Did you get a PCI related error message when installing the Vortex 2 drivers?

If so, check the Vogons driver archive and grab the INF tweaks. You want to apply the INF file that skips PCI detection.

Thanks for the heads up Phil, I will try that when I get home. I am at work now for the next 9 hours. You seem to be a champion for theses p4 boxes and one of your posts is what got me thinking.

Also I posted the links for the pictures using the "Img" button in the post writing screen. the images however don't seem to be showing up when I load the page. Anybody know what I might have done wrong?

2Mourty wrote:

Also I posted the links for the pictures using the "Img" button in the post writing screen. the images however don't seem to be showing up when I load the page. Anybody know what I might have done wrong?

You used Flickr, 🤣. But in all seriousness, you "shared" when you should be "embedding" using "BBCode". Sharing is to give people links to take you to Flickr to the photo's View page, ergo... it's not a photo link that will embed.

Finding the embed code is no longer as intuitive as it was on Flickr, which has seen several redesigns over the years. I just tried logging into my old 2011 account to give this a shot. It took me a while to refresh myself to all the changes. So here is what you do:
1. Go to your photostream.
2. Click on the photo you want to embed in a post. This takes you to the "View" page.
3. In the bottom righthand corner, click the icon that looks like a Right arrow for "Sharing"
4. Your options are Share, Embed, Email, BBCode. Select "BBCode".
5. Select your size, preferably one smaller than original. Usually I use Large or Medium on other services. On Flickr, Large is selected by default, I think.
6. Paste BBCode into your post on VOGONS directly.
6a. If you want, delete the [url] tags and extra text that Flickr adds before posting to make it look "clean", ending with just the photo URL surrounded by [img] tags.

If you'd rather not embed the photos... THEN you can use the photo links you created originally using Share. But those are URLs, not links to "Img"s, so don't use the Img BBCode tag when posting.

... As for the actual Embed feature (and not the BBCode)... HTML embed is not supported on VOGONS (ergo no embedded YouTube, either). This is by admin preference.

Honestly, sites like imgur are better for sharing on forums, in my experience. 😉

Wow, thank you for the quick response Stiletto. I will look at your instructions in more detail when I get home. Tried to fix during lunch break. Used a flickr app to get a different url for each photo and now they are showing up. Would anybody confirm that for me? Again thank you for the quick reponses and help.

I can see the pictures now, I could not see them before so the issue is fixed.

Nice system!

2Mourty wrote:

Wow, thank you for the quick response Stiletto. I will look at your instructions in more detail when I get home. Tried to fix during lunch break. Used a flickr app to get a different url for each photo and now they are showing up. Would anybody confirm that for me? Again thank you for the quick reponses and help.

Working fine here dude. 😀 Using the URL is good but it's possible you didn't select the size you truly wanted. I don't know anything about the app.

Also: embedding photos as attachments to posts also works again, thanks to Qbix as of early this year (IIRC). It was broken for a few years after we switched to vogons.org. So you can also always host them here too.

Nice case. I had one like that. Antec Plus View 1000 AMG. Built like a tank. I could sit on it! Nowadays for it's price range all we get is a bunch of crap.

I used to have the same case in 2004 with my AMD Barton setup. Great build quality.

Nice build - bet it flys! 😀

I run a 478 board with SiS chipset under 9x, it makes a good combo on the whole, the AGP is 3.3volt compliant so it runs the correct era video cards like Voodoo, S3 etc. Shame it has no ISA, if it did it would be perfect!. Mine has 2.53Ghz northwood, 512Mb RAM and is current sporting the mighty Matrox G100 Productiva!!! 🤣

BSA Starfire wrote:

I run a 478 board with SiS chipset under 9x, it makes a good combo on the whole, the AGP is 3.3volt compliant so it runs the correct era video cards like Voodoo, S3 etc. Shame it has no ISA, if it did it would be perfect!. Mine has 2.53Ghz northwood, 512Mb RAM and is current sporting the mighty Matrox G100 Productiva!!! 🤣

I happen to have a Pentium 4 laptop that runs on the SiS 645DX chipset - a Fujitsu-Siemens Amilo D7820. Has a Radeon Mobility 9000 IGP tho. 😀

sprcorreia wrote:

Nice case. I had one like that. Antec Plus View 1000 AMG. Built like a tank. I could sit on it! Nowadays for it's price range all we get is a bunch of crap.

I agree entirely. Downside is that the case ways a ton, but man it is a solid case. I can sit on it and I way 280 pounds.

BSA Starfire wrote:

I run a 478 board with SiS chipset under 9x, it makes a good combo on the whole, the AGP is 3.3volt compliant so it runs the correct era video cards like Voodoo, S3 etc. Shame it has no ISA, if it did it would be perfect!. Mine has 2.53Ghz northwood, 512Mb RAM and is current sporting the mighty Matrox G100 Productiva!!! 🤣

That is actually pretty cool that you have a p4 motherboard that runs 3.3 volt cards. I know that mine will not. Now if we could only find a P4 motherbard that runs the 865 or 875 chipset that also has an isa slot and does not cost 300 dollars on ebay. 😢

GOOD NEWS, I took phils advice and reinstalled my aureal drivers with the ini tweaks he referred and everything on the sound card works!!

I love having the midi from my DB60XG working wonderfully on a computer this fast!! Thank you PHIL!!

Nice 😀

I'm a big fan of the Vortex 2. It's a great card for A3D Windows games, late era DOS games, and of course, PCI only systems.

I'm waiting for another P4 motherboard to arrive. SIS chipset with universal AGP interface.