Re: 386sx Setup and Build

Posted on 2020-02-11, 01:31

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I agree with the General Play. I built this to play some of the older games like they were played. No one I knew had top of the line 486's in the early 90's.. If you did then good for you but majority of people had the basics as they were so expensive (Here in Aust.) I went overkill with the 16MB …

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Re: 386sx Setup and Build

Posted on 2020-02-09, 23:41

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi All Sorry it’s been a while but with Heat, Fire etc. over here I haven’t had much time to play with the system. I purchased a Co-Processor (387sx33) and fitted it to the mainboard. I re ran some testing with the Jumpers. I have done some benchmarking with Different Combinations of CACHE and CO …

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Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 410CDT - trying to install DOS on CF card

Posted on 2020-01-30, 23:46

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

ok cool. mine was a 750MB from memory.... Cut price Model sole out here (Aust.) with a premium price tag! 😀

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Re: Toshiba Satellite Pro 410CDT - trying to install DOS on CF card

Posted on 2020-01-30, 22:36

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Hi "gladders", Did you make the partition active? try running "fdisk /MBR" to create the master boot record. Also did you upgrade the BIOS as i had to on my 410 to get Bigger HDD's working proper as there wqas an issue with drives over 1gig. Great Laptop, Still use my 410 to program radios by serial …

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Re: Sound Blaster Vibra 16 questions ?

Posted on 2020-01-30, 22:27

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Ok I have it all working in my setup with the caps changed as they were bad and using the creative drivers. Everyone has there own way. The creatve drivers dont need the seperate TSR to work. But hay dosnt matter as what i have working must be wrong.....

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Re: Sound Blaster Vibra 16 questions ?

Posted on 2020-01-30, 03:56

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Try from Creative its self. https://support.creative.com/Products/ProductDetails.aspx?catID=1&subCatID=207&prodID=1842&prodName=Sound%20Blaster%2016&subCatName=Others&CatName= Thats where i got mine from. OPL works as it should. You can even chose adlib in dos games and it just works! Re cap the …

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Re: 486 motherboard BIOTEQ (Biostar) MB 1433/50AEA-P

Posted on 2020-01-23, 03:02

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Dont think you should have any problems there. No RUST just Dust. give is a clean and i bet it powers up.

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Libretto 110CT ISO images

Posted on 2019-12-29, 22:46

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in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hi All I have 2 toshiba Libretto 100CT's that i would like to put back to original win98 install. Is there anyone out there with the ISO of the CDs as the ones i have have been damaged beyond repair. I have searched Archive.org and can't find the image for that model.

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Re: 386sx Setup and Build

Posted on 2019-12-18, 20:04

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Thanks for the advice guys. When it cools off here, as we are in the middle of a heat wave i will give some benchmark results... Still dont know what that jumper does!

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Re: 386sx Setup and Build

Posted on 2019-12-18, 02:16

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Hi HDD is Standard IDE. I have a IDE to SD card running DOS6.22 (Win 3.11 for that total pain in the a## feel) and a few old games such as lemmings and Monkey island. Thats all i have had time to do as its a 43*c (109.4*F) day here in South Aust. and the computer is in a tin shed! I havent had a …

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386sx Setup and Build

Posted on 2019-12-17, 20:55

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Hi All I have a new to me 386sx that I am starting to put together. This is my oldest system to date as the 286 never eventuated...... Why build a SX? Why not! Parts so far are: *WH386 Motherboard with AMD 33MHz SX https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/E/ELITEGROUP-COMPUTER-SYSTEMS-INC-386-WH- …

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Re: Capacitor Question. Which one to go with?

Posted on 2019-12-11, 23:12

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err typo! In Bulk! 😀 THey work the same. Just depends on where you are in the world as to the bulk pricing. Use ether of them and you will be good!

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Re: Capacitor Question. Which one to go with?

Posted on 2019-12-11, 21:22

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For recapping of older cards such as that i keep on hand mostly the Panasonic branded Micro sized caps. The Kemet ones are good but in BULK! the Panasonic worked out better from element14 (Aust.). As far as the way they work electrically they are identical for our purposes and better than most …

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Re: Fixing a Schneider 386 SX System 40

Posted on 2019-12-08, 23:15

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Good work on the Power supply. Just for note - Power Good is generated by the motherboard and sent back to the PSU to say "All GOOD" some powersupplies use that signal to switch off if not generated. Plug it into the motherboard and you should find all will be ok with power.

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Re: Identify this variant of Soundblaster PCI 128?

Posted on 2019-11-28, 00:12

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Looks like the Ensonic Audio PCI that i had in a HP Pivilon back in the day. Its Amplifier was powerful enough to power the POLK Audio speakers that mounted to the side of the CRT Monitor. Not mine but exactly like it https://mmathia.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/hp-pavillion-m70-17-monitorpolk-audio- …

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Re: Info about Acer Acros PZ25D

Posted on 2019-09-02, 22:42

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Thanks for that. I have now got the pinout and will work on the board this weekend. For interest i have worked it to be: 1. Green - +5v (Ps2 Pin 4) 2. N/C 3. Red - Clock 1 (Ps2 Pin 5) 4. Grey - Data 1 (Ps2 Pin 1) 5. Black - Shield for Caps on Data Lines 6. Yellow - Ground (Ps2 Pin 3) 7. Brown - …

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Re: Info about Acer Acros PZ25D

Posted on 2019-08-28, 21:36

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Hi croton64 Thanks for the Photos. is there any chance you can take a photo of the connectors on the other end of the Black Keyboard Lead, It will help me work the Pin-out for that connector. I managed to get mine to boot past that initial screen shown by having a working Floppy drive attached, But …

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Re: Info about Acer Acros PZ25D

Posted on 2019-08-25, 22:58

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I know this is an old post but... I have one of these motherboards given to me and i decided to test my wash technique on it. It still works but i dont have the pinout for the White Keyboard connector or FP LED that are just below the L2 cache sockets. Can Anyone help! Also the setup utility would …

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Re: 486 VLB Identification / Information

Posted on 2019-08-15, 23:09

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Its at ~3.8 Im using 3 x AA's with 2 Diodes creating a ~0.6v drop.

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Re: 486 VLB Identification / Information

Posted on 2019-08-15, 22:52

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Hi Again Any one out there with any more information on this board? I have it in a case now, Sometimes the RTC stops (Looses time randomly when off). I have an external battery pack attached and it keeps all other settings but over a week of no use its droped about 2hrs and i have caught it not …

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