Re: PSU questions
Posted on 2009-09-13, 19:01
Power OK (ATX) is the same as Power Good (AT) Thanks. Here's one I just spotted on ebay. At $34.50 shipping to the UK 😳 ? Sorry, this project is on a shoestring budget! 🤣
PSU questions
Posted on 2009-09-13, 11:16
I have gathered some parts to put together an old 486. The motherboard I have does not of course have an ATX adapter so I'm interested in adapting an ATX PSU. Of the 4 ATX PSUs I have, the oldest is a kobian-branded cheapie that came with a [new] cheap case. AFAIK this is the only one with all the …
Re: Keyboard latency
Posted on 2009-09-12, 10:02
I have output=surface. However, the problem seems to have cleared. All I can think is that it is the motherboard sound drivers - I disabled on board sound to try a santa cruz that by the look of it is defective. On re-enabling the onboard sound, I didn't bother installing the drivers from disk, I …
Re: redline racer on a voodoo 5?
Posted on 2009-09-12, 08:49
Hmm... on my Voodoo 5 computer the whole system freezes at random during game set-up when I use the 3dfx version of Redline Racer [ie.at one of the screens before the race starts]. Directx version runs fine. Driver problem maybe.
Re: santa cruz under xp
Posted on 2009-09-12, 08:44
The only actual difference between a retail TBSC and a Dell version, is that the 10 pin front panel output is enabled on the Dell card, whereas AFAIK it doesn't work on the regular one. Thanks for the info, if that's all the difference is, then I guess you are right, the second card is simply bad.
santa cruz under xp
Posted on 2009-09-11, 23:43
Just wasted a whole evening on this, so hopinmg someone can help. I have 2 santa cruz sound cards. One I am using it under windows 2000 in an xp3000 system using turtle beach drivers - something like sc_4193.exe. Works great. Then I have my second one, which I failed to get running in an xp2000 …
redline racer on a voodoo 5?
Posted on 2009-09-11, 18:48
I only have the CD for this but it seems to be a Voodoo 1 game [ie, it runs on a V1]. Does anyone know if it's possible to get it working on later Voodoo cards using glide under Windows 98?
Re: Keyboard latency
Posted on 2009-09-11, 18:26
Many thanks, that set me off in the right direction by the look of it. I found that a smaller blocksize and larger prebuffer worked well for Warcraft 1, but nothing much solved the issues for Vinyl - I can reduce the latency but I can't get rid of the occasional delays or crackles in the intro music …
Keyboard latency
Posted on 2009-09-10, 18:38
If this is a stupid qiestion or one that's been answered elsewhere, I apologise in advance. I searched for "keyboard and latency" but got no matches, hence this post, though I guess others may call this something else. When I compare the experience of playing games on original hardware [ie. under …
Re: GeForce 6800 SLI works on Windows 98?
Posted on 2009-09-07, 19:58
In case anyone's interested, I just tried AvP under XP on a 6800gt using 94.24 drivers. It worked fine. Not using any compatibility mode either. 😀
Re: new k6-3+ rig
Posted on 2009-08-31, 23:07
I run a system almost identical to this, and I've had no trouble whatsoever, using Windows 98. Same board, almost same processor, same graphics and sound cards . I guess it's more accurate to say "no trouble running the things I want to run, and excluding problems caused by needless fiddling with …
BSOD in Windows 2000
Posted on 2009-04-01, 06:55
Now here's something I have very rarely seen until recently - the STOP ERROR BSOD in Windows 2000. The only thing I can think is causing it is my "new" graphics card, a Gainward 7800GS+ Bliss Golden Sample AGP 512MB. I am using the latest nVidia drivers. System: Asrock aLive-dualSATA2 AM2 5400+ 2GB …
Re: Hoping to build a fast "P3", with 2 ISA slots mobo.
Posted on 2009-04-01, 06:30
I've just looked through my cupboard of bits 'n' pieces, and I have an A1333. But I looked it up on cpu-world, and it says its bus speed is 266 Mhz. I then checked Gigabyte's website, and it said that this CPU was N/A for this board - in fact, all 266mhz CPUs are, according to Gigabyte's CPU …
Re: P166 MMX box, Win95 or 98SE?
Posted on 2009-03-18, 09:29
Amigaz wrote: I have a brand new OEM NT4 sp3 here...can I dual boot Win98SE and NT4? I would think so. Certainly you can multi-boot NT4 with Windows 95, DOS and linux, and recently I installed Windows 2000 on a machine that had all these and it just got added to the boot menu.
Re: Error flashing Mac V5 to PC V5
Posted on 2009-03-11, 21:49
Maybe try another bios - this site seems to have plenty for example: http://3dfxbios.stantoworld.co.uk/
Re: Keyboard error or no keyboard present
Posted on 2009-03-09, 23:46
40-pin IC means a chip on the motherboard with 40 pins - the little wire legs that are usually soldered to traces on the board. In this case, the idea is that maybe this chip is not soldered onto the board, but pushed into a socket from which it could be prised and hence replaced, with a similar …
Re: Diablo 1 - screen tearing issues
Posted on 2009-03-07, 13:01
Re: Any reboot (such as exiting the BIOS) causes this mobo to lock up
Posted on 2009-03-05, 22:31
Take care with that, I once slipped when using a screwdriver to short the power button pins on an ATX board. The sparks seemed to kill a few things. 🤣
Re: Will a PCI IDE Raid controller work in an old 486 mobo?
Posted on 2009-03-05, 16:29
Maybe is referring to adapters that plug into IDE ports and let you use solid state devices [aka flash drives] as hard drives. Such things exist and there are posts about them on this forum iirc.
Re: wondering if i should give away dos pc games?
Posted on 2009-03-04, 23:21
If you keep the games on your machines, then giving away the disks is likely to breach the copyright. Same goes for installing operating systems or other software on a machine you sell or give away, if you keep the disks. At least, that's my understanding.
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