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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 …

Re: Compaq Prosignia 3080 / 486DX33

Posted on 2020-02-26, 17:31

Thinking about buying one, it's on my eBay watchlist. Does it have L2 support? From what I can see it seems to have 256k L2 cache installed. Progress is slow on this computer, but I have finally found a SCSI-cable that is long enough to hook up two harddrives and the CD-rom. At the moment I'm stuck …

Re: Compaq Prosignia 3080 / 486DX33

Posted on 2020-01-29, 06:44

An EISA graphics card that can do 1600x1200 will be hard to find. I am not even sure, if such a card exists. I have the compaq 1024/E card inside (1MB VRAM as far as I know), it can do 1024x768 256 colours with 60Hz. In my second 486er EISA machine, I have a ATI Graphics Ultra Pro 2MB VRAM, it can …

Re: Compaq Prosignia 3080 / 486DX33

Posted on 2019-12-31, 11:28

Not much happening here since I got another project that needs some more attention than this one. More on that later :) I got image files for Dos 6.22 and I found the orignal windows 3.11 installation disks in a box here. Also with Dos 5 and Windows 3.0 and some other programs from that time. …

Re: Compaq Prosignia 3080 / 486DX33

Posted on 2019-12-16, 19:19

Congratulations, I own two of these systems myself. Along with many more Compaq servers including the 1500 and 5000. As you allready found out the box does not have any usual BIOS, instead allmost everything is configured by the ECU (EISA configuration utility). This can be started from floppy …

Re: Compaq Prosignia 3080 / 486DX33

Posted on 2019-12-15, 16:36

Happy to see more Compaq enthusiasts! I loathed Compaq earlier, but mostly because of their crappy home computer models, Got a new experince when i started in my current job in 1999 and got familiar with Compaqs business computers and servers. Yes the were proprietary and had their odd designs, but …

Compaq Prosignia 3080 / 486DX33

Posted on 2019-12-14, 11:51

Some time ago I found an old Compaq on an auction and couldn't resist from buying it. When I grew up i had som kind of hate/love relationship with Compaqs computers but now allmost 20 years later I have started to like them more and more so I have a few from this 486 up to a non working Pentium Pro. …

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