I am having a bad time initialising my AWE32 PNP using DOS 7.1 On autoexec.bat I have SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 E620 T6 and C:\CTCM\CTCM.EXE But it fails to init the card at boot time. Also install.exe (Creative drivers) doesn't detect the card and the games can't use it either. When it boots …

Thanks for linking the gotek software. Finally managed to create 999 partitions on my USB drive and copy files to them! Booted DOS 7.1, partitioned the CF card with 7.1 fdisk and formatted it using FAT32. After that, installed DOS 7.1 using default options except for long file name support (I don't …

Sorry for the late reply! :) I have been able to replace the motherboard with the ASUS one, thanks for linking the manual. Also replaced the 486 DX2/66 with a DX4/100 (without WB cache) and it is running so fast now. About the HDD, I am still struggling with the CF to IDE adaptor. With the ISA to CF …

I've build the lo-tech ISA CF board, hoping to solve this problem but I couldn't fix it yet :( There seems to be a conflict with the disk controller, both using address at C800h. Anyways the XT-BIOS could detect the CF card and allowed me to format it to 2GB FAT16. Next I will try to boot the OS …

Why is this in the DOS games forum? Old hardware and BIOS stuff belongs in Marvin. I am so sorry for posting this on wrong forum section. Thanks to the admin who moved it into place :) Just to double check was the CF card being detected in BIOS? (it may need to be done manually) I'm not sure what …

Just tried the CF to IDE on a Pentium 133MHz computer and it throws the same error with DM "Disk manager was unable to locate a hard disk". Will try to build an ISA CF controller, I think it wont need an overlay software using one of them.

Too bad it didn't work. I can start DM through Win98 boot disk, as in your video, but the program itself doesn't detect the CF drive, throwing a red background error. Tried with 8GB, 4GB CF cards of different brands with same bad results 🙁

Many thanks for all your replies :) I have managed to power up my IDE CF converter, a jumper was set to use IDE power instead of external power (my big fault) BIOS IDE auto detection still doesn't detect it, as expected, and manual configuration parameters are not useful in this case. I really …

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/180899844837?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/300603789796?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649 I have this same adapter but my BIOS won't recognise the drive at POST time. Could it be an incompatible CF (I've …

Many thanks for the replies :) You are right, I've hit two walls with this machine (software & hardware). So for solving issue #2 I just need to make some 2GB partitions in another PC using any modern partition software. For the 8GB bios limit there will be 4 partitions available. After that, format …

Hello, this is my first post :) I currently have a 486DX2 booting pure DOS 6.22 with an old HDD. It's so noisy that its getting me crazy, so I wonder if I can replace it with a better one. Tested already with the smallest hard drive I've got around: a 60GB disk and its way more silent. BIOS just …