Re: MS-DOS 4.01 Good or Bad?

Posted on 2021-09-25, 13:01

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by Robin4

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4.01 have the benefit to support larger hdds over 3.31 , then you are limited on 32MB partitions. I think if you using an expended memory board, memory wouldnt be a problem i guess. DOS 5.0 doesnt really make any sense of High memory stuff, it works different on an XT anyway. I only would use 5.0 on …

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Re: Does anyone has genuine / orginal drivers for the DFI Memo2000X(T) 8 bit isa memory card?

Posted on 2021-09-25, 09:46

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by Robin4

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I have used that Install.exe program, but doesnt be the right driverset for my card. The program mentioned Megabit and Memo2000A. Which both are the AT class memory boards. My memory board is a Memo2000X class card. I know i maybe could use ems40.sys and set the rule in config.sys.. But i hoped on …

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Does anyone has genuine / orginal drivers for the DFI Memo2000X(T) 8 bit isa memory card?

Posted on 2021-09-25, 01:40

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by Robin4

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Can anyone help me on the drivers for the DFI memo2000x(T) 8 bit ISA memory card (EMS 4.0) I have the MCT-EMS board but it seems to be indentical.

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Re: Tool for formating 3,5inch floppys..

Posted on 2021-09-20, 22:23

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by Robin4

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FDFORMAT I always found to be a very nice program that allows exotic floppy formats to be formatted. the 2M-XBIOS.EXE referred to in CalUser2000 's link is for allowing reading&writing of HD disks when the Bios doesn't support the type (1.44M/1.2M) Unfortunately for me, it doesn't work on my XT. …

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Re: Help identifying Headland Motherboard Model

Posted on 2021-09-20, 22:09

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by Robin4

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Your Quality Approvel sticker saying JCC.. I think thats a quality sticker from the manufacturer. I would Say JCC is J oin c om c omputer. I have a floppy controller made by them. Type JC-1100. And it says the companys name on it: Joincom made in Taiwan ROC. Otherwise it could be some cheap …

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Re: Tool for formating 3,5inch floppys..

Posted on 2021-09-20, 21:44

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by Robin4

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Is there a program that could format 720KB (forced) on a 3.5 inch diskette? Something that works in older ms-dos and an XT class machine. Tformat works great only on 1.44MB diskettes.

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Re: Found the real manual for Atrend ATC 6240M motherboard with 440BX chipset.

Posted on 2021-09-19, 23:47

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by Robin4

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Great find! I actually own that motherboard version, too! (Needs a bit of repair, though.) Iam using that board in my new Pentium II build.. Iam busy on it. Things running, but need another scsi cable and find some solution to cool my Seagate Cheetah 36GB LVD Ultra 3 10.000RPM drive. Which its …

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Re: ADD AN ISA SLOT TO A MOTHERBOARD ???? Gigabyte Ga-7ZX

Posted on 2021-09-18, 02:11

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by Robin4

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My feel is that if it needed that chip for the ISA slot to work, it wasn't quite a fully compatible ISA slot. Unless you know for sure that every piece of hardware you want to use works on the revision 1, then I wouldn't bother pursuing it. That chip could be an ISA to PCI bridge controller. On …

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Re: Found the real manual for Atrend ATC 6240M motherboard with 440BX chipset.

Posted on 2021-09-18, 01:24

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by Robin4

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also got it now in 2 parts in a self extracting archive.

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Found the real manual for Atrend ATC 6240M motherboard with 440BX chipset.

Posted on 2021-09-17, 23:11

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by Robin4

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Here is the manual. How to use: 1. I have renamed atc6240.djvu to atc6240.zip (because djvu wont getting excepted here. And otherwise i have to handle a 7.2 Mb file. 2. Download it and rename the extension back to djvu. 3. There are convertors online which will convert djvu to PDF file and then its …

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Re: JUKO NEST XT board questions (manual attached)

Posted on 2021-09-17, 15:09

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by Robin4

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If you can put it here online on the forum that would be nice. If iam going to test my 8086 NEC V30 motherboard i will also upload those roms as well. What are you using to dump the ROM? Usually I use NSSI, but when I run it on the V30, I get a text summary only. Here iam using an Eprom reader ( …

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Re: JUKO NEST XT board questions (manual attached)

Posted on 2021-09-17, 15:08

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by Robin4

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Need XT keyboard of course. Or a convertor adaptor for AT keyboard to talks XT language to the board.

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Re: tweaking Elitegroup UM386 motherboard.

Posted on 2021-09-12, 21:00

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by Robin4

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Is it possible to use 256kb cache on the board. Why i ask this is because the second row of the ic sockets are empty. What are the board requirements (setting options) to have 256kb be available )

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Re: 386 CONTAQ CACHE PROBLEM..

Posted on 2021-09-12, 20:55

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by Robin4

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Deksor wrote on 2021-09-10, 18:31: Sorry for the wait, I added the bios. Thanks ! Now the only thing that's missing is a photo 😉 I can make one later on..

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Re: tweaking Elitegroup UM386 motherboard.

Posted on 2021-09-12, 00:48

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by Robin4

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Co- processor already installed and present in boot screen. Installed the ULSi one on gamble. Dont have to be the fastest available.. Anything is better then nothing.

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tweaking Elitegroup UM386 motherboard.

Posted on 2021-09-11, 23:52

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by Robin4

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Iam still busy with my 386 system, but only made a little progress on it. Had installed my computrend contaq 386_486 motherboard first. But wasnt happy with how it is installed in my AT computer chassis.. Now i only have 1 point to screw the board fast. And it is a little bit wobbly where the front …

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Re: 386 CONTAQ CACHE PROBLEM..

Posted on 2021-09-05, 23:48

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by Robin4

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Here's a documentation for your motherboard here : http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/1391 If you can help us with a few things (a photo and a BIOS dump would be perfect !) Having 256KB of cache instead of 128KB may improve the performance slightly, but it's going to be very very minimal. …

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Re: UEFI card on a old motherboard?

Posted on 2021-09-05, 21:34

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by Robin4

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I only know that Radeon R9 290 serie cards had an option for legacy bios or UEFI bios. My sapphire R9 290 (oc) vapor-x had a button on the card so you could enable or disable the new UEFI bios option. In legacy mode it would just work on any other older platform. With UEFI you needed a motherboard …

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Re: SmartFormat (TFORMAT.EXE) - anyone have a copy?

Posted on 2021-09-05, 21:09

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by Robin4

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Iam using this program now. Its great on bad floppy disk. Is there any option for 720KB diskettes? And or 5.25 inch floppy disks? specially 360KB and 1.2MB

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Re: Promise EIDE Pro ISA Controller Hangs on 286 Computer

Posted on 2021-09-05, 19:32

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by Robin4

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My card does the same thing on my Wyse WY-2108 system and the ROM version is 1.03 Is there a way I can upgrade the ROM to v2.0? I haven't looked before to see if there is a dumped version. I can make a dump. Used Mini pro TL866CS to dump it. Didnt removed the label. On guess i have taken CY27C256@ …

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