I put the card into a VX pro motherboard (all I can see is the bios is 2A5LDH09) in another machine, and I got the same board write error messages in setupsa. What an annoying card. jwt27: Hmm, I don't have any 8-bit slots. Do you think the card will still work if I snip off the extra 16-bit pins …

Understood. It's gone. Thanks folks.

That's exactly it. You can disable 'other devices' in the INI and the IDE and modem options will disappear in the config interface. But, if you set WSS to off in the INI, nothing happens.

I've got a malfunctioning S3 Trio32 PCI graphics card, and I was wondering if there's any objections to me just sticking it in the (appropriate electronics waste management™) bin. picture The card works, the system boots when it's inserted, but there's glitches abound. In text modes, the background …

I'm afraid I've tried it all. :( The system is pretty basic: just the HDD and CDROM on the IDE channels, a PCI video card and the Audician ISA sound card (no HDD controller cards, or ISA risers, etc.). I can turn off serial and parallel ports in the bios but it made no difference. I also went …

I can't find any information about that motherboard online. Did you mean XA100 plus? If so, then blimey, because as far as I can tell that has ISA, PCI and AGP on it... weird that the Audician would work there and not on my board.

Thanks for the info, badmofo. I'll try these other cards soon. Maybe if I leave all the PCI slots vacant, it'll calm down and work right. Otherwise, it's time to ditch this motherboard (and knowing my luck I won't have any ISA VGA adapters). I put together the machine looking for a real MSDOS …

I've tried it in all three of the ISA slots on this motherboard now, trying to insert it as fully and carefully as possible, and I've tried it with a completely bare system (holding right shift while starting DOS). I've also tried disabling the serial and parallel ports. The weird thing is that is ' …

I bought a new Yamaha Audician 32 Plus ISA sound card from ebay (ymf718-s), but I can't seem to get it to work. Please can you offer any advice? I used the instdos.bat in the DOS directory of the included install disc and it appeared to install correctly. It copied the contents of the directory to …