I've found a more recent QVision 1024 driver for Windows 95, version 1.92 Rev B. It's published under SP9542 txt. I got the sound working under Windows 3.11 with the standard Microsoft Windows Sound System 2.0 driver package.

I'm also interested in a fully assembled card. This is great!

I've recorded my various sound cards, will post the results soon: Recorded: Creative Labs Sound Blaster Pro CT1330A (2x OPL-2) Creative Labs AWE 64 Value CT4520 HP MM Pro16V - Aztech 2320 chip (has an OPL logo on it) Unidentified card based on an Opti 924 and Analog Devices SoundPort chip Avance …

I do enjoy my Dells, I have a Dimension XPS 266 with a Celeron 500 in it, a Dimension 8200 with a 3.06GHz CPU and 1GB RDRAM, and a dual Tualatin 1266 server with 2.5GB registered ECC SDRAM. All great machines. In my experience, the cases are not as good as high end brand cases though (like cooler …

Perhaps I didn't make this part very clear: the average speed of 100+ MiByte/second and 12MiByte/ second where measured with modern machines with gigabit ethernet to get a baseline. I meant to illustrate that the observed speeds where the result of bottlenecks on the old machines, the servers can go …

I was intrigued by this question, because there used to be so many myths surrounding networking performance. So I did a couple of benchmarks, with different NICs. I used a Pentium 233MMX with 128MB MB SDRAM (fully cached, CAS2) on a SiS 5597/5598 based PCChips (I know) M571, with a Diamond Viper 330 …

:-) Why hasn't anybody asked him what kind of machines we are talking about? Or have I overlooked something? - If you are using ISA NICs (on your 98SE machines), this speed is normal. - If you are using USB NICs this speed can be normal, especially if it's connected to a USB 1.1 port (USB 1.1 is all …

The sil311x can operate in Legacy IDE Mode, however, even though the chip will look like a legacy IDE controller, it won't work like a true legacy ESDI compatible IDE controller: it won't use the ESDI I/O ports or IRQ 14/15. As long as your OS uses INT13h and you boot from the sil311x (like CPM/86, …

SIL SATA chips (sil3112 & 3114) are supposed to work under Windows 98SE, else there is always INT13h ("Real Mode Access" or something). http://www.drivers-download.com/en/downloadlist.php?id=153 A trend I've noticed recently is that many "new" sil311x based cards seem to lack a BIOS chip. Not sure …

Noshutdown has explained things perfectly AFIAK. All DIMMS are 64 bits wide, only the width of the ram chips varies. Some DIMMS have one side, others have two, each side of a DIMM is controlled separately by the memory controller as a 64 bit wide "bank" of memory. AFIAK the width of the RAM chips …

Mobile Pentium 120MHz 256kB L2 cache - Opti Viper 557/558N chipset (Compaq LTE 5250) with 48MB RAM Windows 3.11 (with Win32S, original program): 27m 30s Windows 98 (prog. from the first post): 30m 23.536s Windows NT 3.51 SP5 (prog. from the first post): 25m 57.289s

Does it have to be cardbus? Which cards have you tried? If you just want to get networking, you might be better served with a PCMCIA 3Com 3C574. The 3C574 Windows 3.11 drivers have their own PCMCIA enabling trick that works well on every laptop I've tried so far. When you get the card you can …

Nice machine. I have a very similar Dimension XPS D266. It's very easy to install the Celeron 500 PPGA in this machine, just flash the last Intel BIOS using the instructions from Bill's page. I've had the original Pentium II 266, a Pentium II 400 @ 266 (mult. locked, runs much cooler than the …