Re: What was your first (as in personally owned) PC compatible computer?
Posted on 2018-10-26, 19:37
appiah4 wrote: 16 30-pin slots? One learns something every day.. motherboard memory card
Add pins to motherboard for Turbo switch -- HOT-541 v2.5
Posted on 2018-10-26, 17:14
I have a Shuttle HOT-541 v2.5 that is missing the pins for what would be JP13, the Turbo switch. JP14's pins are still there, for the Turbo LED, and I haven't yet checked to see if it will light an LED depending on the system boot speed BIOS option setting or if it would respond only to the Turbo …
Re: What was your first (as in personally owned) PC compatible computer?
Posted on 2018-10-26, 16:06
First MS-DOS computer was a Tandy 2000. It had MS-DOS 2.11.13, but wasn't IBM PC Compatible. Quite a bit of stuff DID work, though-- I was on BBSes a lot with Telix. First PC-compatible was one of the Tandy 1000 series, maybe an SL. I remember it had DeskMate in ROM and a single floppy. To download …
Re: It486SXL-40 unstable/locks up when L1 cache is on and turbo is set to slow speed
Posted on 2018-10-26, 15:56
I've never been able to get mine working in this board. It says it supports DLC type CPUs, but they just make the board incredibly unstable, and no amount of tweaking can make it work. I noticed more and more and got aggravated more and more how unstable it was, even at full speed. Win98 was …
Re: Star Trek 25th Anniversary CD - Conventional Memory
Posted on 2018-10-24, 13:46
After futzing around with a 386 system, I've found that one motherboard definitely is toast, the other is just freakishly unstable, and one that had been fairly reliable has a bad RAM slot because every time I boot it, whether the 4x4MB SIMMs are in Bank0 and the 4x1MB SIMMs are in Bank1, or the …
Re: What's your home/everyday PC?
Posted on 2018-10-18, 16:26
Main system: i7-6700K 4x8GB Corsair Vengeance PC4-21300 Asus ROG Maximus VIII Hero GTX 970 "Fallout 4 Edition" Sound Blaster X-Fi Titanium Fata1ity Cooler Master Centurion 5 Have two 128GB SSDs in a stripe for the system/boot drive, and two 256GB drives in a stripe for storage and game installs. …
Re: The Story of Why Everyone Uses Onboard Sound Today
Posted on 2018-10-18, 16:10
If this were the "Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles", it'd be a story about a dog who took a nap.
Re: "True" MS-DOS Mode in Win98SE CD-ROM issue
Posted on 2018-10-18, 15:42
Did you copy Phil's CONFIG.SYS, irrespective of what drivers you need or have? Here's a grab from that video: http://www.colonslash.org/special/vogons/philconfig.jpg A better look: http://www.colonslash.org/special/vogons/philconfig2.jpg That could explain a lot of it right there. If you happen to …
Re: ISA network card works fine with mechanical HDD but can't find an IRQ when running off SD to IDE adapter
Posted on 2018-10-18, 14:37
Also, some 486 motherboards were stuck at the 504MB limitations Right, and enabling LBA in the BIOS for the ones that don't have the 504MB limitation could also result in these addresses moving around-- or it could be the DDO (if one was used) that did that. We'll have to wait for more information …
Re: ISA network card works fine with mechanical HDD but can't find an IRQ when running off SD to IDE adapter
Posted on 2018-10-17, 20:38
I plugged it in and it worked great. I formatted it, reinstalled DOS 6.22 and and Windows 3.11 from floppies... No mention of it there, though. But the adapter should be transparent to the HDD controller, with the only change needed that the 2GB (or larger, I can't read the number with certainty) …
Re: ISA network card works fine with mechanical HDD but can't find an IRQ when running off SD to IDE adapter
Posted on 2018-10-17, 20:03
bjwil1991 wrote: Looks like the LPT1 port's IRQ is conflicting with the network card. Yet LPT1 using IRQ7 doesn't break anything when the mechanical drive is used. The IRQs aren't changing, the addresses are. This is why I suspect a DDO.
Re: ISA network card works fine with mechanical HDD but can't find an IRQ when running off SD to IDE adapter
Posted on 2018-10-17, 15:17
Did you have to use a dynamic drive overlay to use the larger capacity of the SD card? It may have done some memory range remapping. The timer click, keyboard, real-time clock, and LPT2 are all in different I/O ranges. I'm not sure that can be a function of the SD adapter alone, since that should …
Re: External Floppy Drive Wont Run CHKDSK
Posted on 2018-10-16, 20:00
I tried chkdsk /x AlaricD and it only says: The type of the file system is FAT. Cannot lock current drive. I even tried with run as administrator. Odd, it usually would ask if you want to force a dismount and then continue. Maybe a floppy is an exception to that, due to filesystem or something. …
Re: External Floppy Drive Wont Run CHKDSK
Posted on 2018-10-16, 16:50
Or chkdsk /x and it will ask if you want to force a dismount, if you just GOTTA be at the A:\ prompt fo start chkdsk.
Re: IDE CD Drive recomendations
Posted on 2018-10-10, 13:50
As far as a tank that's at least not intolerably slow, the (Lucky Goldstar!) GCD-R580-B, an 8x IDE drive that is just a tank and isn't particularly noisy. If it doesn't work, check your CONFIG.SYS or Device Manager, because it's not broken, you've just configured something wrong.
Re: Anyone ever listen to shortwave radio?
Posted on 2018-10-02, 15:12
(PS: just kidding a little bit, your DX-160 is a neat little RX. Still have got an old RadioShack catalog from the 70s, which featured it.) I think I need to get it aligned, but otherwise it works pretty well. Very nice aesthetic, too. I use and interchange both terms occasionally, too. Though …
Re: Where my memory is going ? Low conventional memory
Posted on 2018-09-27, 14:58
MadMax2023 wrote: It seems i have a normal amount of memory detected, however it seems i have extended memory (see MSD screens), am i right? 18504K? The 8088 can only address 1MB. The 286 and 386SX can only address 16MB. That's clearly an accidental fish! I mean, a fluke!
Re: Continuous random beeping when using EMM386.exe on dos 6.2
Posted on 2018-09-26, 20:13
Might be the dumbest question ever -- is it the PC speaker beeping, or is it from an audio card? Could be a DMA controller problem if it's from the audio card (although usually NMIs/reboots would be a symptom of that).
Re: Where my memory is going ? Low conventional memory
Posted on 2018-09-26, 18:51
MadMax2023 wrote: 640 kb of memory (motherboard + an isa extension board) Is that an expanded memory (EMS) board (which may require a driver; it's been ages since I've dealt with that) or does it really extend conventional memory? How much RAM is on the motherboard itself?
Re: Anyone ever listen to shortwave radio?
Posted on 2018-09-24, 22:10
It's called "amateur radio". Amateur radio is not broadcasting. Its purpose is for people to experiment and have fun talking to other hams on the dial. Broadcasting is a whole different story. And here I am, wrong on the Internet for the first time ever! No, wait, I've been wrong before... I was …
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