Shelved this for now since it's becoming nay impossible to source the correct floppy and I'm running out of ideas with modifying the boot floppies to work. Ended p restoring the machine with a fresh copy of Windows 98 I had laying around. The machine runs nice and snappy, however I am yet to …

Update: Narrowed it down to the fact that there's a lot of fluff in memory and the command run for ARJ isn't using the extended memory option. Sadly the ARJ Archives can't be unpacked on a PC and repacked with the good command, because they're pass protected. I'm unsure where the password would be …

Grab yourself the Windows Update CD (I think it's from 04 ish?) it contains most of the final patches for Win98, and some other goodies. I generally use that + a whole host of official updates that are backed up depending on what I want the machine to do. I avoid KernelEX, any unofficial update " …

Update: Got the machine to "complete" a restore however upon booting into windows it just instantly fails to execute the autoexec.bat files and goes as far as to completely ignore the rest of the setup. I did manage to get the general windows setup post restore to show however after putting in the …

Update time: Okay so I haven't yet been able to check the CPU Voltages, Spent the last 4 hours running in circles with the "setupoem safe" because as much as it would boot it kept refusing to format or even try to read the Hard Drive. Some googling later and I think it's down to using such a large …

[...] Okay, here's some better details for you: It is indeed a PB640 motherboard, the guidance from http://www.uktsupport.co.uk/pb/mb/640.htm : States that I can use a Pentium MMX OverDrive just fine, Am I right in thinking the MMX OverDrive is different to the P MMX I purchased? I'll be honest I …

[...] Okay starting from the top here: I don't have any original floppies or master CDs, god I wish I did since this would be a lot easier lol! Sadly missed out on the holy grail machine that had everything because I got bid sniped :( I have the "universal" floppy which has a generic CD driver …

Oh, PB restore CD fun... I can't currently find my documentation, but exactly what is needed and available depends on the CD release, the 'format' number (14, 16 or 18 seems likely in this case). Good news: you have the floppy too. Older CDs didn't contain floppy images and the floppies tended to …

Never used PB restore disks so maybe leading you down the wrong track but... Sounds like you just need to modify the PB boot disk with updated CD-ROM driver. If you boot with the disk does dos even know about the CD drive? If not I'd work out which driver works with the currant CD-ROM oakcdrom.sys …

Nice! I bought a couple of early to mid 2000s P4 based PB/NEC multi media systems. The newest one had a horrible white plastic body so I transfer the new 3.2Ghz based mobo over to the older case. Works wonderfully well. Got the OEM software and speaker set up for both systems as well. Cost $nz40 …

Pics please ;) Here's the pic from fleaBay before I got it https://i.imgur.com/ogqJJkp.jpeg Right now, I only have the base machine set up because I do not have the room to set it all up, however I've removed the screen filter, and given the machine a good clean with some Isopropyl Alcohol which …

Hi Jim, How are you putting the images on the USB? The gotek comes with a software tool that you use to format the USB into multiple floppy "slots", which you then image these "slots" with the floppy image of your choice and off you go. The software in question is available from Phils Computer Lab …

Hi folks, first post here after falling across Vogons quite a bit when browsing generally "old" tech... I hope everyone is well! Finally, after much waiting I laid my hands on a Packard Bell Multimedia 9016D (AKA the Executive MM 9016D) The machine was pretty much original, however had a replacement …