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Thank you for the hints. I see that Hiren's has associated an old 6.1.0.1002 with ICH8. E2B has several drivers with correct chipset names, but they are not signed. Fernando's driver actually does contain DEV_2824 and probably can be used. I was confused and did not see it. My modified driver was finally able to detect discs. Win-Raid talks about their own certificate. Do I need to integrate it for Windows 64-bit to accept the driver? I will probably install 2008 R2 after an SSD arrives and XP is working well. I don't know much about new Windows. I wonder if the following method could work to skip the driver integration and messing with text files. Install Windows on Intel in legacy mode, install JMicron AHCI via Device Manager, plug disk into JMicron, install Intel AHCI, plug into Intel. I previously did this with VIA VT6410 before nLite existed.
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Sign a petition to bring the old Youtube Layout BACK
j7n replied to WinFX's topic in Websites and Boards
I've started downloading videos using YouTube-DL, and watch them in Media Player Classic with nVidia PV acceleration at 1920 px and 60fps for free. SMPlayer has finally abandoned his downloader, and on-the-fly streaming no longer works for me. Even low resolution videos stutter all the time, because of the CPU load from drawing the page. It's much much better on a G2030 system in the same Pale Moon, but on Conroe-L is unusable. YouTube might stop offering H.264 soon because perceived progress trumps the installed base of decoders, and we're not supposed to use them outside of the browser at all. -
I looked into a few versions of Rapid/Matrix and they don't have this device ID number. And neither does Fernando 11.2.0.1006. His set includes a lot of spam of his name in place of models. I can see attached discs in Hiren's Boot CD Mini-XP, which means that one of the included drivers is probably working. The support site for GA-965G-DS3 only offers a JMicron driver for supplementary ports where I don't want to connect the system disk to. At the time of making this motherboard there wasn't a working driver. I hope that I might be able to connect a disk with over 2 TB capacity if I have a 3rd party driver. I'll burn a disc and try an unsigned driver, and maybe forget about NT6.1.
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Sign a petition to bring the old Youtube Layout BACK
j7n replied to WinFX's topic in Websites and Boards
This is a waste of time. Google must be seen as a modern company. Bigger and flatter software serves that goal. The polymer is getting slower every month. It's not even HTML, but a monolithic blob of script, where parts of it cannot be blocked for speed. It wouldn't have to be the exact old layout. But anything lighter. At one point they had a basic interface called "Feather" that loaded instantly, but lacked most basic functions such as commenting. -
I plan to install a new OS on a 965G PC with ICH8 (without R). Its device IDs are 2025 in compatible mode and 2024 in AHCI mode. I downloaded and integrated driver 10.1.0.1008, but could not detect any harddisks in Windows Setup. This driver doesn't have my IDs and only supports ICH8R/DH/DO/M-E/M. I also downloaded a series of other versions, and none had my ID. The stickified and closed thread claims that an official, good driver exists for XP. But the link for that driver is no longer valid on Intel's site. Does a signed driver exist for this part? (I also want to install an NT6 64-bit with the awful driver signing.) If I understand the instructions right, the modification involves adding an entry without any device ID, but with CC_0106 ? Is there a reason why the Intel driver shouldn't be used, or the ACHI mode shouldn't be used?
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I misremembered the name of the created preset. It is called "Limited Power Management". I believed it to affect the power of the processor when idle, but I doubt it. In PowerCfg, when I change the setting for "Turn off monitor," the setting becomes blank when I load PowerCfg again.
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What does the profile Minimal Power Management added by NLite do exactly? Is it essential? I installed a Windows 2003 SP2 system where the power management has become broken. I did check MPM before setup because it did not cause issues with other XP systems. Currently I cannot edit the power profiles on that system. No matter if I create a new one, use an existing as a base, the monitor shuts off after a couple of minutes, which is not good for its health, the settings I choose are dropped. Apparently profiles cannot be imported from XP because they have a different length. But it is not serious issue enough to reinstall the system, which won't necessarily solve the problem. The issue could also be unrelated to NLite.
