Hi everyone! So a while back I got myself an old IBM PC with a 486DX4 100MHz and 16mb RAM. A few days ago I got an idea to make it my main PC for DOS and Windows 3.1. I want to use it with an ES1688f sound card and EtherLink III network card but I ran into a few problems. Problem number 1 It has a …

As for integrated it also isn't detected at all. But there is one capasitor that started leaking and one that will start to leak soon, so maybe that's the problem

I bought an old PGA370 motherboard MS-6309. I put it in a case with Radeon 9550 and Ethernet card RTL8029AS. I set up Windows 98 and then added Sound Blaster Live, but it made the computer to not start up, so I tried with Sound Blaster Audigy. I managed to boot into Windows 98 and I tried with this …

Really nice, but I wasn't able to find the utility and .lng files 🙁

AlexZ wrote on 2022-05-08, 14:59: If the option is locked then you highly likely need to download English version of the BIOS and flash it. Look at edit in first post

I got old motherboard, Intel WS440BX E139761. Bios is in German but I would prefer to change it to English. There is proper option in BIOS options, but it's locked and I can't change it. Do you know, how am I able to do it? EDIT: I tried flashing newest BIOS version, but language is still German and …

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For now I only have one photo, but I'll make more and post them here https://imgur.com/a/FBnnDDT EDIT: There was a capacitor near the place where I found the computer. Maybe it was from the motherboard? I don't know, I'll look for places where capacitors should be

Hi 2 days ago I found old incomplete Socket 7 computer in my old house. It didin't have any RAM modules, CPU, GPU, ISA or PCI cards, hard drives, floppy drives or CD/DVD drives. I want to make this computer my main DOS gaming machine. When I turn it on it boot, but It doesn't display anythink or do …

I made a mistake. It's a more a mid 90s PC than late 90s. I already got a late 90s PC. It has Celeron 1000MHz, SB Live, Geforce 2 MX400 and 256mb RAM.

Hi I'm building a computer with Windows 98 from late 90s. Parts I chosed, are: AMD K6-2 350 32MB Ram ( I will upgrade to 128 later) S3 Trio 64V+ ESS Audiodrive ES1688f network card CD and DVD drive 3.5 Floppy For some reason CPU is detected as 486DX2 66 MHz. I tried resetting the Bios, removing CMOS …

I need this driver, but I can't find it anywhere. Does anyone have it?