Re: Monopoly Deluxe, and all it's wonderful flaws
Posted on 2021-10-09, 16:36
Ok...any way to deal with that without having to remove ram every time I want to play Monopoly Deluxe in DOS?
Monopoly Deluxe, and all it's wonderful flaws
Posted on 2021-10-09, 03:31
This is related to the DOS and Windows versions of Monopoly Deluxe, Virgin games, 1992. I managed to pick up an original copy of the Windows version, and have it installed and working fine on my Windows 3.1 machine. But - it's a bit buggy. I know they released a patch for the DOS version to upgrade …
Re: Motherboard troubleshooting?
Posted on 2021-03-30, 04:45
Excellent stuff I will have to hold onto and keep in mind, as I work with more mobos. After some more fiddling around - I discovered the random freezing issues stop when I disable all onboard devices that I can. I disabled several of these devices when running it as a media server, so that explains …
Motherboard troubleshooting?
Posted on 2021-03-29, 20:13
Does anyone around here know how to actually troubleshoot motherboard problems? Like - more than just randomly saying on a forum "you should change some capacitors". Not to offend anyone - but any idiot anywhere can chime in and say "might be a bad capacitor" in any discussion about any electronic …
Need mobo info - LS-P54CE Rev:G1
Posted on 2020-11-13, 23:13
Can't seen to find much in the way of detailed information for this mobo. Anyone have anything they can provide? I can't even figure out what RAM to buy.....there seems to be no clear answer or easy way to determine what to buy, and too often I end up having to go through the hassles of returning …
Re: Windows XP SP2 Offline Install?
Posted on 2020-11-12, 03:06
Not sure what slipstream means....just playing around with installing and upgrading different OS's, which sometimes requires tracking down difficult to find files when randomly getting an error that something is required that is no longer readily available through automatic updates or from …
Re: What are people doing for cheap cases these days...
Posted on 2020-11-06, 04:29
Ugh.....sad but true, I suppose the PC case situation will only get worse. We were interviewing candidates for a starter helpdesk position about a year ago, and......god, some of the candidates. This one guy, barely knew what was on his resume, couldn't answer any of our tech questions....only thing …
Re: Windows XP SP2 Offline Install in 2018
Posted on 2020-11-06, 04:20
Ok.....if anyone else happens upon this thread due to being stuck unable to apply SP3 in XP and not finding SP2, the google term you want is xpsp1_en_x86.exe. Somehow I had that file stored with a bunch of other drivers and setup stuffs. This time when I went searching, I found an erroneous thread …
Windows XP SP2 Offline Install?
Posted on 2020-11-06, 04:10
I can't help but wonder.....has everyone gone insane!?!?!?!?!? All I want is to get SP3 installed on my XP install. However, SP3 REQUIRES AT LEAST SP1 TO ALREADY BE INSTALLED!!!!!!!! Everywhere I go looking, high and low, there are ABSOLUTELY NO SP1 OR SP2 INSTALLERS TO FIND ANYWHERE!!!!!!!! I can't …
What are people doing for cheap cases these days...
Posted on 2020-11-06, 01:40
When I started building machines, I put my budget into the parts, and then would throw in the cheapest darn case I could find to complete the purchase. What I would give for these types of cases to still be readily available. For example - my first build used this case - https://www.newegg.com/p/ …
Re: PCI Sound card for Windows 3.11 & Dos 6.22?
Posted on 2020-11-01, 20:33
Just another witness of PCI sound in Windows 3.11... So..., I just received an Creative ES1371 Sound card (the chip is actually 1373) - I installed it - and tried the official driver from: 7501748.exe. No luck - the driver apparently installs - asks to restart computer but no file is copied or …
Re: Using a Creative Labs ES1373 Sound Blaster PCI sound card in DOS
Posted on 2020-11-01, 19:54
Further updates - I went back to a DOS 6.22 install to play around with what was working, and I find that I get sound when starting Wolfenstein 3D, but then it will malfunction at some point. I tried to shoot something - the game froze, I think the gun sound effect did it. I restarted, tried again, …
Using a Creative Labs ES1373 Sound Blaster PCI sound card in DOS
Posted on 2020-11-01, 19:23
I've been trying to setup a machine that can run Windows 1 to 10 with the most amount of capability because.....why not? I've found later Pentium 4 processors can run Windows 10. Perhaps not that well, and why would you want to, but this allows the possibility of an all hardware Windows 1 to 10 …
Re: Looking for documentation and drivers for Epox EP-5PDAI motherboard
Posted on 2020-10-31, 16:42
I picked up an Asus mobo to replace the build I had this board in, so it's now out of the case to go into storage. Here's a quick pic I snapped with my phone. Filename epox ep-5pdai.jpg File size 1.16 MiB Views 409 views
Re: Looking for documentation and drivers for Epox EP-5PDAI motherboard
Posted on 2020-09-20, 18:17
This has been an interesting computer so far. Installing XP on it has a weird quirk - I lose access to a PS2 keyboard during the install. If I connect a usb keyboard instead, that works fine. I've also been playing around with older OSs on it. I can get Windows 3.1 to install, and sorta got 95 …
Re: Looking for documentation and drivers for Epox EP-5PDAI motherboard
Posted on 2020-09-15, 22:38
Thanks, that will come in handy. Funny story....I was getting tired of building things, having them not turn on, unbuilding things, troubleshooting.....so I decided to put a few parts together on the bench and make sure things turned on and worked before building into the case. I wasn't getting …
Looking for documentation and drivers for Epox EP-5PDAI motherboard
Posted on 2020-09-13, 17:01
I've been struggling to find any useful information about this motherboard. I've been checking the wayback machine for archived versions of the epox.com website, but it seems all I can do is get to the basic specs, but anytime I try to initiate a download it doesn't have a file, or doesn't work.... …
Re: Looking for ATI Radeon All In Wonder 9200 output cable
Posted on 2020-08-15, 21:12
No one knows anything about this video card? Really? I didn't think it was that uncommon...
Looking for ATI Radeon All In Wonder 9200 output cable
Posted on 2020-08-08, 18:34
I'm struggling to find the right output cable for this card. I still have the input breakout box, but I lost the output cord long ago, never really used it back then so it got stashed away somewhere, and lost along the way. Searching around on ebay led me to buying a cable with part number …
Re: Undo partition damage
Posted on 2020-08-03, 03:16
Ah, cool. I never recovered a Windows installation that way before. Yes, copying the data off, making a new format, copying the data back, and using the sys command has done the trick, and got me to a FAT32 partition where I can use the full drive and not worry about running out of space for the …
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