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chjmartin2

chjmartin2

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I need to see if I can service this CD-ROM but I just can’t get this tray off. The tray is really important. It just won’t click or move. I can figure it out and I don’t want to break it.
 

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Not sure if I understand your question correctly, but just like with pretty much any CD-ROM drive, you can stick a long needle into the hole and firmly push. That will unlock and open the tray.
 
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Push this towards the outside of the unit, and then lift that side of the cd out, then just pull away from the pins on the other side.

Is that out of an intel server?
 
Chuck(G) said:
I thought that looked familiar. Got one of those that I've been trying to give away--it's the 800MHz P3 version.
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I am getting mine all set up. It plays Wolf3d super smooth. FreeDOS is a pain though, feels buggy, maybe not a good OS for it. Not sure. I want to use XOSL to run FreeDOS/Win 3.1, Windows 98SE, Win 2000 and WinXP. It's a nice small machine. It used to run the cash register at my wife's flower shop.
 
chjmartin2 said:
FreeDOS is a pain though, feels buggy, maybe not a good OS for it.
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FreeDOS isn't 100% MS-DOS compatible, especially when it comes to the memory managers. Anything that uses regular real mode DOS is generally fine, but when you start getting into EMS/XMS and protected mode stuff that uses DOS4G/GW, it gets decidedly less compatible. It also tends to behave strangely if you have more than 64 MB of RAM installed, on top of some DOS programs and games that don't properly detect the amount of memory installed with large amounts of memory present.

I run FreeDOS on my 486 and it's fine for most stuff that doesn't use protected mode or memory managers. What's nice about its real mode, is that out of the box it can reclaim reserved upper memory blocks that are unused. I've had up to 736k of conventional memory available on my 486 with no TSRs loaded, something which is is a bit more difficult to do in MS-DOS. It makes loading conventional memory hungry games like Duke Nukem II that requires 600k a lot easier to do without having to write specific autoexec.bat and config.sys files specifically for the game.
 
GiGaBiTe said:
FreeDOS isn't 100% MS-DOS compatible, especially when it comes to the memory managers. Anything that uses regular real mode DOS is generally fine, but when you start getting into EMS/XMS and protected mode stuff that uses DOS4G/GW, it gets decidedly less compatible. It also tends to behave strangely if you have more than 64 MB of RAM installed, on top of some DOS programs and games that don't properly detect the amount of memory installed with large amounts of memory present.

I run FreeDOS on my 486 and it's fine for most stuff that doesn't use protected mode or memory managers. What's nice about its real mode, is that out of the box it can reclaim reserved upper memory blocks that are unused. I've had up to 736k of conventional memory available on my 486 with no TSRs loaded, something which is is a bit more difficult to do in MS-DOS. It makes loading conventional memory hungry games like Duke Nukem II that requires 600k a lot easier to do without having to write specific autoexec.bat and config.sys files specifically for the game.
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Ok but what does would you run on a Pentium III (Celeron) aged machine - Dos 6.22? Window ME DOS?
 
chjmartin2 said:
Ok but what does would you run on a Pentium III (Celeron) aged machine - Dos 6.22? Window ME DOS?
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I would do what Chuck suggested, run Windows 98SE. I never had any issues with DOS compatibility, in fact, it was better in some regards. Since it virtualized DOS instances, it was a lot easier to run some of the more demanding games that required large amounts of conventional memory.
 
Chuck(G) said:
I run Win98SE when I need a real-mode DOS prompt. Change the MSDOS.SYS file to boot into text mode.
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Agreed - seems path of least resistance. I plan to put Windows XP and XOSL to multiboot. I want to run Windows 3.1. I wonder how well that goes from ‘text mode’ Win98.
 
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