First post, by rick12373
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Help Needed with new 486 Build
I thought I had fixed the problems I was having with file corruption. It was suggested to me that the problem might be that my MB had one of the buggy IDE controller's and that I should try to limit the IDE transfer modes to PIO2 in the BIOS setup (it was on 4 to start with).
At the time I did that and it seemed to fix the problem for a while. I haven't really had a chance to use the machine until recently. I was using the File Manager that comes with the DOSStart program to delete a directory of a game that wouldn't work. It took a really long time with the HD activity light going for quite a while. Eventually the light went out and the system had frozen. So I restarted the machine and when I got back in I found that many of my files and directory's had been deleted. I ran Scandisk and it found and fixed errors, although there are no bad sectors. So it seems that this is still the same problem as before. I went in to the BIOS and changed the IDE mode to 1 instead of 2 in the hope that this might fix it. Trouble is as it sometimes can take a while to manifest itself I don't know if this has fixed the problem. The HD is actually a modern one although it is limited in it's size by DOS. I don't really want to start filling up the HD again to just experience the same problem and lose it all again.
I am thinking I might take some pics of my BIOS screens and post here to see if any experts can see something obviously wrong.
What do you guys think?
These are the current system specs:
ASUS 486 Socket 3 Motherboard PVI-486SP3 with AMD 486DX4 100
64MB RAM
S3 Virge Stealth 3D 2000
SB16 (CT2230)
MS DOS 7.10
486 DX4-100 (overdrive)
16MB 72-pin SIMM RAM (2x8MB)
1MB Diamond Speedstar Pro VLB video card
SB 16 Value CT2770
AOpen VI15G Socket 3 Motherboard
HDD/FDD VLB controller card