Re: Snappy Driver Installer - Thoughts?

Posted on 2022-12-16, 18:05

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by aaron158

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99% of the time it works fine. there is the odd time that a driver it installs is buggy though and can brick things. some drivers its better to install manually are things like gpu. also sometimes its best not to mess with Raid/Sata/ide drivers as if the wrong or a buggy driver is installed it can …

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Re: GTX 590 Windows XP

Posted on 2022-12-09, 21:20

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by aaron158

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As an aside, which version of the UD7 is this? Version 1.0 is actually better (more robust for overclocking) than 2.0. When Gigabyte released the UD9 they went back and gimped the UD7 so it wouldn't compete with the more expensive board. This was controversial at the time. (Some people described …

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Re: GTX 590 Windows XP

Posted on 2022-12-09, 03:17

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by aaron158

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I found a GTX 590 review with some temperature tests: https://www.anandtech.com/show/4239/nvidias-geforce-gtx-590-duking-it-out-for-the-single-card-king/16 88C in Crysis... 92C after overclocking. :flame: I don't know if Furmark would be worse or not, but yeah, these are some toasty cards. Also, …

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Re: GTX 590 Windows XP

Posted on 2022-12-09, 01:04

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by aaron158

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Seems like with driver version 359.00 i can go nuts and stress this thing to max and everything works. i ran 10 passes of 3d mark 06. i ran pcmark 05. 1 hour with prime95 and furmark no blue screens or crashes. so it would seem as long as u don't use any of the last few versions of the drivers then …

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Re: What does jumpers do on 370CPU card adapter

Posted on 2022-12-08, 23:17

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by aaron158

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They do however P3 doesn't work and only Celeron I own is 1.1GHz and I'm not sure that will work. And before I'll confuse anyone, I did set 1.8V as this is the minimum my board accepts. :) Works with my other modified slocket1 at 1.8V. what p3 did u use. if its 440bx its best to use one that does …

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Re: GTX 590 Windows XP

Posted on 2022-12-08, 22:12

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by aaron158

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Errius wrote on 2022-12-08, 21:49: chinny22 wrote on 2022-12-06, 11:10: 368.81 & 368.69, Works but get errors on startup This is the Nvidia program that sits in the notification area. It's broken for some reason. You can disable it from loading using MSConfig. older versions seem to work fine.

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Re: GTX 590 Windows XP

Posted on 2022-12-08, 21:04

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by aaron158

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Update So i started with driver 368.81 the last release for xp this one had 2 issues. 1 when went in the nvidia control panel and tired to change sli settings it would crash. running 3d mark i could get though a couple test but it would lock up. 365.10 went back a few version to this one. on this …

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Re: GTX 590 Windows XP

Posted on 2022-12-06, 22:27

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by aaron158

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OK I see. I ran two 550 ti's in SLI for years but this was with Windows 7. I never tried with XP. Is this system stable in Windows Vista or Windows 7? It would be good if we could rule out hardware failure. well i can seemly stress test the gpu in furmak if i can get furmark to lunch sometimes it …

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Re: GTX 590 Windows XP

Posted on 2022-12-06, 18:11

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by aaron158

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97 degrees is very hot. Are you sure this is normal? I have a similar rig, but using the UD5 board, EVGA GTX 550 ti, 6 GB DDR3-1333 and Core i7-920. It is rock solid stable in both Windows XP and Windows 7 64-bit. I also am using the latest Nvidia drivers in both cases. ETA: The manual says this …

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Re: Old GPU fan headers

Posted on 2022-12-06, 07:33

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by aaron158

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if u still have the original fan u can clip off the connector. noctua 40mm fan comes with connectors they call OmniJoin adapter for splicing 2 wires together without soldering. so u can just splice the original fan connector on to the noctua fan and plug it directly in. if u don't have the original …

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Re: Pentium 3 PSU.

Posted on 2022-12-05, 23:53

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by aaron158

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swaaye wrote on 2022-12-05, 20:50: It's mostly a concern when you are building a higher-end Athlon and it lacks the 12V power connector. ya pretty much that the only time it really matters. i used a cheap evga 500w that i think does 20a on the 5v and it works fine with a p3

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GTX 590 Windows XP

Posted on 2022-12-05, 23:29

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by aaron158

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Doing a crazy over kill xp build. Board is a Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD7 Newest Bios. Cpu is a Intel Xeon W3690 Ram is 3 1 GB sticks DDR3 1600mhz 850W seasonic PSU M5014 LSI Raid Card 4 250 gig SSD running in Raid 0 speed pushes around 1300 mb/s read 1200 write. USB 3.2 Gen 2 Card by Star tech can get read …

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Re: Getting rid of cigarette smell from cables

Posted on 2022-09-04, 15:12

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by aaron158

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clean them good with isopropyl alcohol. then get some of those scented sheets u can put in the dryer. sandwich the cable in between some and seal them into a zip lock bag for a couple days. when u take them out they should just smell like the scent of the dryer sheets after a couple days that smell …

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Re: Socket 7 era with modern sata vs modern scsi?

Posted on 2022-08-30, 13:51

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by aaron158

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Don't have time right now to do this, but I can be pretty confident of the results: Bandwidth: PCI bus will be bottleneck assuming sufficiently fast interfaces (U160 / native SATA-150). Expect a draw. Latency: 15k SCSI is monstrously fast (I have a dual P3 WinXP system with it and am astonished how …

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Re: oldversion.com down?

Posted on 2022-07-10, 13:23

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by aaron158

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is it down says its been down now for a full week. last time it came back up firefox was reporting it as an unsecured connection. i believe the security cert for the site was also expired. so my guess would be whoever runs that site isn't really maintain it anymore.

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Re: Gigabyte GA-586TX3 not working with ATX power

Posted on 2022-07-03, 13:14

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by aaron158

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if it works with the at connector but u dont want to us and old at psu why not just use one of those at to atx adapters on the at connector. they don't cost to much and better then messing about and maybe breaking the board totally if u don't know how to fix the issue with atx connector. other then …

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Re: Promise TX4 Sata II PCI Card Windows 95/98/ME Driver.

Posted on 2022-06-25, 00:30

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by aaron158

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Don't forget the SATA II-150 cards. I did track down a few SATA II cards that have Win9x driver support ( not Promise )but they are going to be limited by the PCI bus unless they are put into a system that runs the PCI at 66Mhz... I might try them in a system using an AGP to PCI adapter to see how …

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Re: oldversion.com down?

Posted on 2022-06-24, 14:43

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by aaron158

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looks like the site is back up. although firefox still reports it as connection not secure.

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Re: Promise TX4 Sata II PCI Card Windows 95/98/ME Driver.

Posted on 2022-06-24, 00:07

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by aaron158

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aaron158 wrote on 2022-06-24, 00:06: Solo761 wrote on 2022-06-23, 21:12: Here are my scores, Win98SE, P233 MMX, Lucky Star 5I-TX1 REV 1.31 motherboard (I430 TX chipset), Promise SATA300 TX4 and 120 GB Patriot SSD that's slow as balls. an old ide HD would most likely be quicker speeds then that.

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Re: Promise TX4 Sata II PCI Card Windows 95/98/ME Driver.

Posted on 2022-06-24, 00:06

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by aaron158

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Solo761 wrote on 2022-06-23, 21:12: Here are my scores, Win98SE, P233 MMX, Lucky Star 5I-TX1 REV 1.31 motherboard (I430 TX chipset), Promise SATA300 TX4 and 120 GB Patriot SSD that's slow as balls. an old ide HD would be quicker speeds then that.

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