Admiral LSD
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STOP errors maybe related to faulty cache memory? NEED HELP
Admiral LSD replied to shassouneh's topic in Hardware
Quote: Hey Admiral, there are no Mobos or CPU's or RAM running a true 266 FSB as you describe it. They all do 133 FSB counting one upwards and one downwards on the sinus curve. So - whats your point ? H. My point was that it's not actually a 266Mhz bus and it really shouldn't be referred to as such much like you shouldn't refer to an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ as being an 1800Mhz processor. -
My current motherboard (an AOpen AX6BC) is based on the i440BX chipset and I've never had any trouble at all with it. After what I've read about and experienced with Intels latest chipsets, I honestly can't hold them in the same regard. For example, the i810 (and most likely the i815 derivative as well) is a slow as a wet week (my ~500Mhz PII shouldn't be able to outpace a 600Mhz Coppermine Celeron. Not only is the core superior, it has 100Mhz of extra clock speed and full speed L2 cache backing it up as well). The i820 relied too heavily on RDRAM, even moreso that Intel intended considering the memory Translator Hub for SDRAM didn't work (and introduced a 15% performance hit when it did). The i850 was also let down by RDRAM (or more to the point, the ridiculously high price of it). The first i845 was let down by SDRAM. Only now with the i830 and i845-D are Intel starting to prove they can make good chipsets again but since you can't pair them with other manufacturers CPUs anymore they are let down by the ridiculously high prices Intel place on their CPUs. Via have made some crap in the past with their Slot 1 and Socket 7 chipsets usually being slower and more buggy than Intels however they have a nasty habit of filling in niches that Intel can't or won't have anything to do with (such as Super Socket 7 and an alternative to i820 boards). However the current KT266a and KT333 looks like it's turning that around however they came hot on the heels of the KT266 which was a real dog. SiS were like Via, typically filling niches but have recently come into their own with some great products. AMD screwed up their first Athlon chipset, the 750, allowing Via to get a greater foothold in the single Athlon market than they really deserved. The 760 was a fairly decent chipset but was quickly overshadowed by the SiS 745 and the Via KT266a. AMDs multiprocessor chipsets haven't exactly been perfect either with the 760MPX having a bug that prevents the USB ports in the South Bridge from working. nVidia's nForce chipset looked like a real winner with integrated graphics and sound that weren't crap without compromising performance (Via and SiS typically couldn't balance these things) however it seems to have a problem with it's memory controller. Not bad for a first effort though. I haven't heard much about Ali, either positive or negative so I really can't form an opinion The short answer: I really can't put any weight behind any of the aforementioned chipset manufacturers but if I had to choose it would be between AMD, SiS, nVidia, Via and Intel in that order.
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Quote: no topic to click on I think thats the point. Just be thankful you can get into the thread unlike when something similar is done with UBB 5.45c...
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STOP errors maybe related to faulty cache memory? NEED HELP
Admiral LSD replied to shassouneh's topic in Hardware
Quote: I Know for a fact the motherboard has a 266MHZ FSB. I'd just like to take this oppurtunity to point out the fact that it isn't exactly a 266Mhz FSB but rather a 133Mhz one that transfers two bits per clock cycle (also called "Double Data Rate" or DDR for short.). While the end result is exactly the same as a bus that operates at 266Mhz but only transfers one bit bper clock cycle calling it a "266Mhz" bus is much like saying an Athlon XP 1800+ runs at 1.8Ghz. -
Are you getting that stupid "This software might not be compatible with Windows XP" garbage? My Intellipoint 3.2 software came up with that and it worked fine (Thank you NTCompatible for that one). Netscape 6 (or 6.2 I can't remember) is rumoured to display that too. The point? 9 times out of 10 that advice can be safely ignored. The exception being stuff like the Creative Win2k Live!Ware 3.0 package (although admittedly that didn't bring up the warning box). Something it installs (The Windows drivers I think but I'm not sure) screws up pretty badly under XP which led to much frustration and a reinstall (although I could of possibly booted into Safe Mode and rolled back the driver I wasn't aware of the possibility at the time).
