I have now flashed the latest beta BIOS (v. 3.83) and successfully tested with a K6-2 + 550 MHz, which gets detected correctly :) Interesting! I ended up not using the V3.83 BIOS on my Rev 4.0 board, since it did not correctly detect my K6-III+ CPU. (I've tried a bunch of BIOS versions, so my …

At least your MS-5196 board appears to have better caps than my (rev 4.0) did, mine was straight out of the Taiwanese capacitor plague era, and had a few leaking 1000µF caps. I ended up recapping the board, and stability improved quite a bit. I'm surprised by how different the mosfet and capacitor …

Also got the AWE64 DOS utilities and drivers installed and got the card to work (missed one of the files in autoexec.bat to add C:\CTCM\CTCM) and the card does work, except the AWE32 music portion acts strange for some odd reason, so I need to get that all sorted out, but the card works regardless. …

It's running Bios 5.4.03 ( I have the screen to setup the raid on boot ) and both DOS and Windows are working fine without using the "Base" Bios. Just the speed that seems to be very low. Do you think that flashing the Bios to the Base one will improve the speed under w98 ? So, the BIOS version …

Nice! Is that a miro OPL4 card? Would love to know which OPL4 cards have DOS drivers. In many cases the OPL4 is connected to a PCM/SoundBlaster compatible sound chip on the board as a wavetable device, so it's accessible through an MPU-401 compatible interface, no special dos drivers needed. I have …

So I gave it a try… The startlogo.oem file you've included is identical to the one included with the Windows 95 OSR2. The "oemlogo" and "oeminfo" files need to go into C:\Windows\System, at least on Windows 95. https://www.kepstin.ca/dump/ibm-aptiva-screenshot.png Looks great, and the screensaver …

Ah, I would love to see this! I personally have an IBM 2137 E46 with the original windows install long gone, and it would be neat to make it look a bit more authentic. I know there have been other threads here for sharing OEM wallpapers and graphics, so I don't think it would be a problem?

I'm not seeing the ones that have the dummy load and give -5v. Does anyone know where to find the ones with the dummy load and -5v? Some modern PSUs use DC-DC conversion to generate the 3.3V and 5V lines from the 12V internally. These PSUs do not need a dummy load on the 12V, since the conversion …

I believe it. the TX-650W runs it all OK with 30 on the 3.3/5 but it doesnt POST until I start strapping extra drives to it, fun times. My guess is it wants a minimum load on the 12V before it's happy enough flip power-good to ON . I wonder if I will have the same issue with the RM850x . My P3 …

For a modern SSD controller running an OS without TRIM support (e.g. Win98-WinXP), I'd leave around 25% of the drive space unpartitioned. That's probably overkill, especially on 250gb+ drives, but it should be sufficient that the drive won't ever run out of space to perform background garbage …

-Some colors have a bit of a dotted pattern to them on the screen. You can especially see this in the gray parts of Windows 3.x or 95. Possibly a limitation of these early TFTs? (See below) I believe this is indeed a limitation of the early TFTs, probably due to the low bit depth (number of …

That's a really great setup!! With a gig of RAM that system would run 2000 really well. I wish! 2000 is my favourite version of Windows. Unfortunately, due either to BIOS bugs or power management issues caused possibly by bad caps or some other hardware fault, 2000 installs - but once installed, it …

But the lower HDD cage can be moved forward and that makes it a lot easier to use IDE drives there. Got one of each color of the Focus G's and my favorite is the "White" one with its matte finish, followed by the "Petrol Blue" that just screams "Build and Intel system in me!". Ah, I hadn't noticed …

Surprizing to me is that 512Mb ram sticks are fully functional on that board ? I’m honestly as surprised as you are. When I was trying to decide what board to look for, I was reading the AnandTech Chipset Guide which mentioned “The Aladdin V, in theory can accept up to 1GB of RAM”. That obviously …

Hi, so I've been working for a while on putting together a system based mostly around early-2000s era components, although with some modern quality of life features where it makes sense. Here's the result: https://www.kepstin.ca/dump/vogons-forums/DSC_0006_250.jpg Oh, wait, sorry. Wrong picture – …

dreamblaster wrote on 2020-04-07, 10:42: But please note I cannot ship outside Europe for the moment. Ah, as a north american I guess I'm going to have to be patient for a bit longer. That said, the rest of my build isn't ready yet anyways 😀 Please keep us updated on the situation!

dreamblaster wrote on 2019-12-16, 18:35: The simmconn adapters are out of stock. I will probably have a new batch made, begin 2020. Post below if you are interested, I will pm you when it is ready. I'd love to be added to the list for a 2020 production batch! I'm looking for a soldered/assembled …