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Wanted: AST 4050d or 4066d All-in-One motherboard.

VCFed about 10 months ago

Looking for a motherboard for an AST Advantage Adventure 4050d 0r 4066d All-in-One computer. (4000 Series 486 234068-001) The old MB was damaged by a leaking battery and the only ISA slot (for riser card) no longer working. …

General Old Hardware • SATA to IDE adapters

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi,I bought 2 SATA to IDE adapters on ebay which turned out to be defective (tried with 3 sata HDDs on 3 IDE motherboards in master and slave configs - no life).Quality of manufacture is pretty terrrible as well.I am debating rolling the dice again having …

General Old Hardware • [SOLVED] Netware 4.11 FTP anomaly

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi there.Recently I did replace my etherdfs retro computers network drive for Novell Netware 4.11. The idea was to have a network solution that is accessible from all retro OS instead of only DOS and for that, it's great, Can't be better, I think.It's mor …

General Old Hardware • Compaq Deskpro 486/66M - struggling to install maximum RAM capacity

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi,As the title says, I have a Compaq Deskpro M (486 DX2 66) and it's currently running with 32Mb Ram.I have the remaining 32Mb to populate the Ram board, but I was never able to make it work (the PC does not boot).I have tried swapping the Ram, and it wo …

General Old Hardware • Need help getting Promise EIDE 2300 Plus (VLB) working?

Vogons about 10 months ago

I'm trying to get Promise EIDE 2300 Plus working on FIC 486-GIO-VT in VESA slot 0 and can't get it to recognize IDE drive. It recognizes Floppy drive, but not IDE. During boot I see the EIDE2300 BIOS post message reporting BIOS version 3.3, but then I get …

General Old Hardware • Let me introduce you to my 386

Vogons about 10 months ago

I upgraded from a 286 to a fast 486 back in the day, I never had a 386 and recently I have been itching to do something useful with a 386. By no means an “ultimate” 386, I nevertheless aimed for a DX as a SX is in my opinion too crippled. I dug around …

General Old Hardware • PSU Watts - How much is too much?

Vogons about 10 months ago

I (very) recently started up a 486 project; basically I'm buying a bunch of parts online like the motherboard, graphics card, sound card, etc... all to build myself a nice 486 machine.Currently, I'm looking into PSUs; of course, you can't use a computer w …

Sound • In search for max sound compatibility :)

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi Everyone,As the title says, I am looking to have the most compatibility for sound options in my retro system.It is a Compaq 486/66, and use it to play PC games from the early 80's to the mid 90's.I have recently acquired an Orpheus II soundcard (absolu …
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Environmental Discs of Tron Roadside Pickup!

The Arcade Blogger about 10 months ago

We’ve spoken about arcade Tron a few times here on the blog over the years. Specifically, I shared some development documents a few months back here. For those of you that don’t know, Tron essentially became two games – the reg …
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6100 Cooling Mods

Tinker Different about 10 months ago

I'm in the process of cooling and quieting a 6100/66 with a 486/66 DOS card. For a first modification, I cut away part of the drive cage that diverts airflow away from the processors. I'm not sure what Apple was thinking here since it doesn't make much s …

General Old Hardware • 486 J-426b PCI board no recognising IDE CDROM

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi AllI have a Jetway J-426B board with Intel DX4 100 / 16MB - 1G IDE which has PCI and dual channel IDE onboard.Both IDE channels pick up the hdd via BIOS but refuse to detect any IDE Cd drive I attach to either channel in the bios set to Auto.I’ve bui …

General Old Hardware • Cannot identify mainboard

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hello everybody. I have found a 486 PC. It's not working, the leaked NiCd battery destroyed quite a lot. The PC is some Vobis Highscreen, but no more information. Chipset is SIS 85C461.- I was quite surprised to be unable to identify the mainboard. Could …
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Member Introductions • Greetings from the Commodore Chronicles Podcast in Michigan, USA

Lemon64 about 10 months ago

Greetings!I used to hob-knob these forums ten or so years ago, though I don't remember my user name, maybe "Fiveiron" (I'll look into that later).Anyways, I run the Commodore Chronicles Family of Podcasts, including Fine and Tandy: A Tandy 1000 Podcast, 4 …

