Re: Any one with compaq prolinea net1/25 or 33 aio built in nic?

Posted on 2019-07-31, 15:06

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by chinny22

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Thats a good sign :) each network card has a mac address, a unique id, part of this address is the manufacture. So the managed switch is able to read the mac address correctly. (This isn't using TCP/IP we are in OSI layer 2) but it's confirmation packets are been received correctly. Where does the …

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Re: Any one with compaq prolinea net1/25 or 33 aio built in nic?

Posted on 2019-07-31, 13:01

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by chinny22

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Doesn't look like many of these PC's have survived so you may be waiting a while, but think your close anyway. We just need to do a bit of networking 101 as your mixing the hardware and software levels. We know the RJ45 is "TCP compatible" as you have a link light. on a 10mb connection its usually …

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Re: Any one with compaq prolinea net1/25 or 33 aio built in nic?

Posted on 2019-07-31, 10:45

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by chinny22

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Which OS are you running? Is it using DHCP or static IP? I'd recommend DHCP at least for testing that way if you don't get an IP address you know something is wrong right away, static tends to hide issues. Can you ping 127.0.0.1? if not its the TCP stack at fault, If you can try pinging the router …

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Re: 486DX2 VLB of my childhood dreams.. It's a reality!

Posted on 2019-07-31, 10:30

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by chinny22

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This video of Phils may help on what you should be seeing. I'd place money on it been a conflict rather then incompatibility and we just need to find a working combination https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaf4lWI2TEk For starters I'l leave the controller alone, just confirm what IRQ (JP20, JP21) and …

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Re: Any one with compaq prolinea net1/25 or 33 aio built in nic?

Posted on 2019-07-31, 09:30

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by chinny22

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Opps! in my head I translated AIO into AUI and of course this card had a AUI port just to confuse everyone more! This site seems legit even though it looks dodgy as hell https://driverscollection.com/?H=ProLinea%20N … 1/25s&By=Compaq Going off that looks like the card is a NetFlex-2

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Re: Any one with compaq prolinea net1/25 or 33 aio built in nic?

Posted on 2019-07-30, 16:34

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by chinny22

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How are you connecting to the network? You would first off need a transceiver to convert to RJ45, Something like this https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-AUI-Ethernet-10Base-T-RJ45-Transceiver-for-Cisco/112100388678?epid=1080792246&hash=item1a19b42f46:g:t8YAAOSwawpXteYh The above is just a quick ebay …

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Re: 486DX2 VLB of my childhood dreams.. It's a reality!

Posted on 2019-07-30, 10:55

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by chinny22

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This link gives an idea on what devices can be usually be found on what address. http://www.geocities.ws/ferds3/standard_irq.htm setup.exe that comes with driver package is used to change the awe resources.

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Re: Gotek like Optical Driver Emulator - Is it possible?

Posted on 2019-07-30, 10:30

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by chinny22

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nice! figured that as software suits 99% of the populations needs something like this would never see the light of day. Look forward to this as my IDE optical drive stockpile is getting low

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Re: HDD Configuration Question

Posted on 2019-07-30, 10:18

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by chinny22

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As bigfoots are famous for been slow I wouldn't want to run Win9x on one, Dos would be ok and suspect games will be fine as well. But back in the day isnt much different to now Usually you would run out of space and install a 2nd drive for data, means you didn't have to reinstall everything. or …

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Re: The great Pentium Pro haul of 2018

Posted on 2019-07-30, 10:03

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by chinny22

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I guess Intel figured its cosmetic, its not consumer grade so system builders of the day should know better and not return an item for something that's just getting covered up anyway. But I was still surprised as well.

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Re: Which PCI Soundcard

Posted on 2019-07-30, 09:40

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by chinny22

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I'd skip the Ensoniq ES137x cards, the experience will be almost identical to a Live. DOS uses the same drivers but emulates SB Pro rather then SB16. Windows you don't get EAX and dont think any soundfont equivalents (ecw) exist accept the default 2, 4, 8MB ones

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Re: Motherboard Suggestions for 486 DX4 100Mhz?

Posted on 2019-07-25, 10:33

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by chinny22

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Just keep in mind, that whatever is recommended here, you can't just get in the shop. I.e. you might not be able to find any of the boards recommended here. Yep, this will be the deciding factor over all. for a 486 I would shop differently and decide what's important to you, common deal breakers …

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Re: win3.1 vs wfw3.11 - tcp/ip install the same? or different?

Posted on 2019-07-23, 16:20

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by chinny22

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That one linked above only works for 3.11 for Workgroups You want something like Trumpet Winsock (found at WinWorldPC) or if you want to keep everything MS You could setup networking in dos, the "Microsoft Network Client 3.0" supports TCP/IP

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Re: GUS emulation with AWE cards

Posted on 2019-07-23, 10:43

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by chinny22

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Epic Mega Games always favored the GUS so it's on my wish list and games such as Zone 66 had a different soundtrack. but the small list of games and large price of a GUS means it'll probably never happen.

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Re: Compaq Deskpro 386s/20

Posted on 2019-07-23, 10:03

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by chinny22

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Wasn't Simcity about the only game that used the Math's Co processor? I think a SB Pro is slightly better matched to the games, only due to he reversed stereo issue and many of these games don't nativity support a SB16 (which is what the AWE is based off) but the AWE will still work fine and I …

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Re: 4dam 386 DX 40 build thread

Posted on 2019-07-23, 09:42

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by chinny22

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I prefer PC's with missing parts, forces you to think about what to put in it, rather then just going with whatever it happens to have installed already

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Re: CD-R disks blow out sales ?

Posted on 2019-07-23, 09:34

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by chinny22

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brostenen wrote: Errius wrote: CD-R reliability is pretty poor in my experience. Not if you burned on Kodak Gold discs. Those were good days 😀

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Re: 486DX2 VLB of my childhood dreams.. It's a reality!

Posted on 2019-07-23, 09:27

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by chinny22

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Greetings to everyone, We stuck with the i386Dx25 until the summer of 1998! Jeeze, I was complaining about having a DX2/66 till about the same time! Was never a fan of the sideways FDD, but that's just personal. MHz display, Turbo, reset, keylock, VLB, DX2/66 this IS what a 486 should be. Even the …

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Re: LAN or TCP/IP with Win 3.11 (NOT WFW)

Posted on 2019-07-23, 09:14

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by chinny22

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Windows networking isn't that reliable, best syntax to use is the ip address. Early windows doesn't allow you to browse the network so you need to map a drive to \\192.168.0.1\Shared (amusing that is the IP address of the other PC and Shared is the folder shared out. This will work Win9x without any …

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Re: Question for MPU-401 users and Roland owners

Posted on 2019-07-23, 08:14

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by chinny22

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Probably the seller thinks the Music Quest brand name makes it more valuable then it really is. As others have said, you only need one for very specific situations and even then any card that supports intelligent mode is fine, no matter what brand it is The list of games needing it is pretty small …

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