Okay, so… win 3.11, windows 95, or….?

Linux?

With a POD83 and 32MB of RAM, you have a lot of options. It will run Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 with no issues. Windows NT 3.51 and Windows NT 4 will also work well. If nothing else, it will rock DOS 6.22.

I’m kinda leaning toward 95 maybe go all fancy and do a plus pack or something. Lol

What about a mac os hackentosh? System 7.1?

Or linux or beos?

It might run Apple Rhapsody if you can get floppies working.

It might run Apple Rhapsody if you can get floppies working. I've never tried it on a 486-class system.

BeOS would probably work, too.

From my experience when you use the CF card the PC Bios will assign some sort of Hard drive type/size config to the CF card. But that does not matter what hard drive type/size the bios gives to the CF card. When you boot the computer and fdisk the CF card. The CF card will let you partition it to 2gb partitions.

Thats PC was originally designed to be a DOS/Win3x computer.
But with the upgrades you added it is more than capable to run Win95.
You could even add a PCI USB 2.0 card if you are going to run Win95c
You can download Win95c from internet and it comes with USB drivers but you will need to add the USB driver update.
Also you might want to add Network card ( 3com 3c509 ) and use a WiFi extender adapter to get on your home network ( TP-link )

The computer only has ISA slots, so that limits expansion options a bit. But, you can add an ISA network card to get the system online.

OS/2 v 3 will run on that setup fine as well. FreeDos is another option.

Sphere478 wrote on 2022-07-20, 02:27:

Okay, so… win 3.11, windows 95, or….?

Linux?

This thread may give you some useful information- Which operating systems work on i586?

Ah my old thread! Gonna have to give it another look through. 😀 forgot about it haha

Intel486dx33 wrote on 2022-07-20, 10:39:

Thats PC was originally designed to be a DOS/Win3x computer. But with the upgrades you added it is more than capable to run Win […]
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Thats PC was originally designed to be a DOS/Win3x computer.
But with the upgrades you added it is more than capable to run Win95.
You could even add a PCI USB 2.0 card if you are going to run Win95c
You can download Win95c from internet and it comes with USB drivers but you will need to add the USB driver update.
Also you might want to add Network card ( 3com 3c509 ) and use a WiFi extender adapter to get on your home network ( TP-link )

No pci on this mobo 🙁

Oh, os2 would be fun

Which isa video card for gateway 2000 with pentium overdrive?

Woohoo!

Progress!

I upgraded the video memory to 1bm
I installed a post card, a sound blaster, a scsi card, and a xt-ide.

Gonna see if I can get a OS on the scsi now.

Thanks to tonk for helping with this:

https://www.datasheetarchive.com/pdf/download … O&term=VL82C480

Gonna try for 64 mb

If I can find some 32 chip 32 mb simms. Anyone know where to find some?

Did some more playing around with it today.

I got my adapter for 80 to 50 pin.

And installed a 15k rpm 140 something gb drive

It shows as 8-9gb though.

Scanning the drive goes past 100% in the controller utility 🤣.

Anyway, gonna wait to do more prob till my new gotek gets here I ordered one for it.

It lives!!

It is actually pretty snappy! Had to test it out with myst and sc2k of course!

Gonna try and run some benchmarks on it later.

Finally got the scsi working. It seems to have been some setting in the scsi bios that was causing issues.

I installed a 140gb 15k rpm drive on a 80 to 50 pin adapter, bought a terminator and it is all working. But only 8gb of it. (Thoughts?) anyway, 8gb is enough for most of what I wanna do with it, but not enough to hold all my dos games. Getting to at least 32 gb would be nice.

If I haven’t mentioned already, I got the cache, ram, and onboard video memory all maxed out it seems? 256k, 32mb, 1mb

I installed windows 95c btw. Might be fun to play around with linux later but for now this is working fine.

That sounds like a great win95 system! Is the drive itself jumpered for a smaller size or some sort of compatibility mode? What file system did you use for 95c fat 16 or fat32?

Sphere478 wrote on 2022-09-13, 12:48:

Finally got the scsi working. It seems to have been some setting in the scsi bios that was causing issues.

which one?

in discord you said you changed settings in DOS, so was it DOS or the SCSI BIOS or both?

I didn’t say I changed settings in dos.

“ Still can’t get drive to show up in dos
Ooo changed some settings, I think it may be working now!
It sees the drive!!!”

Not sure what setting. I set everything back to default except larger than 1gb drive support and that worked.

I’ll probably go back in and start tweaking things till I break it and then I will know.

chrismeyer6 wrote on 2022-09-13, 13:00:

That sounds like a great win95 system! Is the drive itself jumpered for a smaller size or some sort of compatibility mode? What file system did you use for 95c fat 16 or fat32?

It seems to be a scsi controller bios limitation? Idk. Kinda new to scsi.

I assume it is fat 32 being 8gb

I don’t believe any of the jumpers are set to a size limit.

Yeah none of those jumpers should set a size limit. It might have something to to with the scsi card. Which card are you running as their might be a bios update for larger hard drive support.