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    Windows-centric choice of *Nix plus GUI

    Funny you should mention 440BXes. I had an SE440BX when it was new, and I have another one available now, but I chose the Abit BX-6 (same chipset) over Intel's because of the superior setup in the BIOS. The one I had in 1998 was unreliable, uncooperative, bad acting all around. I swore off...
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    Windows-centric choice of *Nix plus GUI

    I suppose you mean the fact that I use the nickname of NZ residents, which I can because I was born down under to U.S. parents there on a job that there weren't enough experienced Aussies / New Zealanders available to handle (Geophysical Search Teams). Meanwhile, I have found the Xfce user...
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    Windows-centric choice of *Nix plus GUI

    I've come across illustrated user guides to Gnome and KDE, although not to XFCE. It was from those that I got the impression that KDE would be a lesser dimension of paradigm shift than Gnome, and all of the Debians seemed to claim to run on relatively old hardware in relatively small amounts of...
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    Windows-centric choice of *Nix plus GUI

    Someone educate me on the Virtual stuff; isn't it like DOSbox in a way, chewing up a great many CPU cycles from a modern system to emulate a 386, and not even a fast 386? I have several potential "period" hardware systems matching the games I think I want to play. I was working overtime in...
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    Windows-centric choice of *Nix plus GUI

    Specifically, old games are the proposed subject matter for the *Nixes to chew on, along with WINE. I've been having tons of problems with the Windows98se installs going straight into the super slow motion mode of the candidates tested for the Retro PC Gaming Platform (one breadbiarded rig with...
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    Windows-centric choice of *Nix plus GUI

    I'm considering either Kubuntu or Xubuntu, for a relatively old 384 MBs (max) PC I've built from the discard pile/ shelf / cabinet where old parts go. Which of those GUIs will a long-time W98 / W2K user (shorter time with XP -- kept resisting that one until fairly recently) find easier to...
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    Where do the fans of oldies hardware congregate?

    I do have a setup on which I've installed DOSbox, but the fact is, at the data point I have in mind, Win9X was already dominant. Also, the journey from scratch to working system is at least as important as whatever games I choose to test the system(s) with. I've bought some PC-66 RAM on eBay...
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    ººººº--§§§§§§§--The Freebies thread--§§§§§§§--ººººº Part 0b110 (six).

    I have a matched pair of Intel 810 (s370, Pentium3) MBs I doubt that I will ever use; they were in a lot of six, all of which were supposed to have been reconditioned/ refurbished by Intel. I have more MBs as well, but AFAIK, the rest are almost certain to be only useful as sources for parts...
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    Where do the fans of oldies hardware congregate?

    During those years (end of the 90s), I was covered up in work, with little free time for myself, especially not to play many PC games. I want to recreate a couple of PCs of the sort that a well-fixed gamer might have owned, to play some of those old games, but as well as anyone back then could...
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    Getting no sound from a music CD in the PC

    Well, fancy that! CD music is "analog" sound, after all, but enabling the digital setting definitely did the trick on THIS one (my own next-oldest in regular service, used for 'Net surfing, eMail, file backup, forum messaging, & just overall workhorse). I should be able to walk her through...
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    Getting no sound from a music CD in the PC

    When CD players were new on the scene, there was a cable you had to connect from the back of the drive to either your audio card, or a header for your onboard sound. I haven't seen those cables included with optical drives in a very long time, and I don't think I've had any legacy ones I kept...
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    AOL email question

    This seems to be a thread close to what I have in mind. I've never used AOL for mail, and this reply makes it seem that you don't normally "keep" copies of anything on your own system. I haven't even been able to find a local copy of a bookmarks file. My daughter in law uses AOL's browser and...
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    driver cleaner pro 1.5

    That happens to be a situation that I've run into while setting up a Retro Platform for a couple of old games, and would like a 'Cleaner that works in Win98se, but if there's one out there any longer, it hasn't shown up in extensive use of Google . . Suggestions, anyone?
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    Conflicts with audio processor drivers in Windows98se

    I thought about that, but I'd skipped from a P2/400 to an Athlon 1.3 in a Gigabyte ZXE (KT133A), and from there to an nVIDIA NF2 Asus A7N8X. Part of the charm was keeping the twin (the second started after familiar problems started up with the first one) pair from costing much of anything...
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    Conflicts with audio processor drivers in Windows98se

    The prospect of using "period" hardware with the matching OS seemed reasonable when it rose, and I've never tried too hard to sell the older gear as it was set aside after upgrades, so I had almost enough for two PCs when I'd started. The Sound Blaster Live! cards wouldn't work for me in either...
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    Conflicts with audio processor drivers in Windows98se

    For any bystanders who noticed this thread, I did have some prior hints that the ALi chipset that Asus used in their P5A may have had some special problems. I fought several rounds a few years ago with a system that had Biostar's motherboard using the same chipset, and had to give up then...
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    New space sims that support a joystick

    Worse than the install limit, it starts out with Star Force on it. If I understand correctly, however, if you patch it immediately and not play it while that's included, the late patches removed Star Force, so it's not quite so awful.
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    Conflicts with audio processor drivers in Windows98se

    The PCs I used Win98se with during 1998-2004 or so were able to deal with the SB PCI 128 card back then, and a couple of others, such as an Aureal and a Diamond, both PCI. The back-dated machine I've assembled now is actually a better one than what I had before about 2001 or so. The results...
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    Conflicts with audio processor drivers in Windows98se

    Didn't *WHICH* "they" release WHAT source code, and to whom? If you mean Descent: Freespace, I doubt whether it has a bearing one way or the other on Windows98 apparently rejecting sound cards that back in its day were able to work, at least to some extent. I've owned the appropriate...
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    Conflicts with audio processor drivers in Windows98se

    I've been wanting to play Decent: Freespace for the last several years, but haven't taken time to assemble a period-matched Windows98 system until now. I have an Asus P5A mainboard, running an AMD K6-2 processor at 400 MHz, with 384 MBs of PC-100 RAM, a 40 GB Hdd jumpered to only show up at...
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    Are SATA hard drives a problem for W2K no matter what?

