Now the reference disk won't boot. Checked it with a USB FDD and there are files there. What's my next move? If you have access to all of the original reference disk files, make sure you're using the file labeled BOOT. I remember not seeing a BOOT image on for my PS/1 Recovery CD and tried booting …

Thanks for your reply! Could you elaborate on what a "wire-mod" is and what I'd need to do? I've looked on the CPU, and I don't see any jumpers on it. Only DIP switches for controlling write-back and write-through modes (or is that what you were talking about?)

Hey all, Another question regarding the AMD 5x86 133 in my PS/1. I've recently installed 256kb of L2 cache in my board, and I'm still yearning for a little bit more speed from this machine. After running Cachchk (v4), I saw that my CPU was only running at 100.2 MHz whereas it's supposed to be at 133 …

The 'special sauce' is almost certainly in the USB-floppy adapter in it. So you could see if you could disconnect the USB adapter from the floppy drive. Then connect that adapter to a regular internal floppy drive. And connect the USB directly to an internal USB header. Electrically it's exactly …

For my PS/1, I use a ViewSonic VG-150 with a max res of 1024x768. Main reason being that the PC can only output a maximum resolution of 800x600, so everything looks really crisp on the display. I originally tried using a Samsung SyncMaster S23B550 (1080P widescreen), but the scaling was terrible so …

Its strange Win98 works but Win95 doesn't? But that doesn't help. Windows is pretty bad with hostnames, instead in the address bar I would type \\192.168.0.1 (or whatever the IP is) I would think (hope) it then shows the shares. I tried that to no avail. I did some thinking and figured that if the …

Not positive if this is the correct place for this kind of question, but it seemed the most fitting to me. I'm running Windows 95 ver 4.00.950a with IE 5.5 installed. This PC is connected to a wireless bridge via ethernet, as is my 2TB Seagate GoFlex Home NAS system. The NAS can be seen by all …

I fixed it. Apparently this board automatically switches voltages, so the voltage wasn't the problem. Turns out one of the dip switches wasn't working correctly (not sure which one), but I just blasted some air in the switch holes and it works.

First of all, are you sure that the board can provide 3.3v for the CPU ? If you put it in 5v, you'll fry it quickly unless you use a voltage adapter. For the jumper settings, check if the FSB is 33MHz and not something else and also make sure the jumpers are set in write-back mode (the 5x86 has …

Hi again, Since my last posting I've gotten myself a PNY Quickchip (AMD 5x86 @ 133MHz). I put a heat sink on it (the original one was removed by the previous owner, so I put my own little one on there), removed the POD, and replaced it with the new CPU. As I was expecting, nothing ever works the …

Is it 83MHz or 63MHz? POD doesn't have a 66MHz release AFAIK. OC it to 40x2.5 and you will get pretty solid FPU performance. It's 63MHz, sorry I was thinking of what I saw on CPU-Z. I'm probably going to go with the AMD 5x86 route with the Evergreen chip, but just out of curiosity, how would I …

Hello all, I've got an IBM PS/1 machine that originally had an Intel 486sx2 processor in it, but was at some point upgraded to a 66MHz Pentium OverDrive (which is what it's running right now). I'm now wanting to upgrade it further, and am left stuck deciding whether or not I should upgrade it with …