Re: Disk Images for Dune II: Battle for Arrakis?
Posted on 2021-01-29, 02:21
I always download my floppy images from the "The Good Old Days IBM PC Floppy Collection" at archive.org I found 5 different versions over there, just search for "Dune 2".
Re: Problems using a CF-IDE adapter
Posted on 2021-01-14, 18:25
Thanks for the replies. Both Ez-Drive and OnTrack Disk Manager did not work for me, they can't find the cf. I tried to use it on another motherboard with award bios from 1995 with LBA and it detected normally. I also tried to insert the parameters that I got from the other mobo, but it also did not …
Problems using a CF-IDE adapter
Posted on 2021-01-13, 22:00
Hello! I bought a CF-IDE adapter to use on my MICRO-STAR MS-4138 / 486SI5 VESA socket 3 motherboard. I'm using a 1GB card, but the BIOS won't auto-detect it, and on POST it shows "Primary HDC error". If I use a 512 MB HDD it detects just fine, so the controller card is not the problem. Maybe is a …
Re: [Solved]Fixing BIOS error on a socket 3 motherboard
Posted on 2020-12-21, 14:36
My memory arrived, switching to FPM indeed solved the problem. Thank you, everyone.
Re: Fixing BIOS error on a socket 3 motherboard
Posted on 2020-12-02, 18:52
What do I need to flash the bios? Sorry if that's a dumb question, I have no idea how to make this. You will need this EPROM/EEPROM programmer: https://www.ebay.com/itm/XGecu-Programmer-TL866II-PLUS-for-SPI-Flash-NAND-EPROM-MCU-PIC-AVR-GAL-7-adapter/192489430193?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_ …
Re: Fixing BIOS error on a socket 3 motherboard
Posted on 2020-12-02, 18:18
bloodem wrote on 2020-12-02, 18:11: Steapa wrote on 2020-12-02, 18:07: Thank you Can you confirm what SSTV2 said? Does this board only support FPM ram? You're welcome! Already confirmed 😀 See my previous post, I edited it before you replied. Oh, thanks again. I'm going to buy FPM ram then. I will …
Re: Fixing BIOS error on a socket 3 motherboard
Posted on 2020-12-02, 18:07
What do I need to flash the bios? Sorry if that's a dumb question, I have no idea how to make this. You will need this EPROM/EEPROM programmer: https://www.ebay.com/itm/XGecu-Programmer-TL866II-PLUS-for-SPI-Flash-NAND-EPROM-MCU-PIC-AVR-GAL-7-adapter/192489430193?ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT&_ …
Re: Fixing BIOS error on a socket 3 motherboard
Posted on 2020-12-02, 17:54
Sorry if this obvious but it wasn't clear from your description so I just wanted to make sure: after adding the missing battery, did you enter the BIOS to define your floppy drive? Also the m/b appears to have an IDE & floppy controller, you don't need to add one I can't enter the bios. Well maybe …
[Solved]Fixing BIOS error on a socket 3 motherboard
Posted on 2020-12-02, 17:40
Solved: This board (Zida 4DPS ver 2.1) does not support EDO memory, only FPM. Thank you SSTV2 and bloodem. --- Some time ago I found this motherboard at a recycling center: https://i.redd.it/grzeija76cr51.jpg It came with the 486 CPU and I paid almost nothing for it. So I added some RAM I had laying …
Re: Adding a serial port to a controller card with a game port
Posted on 2020-10-15, 16:25
Thank you, everyone! Sorry for the bad pic, my phone camera is really bad. I looked at it better this morning and, as Mkarcher said, there's indeed a "1" marking the right orientation, I don't know how I missed that, sorry. I was worried I would break something if I put the wrong cable or wrong …
Re: Adding a serial port to a controller card with a game port
Posted on 2020-10-14, 23:23
I have this ISA controller card with a parallel and game port: https://i.imgur.com/nuI8IED.jpeg I already have one game port on my sound card and I want to use a mouse with this build. So I removed a serial port from a broken controller card: https://i.imgur.com/YsqcUH3.jpg So I was thinking... can …
Re: Adding a serial port to a controller card with a game port
Posted on 2020-10-14, 23:02
So I was thinking... can I unplug the game port from that COM port and plug in the serial connector instead? Would it work? Game ports and serial ports are completely different hardware. So, no – unless that's not really a game port. Have you been able to use a joystick or joypad with it? You might …
Adding a serial port to a controller card with a game port
Posted on 2020-10-14, 21:46
I have this ISA controller card with a parallel and game port: https://i.imgur.com/nuI8IED.jpeg I already have one game port on my sound card and I want to use a mouse with this build. So I removed a serial port from a broken controller card: https://i.imgur.com/YsqcUH3.jpg So I was thinking... can …
Problems with digitalized speech
Posted on 2020-10-03, 20:33
This is my sound card: https://i.imgur.com/jy6L8mC.jpg That's an ISA turtle beach Tropez plus. It was working just fine until yesterday, but now I'm having this weird issue with speech/digital audio in games. The speech sounds in games like Sam & Max Hit the Road Classic and Wolfenstein 3D became …
Re: None of my ISA sound cards are working
Posted on 2020-09-23, 18:38
Did you run the cards' initialization tools. They don't have jumpers so they need to be initialized by a software application. No, do you know where I can find it? I just found the manual for the first card, but not initialization tools. EDIT: Can I use the "Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver"? …
Re: None of my ISA sound cards are working
Posted on 2020-09-23, 18:15
Did you run the cards' initialization tools. They don't have jumpers so they need to be initialized by a software application. No, do you know where I can find it? I just found the manual for the first card, but not initialization tools. EDIT: Can I use the "Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver"? …
None of my ISA sound cards are working
Posted on 2020-09-23, 18:08
So I bought this 486 that came with a MICRO-STAR MS-4138 / 486SI5 VESA Motherboard and this sound card: https://i.imgur.com/jy6L8mC.jpg It's an ISA turtle beach Tropez plus. It wasn't working with any game I tried so I bought this cheaper sound card: https://i.imgur.com/aq4rziw.jpg That's an Opti …
Re: I can't format my hard drive
Posted on 2020-09-23, 16:54
Whenever I want to wipe a disk, I use S0kill. It will remove MBR, PBR etc. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=618884#p618884 That being said, it's a little strange that format does fail so silently. Perhaps some other things are messed up. Personally, I'd check things first. SCANDISK, CHKDSK …
Re: I can't format my hard drive
Posted on 2020-09-23, 16:24
if your just formatting the hard disk it doesn't matter what version the boot disk is. If you want to boot from the hard drive after you format it you'll want to use the same dos version as you want to install. You will also want to tell format to copy system files after the format. so you would …
Re: I can't format my hard drive
Posted on 2020-09-23, 15:21
Jorpho wrote on 2020-09-23, 15:15: To take a wild guess: have you tried booting from a floppy and then running format.com from there? No, I don't have a DOS boot disk. Should I make one and try it? Can I use a dos 6.22 floppy boot or should I stick to 5.0?
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