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appiah4 wrote:

Finally got around to installing FastVoodoo 4.6 drivers on my SLI system and the mismatched cards work perfectly. […]
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Finally got around to installing FastVoodoo 4.6 drivers on my SLI system and the mismatched cards work perfectly.

Well, sort of.

They work perfectly at 640x480 and 1024x768 but at 800x600 everything has a red-ish hue.

Strangely enough, even the id logo intro of Quake 2 seems to suffer from the issue when launched with the -gl_mode 4 parameter.

No idea why, it might be some quirk with the TV it is connected to, I suppose. As far as I'm concerned, this is a success. Playing Quake 2 on an MMX at 1024x768? Checked and off my bucket list..

Try installing the overclock util. I bet it is running at some 93/95mhz.
Try setting it to 90 and test. Lower it by 1, for each test.

Oh shoot, I completely forgot about the default overclock in the FV drivers! I'll do that first thing next time I check it out.

Also, has anyone ever gotten Descent 2 D2_3DFX to work with SLI I wonder..

Disassembled the entire screen of a Compaq EVO N610C laptop and discovered a loose LCD cable to be the cause of my backlight failure. It's now working fine.

This marks the first time I've successfully repaired a laptop and not actually made the issue worse.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

This marks the first time I've successfully repaired a laptop and not actually made the issue worse.

Nice work. One of my more catastrophic laptop episodes years ago was an Alienware m18x with SLI 780m cards. I did not set the thermal pads properly and managed to fry both GPUs. Expensive lesson in laptop thermals and luckily I had already gotten a solid 3 years use out of it. I had reduced it to a working m18x with just integrated Intel graphics. Ended up selling it to a reseller for a fair price.

Finally got my P133 system working over the weekend - seems my motherboard did not like the SD to IDE adapter I was using so Windows kept getting corrupted. Now working beautifully with an old 1gig Connor HD.

Also installed a new Audician 32 Plus and even had time to play some Megarace 2 and Forsaken (with 3DFX).

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Disassembled the entire screen of a Compaq EVO N610C laptop and discovered a loose LCD cable to be the cause of my backlight failure. It's now working fine.

This marks the first time I've successfully repaired a laptop and not actually made the issue worse.

Hahaha, congratulations! 😀

Still swapping cards in and out for the P4 writeup. I found out that the board I'm using does not work with many AGP x4 cards in high resolution, but text modes will work just fine. Older cards also work fine. I also had a Savage4 Pro AGP 32MB die while in service. Hope this board isn't going around killing my video cards with its incompatibility. Of course PCI ones work fine.

Windows 3.11 is on it now, and I was having some trouble getting S3 drivers to work with a Trio64V2+. I was informed which drivers to try next, so that'll be a project for tonight.

SaxxonPike wrote:

Hahaha, congratulations! :) […]
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TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Disassembled the entire screen of a Compaq EVO N610C laptop and discovered a loose LCD cable to be the cause of my backlight failure. It's now working fine.

This marks the first time I've successfully repaired a laptop and not actually made the issue worse.

Hahaha, congratulations! 😀

Still swapping cards in and out for the P4 writeup. I found out that the board I'm using does not work with many AGP x4 cards in high resolution, but text modes will work just fine. Older cards also work fine. I also had a Savage4 Pro AGP 32MB die while in service. Hope this board isn't going around killing my video cards with its incompatibility. Of course PCI ones work fine.

Windows 3.11 is on it now, and I was having some trouble getting S3 drivers to work with a Trio64V2+. I was informed which drivers to try next, so that'll be a project for tonight.

Unless the boards special I wouldn't risk it. It could very well have a shorted agp slot sending power where power doesn't belong.

Tore apart a generic floppy drive & spent WAY too long using wholly inadequate hand tools to make this thing. The entire horrible home project rogue's gallery came out to play for this one - hot glue (hot snot), hammer & nails (instead of drilling pilot holes), self-tapping sheet metal screws, rusty 1970's metal cutters, and even some files.

However the result looks quite neat, and I managed not to even slightly lacerate my hand while making it, so I'm calling it a win.

It doesn't quite fit into a standard-height slot (really bugs me that the IDE cable comes out the top of the CF adapter instead of the back) but I can deal with that in the case it's going into.

xjas wrote:

...using wholly inadequate hand tools to make this thing.

Don't feel bad. When I decided to start using a Dremel for case mods I was like an elephant trying to use a soldering iron. It was comical. I am a little better at it now.

Should have put it in upside down.

Talked my 2002 Sony Vaio WinME laptop into playing DVDs. I had to hunt down CyberLink PowerDVD 3.0 in order to get a software decoder for InterActual 2.0 to use.

Worked fine. Didn't look that bad either when watching a 4:3 movie on a 4:3 display.

liqmat wrote:

xjas wrote:

...using wholly inadequate hand tools to make this thing.

