I know I’ve posted a few times asking for help lately but I’m just really stumped with some of this stuff. I can’t get Ethernet working in my Inspiron 2500. It has the port for it but windows 98 both doesn’t detect any missing devices and any of the 10/100 drivers I installed from the Dell page for …

I know I’ve posted a few times asking for help lately but I’m just really stumped with some of this stuff. I can’t get Ethernet working in my Inspiron 2500. It has the port for it but windows 98 both doesn’t detect any missing devices and any of the 10/100 drivers I installed from the Dell page for …

You need to look for the Dell PA-1 charger, you can also search for "dell 18.5v" and get some results that way. It's got quite a distinctive plug with that rounded end. Here's what one looks like from a search: dell-pa1-1.jpgdell-pa1-2.jpgdell-pa1-3.jpg I should really buy one of these some day, …

Where are you located? If in the USA, Amazon has an aftermarket one for $17.99: https://www.amazon.com/Kircuit-Adapter-Latitude-Laptop-Charger/dp/B082W45W1H Here is a used Genuine Dell adapter on eBay for $14.99 (I would go with this one): https://www.ebay.com/itm/AC-Adapter-Power-Charger-for-DeLL- …

Good Afternoon Everyone, I have a Dell XPI that I’d really like to get working that’s missing a charger. Unfortunately the other Dell chargers I have don’t fit it and I can’t seem to find it online. Does anyone have a recommendation on where to buy this from? Or maybe a good universal one that could …

Glad its up and running, its a nice laptop not that I've owned one. That era had some real nice docking stations. They all had VGA, PS2 ports, etc but also added the below which could be useful MiniStation Base gives you networking and somewhat useful External SCSI, although finding good SCSI CD …

Your floppy has a bad belt. Those Citizen W1D drives are notorious for broken belts. I've fixed about 7 myself. Fortunately, they're found in a lot of other computers. Right off the top of my head, a few Sony Vaio external drives used them, as did a few Gateways. If it's just the belt, there's an …

Nice progress Why are you so sure the floppy drive does not work? If you are going to keep this thing I strongly recommend you check if the floppy drive actually work, and if yes, then get some floppies and a USB floppy drive (as linked above) I tried it and it makes horrible noises and does …

Just to update anyone that cares. I plugged the disk into my computer using a cheap 44pin to USB adapter I have. I put the disk offline in disk part and made a virtual box image and installed dos as the instructions posted previously and it works! Now to get a network card and get some games on here …

This documents it pretty well http://theinstructionlimit.com/installing-ms-dos-6-22-on-a-486-without-a-floppy-drive-using-a-cf-to-ide-adapter. If it was me I'd go with Win95, (steps are more or less the same) you can boot into pure dos mode if that's your ultimate goal but its easier to get a …

Hey everyone, I was told that posting here with my issue might be a good idea. I’m having trouble with this laptop I picked up. It boots up and seems to work well! But there’s no Os on it and the hard drive isn’t formatted. Is there a way to format a hard drive as bootable for Dos and copy over a …