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Re: What is your weirdest troubleshooting experience when dealing with retro computers/hardware?

Posted on 2020-06-25, 16:20

The summer 1999 me and one of my best friends built two more or less identical computers. Asus P5A, K6-2 450 and 128mb ram and a really ugly case from Asus. My computer was running really good, stable (ehum..) and no problems at all. My friends computer had some really bad issues with random reboots …

Re: Compaq Prosignia 3080 / 486DX33

Posted on 2020-03-28, 18:47

I have an extra hdd-led on the 5,25" front plate where I have one of the hard drives. I think I saw a connector on the disk (the 340mb one) for a hdd-led it should be quite easy to fix. I will have a look at it when I replace the cd-rom. The hdd-led on the case works as it supposed to do. After …

Re: Compaq Prosignia 3080 / 486DX33

Posted on 2020-03-27, 08:18

1. Nice to know and if I find one it will be perfect in this computer. 2. I will keep an eye open. The only one i found now was about 200 EUR and that is a bit to much... 3. I have an Adaptec AHA 1740 that I can try if I don't find another solution. CD-rom isn't top priority at the moment and I …

Re: Compaq Prosignia 3080 / 486DX33

Posted on 2020-03-25, 18:12

Its time to see what has been done from the list I made in the first post. Get to know the hardware better I'm not sure if I know it any better now but I have found some fun stuff and some of its personality. The memory modules that was installed when I got it seems to be for a HP Printer... but it …

Re: Compaq Prosignia 3080 / 486DX33

Posted on 2020-03-22, 20:54

CoffeeOne wrote on 2020-03-22, 19:42: OSkar000 wrote on 2020-03-22, 15:25: I copied the CD over the network 😉 That's cheating. A computer without network connection is not worth working on 😀 It was painful enough to install wfw311 from disks... but it was fun to see that they still were ok after …

Re: Compaq Prosignia 3080 / 486DX33

Posted on 2020-03-22, 15:25

OS = Dos 6.22 and WFW 3.11 The installation program I'm reffering to is the setup for the soundcard on the CD I got with it so it should be the original drivers from 1995. Disabling the IDE-port on the card is on the list of things that I should do but I have to figure out how to do it first. As …

Re: Compaq Prosignia 3080 / 486DX33

Posted on 2020-03-22, 13:50

1) I recommended to put the 3Com 3C509 into EISA mode, then it will be fully controlled via ECU. 2) Do you use an EISA configuration file for the sound blaster 32? I changed the 3Com-card to use EISA-mode and that seems to work just fine. I don't have any configuration file for the SB32 but it …

Re: Compaq Prosignia 3080 / 486DX33

Posted on 2020-03-22, 12:09

@OSkar000 For the SB32 (in DOS), you may try Unisound to check if it detects your card (if it does, the card will be initialized): https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?f=62&t=72553 I did a quick test and after running Unisound it seems to work. I could install the drivers and software. However... i …

Re: Compaq Prosignia 3080 / 486DX33

Posted on 2020-03-21, 11:03

Got some work done today and found some new problems! https://i.imgur.com/gTolSgv.jpg First of all, the networking card was a simple IRQ conflict, it didn't like sharing IRQ with the SCSI-card. After running the config utility, 3c5x9cfg.exe and changing to IRQ 10 everything worked great and I could …

Re: Compaq Prosignia 3080 / 486DX33

Posted on 2020-02-27, 17:57

Got some work done today and found some new problems! https://i.imgur.com/gTolSgv.jpg First of all, the networking card was a simple IRQ conflict, it didn't like sharing IRQ with the SCSI-card. After running the config utility, 3c5x9cfg.exe and changing to IRQ 10 everything worked great and I could …

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