Don't feel bad. When I decided to start using a Dremel for case mods I was like an elephant trying to use a soldering iron. It was comical. I am a little better at it now.

The dumb thing is I actually have all the tools I need to make something like this "properly" (drill, dremel, reciprocating saw, etc.) and access to a local makerspace which has everything else along with a great workspace. I was just too lazy to leave my apartment to go do it right.

Jade Falcon wrote:

Should have put it in upside down.

But then the CF cards would have to go in upside-down (they're both oriented the same way.) 😵

xjas wrote:

But then the CF cards would have to go in upside-down (they're both oriented the same way.) 😵

You also would need a bit bucket if it was upside down and those are really hard to find nowadays.

Doing an inventory of my parts and boxing em up.

cj_reha wrote:

Doing an inventory of my parts and boxing em up.

Nice collection. I need to go through mine and re-inventory to reflect recent changes. I have 50 some odd GPUs alone.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

cj_reha wrote:

Doing an inventory of my parts and boxing em up.

Nice collection. I need to go through mine and re-inventory to reflect recent changes. I have 50 some odd GPUs alone.

Yeah, it can certainly be a task. Especially when you have parts everywhere.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

cj_reha wrote:

Doing an inventory of my parts and boxing em up.

Nice collection. I need to go through mine and re-inventory to reflect recent changes. I have 50 some odd GPUs alone.

Nice. Those pics above aren't even all of it. I have maybe a handful of ATi Rage cards left, all of my sound cards, HDD controlers, NIC, etc etc. Like 2 boxes more of stuff. It's pretty daunting.

Tried to get Quake3A running on Rage Pro under Windows XP.
The stock XP driver uses OpenGL -> D3D wrapper. It supports 16bit color at 1024x768 but not 32bit.
The latest ATI driver for XP, version 5.10.2600.6010, won't start Q3A at all. Its OpenGL module has version of 4.0.0.1119.
The latest ATI driver for 2000, version 5.0.2195.5013, works with Q3A. It supports 32bit color at 1024x768 but with extreme lag. Its OpenGL module has a higher version of 4.0.0.1120.
"Big Z" driver, based on ATI's 5.0.2195.5011 driver for 2000, is not stable. It has 4.0.0.1104 OpenGL module.
"SCC" driver, based on 5.0.2296.1000, uses D3D wrapper as well. It has 4.0.0.1104 OpenGL module.

Now it's cross mating time.
5.0.2195.5013 + 4.0.0.1119: unstable
5.0.2195.5013 + 4.0.0.1104: unstable

Then my CPU fan caught some cable and one blade snapped. Dang.

Finished setting up the scrap parts Pentium D school rig. With 4gb of DDR2 and the intel 40gb ssd a Pentium D can indeed run Windows 10 pretty well. The cpu is read as being maxed out generally, but all in all wait times and lag are very minimal. In fact it runs alot better than the majority of Pentium 4 machines ran XP when I was in school. The video card could stand to be upgraded, the Quadro FX 370 is pretty crap for 3D. Slightly worse than a Geforce 8600 due to a 64bit data bus.

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Talked my 2002 Sony Vaio WinME laptop into playing DVDs. I had to hunt down CyberLink PowerDVD 3.0 in order to get a software decoder for InterActual 2.0 to use.

Worked fine. Didn't look that bad either when watching a 4:3 movie on a 4:3 display.

I actually got DVDs to play on my Celeron-433 Windows 95 build by using InterVideo WinDVD 1.3.5c, Pretty good for 1999 hardware. actually got some of my older systems to play DVDs just fine as well, especially my Dell Inspiron 8000 which came with a Dell OEM copy of InterVideo WinDVD 3.0.

Today I got around to playing with an Atari Flashback on a 5-inch Magnavox Color TV, neat little display for gaming in a tight space.

KCompRoom2000 wrote:

TheAbandonwareGuy wrote:

Talked my 2002 Sony Vaio WinME laptop into playing DVDs. I had to hunt down CyberLink PowerDVD 3.0 in order to get a software decoder for InterActual 2.0 to use.

Worked fine. Didn't look that bad either when watching a 4:3 movie on a 4:3 display.

I actually got DVDs to play on my Celeron-433 Windows 95 build by using InterVideo WinDVD 1.3.5c, Pretty good for 1999 hardware. actually got some of my older systems to play DVDs just fine as well, especially my Dell Inspiron 8000 which came with a Dell OEM copy of InterVideo WinDVD 3.0.

Yep - put a Creative 2x DVD drive in the 64mb Pentium II 333 system I built to take to University back in 1998. They played just fine using Power DVD (version 2 I think). Anyone else remember those double-sided DVDs that were 4:3 on one side and 16:9 on the other?

It was only when I discovered DivX that I felt the need to upgrade that system.