Re: Gotten a new Unisys machine and well...

Posted on 2016-05-08, 18:07

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UPDATE: I decided to reset the Chipset settings to BIOS defaults and now OPL music properly plays back:D So I'm almost there. (At least the machine can finally be used for most DOS Gaming)

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Gotten a new Unisys machine and well...

Posted on 2016-05-07, 02:55

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I locally picked up a couple of machines like a few weeks ago including a AT System with no ISA slots, A Unisys CWP51006 with a 100MHz Pentium and 32MB RAM, a AST Bravo LC 4/33 machine with a 486SX Processor and a IBM PCJr. Before I can even boot up the machine, I had to swap the floppy drive and …

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Re: I have a 40GB Hard Drive and well

Posted on 2015-07-12, 03:32

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I've successfully flashed the BIOS with the AFlash tool and now I can finally use my 40GB HardDrive Thanks Everyone:)

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Re: I have a 40GB Hard Drive and well

Posted on 2015-07-11, 22:39

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Wow, I tried versions copyrighted 1998, 1996, 1996-1997, and 1993 and they all came back with the same error

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Re: I have a 40GB Hard Drive and well

Posted on 2015-07-11, 21:26

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Example 4 will NOT write the BIOS and only read it and save it into the file SAVEBIOS. You can then try writing back that same BIOS as a test to see if everything is working. I believe if you run the program without any options, it might interactively walk you through saving the current BIOS, then …

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Re: I have a 40GB Hard Drive and well

Posted on 2015-07-11, 20:52

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http://sta.sh/0t0b0kxzmdt Alright I got these options What should I type to create a file copy of the BIOS on the motherboard (The AWDBIOS EXE I named AWD)

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Re: I have a 40GB Hard Drive and well

Posted on 2015-07-11, 18:08

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You have a few options to prepare for the worst: - Is the BIOS chip socketed? - If it is, do you have other boards, that don't work, with the same chip? There is a process called hotflashing: You boot the machine with a working BIOS. Then, while it's running, rip out the chip, put in another, and …

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Re: I have a 40GB Hard Drive and well

Posted on 2015-07-11, 17:37

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Yeah I only flash from a floppy. sys a: copy bios flasher and bios to floppy boot from floppy Alrighty Say, what would happen if it fails? (Would it like restore the original BIOS if it fails to update?) I feel kinda nurvous since this will be the 1st time I flashed anything in a BIOS in 3 years (3 …

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Re: I have a 40GB Hard Drive and well

Posted on 2015-07-11, 05:27

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Well, as soon as I ran the Award BIOS Flashing program, I got a error message saying Fail Due to EMM386 or QEMM (I did this while using a 2.5GB HardDrive with DOS 6.22 installed on it currently using HIMEM Memory (No EMM386 loaded) What should I do this time?

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Re: I have a 40GB Hard Drive and well

Posted on 2015-07-11, 04:27

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I cannot recall the version of flasher i needed. I believe it is Award Bios and therefore needs the Award Flasher but which version? Asus's website is no help. Look at the flash rom chip and compare to here. I seem to remember that when I flashed mine it was one of the 5.x versions that did the …

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Re: I have a 40GB Hard Drive and well

Posted on 2015-07-11, 03:25

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Two more things you could try: - A 3rd party BIOS from this link (scroll to the TX97 entry to download it), adds support for hard drives up to 128gb and AMD K6-2+/III+ CPUs. Read the PATCH.TXT file for more details: http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm - Add a PCI hard drive …

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Re: I have a 40GB Hard Drive and well

Posted on 2015-07-11, 02:10

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alexanrs wrote: It is probably missing CWSDPMI. Weird, though, as this CD should have everything set up correctly. Yep, it appears CWSDPMI is missing:( Wish someone could send me where to get a copy of the SeaGate utility complete with the CWSDPMI Extender.

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Re: I have a 40GB Hard Drive and well

Posted on 2015-07-11, 01:53

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It is a Seagate drive. Can't you use something like SeaTools to limit the drive? Or at least check if it gets detected as a 32GB one on another PC? I tried to run SeaTools from the Ultimate Boot CD (Right after deleting the partiton) but I was taken to the C:/ Prompt instead and when I typed in the …

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Re: I have a 40GB Hard Drive and well

Posted on 2015-07-11, 01:28

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To use 30GB+ drive on those motherboards you'll need to jumper it to work on 32GB only. Back up everything on it first, remove all partitions, set the jumper and fdisk/format it to your liking. There's something like this on the drive's label: http://www.techpavan.com/wp-content/uploads/jumper- …

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I have a 40GB Hard Drive and well

Posted on 2015-07-10, 23:01

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I have this 40GB Seagate harddrive that works amazingly on a IBM 300GL machine (Which happened to be from 1998) but I want to put it into a Custom Built 1997/1998 Pentium 200MMX PC and unfortinally, the BIOS on the Pentium200MMX machine (ASUS TX97) wont detect the hard drive. The 300GL doesn't even …

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Re: Rayman runs under Windows95/98 but not under DOS

Posted on 2015-07-02, 18:47

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OK, so I swapped my hard drive for the original 2.5GB one and installed MS-DOS 6.22 and apparently Rayman actually works underthere (Only thing that was kinda different was that I had a S3 Trio64V2 installed) I'm gonna test again with the original ATI Mach64 card to see if its just the video card or …

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Re: Rayman runs under Windows95/98 but not under DOS

Posted on 2015-06-17, 16:09

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Well, after switching to a Sound Blaster 16 card, the game finally runs under DOS, however there seems to be alot of long pauses (After the UbiSoft logo, its a long wait till the animation appears and then where its supposed to fade to the main menu there's a very long pause also before it happens. …

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Re: Rayman runs under Windows95/98 but not under DOS

Posted on 2015-06-16, 22:59

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Well, after switching to a Sound Blaster 16 card, the game finally runs under DOS, however there seems to be alot of long pauses (After the UbiSoft logo, its a long wait till the animation appears and then where its supposed to fade to the main menu there's a very long pause also before it happens. …

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Re: Trying to get Sound Blaster 16 to play Sound effects under DOS

Posted on 2015-06-16, 21:32

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My SB16 CT2770 has the following lines SET SOUND=C:\SB16 SET BLASTER=A220 I5 D1 H5 P330 T6 SET MIDI=SYNTH:1 MAP:E C:\SB16\DIAGNOSE /S C:\SB16\MIXERSET.EXE /P /Q According to Diagnose help the /s variable "for non plug and play devices set hardware configuration based on the blaster environment. For …

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Re: Trying to get Sound Blaster 16 to play Sound effects under DOS

Posted on 2015-06-16, 20:32

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I ran Diagnose and it seems like the sound tests turn out fine along with the config updates But after a reboot, I still can't get sound working in other DOS Applications (I would try installing DOS Sound Blaster 16 drivers from scratch under MS-DOS Mode but I get a message saying that I can't run …

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