Re: SOHO-FAST/RE NIC drivers for Windows 98?
Posted on 2020-10-30, 19:13
You guys are geniuses, thanks so much!
SOHO-FAST/RE NIC drivers for Windows 98?
Posted on 2020-10-29, 23:46
I got this PCI network card but I can't find any drivers for it. Windows 98 does not find any generic PCI Ethernet drivers for it either. Anybody has these or knows how to get generic ones that might work? All I found is this page, no download links: http://www.weitronic.com.tw/Internet/Network% …
Re: Help resurrecting a Gateway 386SX/25
Posted on 2020-09-04, 04:24
OK some progress on this, I finally removed all tantalum capacitors from the riser board, and now am trying to determine what replacements I need here. I'm gonna replace them all even though only one of them seems to be shorted. I realize there's two values, and I used my transistor tester for …
Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win98 Retro Gaming
Posted on 2020-08-08, 16:34
Cool, thanks for that explanation! And why do you think the K6 outruns the PII when both have caches disabled?
Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win98 Retro Gaming
Posted on 2020-08-08, 15:38
Glad that everything has sorted out. Yeah thanks for your help! I noticed a really unusual thing. I also have a PII-400 machine, and: - With cache off, the PII-400 is much slower than the K6-233 (5.x vs 11.x rating on speedsys) - I can use throttling instead to lower the speed to like a 20.x rating …
Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win98 Retro Gaming
Posted on 2020-08-08, 02:40
If in the BIOS you have options to turn off "internal" and "external" cache, then yeah I would say it is the external cache which remained enabled that came into play. You could disabling external cache in the BIOS, and then use CPUSPD to disable L1 cache. Once you try that, I believe you'll see …
Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win98 Retro Gaming
Posted on 2020-08-07, 23:57
OK I downloaded speedsys and will test in a bit. Thanks! If you have no idea what model your motherboard is, you can run CPUSPD p and let me know the results. It will list all your PCI devices including it's north and south bridges. Heres' the info: Bus Dev Fn Device ID Subcls Description --- --- -- …
Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win98 Retro Gaming
Posted on 2020-08-07, 16:15
Could you run speedsys and post the result here please? From the memory throughput curve that it displays on the lower right, we'll be able to tell the status of the caches. I will happily do that. Where do I get speedsys from? You might be right about the cache, this computer spec mentions …
Re: CpuSpd - A Hardware Based CPU Speed Control Utility for DOS/Win98 Retro Gaming
Posted on 2020-08-06, 19:54
Hi there, First of all thanks for this tool! I have used it on many machines with brilliant results. I feel so far like the best one to use it with was a Pentium 4, I could get really good results on old games that don't even work on even older hardware! Anyway I just got a K6 233 MMX based machine, …
Re: Windows 98SE install stuck on "Programs on the Start menu"
Posted on 2020-08-06, 12:17
i believe You shouldnt Why not? It's a retail copy and it worked on every single machine until now. this step is almost always slow ie 10-15 mins even I remember that but I let it sit there for over 30, with NO disk activity. Does not feel normal. [edit] tried again, and now it worked. VERY …
Windows 98SE install stuck on "Programs on the Start menu"
Posted on 2020-08-06, 04:51
I have no idea what is going on with this install, it gets stuck at the point where it says it's setting up "Programs on the Start menu". I have used this same install media to install W98SE on several other machines, yet this one refuses to proceed. Could it be because it has 64MB of RAM? i'm …
Re: Trouble setting up CompactFlash as IDE on 386
Posted on 2020-06-24, 15:00
Ok as always, teh simplest solution was the one that worked! FDISK /MBR? This fixed it. thanks so much! I also like https://archive.org/details/whatide Doing this myself soon for the first time on a 386 (I've done it on other systems) so I'm reading about any problems and solutions with interest. …
Re: Trouble setting up CompactFlash as IDE on 386
Posted on 2020-06-19, 13:41
FDISK /MBR? I'll try that! Not necesserily. You need to run IDEINFO.EXE on the CF-IDE adapter/card combination, possibly on another PC where the controller can read the geometry. Then and only then will you know how you manually have to set it up so that it works properly. Where do I get IDEINFO?
Trouble setting up CompactFlash as IDE on 386
Posted on 2020-06-18, 21:58
You guys are gonna hate me... yeah I have problems again :P I got a 512MB CompactFlash after advice given in this thread and I went to set it up but I ran into several problems. I had done this before but never on a machine this old. First of all there was the issue of geometry. I found a post here …
Re: 5.25" floppy drive reads but can't write?
Posted on 2020-06-17, 13:17
Are the disks that work only on your C64 single-sided ? No, they were all 2SDD. Also I am using a 1571 and formatting full double sided. Yes ! DOS 7.1 (Win98) is a bit different for working with floppies than real DOS (5 or 6.x) or DOS 7.0 (Win95). It is a known problem for some of us.... https:// …
Re: 5.25" floppy drive reads but can't write?
Posted on 2020-06-16, 22:11
OK I am more confused than before. I did a lot more tests, and I managed to format a bunch of 360KB disks, but not all. Also the only 1.2MB disk I have, I couldn't format (same error, track 0 unreadable). I made a MS-DOS 6.22 boot disk which seemed more successful at formatting disks than the …
Re: 5.25" floppy drive reads but can't write?
Posted on 2020-06-16, 15:00
In both cases, I fixed it by opening the drive and gently cleaning the heads. I also moved the heads up and back on their track as well as lifting the top head while in operation. I don't know why this worked, but it did. Essentially, I had to 'play' with the drives until they worked again. I have …
Re: 5.25" floppy drive reads but can't write?
Posted on 2020-06-16, 04:33
I'm gonna put it back in the 386 and see what happens. OK I didnt even get to this point yet. I found a 1.2MB disk around, and I tested it. SAME error. "cannot format track 0, disk unusable". So the drive refuses to write any disk. If I try in Windows 98, it says "there's no disk in drive or the …
Re: 5.25" floppy drive reads but can't write?
Posted on 2020-06-15, 20:21
darry wrote on 2020-06-15, 18:01: If the Gateway BIOS lets you set the right drive type, it should just work, AFAIK . Then again, by the 440BX era, 5 1/4 drive support was an afterthought, so maybe it could be a strange bug . I'm gonna put it back in the 386 and see what happens.
Re: IBM PCjr emulation preferably on old PC? And other related questions
Posted on 2020-06-15, 18:03
OK I went and changed DOSBox config to use 1000 cycles, which looked like about a good speed on Flight Simulators, but IBM PCjr-specific software will STILL not run, always exiting with various errors. I can't even run BASICA.COM to run IBM PCjr BASIC software. I'll have to look into the options …
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