Disk Manager? Well, if anything yes the 486sx is soldered onto the motherboard. There's an Overdrive socket next to it. There are also some sockets for some sort of SIPP memory near the Overdrive socket. I wasn't sure if this was for cache or to add to the video display.

Well, here's a few quick ones, as they were done with my phone's camera. One of the inside, one of the PnP network card I'm attempting (and failing miserably) to use. http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq161/NightSprinter_photos/0203090202-1.jpg http://i444.photobucket.com/albums/qq161/NightSprinter …

Ok, got DOS and Windows installed fine, graphics drivers installed for Win3.1 on the Cirrus board (256-color graphics for games like Lode Runner: The Legend Returns). Some odd quirks, though. The SBP2 seems to cause a considerable level of noise upon reboot until I fire up a game that resets the OPL …

Well, it looks like the family never threw away the old IBM PS/1 Consultant tower system we've had since the 90s. Given it's an ISA-only system it seems prime for converting into a DOS/Win3.1 gaming tower-of-power. The specs I have are as follows: CPU: 486SX-33 upgraded to Pentium Overdrive 83MHz …

Gotta say, despite the buggy LCD I'm happy with my MT-32. I do wonder what benefits I would get from combining it with a CM-32P.

Well, here's the specs of the 486 you guys helped me get up and running: System 1 CPU: Cyrix 486DX-100 RAM: 16MB EDO Harddrive: 408MB CD-ROM: 4x Reveal-brand LG GCD-R542B Video: Trident 1MB PCI (upgradeable to 2MB) Audio: Gravis Ultrasound 1MB, Sound Blaster 16 CT2290 And for fun.. System 2 CPU …

There was a bad cable. Plus, thread can be closed for now. The BIOS won't detect the drive, but the driver loads it just fine. Dunno how I did it, but it's working so far. 😁 I'll ask a mod to re-open it if trouble flares up again.

What I meant was that the BIOS does not show a CD-ROM drive connected, regardless of whether it it set to master or slave, single drive or conected to another. Only my 408MB harddrive shows in the list. This was using the IDE ports on the board, and having disabled the card's IDE port via jumper. I …

I'm quite sure, as the drive is just a re-branded LG GCD-R542B drive. Plus the soundcard has four interfaces (IDE, Panasonic, Mitsumi, and Sony). Plus I don't know of any Panasonic or MItsumi interface drives that have a master/slave jumper.

I managed to pick up a 486 computer (that was ironically in a 386 case) at a thrift shop a few weeks ago. Unfortunately I cannot get it to recognize the 4x CD-ROM that came with it (regardless of whether I use the board's IDE ports or the built-in one on the Reveal K2Y-PRO16 card that came with the …

It's possible that could be true, but I've used several other DOS games that made use of the Ultrasound, and just having the ULTRASND parameter and the settings in AUTOEXEC.BAT still didn't give me anything.

I have an actual GUS, and use DOSbox as well. The big thing about music in games on an Ultrasound is that you MUST have the driver "UltraMid.exe" loaded beforehand. If not, at best you'll only get SFX or at worst nothing at all. I've had this problem playing Tyrian2000 on my computer as a result.

Or I got the board wrong. It is indeed that one, the SY-5EH. Any suggestions on what to replace it with that would allow me to use the following audio hardware: SoundBlaster 16-MCD (yes, original one with Yamaha-OPL chip, and hardware-jumpered settings) with Yamaha DB60XG daughtercard Gravis …

Damn, you're good. That is more or less the board, save for the fact mine is an Intel 430TX chipset.

Another odd thing is this: my AWE32 PnP seems to somehow assign its port to whatever address I set in hardware for the GUS. Also, being new to building vintage gaming rigs.. since my P3 has Win98 on it.. which set of drivers do you suggest to get the cards running in a DOS environment? (I am, …

Is there any reason why my GUS Classic seemingly refuses to work for the setup program in DOS (Win9x DOS prompt, FreeDOS, etc.)? I just acquired this card a few weeks ago, and have been struggling to make it work on a Pentium-III 500 system I have (I also have an older P233-MMX if I have to put it …

Well, I'm trying to build at least one system for the purpose of older Win95 and DOS games. The current rig I have semi-built (but not set up yet) has the following hardware: Soyo SY-EH5 (baby-AT Super Socket7 board with AGP) PentiumMMX 233 64MB PC66 SDRAM STB Voodoo3 videocard (not sure if it's a …