wp/the-dual-drive-ide-hell/ and wasnt standardized for a long time (something ridiculous like ~ …

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Re: Motherboard refuses to see other IDE hard drive

Posted on 2023-06-12, 07:54

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Which cables are you using? 80 wire / 40 wire ? I only have these 40 wire cables from who knows when to play with at the moment. (I have ordered some 80 wire cables.) Which hard drives are you using? make/model The other one is a Maxtor 2B020H1 from 2001... and the other one is this OCZ SATA SSD …

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Re: Motherboard refuses to see other IDE hard drive

Posted on 2023-06-12, 06:22

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because data can only go one way at a time on a IDE ribbon cable. trying to read and write to 2 differnt discs or hdds on the same cable at the same time will impact performance. You would see this especially if lets say for example you have 2 cd drives on one cable. One is a burner and the other …

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Re: Motherboard refuses to see other IDE hard drive

Posted on 2023-06-12, 05:58

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What happens if you connect HDD master + CD Rom Slave on the same cable does that work? Good idea, I'll check. However, this is not feasible in the long run due to case I'm using; the HDDs and the optical drives are physically quite far apart. PS You don't really want 2 Optical disk drives on the …

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Motherboard refuses to see other IDE hard drive

Posted on 2023-06-12, 05:36

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Hi! I'm having this annoying issue with my Pentium III build. The motherboard is a Fujitsu-Siemens D1188 (Intel 815 chipset, socket 370) that has two IDE sockets. The sockets are marked as "IDE drives 1 and 2 (primary)" and "IDE drives 3 and 4 (secondary)" on the motherboard diagram, and according …

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Re: Retro OSes for retro computers

Posted on 2023-06-11, 14:57

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Interesting desktop environment to look at for Linux nerds with older PCs (not to say it only works on older PCs) https://www.trinitydesktop.org/ Fork of KDE 3.5 that is maintained to this day, has old school themes and lots more for a retro experience. Packaged on all major distros (Debian, Fedora …

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Re: Gateway 2000 Solo Laptop P3C questions

Posted on 2023-03-19, 03:05

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Hi! Does this 72 pin SO-DIMM memory stick look familiar? https://ram-co-shop.de/8-MB-FastPage-RAM-72-pin-SO-DIMM-70-ns-Laptop-Memory-Samsung-KMM332V213AT-L7_1 It seems to match the stick shown in a (not necessarily the ) Gateway laptop manual here: https://www.manualslib.com/manual/56653/Gateway- …

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Re: Why do we collect things? self-reflection and crisis

Posted on 2023-03-18, 18:48

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The things I collect, I collect because it brings me joy to hunt for them, to look at them, to touch them, and to be able to say that I own them. However, apart from a couple of laptops and due to spatial and monetary constraints, my collection is mostly limited to books now...

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Re: Pentium 75 - Windows 95 or 3.1?

Posted on 2023-03-18, 18:36

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My first computer was an IBM Aptiva with P75 and it ran DOS + Windows 3.1. It had an unlimited supply of games thanks to Klik & Play – in addition to its library of mediocre-at-best ready-made samples, I made a zillion horrible games on it myself. Add to that the countless hours spent with …

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Re: Looking for Alienware m5750/m5790 BIOS updates

Posted on 2020-12-26, 20:40

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I'll be back to let you know how it turns out once I start receiving my parts in the mail. Yeah, so I haven't been able to test any of the BIOSes yet. I got the replacement graphics card I'd been waiting for some days ago and just installed it. No luck, didn't fix my original issue: the screen goes …

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Re: VOGONS Driver Library

Posted on 2020-12-10, 19:00

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More established users of this fine forum helped me find these files, maybe they'd fit in the driver library? I'll link to the posts with the attachments: Alienware m5750 / m5790 BIOS 1.19W -- https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=917653#p917653 Alienware m5550 BIOS 2.06W -- https://www.vogons.org/ …

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