Gammitin (Ben) 💾
Gammitin (Ben) 💾I picked up a few 20+ years old USB cards:
NEC uPD720101 (£1)
VIA VT6212L (probably won't work but £2)
Hopefully the NEC one will do the trick, but we'll have to wait and see. 🤞
Gammitin (Ben) 💾So I found out that a MR BIOS is available for this board, but the bios chip is soldered so it's a little scary! I'm doing it! 😬
Gammitin (Ben) 💾So this machine has 4x PCI slots, so far I have used 3. I think the best option for slot 4 is a USB card, but they're tricky with these old chipsets and Windows 98.
So far I've tried a modern VIA VT6212L, but as soon as the drivers start to load it crashes the system.
Gammitin (Ben) 💾I picked up a few 20+ years old USB cards:
NEC uPD720101 (£1)
VIA VT6212L (probably won't work but £2)
Hopefully the NEC one will do the trick, but we'll have to wait and see. 🤞
Gammitin (Ben) 💾Updates in progress.......
Gammitin (Ben) 💾So this machine has 4x PCI slots, so far I have used 3. I think the best option for slot 4 is a USB card, but they're tricky with these old chipsets and Windows 98.
So far I've tried a modern VIA VT6212L, but as soon as the drivers start to load it crashes the system.
Gammitin (Ben) 💾A little bit of Doom with General Midi:
Gammitin (Ben) 💾Updates in progress.......
Gammitin (Ben) 💾Here's Duke Nukem 3D in DOS, with General Midi (Excuse the mess 😀
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Gammitin (Ben) 💾A little bit of Doom with General Midi:
Gammitin (Ben) 💾So I've installed a PCI network card and also I've got loads of Soundblaster 128's, so I've decided to use it in this system. It's actually got amazing dos support, not Adlib but General Midi that supports 8MB wavesets.
Gammitin (Ben) 💾Here's Duke Nukem 3D in DOS, with General Midi (Excuse the mess 😀):
Gammitin (Ben) 💾Quickly tested a Windows 95 install, all went well. I'm thinking that I'm going to put multiple drives in here and have a boot loader CF, Windows 98 with MS-DOS mode, plus some other OS's, like Linux, BSD etc. Should be fun to test out.
Gammitin (Ben) 💾So I've installed a PCI network card and also I've got loads of Soundblaster 128's, so I've decided to use it in this system. It's actually got amazing dos support, not Adlib but General Midi that supports 8MB wavesets.
Gammitin (Ben) 💾Partition Magic 8 can see the full amount:
Gammitin (Ben) 💾Quickly tested a Windows 95 install, all went well. I'm thinking that I'm going to put multiple drives in here and have a boot loader CF, Windows 98 with MS-DOS mode, plus some other OS's, like Linux, BSD etc. Should be fun to test out.
Gammitin (Ben) 💾Perfect!
The update went well and it's now detecting lots more new drives, SD to IDE and also SATA to IDE.
There's an 8.4GB limit, but that's way bigger than anything that was available when the PC was built, so I'm happy.
Gammitin (Ben) 💾Partition Magic 8 can see the full amount:
Gammitin (Ben) 💾So I've discovered there's a way newer bios than the one this machine has installed.
I'm currently running:
BIOS Version 1.00.05. BROT
The newest version addresses issues with the HDD detection, it's:
BIOS Version 1.00.10. BROT
The bios chip is soldered, but I'm going to try it.
Gammitin (Ben) 💾Perfect!
The update went well and it's now detecting lots more new drives, SD to IDE and also SATA to IDE.
There's an 8.4GB limit, but that's way bigger than anything that was available when the PC was built, so I'm happy.