Re: Non-working CD drive on Compaq Presario 2100 desktop

Posted on 2020-04-18, 01:43

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I know that there is no Secondary Master/Slave on this system at all because the spot on the motherboard labeled for it does not have a connector. In the BIOS, the hard drive is the primary master and the CD drive is the secondary slave. However, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get …

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Re: Non-working CD drive on Compaq Presario 2100 desktop

Posted on 2020-04-17, 23:07

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Hi First of all, some basics: To work correctly, a CDROM requires at least 2 cables: a power cable (it has 4 cables: 2 black, 1 red, 1 yellow) and a data cable (the IDE one, flat gray ribbon one). These same cables are required for a hard drive to work. Also, an IDE cable, can have upto 2 devices …

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Re: Western digital WD90C00JK driver for windows 3.1

Posted on 2020-04-17, 03:01

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Vintage85 wrote on 2020-04-17, 01:08: I answered my own question it works and good to go It would be helpful if you could post the drivers or method you used to make it work.

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Re: What vintage PC hardware is considered highly collectible or ordinary and unwanted?

Posted on 2020-04-15, 22:04

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You likely need a Roland MT32, that's what many composers used for their task (DooM, Heretic, Hexen, Duke3D, LucasArts adventure games and many others). The MT-32 was used for late '80s and early '90s games. By the time of Doom, Heretic and Duke3D, most composers switched to a Roland SC-55. So …

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Re: SB16 problems

Posted on 2020-04-15, 21:51

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Hi! :) Before giving up, I'd give it a last try on Win Me and XP. Both use VDM drivers, maybe they have a higher chance working with the card. Also, I'd double check CMOS Setup and watchout for ISA/PnP settings. IRQ 5, 7 and DMA 1, 5 should be "hard-wired" to "Legacy ISA". This called my attention …

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Re: What vintage PC hardware is considered highly collectible or ordinary and unwanted?

Posted on 2020-04-15, 03:36

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To play modern DOS games in good quality the way the developers intended the games to be played and heard you need a Pentium 75 or higher CPU. And Sound blaster 16 with OPL. Compact Flash card , 16mb ram and 2mb video card. 4x CDROM drive or higher and some good quality speakers. ironically, this …

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Re: Compaq Pentium 166

Posted on 2020-04-15, 00:49

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OK, a question that I forgot to make before: is the data cable of your CDROM connected directly to the motherboard? or is it connected to the SB16 soundcard? also, what do you get on startup with the commands I told you? any errors?

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Re: What vintage PC hardware is considered highly collectible or ordinary and unwanted?

Posted on 2020-04-15, 00:44

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Intel486dx33 wrote on 2020-04-15, 00:24: 486 computer and slower. They are just too old , slow and loud for good quality DOS game play. Not worth investing your money on […] Show full quote 486 computer and slower. They are just too old , slow and loud for good quality DOS game play. Not worth …

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Re: SB16 problems

Posted on 2020-04-15, 00:38

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Thanks for the suggestions guys, will try with Win95 OSR2 and report back. Edit: Well, at least I tried. The card gets correctly detected by Win95, but it plays no WAV files at all. The software thinks it's playing them (just like the games in DOS) but nothing comes out the speakers. MIDI files and …

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Re: EC&T 386 DX 25 not recognizing more than 4Mb RAM of 30 pin SIMMs when 8Mb is inserted. BANK1 DISABLED in XCMOS.

Posted on 2020-04-14, 03:04

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So it looks like I use the 82C302 RAM controller. This leads me here: https://www.pcorner.com/list/TUTOR/AMIREL.ZIP/BIOS225.MAN/ It does look like In this release of C&T 386 and NEAT BIOS from AMI, you can have the following physical memory configuration which was not available in the earlier …

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Re: High pitched whining noise from IBM PS/2 Model 56 power supply

Posted on 2020-04-14, 03:01

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I also have a power supply, however this is an ATX one, that sometimes (randomly) starts making a whining noise. It *says* to be a 750W PS which I highly doubt, because is a crappy chinese one and also because it has very few connectors (4-pin for the CPU on newer boards, an additional 4-pin to make …

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Re: Best network card for MS-DOS 6.22 / IPX help?

Posted on 2020-04-14, 02:10

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I think it might be possible to have two network cards available in a computer - One for MS-DOS games (Like Doom, or any games from the time period that supported IPX) and one for games from 1996-2000? That should work, but I don't see a reason to do that. Any old game should work fine with a …

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Re: Suncom Atom Mouse drivers needed

Posted on 2020-04-14, 01:47

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Hi Maybe if you post a pic of the mouse help would be more useful, however I found this old article which says the suncom mouse does not come with a drivers disk, only with a test disk, but also says that Windows drivers work fine.

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Re: HWiNFO for DOS resurrected !

Posted on 2020-04-14, 01:07

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Sorry, I was a bit wrong with the statement. The 3Com EtherLink III uses 2 sets of ports: 200-3E0 is the standard port, but it also uses an ID port, which is in the 1x0 range. Can you determine which one is your card using? I have double-checked the code and it should work and properly detect the …

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Re: Burning CD's for DOS on Linux

Posted on 2020-04-13, 01:31

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I used Imgburn under Wine in Ubuntu but generally use my old XP computer with Nero6 to burn cd's for older computers, that machine also has a floppy drive :D. There is a Nero for Linux but have not tried it. Nero for Linux never made it past the version 4.0 IIRC. It's not worth it, it will not work …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-04-12, 04:27

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feipoa wrote on 2020-04-12, 03:21: Does anyone know how much faster, if any, the SGRAM version of the Vodoo3 is compared to the SDRAM version? AFAIK, the SGRAM version is about 3-4% faster than SDRAM one, but SDRAM overclocks way better.

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Re: Odd PS/2 mouse connector

Posted on 2020-04-12, 02:06

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I have an Asus 486 PVI SP3 motherboard and it has a PS/2 mouse header. However, it didn't came with a PS/2 mouse bracket. So, looking through my parts bin I came across two PS/2 mouse brackets. One of them has a 5 pin connector and won't fit the header on this board (I could make an adapter but I …

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Re: cmos shutdown register read/write error

Posted on 2020-04-11, 01:31

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Since BIOS is socketed, have you tried it on your known-good board? that would at least rule out the chip...

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Re: getting pci devices working on packardbell

Posted on 2020-04-10, 20:51

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alright well heres an interesting development I tried a pci ethernet card and it works , detected just fine. automatically came up in windows and requested a driver. I then tried a pci ati rage gpu in the same slot which yielded a proper bios beep (1 long 2 short) (i assume thats "video problem …

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Re: getting pci devices working on packardbell

Posted on 2020-04-10, 03:23

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alright well heres an interesting development I tried a pci ethernet card and it works , detected just fine. automatically came up in windows and requested a driver. I then tried a pci ati rage gpu in the same slot which yielded a proper bios beep (1 long 2 short) (i assume thats "video problem …

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