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    Universal BIOS on 386 system not booting to CF card or HDD

    Hi all. I recently got the Universal BIOS kind of working on my 3com NIC. I downloaded the 8kb 386 prebuilt binary, concatenated it four times to fill up the 32kb EEPROM, loaded it into the XTIDECFG utility, hit autoconfig, then saved it. The system still tries to boot from it's own BIOS...
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    Enabling UDMA on system that supports it but no option in BIOS

    The southbridge in this machine is a VT8231. According to the datasheet there are registers there that can be flipped on to enable UDMA. My storage solution supports UDMA. I have verified this using another machine. Thanks to some VERY nice Discord users, I now have a modded BIOS for my...
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    Samsung DeskMaster 386S/16 Motherboard Help Needed

    In a recent haul I picked up several of these Samsung DeskMaster 386S/16 machines. They were sold as is. In the five machines I have, there appear to be a few revisions of the motherboard. This one below had a varta battery for the CMOS which wasn't exploded yet so I went and snipped it from the...
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    Tandy 1000 RL and a XT-CF lite rev.2

    So I bought the XT-CF lite v2 from Tex Elec. According to the FAQ https://www.lo-tech.co.uk/wiki/XT-CF-lite_FAQ you have to flash the BIOS of the card when using a Tandy 1000 RL. I am unable to do this in my RL because the floppy is busted so I put the card in another old machine. The computer...
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    Tandy 1000 RL floppy drive replacement

    Hey everyone, I just bought my childhood computer - a Tandy 1000 RL but the floppy drive is dead. I have cleaned the heads and lubed the rods but it's still dead. I was reading on the oldskool.org website that only these low density floppy drives will work in my RL: Sony MFD-63W-70D Sony...
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