Re: IBM PS/2 65SX hard drive problem

Posted on 2021-04-24, 06:44

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https://i.ibb.co/4TFLwBV/10.png https://i.ibb.co/bKsX1Hq/11.png Lacking any better ideas, I went ahead and opened the drive. The first thing I noticed was the discolouring at the edge of the disk surface. "This probably isn't a good sign" went through my head. The actuator arm was unmoving. The …

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Re: IBM PS/2 65SX hard drive problem

Posted on 2021-04-23, 20:17

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So I went and found the smallest SCSI hard drive I had and connected it to the PS/2. Oddly enough the 4330 MB drive shows up as a 40 MB drive. I guess the PS/2 has issues with recognizing bigger drives.

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Re: IBM PS/2 65SX hard drive problem

Posted on 2021-04-20, 20:46

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I only have a few vintage SCSI drives. All of them are unfortunately bigger than 1 GB because they come from late 90s machines. Also what makes this particular drive interesting is that it is a time capsule from twenty years ago. It'd be interesting to have a look at what I was doing at the time. …

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IBM PS/2 65SX hard drive problem

Posted on 2021-04-19, 20:52

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I have a IBM PS/2 65 SX. It has a 16Mhz Intel 386SX processor, 6 MB of RAM, and a 60 MB SCSI hard drive. It was actually my main PC for a long while until about 2001 when I upgraded to a more modern machine. Recently, I took it out of storage and tried to power it on. Even though it has been almost …

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Is it safe to turn on an old computer?

Posted on 2018-11-03, 23:30

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Hi! I have come across a IBM PS/2 65 SX computer that has been sitting in storage since around 2003. That particular model was announced in 1990 so the computer is possibly as much as 28 years old now. I'm aware that electronics degrade with age and I've heard stories about old equipment developing …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2018-05-30, 20:47

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I gave Codename Eagle a try. I used version 1.36 (with 1.33 level 1 fix). Version 1.41 (latest official version) broke singleplayer (random floating point error crash) so 1.33/1.36 seems to be the latest working patch. I also used the following game settings: Sound channels: 16 Detail: Max GraphicFX …

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Re: Need help getting a PCMCIA NIC working on a OB 425.

Posted on 2016-10-18, 21:46

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Found an interesting link: http://www.vcfed.org/forum/archive/index.php/t-38300.html It didn't work, but the LXCIC output: C:\NIC\LXCIC\LXCIC.COM LXCIC V2.1 (c) 99 Stefan Peichl, Heidelberg ------------------------------------------- D-Link DFE-670TXD PC Card ADR=0300 COR=41 FCSR=20 BASE=0200 ID=06 …

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Re: Need help getting a PCMCIA NIC working on a OB 425.

Posted on 2016-10-18, 20:56

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No joy for sspcic, sstcic, or sstact. ssvlsi no. 1 outputed: SystemSoft Socket Services 2.1 VL82C146 Version 1.01 (2173-06) Copyright 1993-1994 SystemSoft Corporation. All rights Reserved VL82C146 PCMCIA adapter not found SystemSoft VL82C146 Socket Services not installed ssvlsi no. 2 outputted: …

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Re: Need help getting a PCMCIA NIC working on a OB 425.

Posted on 2016-10-18, 14:50

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I attempted to check if the NIC works on another computer but found out that my 2008 ASUS has an incompatible ExpressCard slot. So I went down to the basement and started digging. Aside from a remarkable number of ISA cards and old SIMM memory, I found my old P2 laptop with the busted screen that I …

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Re: Need help getting a PCMCIA NIC working on a OB 425.

Posted on 2016-10-18, 13:41

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Ok, but I'm warning you! It's a mess! ;) rem rem CONFIG.SYS -- OmniBook default startup file for drive C (also rem uses drive D). rem rem This version enables all OmniBook capabilities. It requires rem Flash File System for drive D, and is compatible with DoubleSpace rem for drive C. rem SHELL must …

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Re: Need help getting a PCMCIA NIC working on a OB 425.

Posted on 2016-10-18, 10:09

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So the adapter defaults to 0x0300 and IRQ = 11. Is there perhaps a conflict? I am uncertain. Microsoft Diagnostics version 2.11 3/10/16 1:14pm Page 1 ======================================================================== ------------------------ Summary Information -------------------------- …

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Re: Need help getting a PCMCIA NIC working on a OB 425.

Posted on 2016-10-18, 08:37

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Well... even though the driver loads without complaint, I can't get out onto the network. C:\WIN311\ping 127.0.0.1 Pinging [127.0.0.1] with 32 bytes of data: Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time=500ms TTL=32 Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL=32 Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<10ms TTL= …

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Re: Need help getting a PCMCIA NIC working on a OB 425.

Posted on 2016-10-17, 19:42

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I couldn't find the folder. Where is it supposed to be? The only relevant part I found was in CONFIG.SYS: rem Install OBCIC, the Omnibook PCMCIA modem card recognizer TSR, with rem generic modem recognition turned on. rem Make sure OBCIC is installed after OBMGM... install=d:\omnibook\obcic.exe /GEN …

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Re: Need help getting a PCMCIA NIC working on a OB 425.

Posted on 2016-10-17, 04:29

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lolo799 wrote: sorry, that card won't work, and you can't use a newer version of Card&Socket Services in the Omnibook. Out of curiosity, why won't it work? It's software, right? Why not simply install a newer version?

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Re: Need help getting a PCMCIA NIC working on a OB 425.

Posted on 2016-10-16, 21:07

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sorry, that card won't work, and you can't use a newer version of Card&Socket Services in the Omnibook. You need to find a card that supports the HP palmtop series which use a similar pcmcia chipset and C&S Services as the Omnibook. Such cards include the the Socket EA+, Accton 2216 and maybe the …

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Re: Need help getting a PCMCIA NIC working on a OB 425.

Posted on 2016-10-16, 18:38

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Sorry! I saw DOS and thought it was the right place.

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Need help getting a PCMCIA NIC working on a OB 425.

Posted on 2016-10-16, 09:33

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Hi! I'm trying to get a D-Link DFE-670TXD PCMCIA network card to work on my old HP Omnibook 425 laptop. The computer has Card and Socket Services version 1.08. But the drivers complain that I need v2.0 or 2.1. I've never used PCMCIA on a DOS laptop so I'm kind of clueless as to what to do next. …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2016-09-06, 15:04

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Anyway, I was managed to install Red Odyssey on a 3rd computer with Win7 x64 and importing the reg keys from there seems to work. I checked it, and indeed main menu is rendered in windowed mode (must be a real window placed over the DX one which isn't compatible with DXGI), but the game is usable. …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2016-09-01, 15:38

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-The Red Odyssey I have problems installing it. On Win7, installer of BattleZone gets stuck for me, so I installed it all in a virtual machine (XP), and the game seems to run fine inside it (sw rendering). However when I copied the registry keys into Win7 that the installer wrote into the registry, …

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Re: dgVoodoo 2 for DirectX 11

Posted on 2016-08-30, 04:39

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I tested "The Red Odyssey" v1.3 with the new WIP26 and there was no noticeable difference in behaviour.

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