Re: Battle of the ALL U.S.A 486 computers.
Posted on 2019-10-09, 02:57
Atrend 4GPV3 486 VESA Motherboard IBM Blue lighting 486dx2-66 Benchmarks.
Re: Battle of the ALL U.S.A 486 computers.
Posted on 2019-10-09, 02:56
More Atrend 4GPV3 486 VESA Motherboard IBM Blue lighting 486dx2-66 Benchmarks.
Re: Battle of the ALL U.S.A 486 computers.
Posted on 2019-10-09, 02:51
Atrend 4GPV3 486 VESA Motherboard IBM Blue lighting 486dx2-66 Benchmarks.
Re: Battle of the ALL U.S.A 486 computers.
Posted on 2019-10-09, 02:36
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Re: Battle of the ALL U.S.A 486 computers.
Posted on 2019-10-09, 02:33
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Posted on 2019-10-09, 02:31
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Re: Can you help save “Made in U.S.A. 486” ?
Posted on 2019-10-09, 01:09
Okay, I am still trying to get this Young-Micro 486 motherboard to work. I compared with another working motherboard of the same type. So my jumpers are set correctly. The problems could be the Dallas clock or Bios chip. Currently It will NOT post. The CPU does not get hot. No beeps , Nothing. Only …
Battle of the "Made in U.S.A " 486 computers.
Posted on 2019-10-08, 22:59
Feel FREE to enter your Made in USA 486 Computer. What I am bench marking ( Motherboard, cache, ram, CPU-486 any speed ) These parts must have been made in USA. Buy American Act — Requires that a product be manufactured in the U.S. of more than 50 percent U.S. parts to be considered Made in USA for …
Re: Another IBM damaged!!
Posted on 2019-10-07, 22:53
Yes, I once received a computer on a pallet. I was impressed. (I was however left with the problem of disposing of the pallet.) I use to work for a large computer company and they use to ship computers on a pallet to remote locations for educational training. I did not realize it at the time. But …
Re: IBM PS/1 Consultant 1993 with Sound blaster.
Posted on 2019-10-07, 18:43
I thought I should post a link to my other posts listing the different models of the IBM PS/1. Link IBM PS/1 investor ?
Re: Best way to shutdown a 386/486 ?
Posted on 2019-10-07, 18:37
Once you see no drive activity - use power button and that's all. HDD LED is there for a purpose you know... I never damaged filesystem on the harddrive even with big smartdrive buffer by turning off the computer - but I always did it like that. If you want to move the machine around and it has MFM …
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-10-07, 17:52
HanJammer wrote: Another Highscreen to part out... Octek Jaguar V inside, Trident 8900... But it also has this CD-ROM drive and 360kB 5,25" floppy drive... It is working, I wonder what I will find on HDD... What type of CDROM drive is that ?
Re: Yamaha OPL YMF262 driver ?
Posted on 2019-10-07, 17:47
derSammler wrote: In Windows, you select "FM synthesis" for MIDI and Windows will do the rest. The media player can play MIDI files using the OPL3 then with no additional drivers or software required. That works since Win3.1 up to XP at least. What about in DOS ?
Re: What are you eating/drinking? (the vogons food thread)
Posted on 2019-10-07, 12:18
They have Chocolate Cowboy Twinkies too. They taste pretty good. They are not covered with Chocolate frosting , only Chocolate cake. So they are not to sweet. Just right. Taste great with coffee.
Yamaha OPL YMF262 driver ?
Posted on 2019-10-07, 11:44
I have a CT1740 sound card with a Yamaha YMF262 chip. I can not get MIDI files to play. So I want to know if this chip purpose is to be able to play MIDI files and what is the driver for it. I can play .wave files fine. Just not MIDI. I have the Sound Blaster drivers installed. everything appears to …
Re: Any other non-gaming retro PC enthusiasts out there?
Posted on 2019-10-07, 08:50
I use my old computers for playing old music CDROM’s too. Sound good with a good sound cards and good speaker setup.
Re: Bought these (retro) hardware today
Posted on 2019-10-06, 15:17
These are from the 1990’s era. Advent AV370 speakers with subwoofer. They sound pretty good with good base for there time. They are NOT as nice as Klipsch Pro media 2.1 speakers but these Advent speakers work with Powered sound cards like the Media Vision PAS16. The AMP on the sound card does not …
Re: AMD K6-III+ higher CPU usage than K6-III
Posted on 2019-10-06, 09:43
I run my K6-3+450 @ 550mhz with 2.2v. Runs stable with no issues.
Re: Best way to shutdown a 386/486 ?
Posted on 2019-10-06, 07:05
Yeah, My 486 IBM PS/1 has a feature called "Rapid resume" it is like "Hibernation mode" for the Win-3.1 on 486 computer. If you have this feature turned on then I assume you are never suppose to turn off the computer. You are suppose to let this feature manage the computer and it will go into …
Re: Best way to shutdown a 386/486 ?
Posted on 2019-10-05, 17:04
When using smartdrive, always load it with the /X parameter. FAT is a very weak filesystem and can't really take interruption while writing, so you don't want write cache. Apart from that, you don't shut down a DOS/Win3.x machine. Just turn it off when you're done. If you have virtual memory …
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