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My Browser Builds (Part 3)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Sometimes I come across a site where I may not right-click to copy, or for any purpose. Usually I want to extract an image and view it in a separate tab to scroll it more comfortably, or view it in IrfanView if it is enormous or I need to compare 2 images without flicker. In Opera I can press F12, choose Enable JavaScript, do my clicks, then Enable JavaScript again for normal use. This is possible without reloading the page or abandoing its current state. Disabling JavaScript entirely is not what I want, because then most pages are not functional. What is the closest analogue achievable with Palemoon? This is a very useful function (among many in Opera). -
Are there restrictions for an atypical number of reserved sectors or cluster size for the system partition with old Windows? I seem to recall that it didn't boot with with an aligned partition start, but last I formatted a disk years ago and have forgotten the details. I also ordered a flash memory for replacement of the system disk. Is this a legit check: create a file system, write one file, find its start address in a hex editor, divide it by 4k? I don't think I can use RMprepUSB for an internal disk.
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What would a 1 MB alignment of partition start achieve? Files would still align to much smaller clusters. Is there a program for testing the performance of a series of possible alignments, in increments of a logical sector, to determine by how many sectors the system needs to be shifted?
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For testing pure single-connection network speed, use a plain HTTP or FTP transfer, so that the performance isn't bottlenecked by SSL, scaling of graphics or Javascript. For example, http://speedtest.tele2.net/ Upload can be tested on its FTP (not all of the are up). Browsers usually spam many connections, and wouldn't be as affected. The default TCP settings are definitely artificially limited. Adjust according to the speed & memory of the computer. Probably no need to go as high as the optimizer would suggest, as it assumes all servers of interest are somewhere in Australia. 128K to 512K windows, no more.
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My Browser Builds (Part 3)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
Is it normal that the Palemoon 28 interface becomes unresponsive while executing high CPU JavaScript on single core? Often I encounter a heavy webpage and want to press the stop button or close the tab, but cannot do that until the page has finished running its code. Then sometimes I close multiple tabs or the entire window once it starts accepting input. I also generally feel that the browser milks every bit of system power to itself with other programs feeling sluggish during a full speed file download over SSL. Lately I started running it at /belownornal priority, but that doesn't address the unresponsive GUI. I "upgraded" from Opera and Firefox 27 which felt better, compatibility aside. -
"Ancient" Pinned Threads in XP sub-forum
j7n replied to NotHereToPlayGames's topic in Site & Forum Issues
With the current trend of pure white interfaces, pinned topics are annoying to scroll past to find actual new posts. Traditionally stickied topics used to be shaded darker or a different color, and easy to ignore. At "least" here the pin icon is still green, but it's barely visible being so small. On the Vista forum there is a warning about a paradox, which nobody has used or needed for years. The XP section will now look better if the redirects go away. -
OLD BROWSERS: ips-forum layout bugs + self help tweaks (css)
j7n replied to siria's topic in Site & Forum Issues
You've done a lot of work. But I'm afraid the effort doesn't produce good and lasting results. The site is still broken, slow and they will change it again in a year. And this is just one forum of many. Roytam's Palemoon makes the site browsable. People won't like this, and I will keep it short. The MSFN management appears hypocritical when they complain about Microsoft and other websites, and then do similar updates. Maybe I am misjudging the proportion of content dedicated to legacy software support, because those are the only sections I visit as they are unique to this resource. I think I've made a typo while gathering the style snippets because my colors are all green. But it's so much easier to skim through with shaded Quote boxes. Could you concatenate all the fixes into one block? hxxps://i.imgur.com/XBaW5gw.png Even inserting a link now requires a special dance. -
do you plan on continuing to use windows xp? (community poll by vistaex)
j7n replied to legacyfan's topic in Windows XP
I will use the operating system for as long as I have old computers compatible with it where XP is the best fit, and the increased resource consumption of anything newer would be felt. To throw out a working computer as out of date, or cripple it with bloat to make it so, is an unreasonable proposal. Old applications run on WinXP, and are also much faster. As long as I don't need to exchange bleeding edge file formats with other people, this software serves me better because, in addition to its speed and efficiency, I have also learnt to use it well. It does not require new redistributables or frameworks, or mandatory online components. If I have a goal of using a spreadsheet or encoding video, I default to the oldest tool that can accomplish that. The files produced will also be compatible with the most computer systems, either old or new.- 33 replies
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do you plan on continuing to use windows xp? (community poll by vistaex)
j7n replied to legacyfan's topic in Windows XP
Can we upvote and comment on videos through that interface? I risked my google password and tried logging in, but received an error message: Unexpected char 'l' at 1:2. If not, what does the login do? How come I receive recommendations of videos I have already seen on Invidious? How does it know about them? It's a neat idea, but the comments are central to my experience. On Invidious I can't even expand a thread by clicking "view x replies". The lag is real while typing on their site. Often I can't see the characters until several seconds later, and then have to backspace them all to correct a typo.- 33 replies
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Looks like the certificates for Alpine 2.24 are saved in a subdirectory of the program. It comes with a number of authorities included. Maybe you can export the required certificates from Firefox and copy them into this folder.
