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Granted, I did have to run EZBios to enable LBA48-bit and access anything past the 8GB barrier, but it does work! Installed/Runs Windows 98SE without a hitch.

I've used this mSata to IDE adapter in a couple older laptops, most recently in one with a Pentium 1 200Mhz MMX processor: https://www.amazon.com/mSATA-44pin-Notebook-Laptop-Enclosure/dp/B01GRMUQRG/ That and a reliable mSata SSD (Samsung, Crucial, etc.) would give you a decent boot to...

Windows 7 is out of the question. All Intel CPUs from the 386 through the Pentium iV, are 32-bit only and cannot support more than 4GB of RAM, if the motherboard/chipset can even support that much. It wasn't until the late Pentium 3 (late coppermine/tualatin) and Pentium IV systems that 2GB -...

For those who aren't familiar with the Advantech PCA-6157, it's a Socket 7 Single Board computer with 4 72-pin SIMM slots, no onboard video, ISA and PCI backplane compatibility. I don't remember the exact spec name but it's pretty common/standard with the 16-bit ISA connectors first, followed by...

Maybe it's just me but...those ICs look "oily", like they've been treated to some unusually high heat. Was there some sort of thermal pad on them before hand? Aside from that I agree that it looks like the traces are decently large enough they could be repaired with some small gauge jumper wires.

Made 1 minor edit to the title just to reflect the satire/joke nature in case it wasn't 100% clear for other folks.

Hmmm, very interesting. So it's a Western Digital controller chip, just using Xilinx FPGAs. The biggest question I have is whether or not the CDROM drives show up/are accessible in DOS directly. If you didn't load/modify your config.sys to include any drivers and didn't add/setup your...

Learned something new here. I never played with the splash screen during this era, as by the time I had my own computer, Win95 was around the corner. I was just barely capable enough to get drivers installed and sound/modem/mouse/SCSI working.

Ahhh the Golden Orb heatsinks. That brings back some memories!! The computer repair shop I used to work at in the early 2000's still had/sold those for even the Athlon Thunderbirds and Pentium IIIs. Part of me misses having a K6-2 system. Love the build, and glad to see someone else realizing...

Oof, I missed this thread so I'm coming in super late. @dgveedubbus89, if you have the DOS ASPI drivers for the card, I can add them into the pre-made DOS images on the BlueSCSI WiKi. Looks like it's a Xilinx chip on the card. Older non-Adaptec cards sometimes do have weird quirks. I have a...

I totally understand the Windows thing and hope it doesn't seem like I'm complaining or demanding. My only modern Mac is my 14 M1 MBP that isn't always where I'm at when I'm tinkering/working with a retro machine. More often than not it's my Windows gaming rig or Linux Bridge Box that I need to...

Is there a chance the Windows version can get updated? I realized today it's still lagging behind at version 1.5. 🥺

Good grief, I've let this lament way too long. I finished the bigger uplift with cleaning some sections up, removing old/no longer relevant menu options, and adding greatly expanded SCSI card/CD/removable drive support and have been using it for a little while now. Here it is in all its glory...

Closing thread, this is already in the proper place under Powerbooks and isn't a software related question. It's hardware related.

I wasn’t aware of the hardware checks but the P90 system I was using definitely does not have a Plug and Play BIOS. I have to set which ISA slots the PCI ones can share with.

It took me forever to find this, thanks to Adaptec having removed it from their website before they were shutdown/absorbed. While at that point everyone was already using the Windows SPTI mechanisms for 32-bit apps, some of us may still want/need the SDK for writing older 16-bit DOS/Windows...

I had a PB3400 who's power distribution board was ruined because of this. The leaking electrolytic from the batteries wicked right up and through the connecting wire. The laptops I've picked up since that's the first thing I do, yank the CMOS battery.

It's odd that the nforce4 board has a PCIe 4x lane but with a clip for a 16x card. Why not just use a 16x slot? #WeirdOEMDecisons My med-clouded humble opinion is go with the Opteron 170 for dual core and better IPC than the original Athlon 64s.

People - we're going to lock this thread for now - there's plenty here for the Board to ruminate on, lots of valid points both ways however we don't want the thread to degenerate into something that may cause an argument. Please refrain from continuing this via other means as well - best to just...

Moved this thread as I figured it was better suited to the Lab->Software section. I'm also debating now if "ADHD scope creep" might be worthwhile here. A lot of the features are pretty self-contained or easily chainable, like IDE/SCSI booting to a command prompt with CDROM drivers loaded. It...