Re: Pcmcia adapter help needed

Posted on 2024-04-26, 09:53

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by George Razvan

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Your adapter will never work unless you have a specific Nec laptop. https://web.archive.org/web/20030314205437/https://www.nec.co.jp/press/ja/0303/1201.html note 16: Compatible memory is SD memory card / memory stick / smart media / multimedia card. Use by inserting it into the PC card slot. …

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Re: Pcmcia adapter help needed

Posted on 2024-04-25, 11:52

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by George Razvan

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lolo799 wrote on 2024-04-22, 20:06: Can you show your Nec SD adapter? You can find a trial version of Cardware 7.0 at tssc.de, give it a try. This is the adapter. I don't have any experience with pcmcia. So besides the drivers I need... What? What are Windows 95 pc card services?

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Re: Pcmcia adapter help needed

Posted on 2024-04-21, 17:01

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by George Razvan

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VCFED saves the day with a link to NEC FTP archive via Archive.org, that should work with this machine. https://archive.org/details/ftp.necam.com Double check that the CORRECT PCMCIA bridge driver is loaded, then be sure that cards properly announce when inserted or removed. Still does not work. …

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Re: Pcmcia adapter help needed

Posted on 2024-04-21, 10:53

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by George Razvan

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VCFED saves the day with a link to NEC FTP archive via Archive.org, that should work with this machine. https://archive.org/details/ftp.necam.com Double check that the CORRECT PCMCIA bridge driver is loaded, then be sure that cards properly announce when inserted or removed. Awesome. Tks, get back …

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Re: Pcmcia adapter help needed

Posted on 2024-04-21, 10:52

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by George Razvan

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wierd_w wrote on 2024-04-21, 10:38: If cards dont make a "BooDoop!!" sound when inserted, then the bridge driver is NOT working correctly. No sound.

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Re: Pcmcia adapter help needed

Posted on 2024-04-21, 10:32

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by George Razvan

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I think apart from PCMCIA drivers Win95 needs drivers to support SD cards. Not sure they exist, however. Just like it needs IDE device drivers to work with CF card(in a PCMCIA adapter). Did your adapter come with own drivers? No, no drivers. But since it is an adapter it should be transparent to …

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Re: Pcmcia adapter help needed

Posted on 2024-04-21, 09:35

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by George Razvan

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I've only used PCMCIA CF adapters. Those are pretty much plug and play. Does the PCMCIA adapter show up in the device manager? Have you tried running add/remove hardware from the control panel? No, it does not show. Yup, tried add hardware wizzard, nothing is found. I consider getting an pcmcia cf …

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Re: Pcmcia adapter help needed

Posted on 2024-04-21, 09:32

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by George Razvan

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I think apart from PCMCIA drivers Win95 needs drivers to support SD cards. Not sure they exist, however. Just like it needs IDE device drivers to work with CF card(in a PCMCIA adapter). Did your adapter come with own drivers? No, no drivers. But since it is an adapter it should be transparent to …

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Re: Pcmcia adapter help needed

Posted on 2024-04-21, 09:29

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by George Razvan

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This is not always indicative that the CORRECT ones are loaded, sadly. I remember facing this issue *A LOT* back in the day, especially with regard to Texas Instruments PCMCIA and Opti PCMCIA controllers. Have you verified function with some other PCMCIA card? Card services properly start and stop, …

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Re: Pcmcia adapter help needed

Posted on 2024-04-21, 09:04

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by George Razvan

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wierd_w wrote on 2024-04-21, 08:54: Are the drivers installed for the PCMCIA bus controller? more to the point, are you sure they are the CORRECT ones? Yes the drivers are installed. No exclamation mark in device manager.

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Pcmcia adapter help needed

Posted on 2024-04-21, 07:03

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by George Razvan

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Hi all, I have a NEC Versa 2535,without CD-ROM. OS is Win 95 OSR 2,all drivers installed. For transfering files I have used a serial connection, but it's too much hassle, since I need to setup another pc from storage. So I have bought an NEC PCMCIA to SD Adapter. I use a 1 GB Kingston card, but it …

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Re: Re-using dead motherboards components

Posted on 2024-03-25, 18:57

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by George Razvan

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Hi I recently was wondering if i can re-use motherboard components, like fire-wire , onboard audio and LAN chips to put them on a PCI card. Is it possible to do that? I have found datasheet for the NIC i wanna re-use. Well,depends of the component. Most onboard chips were meant to work onboard. …

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Re: Unknown Isa Card from old PC - Analog Devices

Posted on 2024-02-17, 12:54

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by George Razvan

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kobaspaladin wrote on 2024-02-17, 12:42: Does someone know what this is? Looks like a 2 port serial adapter card.

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Re: Compaq Deskpro New from 1999

Posted on 2024-02-17, 12:07

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by George Razvan

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benheaven wrote on 2024-02-15, 07:59: I will post a full spec later on. Not sure what I'm going to do with it yet. Got a few other machines (Packard Bell's, Compaq E500, IBM thinkpad's and loads more) Dude, I would love to spare you of the trouble of finding a use to it....

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Re: Batman’s Revenge Build

Posted on 2024-02-17, 12:03

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by George Razvan

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I’m putting together a Batman’s revenge Socket 4 build in an ATX case becuase that’s what I’ve got. https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/intel-premiere-pci-ed-batman-s-revenge I’ve got the one with the PS/2 keyboard and mouse. Here’s what I haveput together so far: Pentium 60 32 MB Ram 2GB DOM …

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Re: AM2 for Windows 98?

Posted on 2024-02-17, 11:42

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by George Razvan

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The more I look at that Biostar K8M800 Micro AM2 board, the more I am liking what I see... seems like everything other than maybe the AC97 audio should be supported in 98SE? The CPU support list does seem very weird, though. Back in the day I used a Asrock n68u with Windows 98,for a while. CPU was …

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Re: Duel Pentium 3 MB stuck at verifying DMI Pool

Posted on 2024-02-12, 17:27

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by George Razvan

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I'll setup memetest on another (working) computer and test the ram, but I did already try the ram in that separate computer and it worked so I think if it is a memory issue then it's an issue with the memory socket on the duel processor MB. If the memory tests fine what are my options? Is this …

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Re: Windows 95 DOS Mode drivers

Posted on 2024-02-12, 05:30

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by George Razvan

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chinny22 wrote on 2024-02-12, 01:05: George Razvan wrote on 2024-02-10, 19:39: All my dos games work ok in Windows, but I like to run`em in real mode (something I have done only on DOS+Win 3.11). Any other tips`n`tricks? Like best start-up files config? Don't worry many of us do this, it just feels …

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Re: Windows 95 DOS Mode drivers

Posted on 2024-02-12, 05:27

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by George Razvan

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jesolo wrote on 2024-02-11, 21:18: As CoffeeOne has stated, try using a boot menu configuration: How to create a boot (start up) menu under Windows 9x/ME Tks, that should be what i'm looking for.

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Re: Recommended DOS file manager?

Posted on 2024-02-11, 09:43

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by George Razvan

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More like task swapping, though, maybe. 🤷‍♂️ Cool! Never knew it can do this. Nope, DN can't do such things. It is more like Norton Commander on steroids. I use X-Tree, mostly for nostalgic reasons. Version 2 has a lower memory footprint than 3.0. DOS Navigator is another one that is quite good. …

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