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    Degausing old floppy disks?

    that's friggin cool
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    Gender fluid 3C527 and "2-1" IBM High Performance Ethernet LAN Adapter

    Was any progress ever made with this? I just recently acquired two "2-1" cards which will configure just fine with the reference disk, but I can not get the 3com NDIS driver to load on them. It bombs out with an error about unexpected POS registers. Also the 3C527.EXE diag utility will not...
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    A way to re-use an IBM PS/2 dead drive

    I hate all "fake" things sorry. Either use a real working hard drive or don't, all the various sound simulators are trash to me
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    Getting back into older PC's with my first 486 Build in almost 30 years

    the RAM has no means of informing the motherboard of its quality even if it was, it wouldn't slow down, it would just crash
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    Getting back into older PC's with my first 486 Build in almost 30 years

    oh well, sorry it was just a guess I'm out of ideas now
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    Combining HDD LEDs

    Seems pretty clear he wants to use the single activity LED provided by almost every PC chassis to reflect the activity of multiple different disk systems
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    Bit of curiosity--Imation SuperDisk difference between blue and clear cases?

    All the mac eject gears turning to dust would give this a post a fact check: true
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    Orange spider web on the screen

    Transportation did not cause this. The seller did a bait and switch. You did not receive the unit in the original photos, this should be adequate reason to force a return on any moderated sales platform
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    Getting back into older PC's with my first 486 Build in almost 30 years

    Be careful pulling it out, they have become quite valuable to chip collectors despite being practically useless
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    Getting back into older PC's with my first 486 Build in almost 30 years

    Actually here is a thought... that weitek FPU is memory mapped right? Try removing it. Perhaps the board is inserting wait states because of that thing
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    Getting back into older PC's with my first 486 Build in almost 30 years

    I guess. The L1 and L2 numbers here are really not bad but the main memory is still about half to one-third the speed it should be. It doesn't sit well with me but I don't know what else to suggest though.
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    Getting back into older PC's with my first 486 Build in almost 30 years

    Agree with this. I would go for the Mega Image32 card. The CDROM connector on it is most likely either set to ternary or disabled by default and should be able to be safely ignored without changing the rest of your IDE/IO cards' setup
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    Getting back into older PC's with my first 486 Build in almost 30 years

    I have never seen a wait state option being tied to cache chip size before, that's quite odd. You would want 32Kx8 since you have 256KB cache. Looks like adjusting the settings helped marginally, but I think it's just a slow board. De-turbo can be implemented in many different ways on 486...
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    Getting back into older PC's with my first 486 Build in almost 30 years

    OK cool I'll go through them 1by1 Hidden Refresh - enabled is faster but it can cause problems with some ISA video cards (notably tseng) Slow refresh - enabled is faster, almost always works single ale - don't know master mode byte swap - don't know AT wait state - disabled is faster DRAM read...
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    Getting back into older PC's with my first 486 Build in almost 30 years

    I'd recommend that. Much better networking performance as well. I usually setup the etherlink III cards with a IRQ of 10 and base port of 280h
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