I once sold a computer, I don't think it was poorly wrapped but it arrived with front panel damage and a few bent bits to the case through the postal system. Unfortunately due to ill health I wasn't able to deal with the buyers complaints for a couple of days, but in the end I gave them enough of a …

Hi, Thanks for the replies. I knew I wouldn't be able to go out for any circuit cleaner/alcohol for cleaning, though I had tried blowing out any dust from the connectors. I did wonder if meths would work since I know it's used on cleaning cmos battery acid from motherboards and I do actually have …

Hi, I finally got round to fixing some of the hardware problems (new psu and ide dvd drive) that were preventing me bringing my old computer back up and running. I've hit a problem however and I'm unsure whether this is pci slots failing or my audigy card having failed. The motherboard uses ULi 220 …

I've used both Win4DOS patches (confusingly they each have the same name). I'm sure they do the same thing, the only difference is that the non-mfd4life2000 patch also adds in some lines to the autoexec and/or config.sys files so that you get a boot menu to select between ME or DOS. There's also …

As an update to this, I had completely given up and was searching for how to dual boot freedos and windows as an alternative to try. In doing so I stumbled on a thread with a work around to the IO.Sys / HiMem.Sys issue. The suggestion was that Win9x will load a file if it has a higher version number …

Thanks for the replies. EMM386 cannot be loaded in WnME, it feezes upon load. I suspect that the HIMEM.SYS inside ME's IO.SYS. It is currently not possible to stop HIMEM.SYS inside IO.SYS from loading. I was afraid of this tbh with you as I had read a very short sentence on another post about himem. …

Hi, I'm trying to get sound working in dos 8.0 (Windows Millennium Edition). I have tried the following various things to get the sound working in DOS some of which may be likely not required for getting things working. 1) Modify ME to allow for starting in real DOS mode (fine and working). 2) …