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Epic arrangement by Ed Starink, easy on the ears as most of his music. "25" from Role-Playing Game "Darkstone". Drop gold onto her plate. Merry Christmas under the Combine Suppression Field. Wear that facemask or face the Civil Protection. (I am listening to FLAC not this.)
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400 megabytes? Adobe should have learned about solid compression. The standalone exe projector doesn't seem to have the timebomb restriction. There are Flash updates on Black Wing Cat's Windows Legacy Update ( win2k.org type "flash" in search), where you can directly extract the netscape plugin or the exe, and the package size is smaller. Have there been any new functional additions, new data formats in Flash recently? I'm still using Flash 11.4, and the version number has since taken inspiration from Firefox and Chrome.
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Just try to Update the driver on the device, From specific location, choose where hdaudbus.inf is. And see if a real sound card is then detected. Nothing to lose. I won't post anymore, as I can't seem to say it differently.
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Do you currently have this entry under System devices: Microsoft UAA Bus Driver for High Definion Audio? If No, try installing it over the unknown device. There is no driver made by Intel, only that comes from Microsoft. If Yes, then I don't know. Try to find how the sound card is disabled, and identify the remaining devices.
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The HD Audio Controller is a "PCI device" in the Intel chipset (alongside sata, usb) through which the "hd audio bus" device is accessed. To identify unknown devices, you could use a program that has a vendor database included, such as AIDA64/Everest (commercial trialware) - Devices->Physical,PCI, Unknown Devices PCI32 (old, out of date) or System Information Viewer (freeware) among others. Or throw drivers at them until one sticks. I like the above programs because they don't download random potentially unwanted drivers. PCI bus 0, device 27, function 0 could be an audio device, but I am not certain. It's 27 on my systems, and the ID matches some integrated audio.
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My Browser Builds (Part 2)
j7n replied to roytam1's topic in Browsers working on Older NT-Family OSes
I do notice sluggish performance of the NM28 browser after a longer session, as if some tabs are still open in the background, consuming memory and CPU time. What sort of plugins is the "plugin container" supposed to handle? Flash is almost never used anymore, and the other plugin I have is PDF-Xchange, which also almost never open. -
To install drivers on unknown devices, if I'm quite certain of the brands, I'd just put a set of drivers and INFs in a directory, and let Windows perform a search for best in that location from Device Manager. It will only install matching drivers. The vendor of the bus controller is that of the motherboard, in my case Intel 8086. I found that on Server 2003 I had to extract and install this component (hdaudbus.inf) by hand, because there was no update package for that platform. https://i.imgur.com/KG3sIgG.png A dual-booting configuration with another OS is useful with XP. It is missing the safe mode options that Win9x had. I had that for some time for recovery and tweaking and backup of locked system files. If the audio hardware was physically out of order, I guess it depends on the kind of malfuction it has. I've only had it happen once; the card was shown with an exclamation point. Just pull the card out or disable the on-board device to stop Windows from interacting with it if it comes to that. It is somewhat unlikely if the motherboard doesn't exhibit other problems. HD_Audio_Bus.rar
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If you have an unknown device in Device Manager and haven't installed all possible updates, you may need to install KB888111 or hdaudiobus.sys before the device will appear under audio. That component is included in the Realtek HD Audio Driver R2.70. These drivers are widely available on then web.