Re: When buying a 486 motherboard back in the day. What accessories came with it?

Posted on Today, 08:35

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by kixs

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Usually 386 and early 486 didn't have anything on board. So cables would come with I/O controller card. Only later with more integrated boards cables would be part of the box. The same with drivers.

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Re: Nailing CHS for a Pre-Ultra ATA/DOS era motherboard

Posted on 2023-06-03, 23:23

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by kixs

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If the onboard IDE works fine and the problem is auto-detect. You can manually set the drive with CHS parameters. If the HDD was setup in another computer and the CHS parameters were different it's a possibility it won't boot in another computer. If the onboard IDE seems suspicious, you can disable …

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Re: Nailing CHS for a Pre-Ultra ATA/DOS era motherboard

Posted on 2023-06-03, 18:36

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by kixs

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

BIOS in 1997 should auto-detect the HDD just fine. What is your problem? HDD not booting? But is it configured? DOS installed, active partition set and so on... You should make a bootable floppy. Boot from it and see if the HDD is recognised in DOS (c:\) or via FDISK.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-05-25, 06:58

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by kixs

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I regularly make 100 to 200km trips for local pickups. Well, if it's worth it of course 😉

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Re: Would this be a good basis for a Vodoo 2 or Vodoo 3 system?

Posted on 2023-05-25, 06:55

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by kixs

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

At least with Ti4200 you won't be bottle-necked by the video card 😉 My vote goes for Ti4200.

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Re: Teseng ET6000 2MB

Posted on 2023-05-18, 20:25

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by kixs

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Lightspeed 128 was ET6000 model made by STB. So it should be good. Maybe post a photo of your card.

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Re: Sound Blaster AWE32 + Roland SCC-1- How do I use them together?

Posted on 2023-05-09, 13:19

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by kixs

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

PC speaker was usually horrible... but I have fond memories playing Pinball Dreams, Pinball Fantasies... sound via PC speaker - I didn't have any sound card at the time.

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Re: Connect a AT power supply to the power button

Posted on 2023-05-09, 12:01

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by kixs

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https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=31105&seqNum=4 As long as the blue and brown wires are on the one set of tabs and the black and white leads are on the other, the switch and supply will work properly. If you incorrectly mix the leads, you will likely blow the circuit breaker for the …

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Re: Rarest CPUs?

Posted on 2023-04-26, 08:09

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by kixs

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Should have one or two Pentium 150. Nothing special about it 😉

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Re: Open AT case….

Posted on 2023-04-24, 16:29

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by kixs

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bofh.fromhell wrote on 2023-04-24, 15:16: Great case btw, the removable HDD cages makes for a really easy installation and was a big sellingpoint. The thing under 3.5" floppy is a 3.5" tape drive for backups.

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Re: another post about M919 motherboard and L2 cache

Posted on 2023-04-21, 19:15

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by kixs

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Show an image of Speedsys benchmark.

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Re: ZSNES sound problem (AC97)

Posted on 2023-04-19, 19:44

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by kixs

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It is what it is. If you want to run ZSNES, use compatible hardware.

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Re: Hard drive backup software?

Posted on 2023-04-18, 06:20

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by kixs

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

I used Ghost back then and still use now for old hardware.

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Re: Comanche 1 reboots PC

Posted on 2023-04-18, 00:04

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by kixs

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Here they say it might be too fast CPU: https://dosdays.co.uk/topics/Games/game_comanche.php

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Re: Socket 7 MMX cpu temperature in MS-DOS?

Posted on 2023-04-17, 10:03

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by kixs

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Thermal thermometer is one way to check. Use DOSIDLE program to "stop" the CPU while doing nothing (issues HALT instruction).

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Re: Memtest86 needed for 286 1MB RAM

Posted on 2023-04-14, 20:51

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by kixs

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Why wouldn't it work?

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Re: Memtest86 needed for 286 1MB RAM

Posted on 2023-04-14, 18:43

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by kixs

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Test it with Checkit.

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Re: my collection now has more 64 bit than 32 bit, yours ?

Posted on 2023-04-11, 12:34

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by kixs

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Surely not 😉 Since 64-bit PC era began in 2003 (20 years ago!) I have many x64 CPUs... but my desire is the 90s. I have loads of 286 to Pentium 3 stuff and newer too.

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Re: Again…. the same problem… wich sound card for my PII?

Posted on 2023-04-08, 19:45

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by kixs

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AWE32 CT3980 Although P-II is more of a Windows machine. Not sure what DOS only game would need the power of P-II? As it seems you have all the DOS bases already covered.

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2023-04-06, 20:15

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by kixs

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

xcomcmdr is talking about OS. Not games. Games were better (looking) on PC-DOS since 1991/92...

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