mkubiak402 wrote:

The only thing holding me back form completing the Pentium Pro is the lack of AGP video the only video card i have for it is a ATI 9100 and driver support for it SUCKS! all most every game i try tells me there is no 3d accelerator and i cant run NT4.0 at all with that card no drivers 🙁 and windows 2000 seems to be running slow ish...
i don't know what i want to do with it yet i love the ida of having one of them running is nice.. I was going to have it run a PFsense but the OS will not install... so i have to shop for the fasts PCI card i can fined but there $$$$ on Ebay...
i had a chance to get a matched par for Pentium II over driver 333 5 years a go for $120 😠

Something like a pci TNT2 M64 would be a good match for price/compatibility for the PPro setup, or possibly a Geforce 2 mx pci. Far as I know they never made a Socket 8 board with AGP.

if the boards had PCI 66MHz that would be very helpful for a card with support (like a voodoo 4/5 PCI)

mkubiak402 wrote:

it is reporting the motherboard wrong.... as an FIC it is not lol […]
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it is reporting the motherboard wrong.... as an FIC it is not 🤣

That's funny.. I have an (actual) FIC PT-2200 and that detection isn't even close. The PT-2200 is an Intel 430HX Baby-AT board, different manufacturers, chipsets, features.. they have nothing in common except being socket-7. I don't know how that detection is trying to work but it is on some definite crack here.

To check the cacheable RAM there's a utility I saw referenced in another thread. Rather than trying to find the link I'll just post the file. This is a DOS program. On my MVP3 board it gave a plausible result so I think it works. Memtest86 tries to report this info also but gets it wrong.

The official Diablo 2 Patch supports playing without CD's for awhile now.
http://www.blizzplanet.com/blog/comments/diab … sed_no_cd_patch

The link isn't for the most recent patch but its still the same if you simply download the latest and greatest.

Your modem story reminded me of when I took my PC round to a mates place and used both his phone lines to have a modem game. Cant even remember why we did that, as we definitely had a null modem cable with us?
We definitely had a few Doom and C&C games over modem as well after school, and in different houses...much more sence
ahh simple times 😀

chinny22 wrote:

The official Diablo 2 Patch supports playing without CD's for awhile now. http://www.blizzplanet.com/blog/comments/diab … sed_no […]
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The official Diablo 2 Patch supports playing without CD's for awhile now.
http://www.blizzplanet.com/blog/comments/diab … sed_no_cd_patch

The link isn't for the most recent patch but its still the same if you simply download the latest and greatest.

Your modem story reminded me of when I took my PC round to a mates place and used both his phone lines to have a modem game. Cant even remember why we did that, as we definitely had a null modem cable with us?
We definitely had a few Doom and C&C games over modem as well after school, and in different houses...much more sence
ahh simple times 😀

i tried that patch and i started to get dll errors