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I finally had time to take the riser card out and it booted up normally. I then put the riser card back in + the sound card and it still works. I'm going to assume the ISA modem has a short (I haven't put it back in), or there was a temporary issue with the riser itself that resolved the...

Thanks for the replies. I can check for a shorted tantalum. The machine is the Venturis 5133. As far as I can tell, the RTC chip is the original. Would a modern 12887 work in this board? I'm a little worried because the POST card has no activity. I don't get any blinking keyboard LEDs (after...

Greetings, Federation, I have come across a DEC 5133 (for free!). Unfortunately, it won't POST. I didn't test with its original power supply, but with a standard (known good) AT power supply. There are no beeps from the original speaker. The front power indicator LED lights up. An attached...

Hello Federation, Please excuse this noob question. I'm trying to review a 5160 64-256KB board. Can I use the BIOS chips from a 5160 256-640KB board on a 5160 64-256KB board? The chip numbers are different between the two. I also see the two sets of BIOS chips have different capacities (32k...

Still looking. Sent DM.

FWIW, I found this old copy of a copy of a fax in an old desktop, which contains a Sun (no, not that Sun) 286E motherboard. So I scanned it and thought I'd archive it here. The motherboard that was found still works.

Ok, so the WHOLE problem was that I was using the wrong driver. I was trying to initialize the card with: CBEPD.COM instead of: CE3PD.COM It pays to read kids. And it pays more to keep your eyesight. FWIW and for future readers of this post, this card (Xircom RE-100) works without using any...

Thanks for the reply. See my forthcoming doofus answer...

Interesting back story! It's a shame they didn't see the coming success of wireless. I mean, who wants wires? Well..ok maybe we do but most people don't...

Has anyone had any luck with a packet driver for the Xircom RE-100 PCMCIA card? I've been trying to get it to work under DOS with MTCP. But each time, DHCP times out and says to check the cabling and packet driver settings. I have Card Services running (C:\CARDSOFT), and it is detected by Card...

Wow, I didn't know that. Thank you!

You mean MEM.EXE?

My dumpster-dive 5160, with a few upgrades:

Thanks modem7. Got it working with 512K.

Good evening, Federation! On the 1501989 XM memory expansion card, what are switches 1-4 used for? I have a fully-populated expansion card (1501989XM) going into an IBM 5150 motherboard (also with full rows of memory). Thanks!

Thank you. I saw this post after figuring out my CGA card must be faulty. I tested with an original IBM CGA card and it worked perfectly.

Posting for any future Federates who may stumble upon one of these in the wild. Did more investigation. This is a true CGA monitor with three different modes of operation: Amber, Green and Color. It will work with an IBM CGA card. The three-way selector for the different color modes is on the...

Sorry to dig up this post. But are you 100% sure you used a CGA/EGA card to test this monitor? I've picked up one of these recently but can't get it to display an image on a CGA or MDA card. I haven't tried EGA specifically. Thanks

Greetings, Federation! Does anyone have any manuals or (dare I say) schematics for a Tatung CM-1360? I recently came across one and can't get it to display an image. I've tried an MDA and a CGA card. On MDA I get a raster but no images. In CGA, it's out of sync (rapid lines moving from bottom...

That did it. Now it has a pretty clear picture, the "blue tinge" is gone. Gonna order up components and get this cap replaced. Thanks!!!