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Re: Bad HDD geometry, not detected in BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-03, 22:07

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

It's a Seagate Barracuda ATA IV Model ST340016A. It sounds normal when I power on the computer, the drive spins up as normal and stays spun up. Nothing sounds strange. I just removed the PCB and checked the contact pins/pads and they were pristine. I cleaned them anyway but it still doesn't show in …

Re: Bad HDD geometry, not detected in BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-03, 21:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

The drive was showing up fine in multiple computers, Windows 98, XP, and 10, but all of them showed that the 40GB drive only had 3GB and was completely empty of data. I tried several partition recovery programs which detected the lost files, but they were unable to actually recover the files due to …

Re: Bad HDD geometry, not detected in BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-03, 18:38

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I'm not worried about the data, I'm just trying to keep old HDDs functional if possible. I had no idea I could cause a drive to be unreadable in BIOS with HDD software, but then again I also know that manufacturer software can write to HDD firmware so maybe that's what TestDisk did.

Bad HDD geometry, not detected in BIOS

Posted on 2022-02-03, 17:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I took the hard drive out of my P3 500 yesterday to image it in a newer PC and was greeted with an empty unbootable drive of the wrong capacity. In my effort to fix it I changed the drive geometry using a program called TestDisk by CGSecurity since it said there was a geometry error. Well I messed …

Re: sound card for a windows xp build

Posted on 2022-02-02, 15:55

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

Your motherboard doesn't have an ISA slot so you can't use any of the classic Sound Blasters. The oldest compatible Sound Blaster you can use in a PCI slot in the Live!, but it's not "classic" because it has to emulate classic Sound Blaster compatibility in DOS.

Re: Descent too fast - What could I do?

Posted on 2022-02-01, 16:32

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Descent has a command line switch "-640x480" which uses high resolution mode. Not only does it look far better, it also slows the game down enough to run on more modern CPUs. After 25 years, TIL Edit: Turns out you need a newer version. My Descent 1.0 didn't work with the -640x480 switch but it …

Re: Descent too fast - What could I do?

Posted on 2022-02-01, 01:32

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

https://www.philscomputerlab.com/136-in-1-pentium-mmx.html Here’s some software to disable cache in many different steps for precise slowdown.

Re: Side winder precision pro and DOS

Posted on 2022-01-31, 23:33

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I decided to go for the sidewinder 3d pro The nice part about the 3D Pro is that it has a switch on the bottom to toggle between Flightstick Pro and Thrustmaster mode in DOS if the game doesn't support DOS digital mode (like MechWarrior 2). Basically Flightstick Pro mode gives you a throttle and …

Re: sound card for a windows xp build

Posted on 2022-01-31, 20:09

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

marinescuiuri wrote on 2022-01-31, 19:36: i heard xp shortens the life of the SSD. is there a way around it? XP doesn't support the "trim" function of SSDs. I suppose you could just take the SSD out and put it in a newer machine every once and a while to trim it.

Re: sound card for a windows xp build

Posted on 2022-01-31, 20:05

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

For XP I'd personally stick with onboard audio unless I had a specific EAX or A3D game I really wanted to play. Especially since you're going low power, no point wasting energy on a sound card for minimal improvement.

Re: Side winder precision pro and DOS

Posted on 2022-01-31, 15:32

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So tried today the PCem, well... short answer: nice to try out but not really great in speed. My 8700k can emulate up to a Pentium II 233 with Voodoo 3 while maintaining 100% emulation speed. If you select too fast a processor to emulate PCem cannot maintain emulation sync and speed get …

Re: Side winder precision pro and DOS

Posted on 2022-01-31, 00:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I’ve never tried to image a PCem virtual hard drive to a real one, but I bet it’s possible. Edit: sorry I misread. To get data into the PCem machine it’s very hardware based. There’s no shared clipboard or drag and drop or anything. You have to insert a disk (real or virtual) into the machine just …

Re: Side winder precision pro and DOS

Posted on 2022-01-30, 23:50

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

If you like PC emulation you should look into PCem, it's an emulator where you combine actual hardware.

Re: Side winder precision pro and DOS

Posted on 2022-01-30, 23:41

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

atom1kk wrote on 2022-01-30, 23:32: Ok maybe but first try to find one and second the prices are unreal. And just for bit of fun its not worth it. I get most of my stuff for cheap from thrifting, but yeah, that's a hobby in itself.

Re: Side winder precision pro and DOS

Posted on 2022-01-30, 23:25

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There may be better options (than 3d Pro, or any stick-based thing), for driving games. A matter of opinion. Agreed. The 3D Pro is my favourite joystick of that era, but it's very stiff and has a short throw. For driving I'd recommend a CH Flightstick Pro, or if you can find one a CH Flight Yoke …

Re: Side winder precision pro and DOS

Posted on 2022-01-30, 22:10

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

There may be better options (than 3d Pro, or any stick-based thing), for driving games. A matter of opinion. Agreed. The 3D Pro is my favourite joystick of that era, but it's very stiff and has a short throw. For driving I'd recommend a CH Flightstick Pro, or if you can find one a CH Flight Yoke …

Re: Side winder precision pro and DOS

Posted on 2022-01-30, 20:23

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I can confirm that my SideWinder Precision Pro Part No. X03-57540 does not work in DOS

Re: PCI 2D/3D video card for a Pentium 200 (non-mmx) - GLQuake / Quake 2

Posted on 2022-01-25, 15:33

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

They don't work on old motherboards. Most PCI cards will do those are overkill. The Rage XL cards do work with a simple voltage mod: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gbyv4wI0v0s&t=0s . I actually did the even simpler diode mod that the comments suggested and it works great. There's no better 2D/3D …

Re: Mechwarrior 2 on 3Dfx

Posted on 2022-01-24, 20:15

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

What is your soundcard and what drivers are you using? Just guessing but perhaps MechWarrior 2 doesn't like WDM drivers and needs a VXD driver to work?

Re: DOS32AWE - DOS/4G compatible DOS Extender with Sound Blaster AWEUTIL MIDI synthesizer support for Protected mode,V

Posted on 2022-01-24, 19:06

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

georgel wrote on 2022-01-24, 18:52: You are free to debug, reverse, waste your time and effort and write your own utilities to solve your problems. They are not mine nor do I intend to provide further development on my projects published in this forum. You know why. Thank you very much for all the …

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