    Shoot, I had the thing load every single driver on the silly floppy, singly at first, then in bulk! It's a Seagate 500 GB, and only the final partition was a large one, in case I needed SP3 before I could even add a drive with a big logical drive size on it . . and no, my several Win2000 CDs...
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    Are SATA hard drives a problem for W2K no matter what?

    It's with an Abit K9N SLI mainboard, and a Seagate 500 GB drive. I pre-formatted it to have a couple of partitions smaller than 128 GBs available before updating to SP4, but it keeps having this Fatal Stop after getting halfway through the install.
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    Nvidia's renaming scheme revealed

    Actually, both of the Radeon 9800 Pro cards, which had either 128 MBs VRAM, or 256 MBs, were 256 Bit cards. It was the "SE", as was the usual case for a crippled version from ATI, which had the 128 Bit memory.
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    nVidia 6100, is it failing

    If you are trying to avoid owning any actual video card, AMD chipsets with onboard video are the best, true enough, although there is no IGP that I would consider acceptable, personally, for any PC I planned to play games on.
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    nVidia 6100, is it failing

    It's the newer parts supplied in chipsets after the 6150 that are problematic in the extreme (unexplained overheating, for one thing). The nForce 6100 / 6150 is/are just a very low quality part(s) when it comes to trying to play games. The only thing I know seriously negative about the 6100 /...
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    Slow, or mislinked images

    Fact is, no matter whether it was an article, or the home page here, photographics images never downloaded, no matter how long I let the "loading" attempt continue. Yesterday, for the first time in two weeks, the home page's images popped right in. But not today. It's right back where it was...
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    Need help comparing cards across generations

    Actually, since the 6800 was a 256 Bit High End (lower part of High End, admittedly) card, and an 8600 is merely a 128 Bit medium card, the 6800 is STILL FASTER doing some things, while the worst it does compared to that card is half as fast. There's only a two generation spread, and the 7600...
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    Slow, or mislinked images

    No improvement in the following five days after asking that. No one else is seeing anything similar? The only thing I can think of is that someone at AT decided to start putting article images onto a server that previously was only for advertising, and is already blocked in Adblock.
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    Need help comparing cards across generations

    http://www.gpureview.com/show_...hp?card1=200&card2=574 There are the two, 6800 GTO, and 9500 GT, side by side.
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    Slow, or mislinked images

    Is the delay part of the software change? I let the article about the Lian Li case sit there for about ten minutes, and never saw even one image get downloaded.
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    Looking for a replacement AGP8x Card

    A lot of it relates to the fact that the better 9800 cards, and the better X800s after them, were just SO DAMN FAST at the time they were new, that the X850 XTP is still quite fast even by today's standards, although it does lack the SM3 pixel shaders. Toms Hardware probably had both cards...
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    Looking for a replacement AGP8x Card

    I'd have to look up the two on GPU Review to get a quick idea about relative performance -- I believe that it is somewhat faster, however. VRAM amounts have no direct bearing on speed until / unless we are dealing with cards costing $200 or so, for high resolution displays (256 Bit cards, and...
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    PCIE Riser to lift a video card

    There is a company making every imaginable variety of riser cards, but backplane slots limit the usability of such devices. As comparatively inexpensive and widely available as Tuner Cards are, if I were you, I'd try to take that one back and get another using a different interface of some...
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    Looking for a replacement AGP8x Card

    An X1650 Pro is a suitable replacement for a 9800 Pro. You should realize, however, that it is a 128 Bit video card, and thus limited to 128 MB blocks of graphic textures. The maximum VRAM it will normally be able to make available will only be 256 MBs, but the rest will still be using...
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    Best bang for buck AGP

    nVIDIA is the only company trying to totally ignore AGP. They made enough 6*** chips for AGP, however, that there really is still quite a good supply of those, NIB, in the retail pipeline, right now. Their few "fast" cards similar to the 7800GS / 7900GS were made in limited numbers and EoL'd...
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    Scythe Ninja Copper

    It is certainly awesome in APPEARANCE. It's easily the largest, physically, of the coolers I've owned. It's going on an X2 6000, but I may not end up with it on the MB I'd have preferred (Asus M2N32 SLI Deluxe). The BIOS Flash to allow it to recognize the new CPU screwed it up royally, so an...
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    cpu charts

    Toms Hardware.
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    Reusing an old Gateway 6400 server case

    Some of Gateway's cases have been very nice-looking, and seemed to invite some mods to make gamers' cases from them, however, and it's a big one, Gateway tends to use very proprietary power supplies. Not wired differently, but all crowded into oddly shaped PSUs. I ended up giving up on one of...
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    Need advice for a friend looking to upgrade. (specifically graphical)

    Actually, the older DDR1 RAM his system will be using is more expensive by far than DDR2 Whether the 7600 GT is actually running so hot or not depends on the model, and maker, but $110 seems awfully high in USD through online sellers when ATI's equivalent cards are selling for a lot less than...
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    Nvidia quadro nvs 160m

    IOW, it's a production card, and optimized for creating the graphics, not for viewing them.
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