Re: Socket 5/7 motherboard and 72-pin Fast Page Mode SIMMs compatibility...
Posted on 2024-05-31, 21:18
The manual shows it supports single sided simms with 64MB, but double sided only up to 32MB? Did the 430fx support modules bigger than 32MB.
Re: SETMUL is incompatible with my CPU, alternatives?
Posted on 2024-05-27, 19:20
I use motherboard Gigabyte GA-7VT600 with chipset VIA VT8237 System: Pure DOS CPU: AMD K7 Athlon XP Bios dont have simple command on/off CPU Cache Level 2 When i use setmul command L2D it's writes incompatible CPU I need to disable Cache L2 of CPU because i want to run Ishar 3 with sound in game. …
Re: Windows 2000 on P100 vs Win98
Posted on 2024-05-26, 22:25
I believe running FAT32 and not NTFS on Windows 2000 is also helping you. There is a lot more overhead with NTFS. So for slower machines where you don't need the features of NTFS, running FAT32 makes a lot of sense. Good point, I didn't think about the NTFS overhead as my main aim for using Fat32 …
Re: Windows 2000 on P100 vs Win98
Posted on 2024-05-26, 21:11
I ran Windows 2K on a Pentium Pro 166 and it felt slow as a dog compared to Win98SE. How much memory. It seems using an SSD with DMA makes a massive difference with Win2k on P1 era hardware. I underclocked this P100 to P75 to test this and it was still as responsive with DMA enabled. Without DMA it …
Re: Windows 2000 on P100 vs Win98
Posted on 2024-05-26, 21:00
Formatted SSD as single 120GB partition, Fat32 and then installed Win2k from DOS using winnt.exe. All hardware was recognized and drivers installed. A couple of notes about drivers, the Win2k integrated Stealth 64 driver is faster and more stable than the latest available from Diamond, and a big …
Re: Windows 2000 on P100 vs Win98
Posted on 2024-05-26, 18:33
I ran Windows 2K on a Pentium Pro 166 and it felt slow as a dog compared to Win98SE. How much memory. It seems using an SSD with DMA makes a massive difference with Win2k on P1 era hardware. I underclocked this P100 to P75 to test this and it was still as responsive with DMA enabled. Without DMA it …
Re: Windows 2000 on P100 vs Win98
Posted on 2024-05-26, 14:11
Win2k shows memory usage around 67MB in task manager when booted clean to desktop and 61MB free. In general usage for housekeeping it is fast and smooth, as fast as Win98 and much more stable. This surprised me, but it's probably down to using an SSD with DMA enabled, which was not available in the …
Windows 2000 on P100 vs Win98
Posted on 2024-05-26, 13:32
The last week I installed Windows 2000 SP4 on a Pentium 100 with 128MB ram to compare it to Win98se on same machine. I tried this because I vaguely remember running a Windows 2000 beta in 1997 and was surprised how quick it was on a Pentium 75 with 64MB. Specs: Intel Advanced/Endeavor 430FX …
Re: What are the DOS games that have problems if you have more than 16MB of RAM installed?
Posted on 2024-05-23, 22:08
Jurassic Park. If you have more than 8MB of ram the soundblaster SFX don't work.
Re: Popping/Clicking sound in Command and Conquer and Red Alert Windows 95 Edition with an Awe64.
Posted on 2024-05-19, 22:54
What OS and drivers. I had a similar problem with Win98 running 7th Guest (win 95 version from 1997). It was the AWE64 drivers. I just updated them. Used the newer drivers built in to Windows ME and copied them to replace the Win98se version. Also if the video files are in the game directory you can …
Re: Aweutil /EM option - speed sensitive
Posted on 2024-05-15, 16:08
I`m using System Commander v5.04. It was my first attempt in this direction, but it worked. I'll have to take a closer look at everything when I get the chance, the PC is currently stowed away. I don't know which version of AWEUTIL this is. Edit ver. 1.35.As usual, I also have EMM386 because I …
Re: Dell dimension p75t motherboard
Posted on 2024-04-25, 21:01
The version I have is just an Intel Atlantis without onboard sound. If you ID the correct board from the PBA # you flash a better MR-BIOS on it to support 128GB drives and faster memory timings.
Re: M.2 to IDE adapter being limited to UDMA2 in the bios
Posted on 2024-04-10, 12:12
Search for a key called MasterDeviceTimingMode in the registry (dword). If it is there the values are: 0x10010 UDMA Mode 5 (ATA100). 0x8010 UDMA Mode 4 (ATA66). 0x2010 UDMA Mode 2 (ATA33). 0x0410 Multi-Word DMA Mode 2 и PIO 4.
Re: M.2 to IDE adapter being limited to UDMA2 in the bios
Posted on 2024-04-09, 19:36
Intel Application Accelerator lets you set the mode, double click on the items in the parameters column. If it only allows you to set modes for UDMA2 and lower you can force the mode via regedit under the correct key (I did this on Win98 years ago to force a drive to UDMA 2 from PIO mode). To find …
Re: Successfully using 137GB+ partition/HDD under 98SE?
Posted on 2024-03-28, 20:55
Okay MSFN is back online, so I downloaded the two ZIP files that are labelled as v1.1 (4102225F & 4102226F) http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/78592-enable48bitlba-break-the-137gb-barrier/ I SHA1 checked both and neither of them matched the one I was using from the bhdd31 pack. Checking the dates it …
Re: Successfully using 137GB+ partition/HDD under 98SE?
Posted on 2024-03-26, 16:30
One thing I'm curious about is the cluster size from oformat, I saw in the documentation it defaults to 8 (4kb) but you can set it to 128 (64kb) which could improve read speeds at the cost of a little more space consumed but that doesnt matter too much on these much larger drives, what do you think …
Re: List of Real Mode games that utilize MT-32/GM (for AWE emulation)
Posted on 2024-03-25, 19:30
I have been going through this list and am surprised how good the Awe MT32 emulation sounds. I was expecting much worse. I prefer it to Sblive/Audigy emulation using Sbeinit and SBEmixer.exe tick box to support MT32 Only two games I can't get working on the list. First is Chip's Challenge, it errors …
Re: Successfully using 137GB+ partition/HDD under 98SE?
Posted on 2024-03-25, 18:17
I'll give it a try thanks. For oformat I found a download for the deployment tool at softpedia and it contains oformat.com, I assume this is the right one? So I made a MS-DOS USB stick and then: oformat d: /q removing the drive at this point and plugging it into Windows 10 shows FAT32 however if I …
Re: Successfully using 137GB+ partition/HDD under 98SE?
Posted on 2024-03-24, 18:11
I think actually the PATCH1TB isn't for the OS drive/partition, but a secondary drive/partition. Maybe though it will work on the OS drive, secondary partition, the manual doesn't mention this but maybe that's what it is. I'll do another installation and test this and report back. If this fails …
Re: SSDs not working in any MW-DMA mode
Posted on 2024-03-10, 16:19
I think the DMA mode is depend on which bridge chip is on the adapter board i have good result with JMicron JM20330 bridge if your adapter is using sanded down chip or sunplus then they may cause DMA issue. I ruled out adapters 100% by connecting the SSDs directly to newer chipsets with native sata …
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