First post, by Sunken
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Hello there!
I rescued a lovely Elonex Lumina PC with a Cyrix MediaGX133 inside. I thought that was a great idea to have somewhat a "boosted 486" but it drives me crazy...
My first main issue is the integrated soundcard, an Xpressaudio16 which is a SB16 clone. I bought this PC mainly for playing again on Dune and the PC keeps crashing when taking an orni. I tried all the possible configurations (Port, DMA, IRQ, Disable DMA-Hi, etc...) but it keeps crashing. Tried on MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 95. The only way to play is to disable Sounds FX and playing only music.
My second issue is the impossibility to add a soundcard as the riser is missing. I saw some Elonex Liminas with the riser but only on higher models ans a chinese clone named "Leo Oasis Data Computer". You can see the riser here at 11:00:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHpdJC97Q24
So, if you have tips to find a riser like this, take my money!
My last issue is about performances... Doom is so slow on DOS (probably 12-15 FPS MAX) but plays perfectly on Doom95. Even DOS Quake runs better... Probably due to the CPU architecture.
Thank you all for your help!