I got my NIC working and installed the 3.11 TCP/IP stack and the other defaults into WFW. 3.11. I don't have the card actually running TO a hot connection yet, I need to get a switch for the workshop since it only has one cable coming in from the router at the moment. Whenever I go to reboot into …

Success! Taking the chip out did the trick. Now I need to figure out what IRQ is free for it. I turned off PnP mode and right now it wants 3 which is also COM2, Oops.

It's been a while but I finally have time to work on my 486 again - Had to move house but hey, I have a whole workshop now! So the 486: It came with a LinkSys Ether16 LAN card that has a bootrom socket. Naturally I want to put XTIDE in there to get large disk support, etc. I was Not Paying Attention …

Cool! (My contemporary system is a Mac too which add yet another level of complexity to this!)

Kind of what it says. I have a 486 with AMIBIOS that asks for the HDD settings in the BIOS instead of autodetecting them. The platter drive I have in there now has the stats written on it, but what do I put in for a CF card drive? I know that DOS tops out at 512MB (the smallet card I could find was …

Scsi card and a sound blaster with a ide port plus whatever the mobo has should have you covered. Might even be able to get it working with IRQs not conflicting. As far as tidiness. Can’t beat scsi. It can be all on one cable lol what, like up to 7 drives? Mobo has nothing onboard. I have played …

I'll prolly go secondary IDE to get the CDROM going unless my SB16 clone can handle it. I'll have to try and pull a manual on it and see. Did they make IDE controller cards that just did HDD, I don't need a copy of the one I have now that has one set of pins for HDD and one for the floppy drives. ( …

Heehee. I know, I have been working with retro Apples for years. I'm branching out so I can play Ultima VI on OG hardware. I have spent so much on toys for the Apples it's unreal. The machine works fine (okay I messed up the mouse trying to clean it but that's not hard to replace and it was …

I have a nice big tower case and I feel the need to fill it :D But I'm not sure if I actually can... Right now it has an IDE platter drive, a 3.5" drive and a 5.25" drive. I want to add a CDROM and a CF Adapter drive (CDROM for games and CF to get games onto the thing, but HDD for that "authentic …