Just an idea, but 6KB sounds like about the ballpark RAM usage for a drive overlay . Could it be that possible that the drive you were previously has a rather buggy one ?

Should I remove all of them and test the PC without cache chips at all? I would try disabling L2 (level 2) cache either in the BIOS setup, if possible or using a DOS utility such as this one otherwise instead of physically removing the cache chips . http://www.vogonsdrivers.com/getfile.php?fileid= …

krivulak wrote: Memtest for sure, something like V2.0 should work. I second that .

This may not be applicable to your situation, as your are using a SIL3114 with its own driver rather than the native IDE driver, but it might be worth a look. Windows 2000 seems to have issues with LBA48 support (for drives greater than 127 GB) up to service pack 2 (inclusively). Are you using a …

That sound card has Creative/Panasonic written on the IDE connector. One of me CD-ROM drives is a CR-563-B which I think is a creative drive. Those two should work together, but would not be my first choice. The Creative/Panasonic (a.k.a Matsushita a.k.a MKE) 40-pin interface (not IDE) is a CPU hog …

What brand and model of old CDROM is this ? AFAIK, the CT2770 only has a port compatible with Matsushita proprietary interface drives, like the CR562B and CR563B. I believe Teac and a company named NSA (no relation to the US agency) made drives compatible with this. This port is definitely NOT ATAPI …

With a slocket that has it's own VID jumpers you can probably even test how a board reacts to a setting without a CPU actually being installed. The board should still see the VID from the slocket and set the Vcore. That is great idea, shamino ! It reminded me that I actually that I also have an …

I have been busier than expected, so tomorrow turned into next week. That being said, I am happy to report that my socket 370 SL52R Pentium 3 @ 1GHz seems to boot just fine in my M6TBD @ 750Mhz (100MHz FSB) . I have the Asus slocket jumpered for 1.75v and I dare hope that is indeed what the board's …

Hi shamino, thank you very much for your input. That's the same error and freeze that I got on a Micronics 440LX board when I tried to run it with a Mendocino Celeron which the BIOS didn't support. I've never tried doing a DIY patch to support later CPUs though, so I can't comment on that procedure. …

Hi, I have been lurking here for years and have learned a lot along the way from all the knowledgeable folks. A great thank you to everyone! I am currently trying to build a retro rig based around a slot 1 board and would like some opinions in order to try to avoid hitting a dead end . Basically, I …

I wonder if it is Sound Blaster Live! compatible (who knows what IC is hiding under that heatsink) ? http://www.dx.com/p/upgrade-0060-built-in-pci … 77#.V3X-KmdzaM8

I have an old Pentium 60 CPU with FDIV bug somewhere in a shoe box . In a few decades, I might try to ask Intel for a bug free replacement, or maybe not.

AFAIK, the I/O drives for the Audigy 2 variants and the PCI (not PCI express) X-FI cards are essentially interchangeable and pretty much identical in terms of PCB layout and components, except for the fact that the Audigy 2 ZS ones have an extra cable for a firewire port (which the Audigy 2 variants …

PCIe to PCI adapters do exist. PCI to PCIe, not so much. To plug a PCIe card into a BX board you'd need one of the latter. (yes there are bridge chips but I've never seen discrete adapters made with them) Well there is this . I wonder if it would work in a 33Mhz PCI slot : http://www. …

According to Wikipedia, PCL 1 and 3 were introduced in products launched in 1984 . HPGL was initially designed for plotters but apparently was supported by HP printers as well (Wikipedia). I do not know how common software support for it was. HPGL/2 functionality was integrated into PCL5 (no idea if …

One product from Sigma Designs that hooked up to VIP-style connectors (or similar) was the RealMagic Ventura . It was a PCI MPEG2 decoder card (for DVD decoding acceleration) with several headers that allowed connection to any of several different types of video cards . It was similar in function to …

I'm thinking anything that supports basic PCL/Laserjet compatibility might do the trick. That or PostScript would be great, if your dos applications support it . Then, if you can configure your dos applications to print to files instead of an actual parallel (lpt) port, you would only need to copy …

Does anyone know of a good x86 emulator besides DOSbox that will let me hook up an MT-32 to a powerpc mac? Yes. In theory, at least. But I get perfect speeds in all DOS and Windows 95 games using Virtual PC and RealPC under Mac OS 9, and that's a 15 year old operating system. Can I use my MT-32 on …