I have problems with ESS ES1879s Audiodrive ISA sound card. It works fine under DOS (it is perfectly compatible with SB16, no drivers needed), it works also with Windows 98 and default WDM drivers. But when I install Windows 98SE, there are serious problems. Card is detected, but it's not playing …

Hello, this browser is really fast: http://sourceforge.net/projects/dplus-browser/ i can enter even mobile version of Facebook with that and be able to chat. The downside is that of course not all scripts work. On the photo you can see 90MHz notebook with wifi card installed, running that browser …

Well, it would be the simplest option, but also a waste of power (and that equals heat) - 7V * current, that would be 3,5W at 0,5 amp - you will need a radiator on that. It might be worth trying, but it will also lower the usable current of -12V rail (if it has rating of 1 amp, then it can provide …

Well, like I said before, my 486 only takes 2 amps on +5V... modern ATX PSU's have at least 10 amps on +5V, which should be more on enough. My entire 486 setup takes under 36W of total power (i know that because I put 3 amps fuse on 12V input of my DIY power supply), but I use CF card for hard disk. …

To make an adapter, just look at the colors. It should be simple. But to be perfectly safe, you can measure the voltages to be sure they are right before you plug it into mainboard, or compare the colors with pinout. The colors almost always should be standarized, but everything should be checked. …

Just look at these pinouts: http://pinouts.ru/Power/MotherboardPower_pinout.shtml http://pinouts.ru/Power/atxpower_pinout.shtml and make the adapter... I used the first pinout to make miniature DC/DC AT power supply (you power it from 12V power brick), you can see it on the photo, but I will later …

Here is older thread - http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=43987 ISA sound cards are not working in Windows - they are PnP devices and ESCD tables cannot be saved in EPROM so i think replacing bios with flash may help. (Source: http://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=420997#p420997 - same board …

Well, I have Etherlink III, it has 28 pin boot rom socket. I don't know it will work with 36 pin memory and remaining pins unconnected, i will do some research.

Hello, i would like to try updating my Abit PB4 rev 1.3 486 pci board because I have problems which I mentioned in different thread; currently it has UV-erasable EPROM chip. I don't have other working mainboard with DIP36 socket, and I don't have a programmer, so I would like to do following …

Hello, I have an Abit PB4 mainboard (3 PCI slots, 3 ISA slots) and I tested it with 486 DX2/66 and AMD DX4 100 MHz. I use it currently with 32 MB RAM and S3 64V+ video. It has currently Win98 installed (i tested it also with Win95), and I tried to install various sound cards - SB AWE64, ESS1879, and …

Well, I'm pretty sure it doesn't. And yes, it seems to be a weird all-in-one integrated chip. Anyway, I managed to install VDMSound under Windows 95. It can emulate both SoundBlaster for audio and AdLib for music. But it is unstable and crashes when using both. When emulating just AdLib, it is …

Hello, one of my vintage laptops used for old software is Pentium II 366MHz Dell CPI. It runs Windows 95 OSR2, but I can upgrade it to Win 98SE if needed. http://www.manualowl.com/images/products_thumb/dell-latitude-cpi-1.jpg It has two audio devices installed: NeoMagic MagicMedia 256 Audio NeoMagic …