Re: My 99% Finished 486 PC

Posted on 2018-06-20, 18:11

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by GabrielKnight123

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I got my DDO software from Philscomputerlab its called Ontrack Disk Manager 9.57 goto software/tools/storage tools/HDD tools/dynamic drive overlay software/ontrack disk manager it will download as an *.exe file and you need to run the exe file from a windows 98 Pc as Win 10 wont run it but other …

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Re: What retro activity did you get up to today?

Posted on 2018-06-20, 17:56

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by GabrielKnight123

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I had a motherboard that can take a range of 486 CPU's sitting in the cupboard and tonight was its time for a test if it worked I knew it had a bad leaking battery soldered in so I left it in till I knew it worked so I tried a CPU/Ram/Video card without a case it was just sitting on a table as a …

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Re: My 99% Finished 486 PC

Posted on 2018-06-20, 17:11

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by GabrielKnight123

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J4 is to share DMA with pins 1+2 and not to share DMA is pins 2+3 I have it set to share DMA J5 is for the Cd audio in from your CD/DVD players audio cable but the original cable for my J5 PAS16 had to be modified so it could go into a standard CD/DVD audio out by cutting the cable end off and …

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Re: My 99% Finished 486 PC

Posted on 2018-06-20, 13:23

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by GabrielKnight123

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Does someone know what the two white plastic things are on the far right of the Pc im guessing they are for very long cards that slot into them to keep them from bending or saging

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Re: My 99% Finished 486 PC

Posted on 2018-06-20, 13:19

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by GabrielKnight123

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Im from Australia east of Melbourne I also have a fully built P3 slot 1 500MHz rig with an AWE64 value hooked up to an SC55 and stereo mixer this build was just because I wanted a 486 to keep forever it takes me back to my parents 486 when I was a kid

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Re: My 99% Finished 486 PC

Posted on 2018-06-20, 10:45

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by GabrielKnight123

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When I got the case it still had the thin plastic protector over the turbo display/buttons so its in mint condition all I had to do was use some household cleaner on the rest of the white plastic body and she is mark and scuff free

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Re: My 99% Finished 486 PC

Posted on 2018-06-20, 10:10

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by GabrielKnight123

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I was looking at Robert B's PC build and he has a Noctua NF-4x10FLX 40 mm x 40 mm x 10 mm 4500 rpm/SSO2 bearing fan on his CPU and since mine is noisy and very old I will be getting one of these too so my build is about 95% finished

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My 99% Finished 486 PC

Posted on 2018-06-20, 09:23

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by GabrielKnight123

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I have basically finished my all original retro parted Pc the only thing missing is a white Dvd drive as the one in it is a black one, on the front face panel it looks like there are two 3.5 inch floppy drives but the bottom one is just plastic I will have to get a blank one some day. The specs are: …

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Re: What Is an IQ-POINT in Dos

Posted on 2018-06-19, 09:44

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by GabrielKnight123

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Bingo! yes I do, for a moment I thought it was a virus from a floppy. So for something fun to try is it possible to alter that file to give me a max score of 200% just to see what happens?

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Re: Dynamic Drive Overlay DVD Drive Problems

Posted on 2018-06-19, 08:59

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by GabrielKnight123

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Im using a 20 GB drive and I have the drive set as master using a 40 wire cable, I ended up replacing the DVD drive because it was faulty mainly read errors and since I need a Dvd drive and a new one is in the Pc my problem for now if fixed but I would be interested to know why this was happening.

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What Is an IQ-POINT in Dos

Posted on 2018-06-19, 08:32

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by GabrielKnight123

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Every time I have installed Dos 6.21 after a while I get in the root directory of C: a file called IQ-POINT which is only 174 bytes if I open this files in edit there is only a single character " ˥ " or something very similar to this...... What is this?

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Re: Which Is a Faster Drive SCSI or IDE

Posted on 2018-06-19, 07:20

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by GabrielKnight123

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Hi Zup the drive im thinking of using is a Scsi CD rom drive that I already have but the only thing holding me back is that the plastic for the drive has gone a bit yellow from age its a strange drive in that when it ejects the caddy for a cd the whole face plate is the caddy, when you say it …

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Which Is a Faster Drive SCSI or IDE

Posted on 2018-06-19, 04:59

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by GabrielKnight123

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I have installed a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 and at the moment im using a Dvd drive on an IDE I/O controller card in a 486 DX66 the Dvd is working great but what would it be like if I used the Scsi Cd drive that came with the PAS16 using the Scsi port on the sound card? Basically which would be faster …

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Re: PAS16 5 Pin Audio Cable Pinout Help

Posted on 2018-06-19, 04:54

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by GabrielKnight123

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Thanks Skitters that was great

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PAS16 5 Pin Audio Cable Pinout Help

Posted on 2018-06-18, 19:46

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by GabrielKnight123

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Hi all, I have a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 here: http://s836.photobucket.com/user/sierragames/media/Pro%20Audio%2016%20Spectrum/04_zps9af1yhkr.jpg.html The audio cable going from the DVD to the sound card are different, the sound card has a redish 5 pin plug but only 3 wires are used most likely Left/ …

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Re: PAS16 disables DVD Drive in 486

Posted on 2018-06-18, 19:28

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by GabrielKnight123

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Thanks very much Jo22 for those great pictures I got the PAS16 to work when I tried 4 different sound card with the same problem it ended up being a bad DVD drive

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Re: Media Magic ISP-16 Driver Needed

Posted on 2018-06-18, 19:12

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by GabrielKnight123

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Thanks everyone I got this card to install and work with the 928 driver but the performance was choppy when voice was played as parts of it went missing so I have put this card away for now, I tried differnet settings for IRQ and DMA but there is only a low DMA setting for this card and no high DMA …

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Re: Media Magic ISP-16 Driver Needed

Posted on 2018-06-17, 21:22

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by GabrielKnight123

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Thank you Darry how did you find this info and do you know what the jumper settings are for this card?

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Re: Media Magic ISP-16 Driver Needed

Posted on 2018-06-17, 20:23

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by GabrielKnight123

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Thanks Darry but I took off the sticker and it is a: MAD16 MEDIA CHIPS M3016-001 9346KVB14 would the driver you gave work with this one?

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Media Magic ISP-16 Driver Needed

Posted on 2018-06-17, 18:18

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by GabrielKnight123

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Hi all, I have a Media Magic ISP-16 sound card but I dont have the driver for Dos 6.21, on the back it has FCC ID K2Y-SOUND16 and a chip with CS4248-KL EP its an ISA card and the Media Magic sticker is covering the main chip. I looked in Vogons driver library for Media Magic but its not there, …

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