I am having trouble getting various card readers to work properly with my micro drive. They either are too small(CF 1) or dont seem to have enough juice to power the drive, I thought I had a good card reader that I used to make a backup image but now its seems to be the same as the rest. The drive …

I got my 2.5gig seagate compact flash card running with maxblast running a 2gig and 340meg partition, anyway it got me thinking about purchasing an ide bios controller and came across this on ebay. Future Domain ships fastest dual-channel ISA-to-EIDE host adapters; New VALUEPAK Kits use Future …

Its all cool, I left the computer for an hour to do that format thing and it was up to cyln 550, it must've started re-formatting the disk again after reaching 4845 cyln??? anyway I stopped that and changed another bios option, under "Advanced Cmos Setup", "Hard Disk Type 47 Ram Area". "The choice …

Okay, Im using the bios format utility, its halfway through looks like its going to take about half an hour, this might help...... I'll try and format in another machine, im using a windows 95 boot disk off bootdisk.com, Ive also tried dos 6.22.

I bought a cheap ide-cf adapter and a 2.5 seagate ST1 on ebay. Im using a 386, the bios autodetects the disk as 2385mb (4845 Cyln, 16 Head, 65535 WPcom, 4845 L/Zone, Sect 63, Size 2385MB). I thought I was on easy street but whenever I try to run Fdisk the machine locks up, it will go to the first …

This is a bit left field, I have'nt got a computer monitor at home and ive started building my retro 386DX40 system, the screen I am using is...... A 2008 vintage 42inch "HD" panasonic plasma - 1024x768, ive got to say from the limited use the screen is very, very good, I have'nt done extensive …

The memory arrived today, I remove the old 4meg simms, attempt to fit these 16meg modules and they wont fit! I google "how to install 30 or 72 pin simms" and they say to install at 45 degrees, I put my old 1meg simm back in and it slots straight in, something is not right. Not right alright, the …

I get the impression the 387 wont make the computer any better for what I want to do with it, ie games & a tinker with internet (Win95/3.11). I'll still bid on one if it comes up cheap but wont be paying $50 for one.

As per title, how would one benefit in having a 387 math coprocessor in a 386DX40? I've got 64meg of ram on order which hopefully works, would the 387 benefit in windows 3.11 or windows 95 web browsing for instance? I know its going to be painful, ive seen videos on youtube browsing with a 386 and …

Thanks for the tip, this was going to be my strategy anyway, I saw that he has plenty of listings and past sales of the same thing,

Sweet! The ram im looking at is 60ns, hopefully it all works, 64meg should be more than enough.

No problem at all, Scans would be than fine I appreciate that very much. One last question, Non Parity simms are fine?

Wow thanks Markk, my board has 128kb cache, the kit I'm looking at on ebay is 64meg total, 4X16meg sims, Ive only been looking for a few weeks and sets of 4 30 pin simms arent that plentiful, at the moment its either the 64meg set or a 4meg set (4X1meg), I should have taken a 2nd choice offer on a …

Having missed out an 4x4meg 60ns ram for my 386DX40 I am wondering if theirs a chance 4x16meg 60ns (ebay) would work? Obviously I cant find any documentation for my mainboard. its Soyo 019R1 ALI 1429 AI & ALI M1431 A2, I see these on 486 boards 8 sim slots Bios Dated 1993 Stickers on the board 1994 …

ASUS P2-BL (I think, intel 440bx chipset) Pentium 2 350mhz 64meg PC100 (need to upgrade more for windows) PCI S3 Virge DX Ensoniq Soundscape Roland MPU-401/MPU-IPC-T with breakout box 20GB Maxtor D740XL (quickish hard disk) 36X CD-ROM (Asus I think) FAT 16 DOS 6.22 Windows 98SE USB adsl modem ( …

COOL! ALL I need now is a SC-55 or an MT-32

Hi, I just bought this "Roland MPU-401/MPU-IPC/MPU-IPC-T" card and breakout box, I put lazy bet on it and won it for $11 AUS (about $8) delivered, however im not sure what use it is, I can connect this to external sound modules? And would that be better than a soundblaster? And I assume it has no …

Hi, I've got a 2meg Ensoniq Soundscape card and would more than happy to supply samples for this card, are you the person to email as I was unsure when having a quick look at the site. In the few games I've tried it sounds superior to the AWE64 card I have, i.e Doom, Tie Fighter and System Shock …