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- Thu Apr 17, 2014 8:46 am
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: Anyone try K6II-233 on Windows 8, yet?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 23646
Re: Anyone try K6II-233 on Windows 8, yet?
Nothing wrong with Windows 7, except that its hardware requirements are way higher than XP's were. Desktop Windows 8 was just a badly thought-out idea. Windows 8 on tablets and phones works great, but the Metro UI is nothing with a PITA on a desktop. I've actually got 7 on my desktop and Windows Pho...
- Sat Apr 12, 2014 8:54 pm
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: Anyone try K6II-233 on Windows 8, yet?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 23646
Re: Anyone try K6II-233 on Windows 8, yet?
It's impossible on a K6-x, because it lacks both NX and any form of SSE, let alone SSE2. Same for Athlon XP, because of no SSE2. Someone did figure out a way to trick the installer so that it would install and run on a Pentium 4 without NX: I found a (bad) solution for the NX restriction: After you ...
- Sun Feb 24, 2013 12:34 am
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: Anyone try K6II-233 on Windows 8, yet?
- Replies: 10
- Views: 23646
- Sun Feb 24, 2013 12:28 am
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: Anyone try Windows 7 on Socket 7 yet?
- Replies: 13
- Views: 23407
I don't know the specifics, but I do know that the NT 6.x versions of Windows (Windows Vista, 7, and 8) handle RAM differently than the 5x versions (2000, XP, XP x64, and Server '03) and it manifests itself in older hardware and even some older software. A lot of Socket 7 hardware had the >512MB pro...
- Sun Feb 24, 2013 12:15 am
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: PCIe Video Card on PCI only motherboards? Maybe?
- Replies: 2
- Views: 9736
You could probably do it, although I would anticipate possible driver issues due to the PCIe card having to communicate through the bridge chip, and there would probably be severe bottlenecking if you actually got a modern PCIe graphics card to work and tried to force it to run on standard PCI. I re...
- Mon Nov 14, 2011 12:24 am
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: Bad Time To Be Buying HDDs
- Replies: 5
- Views: 14323
I haven't heard of a rash of problems like that. Did you get all of those drives from the same vendor? I wonder if they didn't get a shipment of bad drives from the factory that was never meant to be sent out, and now they're reselling them. It wouldn't make any sense for WD to knowingly ship out do...
- Mon Oct 10, 2011 11:00 pm
- Forum: Other Systems
- Topic: New Machine based on HP case
- Replies: 13
- Views: 41740
The ATX specification was actually issued by Intel in the early 1990s in response to problems with the older AT motherboard layout. At the time, heat dissipation on the CPU wasn't a major issue. I don't think Intel ever expected the ATX spec to survive to 2011; heck, they didn't expect x86 to surviv...
- Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:28 am
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: IPC Powernote G795 with K6-3+?!
- Replies: 5
- Views: 14907
Any luck with this? I know when Jan Steunebrink was doing those custom BIOSes, he often removed the artificial BIOS limitations on hard disk sizes at the same time he added K6-2+ and K6-III+ to the CPU tables. There's no reason that machine can't support a drive of up to 137 GB, if it can support on...
- Fri Sep 09, 2011 1:12 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Socket 7 into 2011
- Replies: 47
- Views: 77863
It seems like AMD didn't make good choices back then; to be expected considering they had K7 architecture already. I wonder: if AMD bothered to add the new 3D Now! instructions to the plus series why didn't they bother to complete i686 compatiblity? The reason they didn't do that is because AMD did...
- Fri Jun 24, 2011 12:02 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Socket 7 into 2011
- Replies: 47
- Views: 77863
Windows 2000 also has this nasty habit of getting hacked into, if you try to go online with it and you're not behind a firewall. It hasn't been supported for a year now, and there aren't any more security updates for it. I hate it, because it is better than XP on older machines. It's basically XP wi...
- Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:57 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: New guy here, Having an issue with his K6-2+
- Replies: 4
- Views: 13024
The CMOV issue is starting to be a problem. Last night, I tried to boot Jolicloud on a K6-III+ equipped laptop, after reading their own specs that it should run on any laptop that is 10 years old or less. Unfortunately, the kernel it uses requires this instruction. About the only things that seem to...
- Fri Jun 17, 2011 8:28 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Socket 7 into 2011
- Replies: 47
- Views: 77863
- Thu Jun 09, 2011 2:55 pm
- Forum: Hardware / Tech Corner
- Topic: Pentium 266 Tillamook on MVP3 board?
- Replies: 15
- Views: 37060
- Thu Jun 09, 2011 2:49 pm
- Forum: Software & Tweaking
- Topic: 256 MB RAM, K6-3+ @ 550Mhz, Windows 2000 system cache
- Replies: 8
- Views: 16569