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This is a tough one. Networking PCs with Macs has always been difficult. XP to my knowledge lacks the Services for Macintosh that 2k Server (and quite possibly 2k Pro IIRC) had meaning you can't do it that way. An alternative is Dave, a commercial implementation of Windows SMB networking protocol for the Macintosh but at USD$149 for a single user it's not exactly cheap (especially since your probably only going to use it once). If the Mac is running OSX (though just why you'd want to trade that for XP is beyond me...) then it should be a simple mater of installing and configuring Samba on the Mac.
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Mine: [*]AOpen AX6BC mobo (440BX)[*]Pentium II 400 CPU (@496)[*]128Mb PC-133 (@124) SDR SDRAM][*]Hyena series midtower ATX case[*]20Gb Seagate Barracuda HDD[*]120Mb Floppy Drive[*]50X CD-ROM[*]Diamond Viper V550 (Riva TNT) 16Mb video card running nVidia Detonator 4 reference drivers version 27.20[*]Sound Blaster Live! Value sound card[*]Acer ALN-201 RTL-8029-based 10Mbps NIC[*]No brand speakers[*]Acer 104-key AT keyboard with PS/2 Adaptor[*]Microsoft Intellimouse Explorer[*]Logitech Wingman Extreme Digital 3D Joystick[*]Logitech Wingman Gamepad Extreme[*]Logitech Wingman Formula Wheel (non force feedback model)[*]Windows XP Professional with all the Luna eye candy on[/list:u]
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Quote: There is a bug in NT4 through WinXP[/b] where if you boot to dos and delete the pagefile and then reboot the system so that it re-creates the pagefile, the OS doesn't mark the pagfile as opened for exclusive access and if you try to defragment, the system will BSOD. - Greg/Raxco Software ;( Let's hear it for M$ Quality Control...
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You have AMD to thank the most for making Via a significant name in chipsets. AMD cocked up it's first Athlon chipset allowing Via to get in and virtually take the entire single Athlon market for itself. Before then all Via made were cheap chipsets with performance to match.
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If the partition is FAT32 (which I'm assuming it is) then there shouldn't be any danger in defragging it through Windows ME but don't take my word for it I've never tried it... Personally I wouldn't even dream of installing XP (or 2k and NT for that matter) on anything less than an NTFS parition...
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From your description I'd say you're first locking the computer by pressing Ctrl-Alt-Del, lock Computer and then unlocking it again by typing in your password.
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Quote: I was triple booting SE, 2K and XP Pro at one point. WAS hot on XP for a while but then i found 2K was much less of a pain in the @ss compatibility wise. Obviously you've never had to install the same program 3 times to make sure it's registry settings are properly propogated across 3 user accounts or had to **** about with APPCOMPAT.EXE to get something to install.... XP's compatibility features aren't perfect but in my experience they are light years ahead of 2k's.
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Quote: Nope. I tried Win2k on a system running at 400MHz with 64MB of ram; it was unbearable to work with. I wouldn't even try it on that slow of system, because of, well, the lack of speed. My Pentium II 400 (I can't remember if I'd overclocked it at that point or not...) handled Win2k just fine but admittedly it had 128Mb RAM... That same system (although overclocked to 496Mhz) is now running Windows XP quite happily even with all the Luna eye candy (IMO the best thing to happen to the Windows UI ever) turned on. I laugh at people who have 1Ghz+ machines and much better video cards who advocate turning all that stuff off to increase performance...
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Quote: as for my ME install it just sits there for EXTREME cases. That's all my ME install did for the month or two before I upgraded to XP at which point I got rid of it and vowed no 9x OS will ever be installed on my machine and any machine I build in the future.
