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Re: Best HDD Controller for PC/XT?

Posted on 2020-11-28, 00:24

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I have a PC/XT that works pretty well, except for the hard disk controller card. It's the original IBM one and apparently the error it gives during the PC test means its dead (I forget exactly which error) What's the best HDD controller? There's a hard disk in this PC XT that looks original, and …

Re: ATX PSU with -5v

Posted on 2020-11-27, 06:09

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Anyone got any hot leads on one of these, preferably as cheap as possible? Or a way to mod an ATX PSU with the missing pin to supplying -5v? (Soldering is fine by me) And yes I do need the -5v, for a GUS Max 2.1 If you do not mind me asking, how did you come to the conclusion that a GUS MAX 2.1 …

Re: Best HDD Controller for PC/XT?

Posted on 2020-11-27, 03:58

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yeah I was looking for MFM, which one though? I heard WD ones were good but I could use some model numbers =P

Best HDD Controller for PC/XT?

Posted on 2020-11-27, 03:42

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

So I have a PC/XT that works pretty well, except for the hard disk controller card. It's the original IBM one and apparently the error it gives during the PC test means its dead (I forget exactly which error) What's the best HDD controller? There's a hard disk in this PC XT that looks original, and …

Re: Windows 3.1 AdLib

Posted on 2020-11-26, 23:14

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

This is what my control panel looks like. There's no AdLib applet either.

Windows 3.1 AdLib

Posted on 2020-11-26, 02:49

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I have an IBM PS/2 Model 95/A with the following specs Pentium 1 66mhz 16mb RAM IBM SCSI/2 with SCSI2SD 4gb card, 2 partitions IBM XGA/2 3Com Etherlink III Resound 2 AdLib OPL3 Clone For some reason, I just cannot get AdLib to work with Wfw 3.11 on this system. I've reinstalled the driver a bunch, …

Re: ATX PSU with -5v

Posted on 2020-10-15, 23:03

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

My mobo IS an ATX motherboard, only has the 20 pins instead of 24 though. So I couldn't use AT. Unless I get one of those and then convert it back to ATX 🤣

ATX PSU with -5v

Posted on 2020-10-15, 22:16

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Anyone got any hot leads on one of these, preferably as cheap as possible? Or a way to mod an ATX PSU with the missing pin to supplying -5v? (Soldering is fine by me) And yes I do need the -5v, for a GUS Max 2.1

Re: Best AGP x4 card for Windows 98?

Posted on 2020-10-08, 04:24

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

I just found an ATI 9600XT on ebay, NIB for $30 shipped. Can’t hurt to try it. Should be fun. Also saw it recommended a ton for Coppermine builds through extensive research.

Best AGP x4 card for Windows 98?

Posted on 2020-10-07, 08:33

in Marvin \ Video

in Marvin \ Video

Atm I have a PCI PNY Geforce FX5200 in my pentium III Windows 98 machine. Seems a waste to not use the AGP 4x slot. What’s the best for it? System is Pentium III Coppermine 1ghz ABIT Vh6-II 1024 MB RAM ESS AudioDrive 1868f Mostly for late DOS and most/all Windows 98 gaming. Things like Simcity 3000, …

Re: ESS AudioDrive (ES1868) - a surprisingly good ISA sound card

Posted on 2020-10-06, 04:49

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I’ve got a strange ESS AudioDrive 1868f that says “acer FX-16” on it. Bios identifies it as ESS 1868f PnP and it works great. Unable to find any info anywhere on this variant though. All of the 1868s I see online do not have this odd label.

Re: Trying to get ESS 1868F working on DOS and Win98SE

Posted on 2020-09-20, 22:19

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

It was the weirdest thing... like even when I was booting into DOS something in the Windows 98 config was messing with the DOS settings, and vice-versus.... never had that before. Anyway, to update, I tried FOUR more drivers and finally found one which works both in Windows and DOS. Weird part is …

Can't get music out of ESS Audiodrive ES1868

Posted on 2020-09-19, 14:19

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Title. Expecting it to be some sort of driver problem so I put it here in software. But yeah, Can't seem to get music out of it. Sound effects work great and I can use General Midi music but I want to get SB pro compatible music working. System is ABIT VH6-II Pentium III Coppermine 1ghz 1024 MB RAM …

Re: HWiNFO support of vintage hardware

Posted on 2020-09-13, 03:51

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

IBM PS/2 Server 95/A HWInfo for DOS readout that @Mumak requested in the SIL thread https://i.imgur.com/Wj3I3c1.jpg https://i.imgur.com/2wUxXpQ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/4y7NzAX.jpg https://i.imgur.com/8Sam2Pr.jpg Few things to note: Succesfully detected my AdLib clone and dual 2.88 mb floppy drives …

Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-09-12, 12:45

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Needless to say there's quite a bit missing. Can't read the bios date among many other things. Thank you for the report and the BIOS date is missing as SIV does not have a VXD for Windows 9x, were you to boot Windows NT then the BIOS date should be reported. In general Windows 95 does not have many …

Re: SIV support for 386/486/586 class + Alpha CPUs and 3dfx + S3 + SiS + Matrox + XGI + old ATI + NVidia GPUs - Testing

Posted on 2020-09-11, 08:52

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Tested this on my IBM PS/2 Server 95/A with the following specs: Pentium 1 @ 66mhz 16 MB RAM IBM XGA/2 1MB Graphics IBM SCSI-2 "Corvette" Adlib Clone card 3Com EtherLink III MCA Needless to say there's quite a bit missing. Can't read the bios date among many other things. https://i.imgur.com/bguJlld …

Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2020-09-08, 02:18

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

CuPid wrote on 2020-08-24, 07:46: Camtheman wrote on 2020-08-19, 23:14: IBM PS/2 Server 95/A with P66 It can't identify the mainboard, funny 🤣. Thanks for the report. Can you please post a TXT report ? Yep here you go. Report says I don't have any graphics adapters - This computer has an IBM XGA/2 …

Re: Need help to improve the support of 486/586/686 class CPUs in CPU-Z

Posted on 2020-08-19, 23:14

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

IBM PS/2 Server 95/A with P66 It can't identify the mainboard, funny 🤣.

Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-08-13, 10:30

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Microchannel bus clone AdLib because other sound cards are impossible to find for MCA. Even offered $2,000 once and no takers. Oof.

Nakamichi MJ-4.8s drivers

Posted on 2020-08-13, 10:02

in Marvin \ Software

in Marvin \ Software

Title. The driver archive has the ones for the 5 CD version but I have the 4 CD version. Anyone?

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