I've been offered a Tseng Labs ET4000/W32P PCI Rev. A for 30 euros. Wikipedia says, that revisions prior to D "had some design problems that caused sub-optimal or problematic operation when used in PCI implementations". Does anyone know more about what these are? Is the card itself a good choice for …

According to Intel archived page, final bios version for this motherboard (not OEM) is 6 http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/AdvancedZP/ I found this BIOS here: ftp://soporte.uson.mx/DRIVERS/TARJETAS_MADRE/INTEL/Intel_Bios_Updates/BIOS_Updates/Intel/10006bs0.exe Here are more …

Just checked my BIOS, it's AMIBIOS 1.00.04.BSO. Any way to find out what it supports?

Thank you, that answered all the questions I had!

I know that DOS has a max partitions size of 2 GB, but can I use any PATA drive, say a 40 GB?

cyclone3d wrote on 2020-05-28, 17:50: Could also be a crappy VGA cable if it isn't built into the monitor itself. Good call, I'll check that too!

imi wrote on 2020-05-28, 15:43: the second picture looks fine to me, that's just moiré from the camera. probably just noisy VGA ouput from the card, you could try turning down brightness to see if that helps make it disappear. Thank you, I'll start scouting for a better graphics card!

do you have a photo showing the effect you mean? It looks something like this (click to enlarge): https://img.aijaa.com/t/00262/14843383.t.jpg Not the best picture, sorry about that. I also noticed, that the lines don't appear until I connect my computer to it. While it's just displaying the No …

It's been a decade since I had my last CRT, so I don't quite remember what's normal. But I just bough a new in box Samtron E78 (manufactured around 2003) and upon turning it on, it works great, BUT there's these vertical shadows across the screen. Not on the screen itself but "behind" it. So now I'm …