2x ATT Globalyst 486 laptops : Trade only

VCFed about 10 months ago

This is a relist, as I never heard back from the last chap! They would cost about $17 to ship ala USPSMedium Flat Rate Box, or for pick-up in the Trenton-Princeton NJ area. I would prefer a straight trade, but will take a payPal offer. My interest are …

General Old Hardware • 386—>486 build

Vogons about 10 months ago

This build has been a while in the making, for the longest time it was parts on the counter without a caseFilenameIMG_0086.jpegFile size1.76 MiBViews65 viewsFilenameIMG_0091.jpegFile size1.53 MiBViews65 viewsSpecs and work are as follows:-Removed barrel b …

General Old Hardware • Help ID this 486 / socket 3 motherboard?

Vogons about 10 months ago

I have a motherboard I pulled from a 486 system and I'm trying to find info or a manual for it.It's a socket 3 board with a UMC82C482AF / UMC82C481BF chipset.I tried googling the number on the board "P404F0010B", but that returned zero results.FilenameSoc …

Hardware hacks and extensions • Manual Erebus multiload

Defence Force about 10 months ago

I know that the Erebus does not support multiload out of the box, but I was wondering if Erebus multiload was possible if the code specifically talks to the Erebus ROM.First, I'm assuming multi-file multiload is possible? i.e. if I page in the Erebus ROM, …
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General Old Hardware • New to retro x86. 486DLC cache/A20 issues on mysterious mobo variant.

Vogons about 10 months ago

This is Camelia. She's a 386 PC I bought on ebay a few weeks back. The entire system seems to have initially been put together by an OEM called NCI. Every part inside had "NCI" warranty stickers and that badge in front seems to have a model name too (NCI …

General Old Hardware • 386 and Compact Flash Woes

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi all. I am working on a new 386 build and am having some trouble. The primary storage is a 512MB Compact Flash drive using IDE adapter I've successfully used with other 386 and 486 builds in the past. Here are the details:It's a Rectron PEAK/DM 386 D …

General Old Hardware • Alternative for 40 pin ZIP package DRAM

Vogons about 10 months ago

So lets start with the reason for this project...I have a Fujitsu ICL PCTV that packs a FIC 486-GAC-V motherboard. The system is odd but interesting, with an integrated Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428-80Qc-A graphics chip, and 1Mb of dedicated memory.Next to it ar …

General Old Hardware • 486 Overdrive upgrade

Vogons about 10 months ago

Is it possible to install DX2ODPR into the co-processor slot (when the main cpu is soldered on the main board)? The true ODP chips have an extra pin that supposedly deactivates the main cpu, so I wondered maybe there's a way to mimic that. Anyone know?Sta …

General Old Hardware • Pentium Overdrive 83 does not work with external cache enabled in the BIOS

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hello awesome community!I am running this exact motherboard (even contributed a BIOS dump and image!):https://theretroweb... have been enjoying a 486 DX-2 66mhz on it for some time and decided to get myself a Pentium O …

General Old Hardware • Acer 350C 486 dx4 75.

Vogons about 10 months ago

Ok so I eye'd this little beauty on ebay a couple weeks ago, and had to have it.Laptop is in great condition, but had no HDD so I threw in a 10gb spinny mess I had in my pile.System boots to bios, will boot of a dos startup floppy. I really want to get th …

Sound • First Roland Sound Generator - need help with connections to PC

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi,I went all out and bought a lot of stuff which is tricking in. I think I have the components to actually get a game working, but before I start plugging wires in, I wanted to check with the experts. What I have:1.) An IBM 350 with ISA Slots, 486/DX2 …
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General Old Hardware • FIC 486-VIP-IO2 Problem with PS/2 mouse port. Measuring only 10 ohm of resistance between the data pin and power

Vogons about 10 months ago

Hi folks,I'm trying to get the PS/2 port of a FIC 486-VIP-IO2 motherboard working. I started off with updating the BIOS to the latest version, confirming in MODBIN that PS/2 support was enabled and when that didn't work, I installed an external keyboard c …