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First post, by Gahhhrrrlic

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I've been working on a P133 machine, which will have DOS/W95 on it. It's going to be a pretty sweet build and thanks to our own Jed118, who first replaced my RTC battery and then determined that I HADN'T blown up my motherboard (saving me from throwing it in the trash and buying another for $450), I'm able to reap the full benefit of the Shuttle HOT-557 WITH USB!!!

Anyway, I have every single slot filled on this thing, except for the 1 PCI card that can't simultaneously be filled with the ISA below it because they share the same back panel. I had the computer running ok with most of the cards working fine but ultimately decided to reformat and start again because the USB was giving me problems. First it worked, then it decided to stop working. Anyway, no harm done... yet.

So when I reformatted and tried to put windows back on, it failed to detect my sound card at all. Also in DOS, the drivers couldn't see anything at 220H. It was as if the card wasn't there. This brings me to my question. Is there a good DOS utility that will list all the cards in the machine and the addresses/resources they occupy? From doing a bit of research I've come across the following suggestions: pcisleep, PCICFG, msd, HWiNFO, Manifest (mft.exe). Mind you, some of these programs don't seem to do what I am asking - they list hardware info but not specifically for your ISA and PCI cards. What I'm hoping to find is a program that will enumerate all the cards, both ISA and PCI and tell you roughly what they are and where they are. Any ideas on this?

Config:

HOT-557
32MB 70nS RAM
P120 O/C to 133
ATI 3D Rage II PCI
PCI NIC
ISA Modem
SB16 ISA w/ dreamblaster
ISA SCSI Controller
USB Panel to MB header
2 x Serial
1 x Parallel

EDIT: As this is my 166 post, I recommend we all put MHz after our number of posts, to show level of noobness 😜

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Reply 1 of 4, by Vikingo

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Therea are a couple tools you can use. Thos for DOS help you to see wich resources your devices are using.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/files.html
https://www.ccontrols.com/sd/findpci.htm

and if you manage to install windows 95, you can use this one to identify.

http://www.zhangduo.com/udi.html

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Reply 2 of 4, by Gahhhrrrlic

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Vikingo wrote:
Therea are a couple tools you can use. Thos for DOS help you to see wich resources your devices are using. […]
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Therea are a couple tools you can use. Thos for DOS help you to see wich resources your devices are using.

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/files.html
https://www.ccontrols.com/sd/findpci.htm

and if you manage to install windows 95, you can use this one to identify.

http://www.zhangduo.com/udi.html

Awesome, thank you. The findpci utility seems to be exactly what I need. Do you think it will also detect ISA? I didn't see any mention of it so I'm not sure if it treats it any differently. If you don't know I'll be able to try it out tonight so I can let you know.

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Reply 3 of 4, by Vikingo

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Never tried myself. Only have experience with UDI and it detects anything, no matter if its PCI or ISA.

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Reply 4 of 4, by Gahhhrrrlic

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Since you mention UDI, does it pick up items that DON'T show up as unknown devices? Like if you have a sound card plugged in but it's not showing in device manager at all? That's my current dilemma and yet hours earlier it was playing music. I can't rule out that it just failed on me but I didn't touch the insides of the machine, I just reformatted.

I wonder if I messed up the BIOS settings under PNP. I can't seem to make sense of that tab in this particular BIOS layout. It's on auto now.

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