ID matched up with the winbond chip. MiniPro seemed happy with it also. I could read it and dump it just fine, but it wanted to give me errors when I tried to program it. There were large chunks of just FF blocks, but most of the chip programmed. Maybe those FF blocks are supposed to be there. I'm …

Thanks for all the responses, and sorry I haven't gotten back to this yet. I popped the chip out of it's socket and the number was printed on the board under it. It's a '29EE010'. I'm going to try flashing the bios and testing the board again tomorrow. Wish me luck. @dionb , I'm going to be using a …

Hello everyone, I've got a motherboard I'm trying to fix, and wanted to dump the Bios chip with my mini-pro and maybe update it before trying to power the board on. The problem is the chip is covered with a gold sticker and I didn't want to have to peel it off. I was wondering if anyone on here …

Thanks for all the replies. I think you're probably right that there were separate rails for the fan because I can't find any with pics showing a 3v rated fan. I'll assume the fan is correct. Worse case, like someone mentioned, is that it might run a little slower.

Hey friends, I've got a pentium overdrive processor I was going to use. It's a PODP3V150, but the fan that came on it was rated for 5V. Every pic I've seen online also shows 5V fans for these things. Is this correct? Do all these processors come with a 5V fan? I'm curious about this because these …

Thanks for the replies. I tested my joystick with a multimeter, and the high numbers were pretty high. The right and down movements capped at about 180K or better. It was one of those cheap quickshot sticks. Maybe I'll just put together a homebrew stick out of some arcade controls. Atari 5200 fans …

I'm trying to run the game Heavy Barrel on my pentium 75 machine, but I'm having trouble getting the joystick to work. The game works fine in Dosbox, but on my p75 it won't read the down or right joystick controls. It only reads up and left. I've also tested the stick with joysticktests and pressing …

Thanks, I'll give that a try. I should have mentioned the drive. It's a 4x NEC that came packaged with a packard bell computer.

So I burned some files to a cd-r so that I can put them on my dos machine and I noticed that when I changed directories to the cd-r it loads really slow. In contrast a softkey cdrom game collection that I have loads almost immediately. Does anybody have any ideas on how I can burn cd-r discs to load …

Can anyone tell me if the cirius logic chipsets are any good? I have a packard bell with a pb600 mobo and it has an integrated cirius logic alpine gd5430 vga chip. It also has a set of sockets that are upgradable to 2MB of vram. http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/600.htm It has a 75 Mhz pentium and …

Thanks for the replies. I think I've about got it figured out now. I think I've got about 615k free at the moment, not a bad number.

Sorry for dragging up this old topic, but I didn't see a point in making a new one. I've got a few questions that fit this thread. Can any driver be loaded into high memory, and is there a way to check the amount of free conventional memory available?

Neat project, I have a Via board that might be compatible. Where did you get the soundblaster drivers for it?