Re: ASUS P2B-B Voltage regulator swap - Adding support for coppermine processors
Posted on 2021-12-21, 09:15
Great job @RockstarRunner. Thanks for sharing. 😀
Re: Faulty Sound Blaster 16?
Posted on 2021-11-28, 12:11
Indeed. From your photo everything looks good on the card itself. Every components is here, there is no cut traces or bulging caps. The base address jumpers are directly connected to the TCQ chip and I don't see any visual problem here. I'm maybe saying something wrong but the OPL3 is using address …
Re: Faulty Sound Blaster 16?
Posted on 2021-11-27, 22:59
So to help @heretyk and to resume what needs to be done: 1) Check the base address is set to 220 or 240 with the jumpers. If not, set it correctly. Disable the IDE port if not required so its IRQ can be used by anything else. 2) Start Windows 3) Remove the drivers as I have mentioned earlier 4) Make …
Re: Faulty Sound Blaster 16?
Posted on 2021-11-27, 20:34
Edit: I just check the CT2800, it seems the only thing the jumpers can do is to configure the IDE port and IRQ 10, 11, 12 & 15. The card is PnP, try to remove the IRQ jumper (put it half connected). That's not true. The OP is right: the CT2800 is a jumper-configured SB16-compatible card. IRQ and …
Re: Faulty Sound Blaster 16?
Posted on 2021-11-27, 20:08
Hi @heretyk. Apparently, your Adlib Gold problem is referenced in the Microsoft Q132114 article. You are trying to detect a card with the driver removed without having restarted Windows. To resolve it, you have to remove manually the driver in the device manager of the card, the game port and the …
Re: ZIP 100MB floppy in Iomega ZIP250 ATAPI drive
Posted on 2021-11-17, 18:15
For what I remember of the 80's, low level format was used for MFM media (HDD, floppies). Used at the time to restore bad sectors or to allow a disk to work with a new controller. If a long format in IomegaWare is a LLF it means a bad ZIP cartridge, like a bad floppy disk, can potentially be …
Re: ZIP 100MB floppy in Iomega ZIP250 ATAPI drive
Posted on 2021-11-16, 21:00
Sure and certain. You can do fast format, but not long format... Long format is useful if you have a protected disc and you forgot the password... With IomegaWare software you can test a cartridge to see if the drive and the cartridge is working . That's because IomegaWare "long format" would be …
Re: Socket 7 and Slot Proprietary Motherboards - What to do with 'em?
Posted on 2021-11-15, 21:22
The ones on the right have HP logos in the solder mask Definitely! They are HP Vectra VE or VL motherboard I think. I'm a collector of this machines, that is why this two boards interested me at first. I have some similar motherboards as replacement parts, but because there is a lot of different …
Re: Socket 7 and Slot Proprietary Motherboards - What to do with 'em?
Posted on 2021-11-15, 14:34
How proprietary is "proprietary"? Proprietary PSU plug only for this machines, custom size and no holes (the motherboards slide in rails and are then locked by a lever making them very easy to plug in and plug out). And the riser connectors are proprietary too, some are the full length of the board …
Re: Socket 7 and Slot Proprietary Motherboards - What to do with 'em?
Posted on 2021-11-15, 14:29
I'm always interested by HP Vectra parts, especially Socket 7 and Slot 1 motherboards. That would have interested me, but from the USA to Europe, shipping is expensive and importation taxes recently increased making such a transaction not really interesting. That's sad 🙁
Re: ZIP 100MB floppy in Iomega ZIP250 ATAPI drive
Posted on 2021-11-15, 14:01
250 MB ZIP drive are not fully compatible with 100 MB cartridge. You cannot do a full format. If the disk is protected, you need the Iomega Tools software to access it. Without it Windows XP may not recognize it. If the cartridge works in a ZIP 100 drive and it is not protected, it can be a drive …
Re: ZIP 100MB floppy in Iomega ZIP250 ATAPI drive
Posted on 2021-11-14, 20:00
250 MB ZIP drive are not fully compatible with 100 MB cartridge. You cannot do a full format. If the cartridge is protected, you need IomegaWare software to access it. Without it Windows XP may not recognize the cartridge. If one works in a ZIP 100 drive and it is not protected, it can be a drive …
Re: Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro - Can't power on the external box
Posted on 2021-11-13, 17:23
Sadly I ran out of Isopropanol a week ago. I only have canned air, which I tried. The unknown device is definitely related to the Audigy, as it disappears when I remove the card. It now got identified as a Creative Game Port. The Audigy doesn't even have one?!? After a restart it was gone again. It …
Re: Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro - Can't power on the external box
Posted on 2021-11-13, 10:17
Hi @RaiderOfLostVoodoo. I have a Audigy 4 Pro, quite similar to your 2 ZS. The external module works fine without the FireWire 400 plugged-in anyway. But as both cables are attached together, there is no reason to not plug them both. I don't think your problem comes from here, but it is good to do …
Re: Geforce 6600 problems
Posted on 2021-11-11, 17:53
Weegee wrote on 2021-11-11, 07:27: OK, I know it's been a while, but here's the thing. I ended up buying a Sapphire X850 PRO, sure enough, it works no problems. Thanks to all, even if it was no luck with nvidia. Hi. Glad to know it. The important thing is to have a working PC that feats your needs …
Re: MS-Dos Soundcard with Ethernet?
Posted on 2021-11-07, 19:34
Happy to know. That's great. I would not recommend a sound card from the same period of the computer because they are very noisy. And the space in your computer is limited too, so only short ISA card can fit I suppose. So why not the Orpheus made by @keropi three posts ago ? Look for its signature …
Re: MS-Dos Soundcard with Ethernet?
Posted on 2021-11-06, 22:40
Humm. I have no experience at all using an XTIDE. I just read a few articles and docs about it. I have a 286 to restore that would benefit to have one. Your problem seems to be a wrong partition scheme. The message "Starting MS-DOS 7.1..." is read from IO.SYS or MSDOS.SYS, I don't remember. As it is …
Re: MS-Dos Soundcard with Ethernet?
Posted on 2021-11-06, 16:59
For the CPU, I have seen a video from Adrian's Digital Basement a few weeks ago where he is speaking of an upgrade for 386 CPUs that is just a board to plug on top of the CPU. Here it is [ https://youtu.be/QhqZiMhe5UA ]. He made funny experiments, but the principle of it is great, it reminded me …
Re: MS-Dos Soundcard with Ethernet?
Posted on 2021-11-06, 14:02
Just a guess, from the photo, seems to be a Toshiba T5200. See if I'm lucky ;) Very close :) It is T3200SXC. Indeed. And the C in the name is for the plasma color screen. Nice "little" machine ;) Some early 286 models and later 486 models where able to connect to the Toshiba Desk Stations to allow …
Re: MS-Dos Soundcard with Ethernet?
Posted on 2021-11-06, 09:13
I know that is what he has, He has no XT-ide (he decided to go with original hdd). Now I'm confused. I tried XT-ide card, but it turn out that toshiba uses different system and you need to have modified xt2ide https://www.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/i0o3ad/im_making_a_cf_adapter_for_ …
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