Re: Strange floppy drive issue with a 386 m/b

Posted on Yesterday, 21:05

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Something interfering with IRQ6 or DMA2 could cause floppy issues. So you changed out the 1.44m floppy drive with other working floppy drives, changed cables and controller and you still get "drive not ready errors". Have you tried booting clean ? F5 during DOS boot will boot without any drivers …

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Strange floppy drive issue with a 386 m/b

Posted on Yesterday, 19:17

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OK it seems that floppy drives don’t like me lately. I’ve got a very weird problem that I’ll try to describe along with the steps I’ve taken, mostly looking for ideas since this is quite unusual. The problem: It’s a 386DX/40 dos 6.22-only. When trying to access the floppy drive in any way, eg. dir …

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Re: Spam, spam, spam

Posted on 2020-02-20, 12:01

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camhacks

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Re: What soundsolutions (speakers/soundbars etc.) are you using on your machines?

Posted on 2020-02-20, 11:44

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dr.zeissler wrote on 2020-02-20, 11:41: I am talking "small" "micro" and "barely visible" here 😀 You'll be surprised by the size of some studio monitors and the sound they deliver. Size-wise they are comparable to the classic shitty computer speakers we had back then, maybe you have the huge ones …

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Re: What soundsolutions (speakers/soundbars etc.) are you using on your machines?

Posted on 2020-02-20, 11:37

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Modern active studio monitors. I like things balanced so I'm not a fan of tiny speakers that squeal and beefy subwoofers that try to save the game. I can understand why someone might prefer them for movies and game explosions, it's just not for me. They also come in convenient sizes. I highly …

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Re: Compact Flash Card Help (sorry, I've looked and looked)

Posted on 2020-02-19, 10:00

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I might be terribly wrong with this but I don't think win10 work with fat16 partitions. I can think of 2 relatively easy ways to accomplishing what you want to do: -Since you're already familiar with VMs install a windows version prior or 10 that can read the card. Mount the card to the VM and copy …

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Re: Green thinking still companies change computers every 3 years.

Posted on 2020-02-18, 13:11

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It is very rational, you just don't understand why and therefore "it's wrong".

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Re: Was MS-DOS 6.22 full installation available on 720kb floppy images?

Posted on 2020-02-17, 19:06

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Of course you don't really need to do the installation on the actual machine. Install wherever you can from the HD disks (even on some VM) copy the files and sys. There is nothing more to it.

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Re: Getting CF card Formatted

Posted on 2020-02-15, 09:04

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try an fdisk /mbr or this utility https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/wiki/WipeDisk before attempting to partition and format the card

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Re: Welcome to the updated VOGONS

Posted on 2020-02-13, 10:25

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A few days ago I first got the Some attachments are no longer available. Please check and re-attach any missing files. message, then it went away, but now it's back. It's just done it again twice, but it seems if I make the post then edit it to add the attachment it seems to play nicely. Update @ …

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Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today

Posted on 2020-02-12, 12:11

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Interestingly enough, I can't even attach it to the post as an image despite renaming the file.. The board keeps throwing the following error when I submit: Some attachments are no longer available. Please check and re-attach any missing files. I got the same message, for no apparent reason I …

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Re: 286 PC won't boot from HDD or Floppy

Posted on 2020-02-09, 11:28

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I've been messing with the jumpers and floppy/hard drives for a while now, and honestly at this point is it safe to assume the card is just dead? I've even had some odd behavior happen a few times where at the POST screen I get some green garbage characters and the screen keeps scrolling down. Well …

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Re: 286 PC won't boot from HDD or Floppy

Posted on 2020-02-08, 14:30

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Take one step at a time: unplug the hard disk and remove it from BIOS. Confirm that the floppy type is correctly defined in BIOS and try to boot from it.

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Re: Determine speed of ISA bus? (in MHz)

Posted on 2020-02-07, 17:51

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Hey guess what! It was a faulty oscillator 😃 Although my attention was towards the bus, I would have never reached the oscillator myself without derSammler's observation But if that option doesn't work, the 14.318 MHz quarz crystal on the mainboard is probably faulty. You may not notice, as it's not …

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Re: Determine speed of ISA bus? (in MHz)

Posted on 2020-02-07, 16:05

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I see, thanks guys for the responses. I also didn't expect for some software to be able to measure this. My multimeter doesn't measure frequency but I'll borrow a friend's to check, mostly because of curiosity. Also thanks for pin location, you saved me some time ;) How would a software utility to …

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Determine speed of ISA bus? (in MHz)

Posted on 2020-02-07, 14:43

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Hello, I believe the answer is "no", but is there a utility that reports or a way to accurately deduce the speed that the ISA bus is set to run on 286/386/486s? Why I want this and why isn't the BIOS setting enough, you may ask. Well I've got this weird case and I'm really curious to investigate …

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Re: History of ANSI/ASCII art

Posted on 2020-02-07, 07:02

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Jo22 wrote on 2020-02-07, 05:51: PS: What was your favourite ANSI Terminal program, btw ? Terminate, "the final terminal" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminate_(software) The web site still exists btw and looks stuck in the 90s: http://www.terminate.com/

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Re: Style problems/bugs

Posted on 2020-02-06, 16:31

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I see, thanks everyone for the explanations. I just thought to mention this because I found this big color difference too weird. But since no one else has jumped in to say that he also sees blue I guess it's not a common thing and clearly laptop-specific.

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Re: Style problems/bugs

Posted on 2020-02-06, 13:14

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I'd have to ask if you're able to set your laptop display to a properly "sRGB" calibration, same goes for every other monitor that you own. The laptop looks like it's colour temperature is biased towards the "cool spectrum", which for some strange reason some monitors default to doing that. Very …

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Re: Style problems/bugs

Posted on 2020-02-06, 09:17

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Ok I have to ask this: what's the forum color supposed to look like? Excuse the photo quality but I had to take actual photos from my mobile to demonstrate the below On an HP ZBook laptop https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-zbook-studio-g3-mobile-workstation/8934839/document/c04888991#AbT4 …

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