This turned out to be unstable. It worked for a while, but had bsods occasionally. I think it might have to do with the protected mode IDE driver that Windows 2000 has. I have a suspicion that Windows 98 will work because I think the IDE driver is the real-mode DOS one (not really sure on that …

Thanks for the replies. The motherboard was a Soyo 5EMA Socket 7. The caps that were bulging (which were nearly all of them) were some unknown brand with an F, maybe "Fuhjyyu". The board was meant to be new, but it was clear that at the least, the box had been opened and parts taken out. I really …

Hi, I know that old motherboards can sometimes have bulging and/or bad caps, but is it possible for a brand new in box old motherboard to have this? I'm a bit angry because I bought a supposedly new mobo on ebay and it turns out it had eight bulging caps. Also the box and packaging was already open …

I was originally going to post this as a question, but I figured it out. I have an old AT motherboard with a 1996 Award BIOS. I am using an IDE to CF/SD card adapter with a 64GB SD card. As expected, the BIOS only recognizes 8.4GB. I think OK, well I'll just make a second partition when windows …

Generally nvidia cards have better dos compatibility than ATI cards. If you get FX5600, you most likely won't lose any compatibility, but you will probably lose some upper memory area to load dos drivers into because newer cards generally have bigger video bios rom. If you just use pure dos though …

So I am building a socket 7 system and I got to the part where I am looking at graphics cards. I already have three old cards in a drawer: ATI Rage 128 Pro ATI Rage 128 Ultra Nvidia TNT2 64 I'd guess that these would do pretty good with most dos games, but I am not sure about the more modern ones. …

For the lower voltage AGP bus 4x and 8x - Radeon HD 4670 For the 3.3V AGP 2x systems - Radeon 9800 Pro or GeForce FX 5950

If you want a quick and dirty way to get past the BIOS limitation of your motherboard, an alternative can be to use a PCI ATA133 controller card. I used a Silicon Image SIL0680 ATA Medley controller card in my Tualatin with a QDI Advance 10T motherboard (the BIOS of my motherboard doesn't see HDDs …

This is the chip you need: https://au.rs-online.com/web/p/eeprom-memory-chips/1276572/ (8kb EEPROM that will fit your card) You should be able to flash the chip using your current ethernet. Put the ROM image you want to use, configure it using the xt-ide configuration program, save it, then burn it …

No, I do not suggest using an ISA IDE controller. I suggest using some kind of ethernet card, either ISA or PCI with a boot rom socket. On that boot rom socket, you install a compatible rom chip burnt with a copy of the XT-IDE bios and enable the ethernet boot bios. You will need to configure the …

After much trial and error, I've given up on installing XP. I tried multiple drives and formats and I also tried EZ-Drive. I like the suggestion for the ISA card, but I don't really want to invest anything into this project. I also think an ISA card IDE controller on a pentium II system is a little …

So I am trying to install windows XP on a PII compaq mobo. The BIOS is terrible. It doesn't want to boot off the hard disk for some reason. It will boot fine from the CD or floppy and proceeds to install the OS just fine, but when it reboots there is just a blinking DOS cursor as if no boot devices …

This seems to have fixed the problem: Copy code to clipboard 1 DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM HIGHSCAN I=B000-B7FF

I have an old 486 PC that I'm setting up and I'm trying to make it work like dosbox. Everything makes sense to me except emm386. I'm not really a noob to dos, but I've just been using dosbox and never an actual PC with DOS 6.22. The problem is I can't get all games/programs to "just work" like they …