Name: skifdank Date: April 23, 2007 at 07:21:51 Pacific Subject: Help Please, NIC/VID Info OS: wfw3.11 CPU/Ram: 3.2ghz/1g
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Hi everyone, I've had it with XP, it pissed me off really bad yesterday and I formated my new box. Tried vista too, it blows. Partitioned it to have a 2gig partition for 3.1 and the rest for debian. Install went fine, and a lot faster than I remeber it... I think it took all of 20 seconds where it used to take an hour and load off 5 floppies.
I have a few things that need clarified. For the life of me, I can't locate a 3.11 or ndis driver for a Realtek-8139 nic. Second, I remember back in the day pictures being quite clear, porn and whatnot. I haven't setup my display yet but the only options I seem to have a 256 colors. 256? ORLY? I have a 256m card now, and only had an 8m card back in the day but I swear it went higher than 256 colors.. Are there ways around this or pffft. I have an asus radeon a9250. Drivers? Am I going to have to score an old diamond stealth 64 card?
Thanks, but, that driver causes windows to halt on boot, and tcpb32 wont install, gives some 32bit errors even after I update with that pw118 thing. Still tho, Thanks maybe it'll just start working if I do it enough times.
Name: Santa Date: April 27, 2007 at 03:05:28 Pacific Subject: Help Please, NIC/VID Info More than likely the PC is to new/fast or you are using an EMULATOR!
Please leave answering questions to other folks.. thanks.
I was making a suggestion about why it would not work, sorry if you are offended but Emulators and very fast CPU's can and do cause problems. Will await with baited breath for someone else to answer your question...............
No offense taken, I could see how floating point could be an issue but this does not appear to be the case, as for an emulator, there is not one involved. Do, have a good day, enjoy the weekend.
3.2gig for 3.xx. Will probably cause problems, at elast if Hyperthreading or some other multi kernel/ core features are enabled. asus radeon a9250 will most likely have no drivers made for 3.xx as it's way to new. As orbital said the SVGA driver could probably work but it may not it's way too new.
have you isntalled Win32s for 3.xx yet? The network drivers and stack do make it really slow I have found but it does boot up eventually. Did you install the drivers for DOS or Windows?
Hi, thanks for the reply. I got win32 to install, the first one a i had was corrupt. Whatever game comes with it works fine hearts or kings or whatever. I try to install the network drivers, but once I do it wont boot back up, it just hangs with a flashing cursor in the upper left hand corner. Once I switch back to the pre-network driver version of my system.ini/config/autoexec it boots fine, but again has no network support. Corrupted realtek drivers or what???
How long did you leave it at the flashing cursor? If memory serves me right it will try to look for a DNS and DHCP server at first which can take ages. After this your system will boot saying no network DHCP server found. Change settings in Network group or whatever.
I'm not sure but I think you could also manually edit the network information located in the .ini file. I think it's in System.ini, not sure as I say as my networking with DOS and 3.xx is limited.
