Thank you, everyone! Sorry for the bad pic, my phone camera is really bad. I looked at it better this morning and, as Mkarcher said, there's indeed a "1" marking the right orientation, I don't know how I missed that, sorry. I was worried I would break something if I put the wrong cable or wrong …

I have this ISA controller card with a parallel and game port: https://i.imgur.com/nuI8IED.jpeg I already have one game port on my sound card and I want to use a mouse with this build. So I removed a serial port from a broken controller card: https://i.imgur.com/YsqcUH3.jpg So I was thinking... can …

So I was thinking... can I unplug the game port from that COM port and plug in the serial connector instead? Would it work? Game ports and serial ports are completely different hardware. So, no – unless that's not really a game port. Have you been able to use a joystick or joypad with it? You might …

I have this ISA controller card with a parallel and game port: https://i.imgur.com/nuI8IED.jpeg I already have one game port on my sound card and I want to use a mouse with this build. So I removed a serial port from a broken controller card: https://i.imgur.com/YsqcUH3.jpg So I was thinking... can …

This is my sound card: https://i.imgur.com/jy6L8mC.jpg That's an ISA turtle beach Tropez plus. It was working just fine until yesterday, but now I'm having this weird issue with speech/digital audio in games. The speech sounds in games like Sam & Max Hit the Road Classic and Wolfenstein 3D became …

Did you run the cards' initialization tools. They don't have jumpers so they need to be initialized by a software application. No, do you know where I can find it? I just found the manual for the first card, but not initialization tools. EDIT: Can I use the "Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver"? …

Did you run the cards' initialization tools. They don't have jumpers so they need to be initialized by a software application. No, do you know where I can find it? I just found the manual for the first card, but not initialization tools. EDIT: Can I use the "Universal ISA PnP Sound Card Driver"? …

So I bought this 486 that came with a MICRO-STAR MS-4138 / 486SI5 VESA Motherboard and this sound card: https://i.imgur.com/jy6L8mC.jpg It's an ISA turtle beach Tropez plus. It wasn't working with any game I tried so I bought this cheaper sound card: https://i.imgur.com/aq4rziw.jpg That's an Opti …

Whenever I want to wipe a disk, I use S0kill. It will remove MBR, PBR etc. https://www.vogons.org/viewtopic.php?p=618884#p618884 That being said, it's a little strange that format does fail so silently. Perhaps some other things are messed up. Personally, I'd check things first. SCANDISK, CHKDSK …

if your just formatting the hard disk it doesn't matter what version the boot disk is. If you want to boot from the hard drive after you format it you'll want to use the same dos version as you want to install. You will also want to tell format to copy system files after the format. so you would …

Jorpho wrote on 2020-09-23, 15:15: To take a wild guess: have you tried booting from a floppy and then running format.com from there? No, I don't have a DOS boot disk. Should I make one and try it? Can I use a dos 6.22 floppy boot or should I stick to 5.0?

Sorry if this is the wrong board. I don't have experience with DOS out of DOSBox and I'm having some problems formatting a hard drive on an old machine running DOS 5.0. I tried this: format c: /u WARNING, ALL DATA ON NON-REMOVEABLE DISK DRIVE C: WILL BE LOST! Proceed with Format (Y/N) Y C:\> _ …

Horun wrote on 2020-09-10, 19:29: Pins 6 & 10, here is a scan of part of the manual. The attached .zip has more images. Thank you, it worked! I connected it to pins 7 & 10 instead of 6 & 10, like the manual you posted was showing.

I'm having problems connecting my PC speaker. I found the manual of my motherboard, and it says I need to connect the speaker at "JFP location 6-10": https://www.elhvb.com/webhq/models/486vlb3/ms4138.txt.html https://www.elhvb.com/webhq/models/486vlb3/ms4138.gif My speaker connectors have two pins: …

Old hardware, new hardware it's all the same. check for bulging capacitors, damaged/missing components against pictures on the internet but that's about and like you said only improves your chances of a working part by a fraction. Oh and check that the ram slots still have the little clips to hold …

Hi! I'm new here. So I found a place in my town where I can find lots of untested 486/386 parts dirty cheap. But many of the parts are broken and I need a way to avoid choosing them. I'm want to build a 486 PC so I'll look for a socket 2/3 motherboard, 486sx CPU, 30-72 pin SIMM RAM, VLB video/sound …