washitaeagle
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486 HP VECTRA XM2 96mb ram (win 3.1 for WG) 500mb HD 2mb vram
"Sometimes I wonder if I would have a better time just banging my head against the wall."
CDROM problems:
Having issues getting a CDRom recognized in my machine. I do have an IDE ribbon chain that is currently housing my 3.5" but it terminates to a 5.25" card end adaptor, so I took the extra IDE hard drive cable and plugged into that. It's an Acer 56x drive. I have installed the Acer drivers, and tried the oak tree drivers, but it always says that the driver isn't working...probably because it can't see the drive because it is plugged into the wrong IDE ribbon chain. I would just grab an extra ide cable in the 3.5" chain, but the plug into the motherboard is smaller. This is probably something rudimentary but what's the story on these ide cables?
Sound Card Problems:
Also, I have a large variety of sound cards, but only 2-3 of them are ISA. One is a "modem blaster" another is an IBM M Wave, the other I just randomly ran across at the thrift store today and it is a Rockwell audio card that looks more sound card than modem. I have tried to get a SB16 card to work via PCI but win 3.1 and PCI don't play too nicely together, so I have switched to the ISA and the Rockwell as it looks the most interesting. I have found some win 3.1 drivers on a CDrom ISO, took those files out...disk 1 and disk 2 on the CD-ROM and it gets pretty far, but runs into a file path issue, I wonder if it is looking for things on the ISO?
In a bit of a pickle.
It seems that the sound card problem would be fixed with the cd rom fix. I have also thought I might update this machine to win 95 as it might allow me to use the PCI slots a bit more and get a little more classic gaming out of this machine. I do have a local vintage computer guy here that swapped a Harley Davison for an old computer store/warehouse. I swapped a couple MAC SE for this machine so he probably has an external CD that I could use with the appropriate card.
I have yet to move the machine closer to my switch to get it online and this might fix a lot of my issues. As I could just download and possibly mount the ISO in dos?
Thanks for the read,
D
"Sometimes I wonder if I would have a better time just banging my head against the wall."
CDROM problems:
Having issues getting a CDRom recognized in my machine. I do have an IDE ribbon chain that is currently housing my 3.5" but it terminates to a 5.25" card end adaptor, so I took the extra IDE hard drive cable and plugged into that. It's an Acer 56x drive. I have installed the Acer drivers, and tried the oak tree drivers, but it always says that the driver isn't working...probably because it can't see the drive because it is plugged into the wrong IDE ribbon chain. I would just grab an extra ide cable in the 3.5" chain, but the plug into the motherboard is smaller. This is probably something rudimentary but what's the story on these ide cables?
Sound Card Problems:
Also, I have a large variety of sound cards, but only 2-3 of them are ISA. One is a "modem blaster" another is an IBM M Wave, the other I just randomly ran across at the thrift store today and it is a Rockwell audio card that looks more sound card than modem. I have tried to get a SB16 card to work via PCI but win 3.1 and PCI don't play too nicely together, so I have switched to the ISA and the Rockwell as it looks the most interesting. I have found some win 3.1 drivers on a CDrom ISO, took those files out...disk 1 and disk 2 on the CD-ROM and it gets pretty far, but runs into a file path issue, I wonder if it is looking for things on the ISO?
In a bit of a pickle.
It seems that the sound card problem would be fixed with the cd rom fix. I have also thought I might update this machine to win 95 as it might allow me to use the PCI slots a bit more and get a little more classic gaming out of this machine. I do have a local vintage computer guy here that swapped a Harley Davison for an old computer store/warehouse. I swapped a couple MAC SE for this machine so he probably has an external CD that I could use with the appropriate card.
I have yet to move the machine closer to my switch to get it online and this might fix a lot of my issues. As I could just download and possibly mount the ISO in dos?
Thanks for the read,
D