First post, by Niezgodka
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Please help me with my Dos computer.
I was born in 1980 so I witnessed a real boom for computers in eighties and nineties. I had C64 and finally in nineties 286. I always dream about having nice 486 with Sound Blaster. Recently I finally decided to buy Pentium III. I want to use it for demoscene and fast tracker, some games, but I didn't realize how complicated computers were back then.
Here is what I have:
- Intel W6BXA-0 Rev. A06
Award Bios v 4.51PG
Pentium III 450 Mhz
WD 40 Gb
RAM 128 Mb PC100
ATAPI 40x, 1.4mb Floppy
Sound Blaster AWE64 Gold
Tseng ET6000 1Mb
Roland MT32
I tried to install FreeDOS onto it, but it boots from Floppy, not from CDrom.
Pherhaps I should update its BIOS?
I Installed DOS 6.22, I formatted 40 Gb hdd just into 2047 Mb. I unplugged the hdd and created another partition in that size, however it is not recognized by my system.
however I still can't make cd-rom to work 🙁
I would try to install Win 98, however it does not see cds!
Sound card. I put it in available slot, however I have no idea what are its IRQ, DMA...
Is there any software that might diagnose it for me?
Fast Tracker 2 and Cubic Player was able to autodect sound card and play it, but it was very very quiet! Should I change something in Bios? I have no Installation disc or floppy for Awe 64 gold, but there has to be something I can do about it!
Please help.