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I know this has been decided already but I am just curious w
Admiral LSD replied to pr-man's topic in Software
Opera is better than both of them. -
Buy a Mac
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so what are you listening to at teh moment?
Admiral LSD replied to bottleneck's topic in Slack Space
Quote: Boohooo Clutch, you MP8 user I agree, MP8 bites as an MP3 player but as a video player, those auto-hiding transport controls in full-screen mode are hard to beat. atm the song that I play the most would be Slide by Dido. In addition, I'm partial to a few Anime numbers, particularly those on the Bubblegum Crisis/Crash!/Crisis: Tokyo 2040 sound tracks such as Wasurenaide (Don't Forget), Bara no Soldier (Soldier of Roses), Kodoku no Angel (Angel of Loneliness), Akuma to Tenshi no Kiss (Devil and Angels Kiss), Crisis ~ Ikari wo Komete Hashire (Crisis! Run with Anger), Mysterious Night, Mr. Dandy, Remember, Y'Know, Waiting for You, You're in the Battlefield, DGR-1 and Hateshinai Tabi -- Hajimari no Toki (Unending Journey -- Time of Beginning). I an now more than likely the saddest person on this Message Board -
The AMD750 chipset had problems with AGP2x (it had noise issues making it very flaky) so what you're experiencing is quite normal. As for sidebanding I'm not sure, maybe someone else can help you out there.
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Mine: or at least that was mine... That along with the rest of my stuff currently resides on my 20Gb drive which is very, very sick at the moment. Right now I'm using the default Windows XP b/g and the default Windows XP theme on an installation I've created on a 6.4Gb drive I had spare.
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Through a massive cock-up with Partition Magic my main NTFS partition was rendered unbootable. Thinking only the partition table was screwed I attempted to repair it using the linux fdisk program booted using the tomsrtbt disk (something I've done several times before with no ill-effects.) but somewhere in doing that I rendered the partition unreadable as well as unbootable. Through the use of some limited freeware versions of disk recovery tools, most notably Winternals Disk Commander, I've established that my data is probably OK but since all the tools I've tried are limited to reading-only, requiring payment before the advanced recovery features become available, I have no way of recovering it. My question is, does anyone know of any good free (ie: unlimited) software that I can use to get the partition back long enough to transfer my data off it so I can reformat?
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The Demo version of Partition Recovery couldn't even find the partition I wanted recovered so the full version isn't likely to do any good. As for BlueCon, I'm not sure... It didn't appear to have any partition recovery stuff but perhaps I'm not looking hard enough... So far, the only program that appears to have any chance af actually recovering the partition is Winternals Disk Commander but you have to pay for that...
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That's what I thought. What I'm after is a good free partition recovery tool. I've found plenty of commercial ones, such as the aforementioned Disk Commander from WinTernals, but no free ones.
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The recovery console won't work on what is effectively a blank hard disk will it?
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For the old DOS gamers: OpenGL ports of CLASSICS!
Admiral LSD replied to brainsoft's topic in Slack Space
Quote: PS->Is there any OpenGL ports of Duke Nukem 3d? Theres GLDuke but I don't think thats quite finished yet. -
For the old DOS gamers: OpenGL ports of CLASSICS!
Admiral LSD replied to brainsoft's topic in Slack Space
Quote: You do know that Hellbender is base of it. Quote: Wasn't Microsoft's Fury3 based off of Terminal Velocity too? Yeah I did but I tried a demo of Fury3 and it wasn't as good... especially in the music department, the track from Tei Tenga in the original TV owns. Quote: Terminal Velocity works fine in Connectix Virtual PC. In 2k/XP DOS box it'll run but the graphics are very shaky. Also of course no VESA. I did try it with Virtual PC but it was just too slow. Maybe that was because I was using Win98SE as the virtual OS... When I get my machine working again (the fans in the power supply and graphics card both need replacing) I'll try again with DOS as the OS instead...