Re: Monitor color issue.

Posted on 2020-03-25, 21:42

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Your monitor has DDC on pin 12. Your VGA card however is too old to know about DDC and uses pin 12 to detect a monochrome display instead, thus switching to b/w mode. Use a VGA cable that lacks pin 12 or remove it. The vga cable is permanently attached to the monitor :( but.. Are you sure about …

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Monitor color issue.

Posted on 2020-03-25, 21:34

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I finally got my 386 workibg, remembered I had a crt in the stockroom, connected it and only get black and white. Now, i know for fact the pc can de color as I had color yesterday with a flatscreen attached. The crt czn do color as it shows color in the settibgs panel.. anyone know what could be …

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Re: 386 PC with both diskette and floppy drive

Posted on 2020-03-25, 19:54

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I found jumpers!! Bit hard to reach but they are there. I believe it was on DF2. I changed it to DF1. It also has a jumper in something labbeled "Term". And another two jumpers further down the grid but cant really read what is on there... the metal shield is in the way.. I think I can make out MS.. …

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Re: 386 PC with both diskette and floppy drive

Posted on 2020-03-25, 19:24

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Sounds like one of the drives has the DS jumpered wrong (probably the 5.25" drive). They should both be set as DS1, that way the twist makes the 3.5" DS0 or "A" and the 5.25" will be DS1 or "B" drive. I checked and do not see any jumpers. Am I missing something? Should I start to de assemble it to …

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Re: 386 PC with both diskette and floppy drive

Posted on 2020-03-25, 00:04

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Horun wrote on 2020-03-24, 23:43: Sounds like one of the drives has the DS jumpered wrong (probably the 5.25" drive). They should both be set as DS1, that way the twist makes the 3.5" DS0 or "A" and the 5.25" will be DS1 or "B" drive. Ill have a look into this tomorrow, I did not touch any of this …

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Re: 386 PC with both diskette and floppy drive

Posted on 2020-03-24, 22:59

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I went and checked, the cable goes as follow, when I say "IDE" I mean one of those connections that go in diskette drives, when I say floppy I mean the bigger bulkier connection for floppy drives. Motherboard -> IDE -> Floppy (Attached to my 360kb drive) -> Twist in cable -> IDE (Attached to my 1.44 …

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386 PC with both diskette and floppy drive

Posted on 2020-03-24, 22:32

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I am trying to get both my 1.44 diskette drive and floppy drive (I think it is a 360kb) to work in the same system. I never actually did this before. I just connected the floppy ribbon cable from the controller card to both drives and attach power to both. The floppy drive is first on the cable …

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Re: Unknown DOS game

Posted on 2020-03-24, 13:29

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Ill upload this then. Somewhere.

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Games for Hercules monitor

Posted on 2020-03-24, 13:17

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I am tryibg to get a few games running on my commodore pc 10-2 which has a hercules monitor. Nothing seems to work. At best I get sound but no picture. I tried downloading a few games marked"Hercules" but still no succes. Added a screenshot of the monitor. Anyobe knows of anything that should run? …

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Unknown DOS game

Posted on 2020-03-24, 09:55

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I was going through some software on old floppies before formatting and found a football manager game called League Soccer that I cannot locate in any archive. It is a Dutch game. I will attach some screenshots. Is this of any interest? Should I upload this somewhere or just proceed with the format …

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Re: Strange power issue

Posted on 2020-03-19, 22:55

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On the PC help and support FB group they advise me to replace the power unit but I already done this twice to the same results; this is a old system by the way, meant to run Win98SE for Dos and 3Dfx games. But it works perfect, except for the very weird power issue...

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-03-18, 20:26

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Interesting, Ill give this a whirl on some of my 386/486 systems. While I think many people will always crave for more, I personally think 386 is a very reasonable starting point.

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Strange power issue

Posted on 2020-03-17, 16:03

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I have a strange issue with one of my pc's that I build for someone. After assembly everything seemed fine, then the day after it did not want to power on at all. At first I thought it was the PU. I replaced, it worked, I was happy. Bit later same problem. After a lot of testing I noticed that as …

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Re: Running BAT from autoexec.bat

Posted on 2020-03-10, 12:34

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Qbix wrote on 2020-03-10, 12:22: usually CALL is used for that I"m semi confident I tried this already, but will do so again and report back..

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Running BAT from autoexec.bat

Posted on 2020-03-10, 11:35

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I am using that well known 9x dos menu that was posted multiple times on this board in the past. The one where you edit the shortcut to the "launch msdos mode" to run its own config/autoexec and displays a nice choice menu from what type of memory/cdrom you want .. Now every time I boot into DOS I …

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Re: 3dfx card lot two questions

Posted on 2020-03-09, 20:08

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* The black card has a bit higher value because of the color of the PCB. I don't think so. That's an A-Trend Helios 3D card, which is nothing special. And A-Trend wasn't a brand known for high-quality either, unlike Diamond for example. A Diamond Monster 3D would have a higher value. Thanks, this …

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Re: 3dfx card lot two questions

Posted on 2020-03-09, 20:01

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2x Voodoo 2 and the Voodoo 5 should work in the same system. For the Voodoo 2 cards, use 2 with 100Mhz RAM. You also want 12MB ones. The external link/passtrhrough cable is just a short vga extension cable. Easy to get. No need to spend a stupid amount on one that came with the card. The internal …

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Re: 3dfx card lot two questions

Posted on 2020-03-09, 19:59

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Can't really use 2 3dfxs in one, easily. I prefer v5 and v2sli. But I have lots a of builds. If I only had a single early win98 build I would choose the v3. V5 should be fine for 2d dos games, haven't heard otherwise. V2sli works well for dos Glide games. You mean it works "easily" or it does "not" …

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3dfx card lot two questions

Posted on 2020-03-09, 19:22

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Question 1: I bought a 3Dfx lot of 9 cards locally (8 pictured below). The lot also included a Voodoo 5 5500 (not pictured as it came in a case). I was wondering if any of those were "special" in any kind of way and so far got the following: * The black card has a bit higher value because of the …

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Re: Bought 2 motherboards, both do exactly the same (nothing)

Posted on 2020-02-20, 12:14

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Errius wrote on 2020-02-20, 12:00: What are those workbenches? They are the Lian T70. http://www.lian-li.com/pc-t70/

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