Re: P3 booting problems.
Posted on 2019-06-25, 17:38
Thanks for the pointers. I will try it out when I get back from work tomorrow. Then we will see if it is those pesky caps or not.
P3 booting problems.
Posted on 2019-06-25, 16:29
Decided I wanted a "top notch" dos and Win98 machine, and decided to go for a P3 machine, as it appears to be the latest where ISA support was available. Got a Soltek SL-65KV2 mb with a 1GHz cpu installed, and 2x256mb ram(ram and cpu bought separately from mb). Graphics is a Geforce 4 card, but have …
Re: XTIDE on 3C509B card
Posted on 2019-06-20, 19:01
Managed to get it going again. The fault was something stupid as the vga connector having falled out and me not noticing. I decided that for now, I keep it a SCSI system, as I have tinkered with this too long already, and it do work in its current state.
Re: XTIDE on 3C509B card
Posted on 2019-06-12, 22:35
Sorry for lack of response, I just needed to take a break as I have been trying to get this to work, only for running in to different set of trouble, when finally solved the first one. I have flashed it with the latest bios, so that is in order. Not tried with a bigger HDD after flashing I think. …
Re: XTIDE on 3C509B card
Posted on 2019-06-05, 20:23
Boy is my face red right now. Turned on controller in bios, and it all worked. It now detects ide drives. It does the bios error still, so have to press Esc every time I boot it. That was until it suddenly decided it hadn't had a temper tantrum for a while, and now gives ram error I believe it is. …
Re: XTIDE on 3C509B card
Posted on 2019-06-04, 17:36
Maxtherabbit is correct. I'm trying to get it to accept bigger ide hard drives. Not SCSI ones. SCSI card does that already. Do not think I can have ide controllers on, and have hard drives being run by XTIDE. Will try to find time later, as my Socket 370 project arrived 😀
Re: 486 cache woes
Posted on 2019-06-04, 17:29
Still not decided if I try or not. Apart from the cache part :blah: , I agree that the Value Point is much better to live with than PS/2 probably is. Never owned one my self, but have seen Youtube videos on it. If I decide to go for it, it probably will take some time as shipping is usually not fast …
Re: XTIDE on 3C509B card
Posted on 2019-06-03, 19:58
Yes, I did turn off the ide controller in bios. Whenever you do a change, and bios detect it, like changing ram it will always beep, and you have the choice to enter bios, or press escape key to skip. No matter how many times I enter bios, and save setting it always will beep, that something has …
Re: 486 cache woes
Posted on 2019-06-03, 19:52
I think I have done it correctly,regarding setting jumpers and so on, it's the 22 pin tag I think is the problem. Did a quick search on ebay, and got 3 hits for IDT6178S. One (and it had to be the cheapest one) has the wrong form factor, but I may try my luck with one of the others-
Re: 486 cache woes
Posted on 2019-06-02, 21:58
Not looked at that link before, but doesn't appear to be the same type as what I have. I have looked at https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/I/IBM-CORPORATION-486-VALUEPOINT-6472-6482-6484.html as it is a 6482 I have. Here there is 2 Tag chips. One seems to be the same as the cache chips. The …
Re: Gotek Troubleshooting
Posted on 2019-06-02, 17:27
That happens to all of us sometimes 😀 Good to hear it was an easy fix.
Re: Gotek Troubleshooting
Posted on 2019-06-02, 13:00
Are you sure you got the right version of Gotek. I think I had the same problem where I could not get it to work using default image. Alternatively you can flash it with flashfloppy if you have a programmer for that (you can't go back AFAIR to using standard image once it is flashed to flashfloppy). …
Re: 486 cache woes
Posted on 2019-06-02, 09:47
A bit of an update. Got a ST HP93L9244 (22pin) in the hope that it would work, but alas no cache is detected. (I was wrong in first post, it is a 22 pin socket) I tried getting 128Kb cache to work as I managed to put 1 of the UM61 chips in the wrong way, and now it gets very hot if I try to use it. …
XTIDE on 3C509B card
Posted on 2019-06-02, 09:30
I have an IBM Valuepoint 100MHz DX4 VLB/ISA that I am trying to tweak to my needs One of the things I have tried is getting XTIDE to work instead of the built in bios, as it only can handle 500mb or so hdd size. I got a 3com 3C509B network card with 27512 chips, as I already had a few of them from …
Re: Soundblaster AWE32
Posted on 2019-04-09, 18:20
I had disabled serial and parallel ports beforehand. Did found that IRQ 5 was set to used by ISA card in bios, and when I made it available, and ran diagnose again, and everything worked ok. Did try it with Doom II, and while slow, it did work :happy: Thanks to both of you, as it looks like I had a …
Re: Soundblaster AWE32
Posted on 2019-04-09, 10:17
Thanks for pointing me in right direction. Ram on the card is detected, when running diagnose, for example. However still isn't working properly. I get an IRQ error. Strange thing is that IRQ is set to 10 in set blaster environment, but 7 by ctcm. Tried to change it to 7 everywhere, but then gets …
Soundblaster AWE32
Posted on 2019-04-08, 22:35
The second post today is about my problem with the AWE32 I have, installed on same machine as other post(Valuepoint 6482 DX4 100MHz). It's a CT3990 that is populated with 2x16mb sticks, so 28mb available(as AWE32 can't use all 32mb). I bought the ram separately, so did not come with the card when I …
486 cache woes
Posted on 2019-04-08, 22:18
Got a hold of an Ibm Valuepoint 6482 486 DX4 100MHz a while back. In this https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=65530 thread I ask about floppies and a few other things. Short explenation. The original dos disk where buggered, or at least the first disk was. May have ordered wrong Gotek that …
Re: IBM Valuepoint DX4-100
Posted on 2019-02-24, 22:38
If it wasn't clear, the floppy drives don't work. Neither the original nor the the 2 Goteks I have tried works. Depending on what I have tired the floppy drives are sometime detected, and activity light briefly turns on before turning off. Detected in bios, but often bios complains there is an error …
IBM Valuepoint DX4-100
Posted on 2019-02-24, 13:31
Some months ago I got my hand on a Valuepoint DX4-100 Dp type 6482-vx. After a bit of a struggle, I got it booting in to original HDD with OS/2 warp3 on it. Looks to have been a test system of sorts, as by default a lot of what looks like measure software pops up. HDD was only 540mb or so. Wanted to …
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