Re: IBM 5150 is driving me crazy

Posted on 2019-03-28, 03:43

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by pinkdonut666

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Yup. Still getting the 10CD 201 error. Doesn't matter where SW1 DIP #3 and #4 are located I get the same error in all positions. It is still strange that SW2 DIP #5 (pink in the picture above) when shut off is giving me the one long beep 2 short beeps.

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Re: IBM 5150 is driving me crazy

Posted on 2019-03-22, 22:05

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by pinkdonut666

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I can see what you're getting at but unfortunately its not that simple :/ mixing SW1 and SW2 up certainly would cause some serious problems... ive highlighted in this LOVELY MS paint creation the DIP #5 in question (yes I realize this is a 64-256k board, the photo is from Wikipedia shhh) https://i. …

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Re: IBM 5150 is driving me crazy

Posted on 2019-03-22, 02:58

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by pinkdonut666

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Alright. So all ram except the soldered ram in bank 0 is removed and set aside. All options are set correctly as per the Guide to Operations. Now, My system has the early Bios which only supports 544kb of ram because the bios doesn't check DIP Switch 5 on SW2. But, for some reason, with switch 5 in …

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Re: IBM 5150 is driving me crazy

Posted on 2019-03-20, 17:04

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by pinkdonut666

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I did as retardware stated above, removed the quadboard, removed all memory (in order) and started repopulating banks as if upgrading the board from 16k to 32 to 48etc. you might be onto something with the DIP switches not functioning correctly however, as the system will all but the base 16k still …

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Re: IBM 5150 is driving me crazy

Posted on 2019-03-20, 03:13

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by pinkdonut666

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Unfortunately now the system is giving me the 10CD 201 Error even with only 16k enabled on the board... I've tried moving banks of memory around, and sometimes I got it to give me other errors like 1001 201 but I haven't gotten it to boot 🙁

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IBM 5150 is driving me crazy

Posted on 2019-03-20, 00:22

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by pinkdonut666

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

Hey, Its been years since ive been playing around with retro PCs (life happens) But I recently Got myself a new toy! https://i.imgur.com/DVX3TXKl.jpg IBM 5150 PC, 1981 Very early revision. 16-64k motherboard, IBM CGA card, Quadram Quadboard, and an IBM floppy controller. . The system was working …

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Re: PS/2 on AT motherboard

Posted on 2012-12-04, 04:13

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by pinkdonut666

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

My socket 7 system doesn't have PS/2 or USB. But to be fair it's probably the cheapest motherboard intel made that could fit a pentium. I just use an old AT keyboard and a serial mouse. works fine for me.

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Re: Power Supply for Pentium 120

Posted on 2012-12-04, 04:10

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by pinkdonut666

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

I've got a similar rig with an baby AT 200w and it's fine.

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Re: Retro Gaming Laptop Help Needed

Posted on 2012-11-30, 05:45

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by pinkdonut666

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

in Marvin \ General Old Hardware

I can say from personal experience that I retro "gaming" laptop is a tuff one. Gaming on laptops "high end" laptops anyway really didn't start till the Pentium 4 windows xp era when people like dell (alienware) started putting gaming laptops out. People didn't game on laptops, so laptops never …

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Re: Microsoft Force Feedback Pro power cable

Posted on 2012-11-30, 05:34

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by pinkdonut666

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

it's a 24volt supply, and is like 2 amps, so just make sure if you do use a multi supply it can handle that.

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Re: 2 Desktop towers - wanted to convert to retro gaming rigs for donation - help?

Posted on 2012-11-30, 05:17

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by pinkdonut666

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

those are pretty old desktops... the compaq probably has a socket 370 mobo with a celeron chip, and the HP might have an early P4 or something... SO I would just recoment straight installing windows 98se and thats it. those systems are not really powerful enough to emulate a system properly. I have …

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Re: Getting an older version of Windows

Posted on 2012-11-20, 00:19

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by pinkdonut666

in Windows

in Windows

I understand most people can't have 10pc's hanging around, but my two favorite options, are dual oot windows XP (you can get XP almost anywhere) grab a CD key off a PC thats going to the trash, and your set. OR I have a friend how has a Windows XP laptop that he hides away and uses for playing older …

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Re: Sound cards - from best to worst

Posted on 2012-11-20, 00:15

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by pinkdonut666

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

The SB32 and SB16 are really good all around cards... I have 2 SB16's in rigs and an SB32. and I have nothing but good things to say about them. though I have had the SB16 a little overworked with windows apps. but It does adlib, SB 8bit, SB16bit so it's all around a great sound solution...

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Re: Sound cards - from best to worst

Posted on 2012-10-30, 15:03

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by pinkdonut666

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I can speak for the P2B-DS (dual core board) and I've got an ISA SB 16 on it, windows 98 is usually fairly simple for cards it has drivers for. Only thing I've run into is it gives the sound-card a higher IRQ than any dos game can handle. there is also the DMA 16bit and 8bit to worry about. they are …

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Re: Is there any hope for this Radeon 9000 pro 128mb?

Posted on 2012-10-25, 01:34

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by pinkdonut666

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

yah i had expected that one. too bad that card wouldn't ship where i am, exact replacement too. I'll just look around for another card.

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Is there any hope for this Radeon 9000 pro 128mb?

Posted on 2012-10-24, 23:02

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by pinkdonut666

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

I finally found the first video card I ever put in a system as an upgrade. It is a radeon 9000 pro 128. I have since bought another one, but i found my old one and tried to use it. I found that upon the installation of drivers that there was something very wrong with it. upon closer inspection i …

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Re: Running 3dMark 2000 on modern hardware

Posted on 2012-10-02, 18:55

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by pinkdonut666

in Windows

in Windows

I've had great success using 3Dmark 2001se on modern hardware, but i have not tried anything older, Though i know if you have more than 3gb's of system ram you will get an error but it's skip able.

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Asus SMP boards are dying on me left and right

Posted on 2012-08-21, 04:53

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by pinkdonut666

in PC Emulation

in PC Emulation

I've Now had my second Asus SMP (or duel socket) motherboard crap out on me, the one board is a P2B-DS which has always had very flaky voltage circuits that I've fixed quite a few times but it's gotten worse. The other is a A7M266-D which I thankfully was given a replacement for, it just sits and …

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Re: yukon trail not working

Posted on 2012-08-21, 04:38

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by pinkdonut666

in DOSBox Games/Apps

in DOSBox Games/Apps

I'm sure you have already tried ALt-Enter. (i know it's a dumb question, but a professional reviewer i was talking to couldn't do that so thought i would at least ask....)

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Re: Sound cards - from best to worst

Posted on 2012-07-21, 05:51

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by pinkdonut666

in Marvin \ Sound

in Marvin \ Sound

I'm going to have to find some 30-pin sims for my AWE32 that i put in my voodoo PIII rig, the SB16 found it's way into the P100. BTW dose anyone know what an opti mf-009 might be? I pulled it from the P100 system and it was using some generic MS driver, I think it's an SB pro 2.0 clone but IDK for …

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