just got the list below for the equivalent of 20 EUR... this week-end spells play-time :smug: - Asus ISA-386C + AMD 386DX-40 + ULSI coproc - 16 x 4MB 30-pin SIMM (pulled from an old Sun machine) - Diamond Stealth 3D 2000 Pro (ViRGE DX, 4MB) - Diamond Monster 3D II 8MB - no-name Voodoo1 4MB - Adaptec …

It only seems to have one output, labelled "SPK". I guess the difference between amplified and non-amplified output is made by a jumper (either J4 or J5 - the other one is probably used to route speaker output through the card), but it's not clear to me which is which yet, so I didn't change …

Win98 is all I had at hand for testing when I got it, but the card will go in a 486DX2-66 / MS-DOS / Win311 system that is coming together these days... I'm a bit worried about the one-channel-not-working issue though, I hope it's just some wrong setting or a driver issue, and not something "deeper" …

Well, I can't seem to find any picture / layout on that page, but I'll definitely test the drivers. I also found another thread here on Aztech sound cards, with some other links to driver pages, which I'll also test on mine. The only photo that I could find on the Internet is here: http://www.pc- …

I' ve recently got my hands on what appears to be an Aztech 16-bit ISA sound card. Sorry for the poor quality of the attached photo, I'll try to describe it: upper-right square chip is labelled AZT-NXPMIX0592 (with jumpers J4 and J5 next to it), lower-left square chip is an AZTSSPT0592-U01 (with …

Well, that was weird... tried it again this evening: - disabled everything on the I/O card except FDD: FDD works - enabled first COM port: mouse starts working too - enabled IDE (with LBA on in BIOS): the Fireball 1.28 is detected at full capacity The "system" even boots either of MS-DOS 6.22 and …

Roger that :). What about the COM port for the mouse? I currently have two ways of testing it: 1. use a DB9-to-PS2 adapter and watch if my optical PS2 mouse "lights", which doesn't happen 2. try to use an old serial mouse to navigate the "graphic mode" AMI BIOS, which again does not work I tried to …

I should start using shorter sentences, or stick strictly to the subject... "While I have a perfectly good [...] ALi 1487/1489 mainboard (4PCI, 4ISA, FDD/IDE/COM/LPT) [...] I'm also testing a few ISA/VLB boards ." Forget about the 1487/1489 board, I'm talking about other, older, ISA/VLB boards here. …

The board has no IDE/FDD/COM/LPT connectors - does this mean it can still have on-board controllers for these?

Again, there is no such thing (IDE/FDD/COM/LPT) on the mainboard I'm currently testing the I/O card on. The jumpers on the card enable first COM port as "COM1" and the IDE controller as "primary", and yes, I know about the proper orientation of the IDE connector (pin 1 (marked as such in the card/s …

The I/O controller is for the the few ISA/VLB boards I'm testing, which have nothing on-board...

I'm struggling to put together an old system for some DOS games that marked my beginnings in the PC world, and the most "material" I've gathered so far comes from the 486 era. While I have a perfectly good, never used before, ALi 1487/1489 mainboard (4PCI, 4ISA, FDD/IDE/COM/LPT) - no-name and …

I have an Am486 DX4-100 CPU and a socket that offers no possibility to use clips to attach a heatsink, and I don't like the idea of glueing one to the CPU. Now, there is a "heatsink and fan required" inscription on the CPU, but I ran it for about half an hour with just a heatsink sitting on it (and …

Hello everyone, For my first thread here I have a question related to the good old ASUS dual-slot1 boards. I have a P2B-D board (intended, of course, to run things at 100MHz FSB) and a C-P2T PC133 slot1 terminator (most likely intended for the P3C-D mainboard). The question is - will the terminator …