A DynaSonix Wave ... the first glance at the card ...

OMG ... they used the pcb of the DynaSonix 3D 😳

Decent haul today, had to drive a few miles. Zenith 286 data from a defunct Air Force base, P166 tower, Socket 7 120, and external 2400 baud modem. Keep an eye in System Specs for rebuilds of these machines.

Nothing fancy just a viper II.

Runs away to hide it.

Bought today this boards together with 100 mhz Pentium

and Genius joystick

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Bought today this boards together with 100 mhz Pentium

and Genius joystick

EISA / PCI - interesting!

Ah, I think I recognise that board. Is that the Acer M5?
http://www.uncreativelabs.de/th99/m/A-B/36029.htm
http://insight.actapricot.org/insight/product … 2x/f2x-laym.htm

It's pretty interesting that the main chipset is ALi, but the EISA bridge is by Intel. Looks like your CPU card is not listed on the Mitsubishi website.

It's very similar to my Acer J3 except that it's PCI rather than VLB.
http://www.uncreativelabs.de/th99/m/A-B/32504.htm

All the chips on mine are by OPTi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CduA0TULnow

http://www.ebay.com/itm/301969642018

yea, it's Ramen noodles for me for a while.

luckybob wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CduA0TULnow

http://www.ebay.com/itm/301969642018

yea, it's Ramen noodles for me for a while.

If only that thing had AGP on it.........

Now that's a lot of PCI slots.

Congrats, that looks like a sweet build is coming up. I have something somewhat similar http://www.tyan.com/archive/products/html/tomcativd.html Dual socket 7, haven't used it for a build yet (lately I've been busy with P4-era builds).

You can count me as another victim of terrible packaging:

This is what the package looked like immediately after opening it. Notice the lack of any padding material which is particularly worrisome considering this includes 7 HDDs. I haven't tested anything but I already know the SCSI controller card won't work because I can see at least 2 spots where the SMD components were ripped from the board and I could only find one of them inside the box. I'll have to solder some random value replacement component in hopes that it works.

Anyway, the package includes:

- 4 SCSI IBM UltraStar 18ES 9,1GB 7200rpm HDDs
- 3 SCSI IBM branded Seagate Chester Cheetah 18,2GB 10krpm HDDs
- 1 Adaptec AAA-131U2 with unknown cache memory size (supposedly 2MB, but the DIMM has 5 chips in it and the label reads mumbo-jumbo-5M)
- 2 sets of SCSI cables (one of them in terrible condition) with terminators
- 4 brackets for attaching 3,5" drives to 5,25" bays
- 1 PS/2 to Serial connector (for connecting a PS/2 mouse to a COM port)
- 1 4-way KVM switch with no cables whatsoever

All for the grand total of 32€ including shipping and I hope that's not 32€ worth of trash.

PS: I may or may not have made up the Chester Cheetah part name.

Some day, I must get a SCSI capable rig, as I've got three drives in a box I've never done more than check that they power on... and the one SCSI card I do have is for the older type.

Lukeno94 wrote:

Some day, I must get a SCSI capable rig, as I've got three drives in a box I've never done more than check that they power on... and the one SCSI card I do have is for the older type.

I have a dozen or more SCSI cards of various generations, starting with AHA1542 (ISA) and ending with AHA3940UW (PCI-X) none of which are in use right now in any of my rigs. I find SCSI to be more trouble than it's worth, SCSI drives are becoming scarce and the cheaper ones are usually in terrible condition, plus with the ubiquity of IDE and quirkiness and multiple standards for SCSI, it's usually not worth bothering. Find the correct drive, the correct cable, the correct terminator, etc.

I do have the odd duck in the stack, such as an DPT SmartRaid IV UltraSCSI controller which I acquired second-hand a long time ago, a few months before DPT was bought by Adaptec and basically buried under a mountain of oblivion. The card came with unlimited lifetime free support (which became nil after the buyout FWIW), but in the few months before that I got stellar support from DPT. I had a problem with a drive compatibility with the card, and even though I wasn't the original buyer and had no proof of purchase, DPT gave me the white-glove treatment with priority email and phone support; when it became apparent that the issue was in their BIOS, they overnighted me a BIOS chip that had been especially compiled for my needs (the BIOS was not flashable, but it was replaceable as it was a socketed chip) completely free of any charge. I never had such a customer support experience before, or since.

kithylin wrote:

luckybob wrote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CduA0TULnow

http://www.ebay.com/itm/301969642018

yea, it's Ramen noodles for me for a while.

If only that thing had AGP on it.........

like this? P/I P65UP8

I had one, sold it. nice board!

clueless1 wrote:

Ozzuneoj wrote:

clueless1 wrote:

Are you using any Aztech utilities such has hwset.exe or diagnose.exe? Those should help you out.

I can't seem to find those in any of the driver packages I have for Aztech, but I'll keep looking.

Keep in mind this is a non-PNP card. I don't think those programs are meant for cards like this.

I don't know if this will work or not, but this is what I use for my Aztech card in DOS. Got it from gdjacobs. The UTILITY folder holds the DOS utilities, but I'm including the other folders in case they are useful.

Ozzuneoj,

Did those DOS utilities end up working out for you?

This retro enough for you guys?

Recently I found a Hyperion portable kinda-almost PC compatible, an external monitor, all the software you see here, and the carry bag at a thrift store for $35. Having a bit of trouble getting it to work though. It seems to respond to commands with the DOS disk in, but nothing shows on either of the screens.

clueless1 wrote:

Ozzuneoj,

Did those DOS utilities end up working out for you?

I actually just got to try them out. Thanks for uploading them!

Sadly, they seem to be strictly for the PnP cards, as they don't detect a sound card at all when used with my Sound Galaxy BXII.

However, I did make an incredible discovery.

I figured out how to get the BXII drivers installed (had to dump the install files onto the root of C: and modify the .inf settings a little to make it only look for one disk) and the DOS "SG2.exe" utility in that package seems to actually work. And get this... IT OUTPUTS MIDI THROUGH THE GAME PORT!!!!!!!!!

I'll admit, I'm not as well versed in this old stuff as most around here, but I believe that an 8-bit ISA sound card with SB and SBPro (Mono only) compatibility with a real OPL2 and a functional midi output is a bit of a rarity.

Am I wrong in stating this?

Is there a good way to test the compatibility of the MIDI port as far as full MPU-401 compatibility? Also, I still can't figure out what stinking IO address the MIDI port uses. The tester program simply has a button to "Test Midi OUT" and it just works... no indicator of what address is being tapped into though. I'd love to find a program that could simply check\test ports for midi functionality.

Inspired by the Sound Galaxy saga above, I just bought this:
Aztech Sound Galaxy Pro II

Based on the fact that it lacks connections on the ISA bus for data bits 8-15 this is basically also a 8-bit card, correct?

Just like the SoundBlaster Pro, yes. Any pins on the 16-bit section of the edge connector are just there to access higher IRQ and DMA levels on 286+ machines.

I'm earmarking this one for my XT clone.