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My main rig is an HP Elite 8300 with an i7-3770 processor. The motherboard has three PCI Express slots ... a PCI Express x1, a PCI Express x16 and a PCI Express x 16 downshifted to a x4. I always had my GTX 1050Ti videocard plugged into the downshifted PCI Express slot, and a tp-link Wi-Fi card...

Maybe I am missing something obvious, but I tried to hook up a Connor CP-3024 and a Connor CP-30254 to my Windows 11 PC via an IDE to USB convertor. Both drives spin up and I can hear them seeking, but I can only see them under the Device Manager in Windows as they are not recognised as drives...

Hi guys, I finally managed to get hold of a Soundblaster 16 CT2910, which the seller claims is working. I have the jumpers set to I/O 220, 8-bit DMA 1, 16-bit DMA 5, IRQ 5, IDE Interrump 15. As soon as I put the board in my PS/2 Model 30 and try to boot, I get an "101 - System Board" error...

I have installed an OAK OTI-037C in my IBM Model 30 and am, quite frankly, struggling. Initially I had the card set with the 8-bit bus enabled, but could not get any post. When set to 16-bit bus enabled, the system posts and monitor (IBM Ps/2 Monochrome) displays normally .. so far so good. I...

There is a PS/2 Display Adaptor for sale in the Netherlands, which the seller claims is VGA. Can anyone tell me whether this card is "plug and play" compatible with my Model 30 (8530) and whether is is true VGA. Just out of curiousity, what would a reasonable price be for this card?

As I reported in an other thread, I recently picked up a low mileage PS/2 Model 30. There is currently a D8087 coprocessor installed (see pic below). I have checked it with 87test and it passes all stress tests with flying colours. Nevertheless, unless I am mistaken the D8087 runs at 5MHz versus...

Hi all, does anyone have an IBM utility called DPARKHDS.COM for the PS/2 Model 30? Would be much appreciated!

I picked up my IBM PS/2 Model 30 today and the good news is that everything is functioning perfectly! The HDD has a good version of Windows 3.0 on it which I would like to keep, however, the DOS version installed is MS DOS 5.0, whereas I think the machine originally came with PC-DOS 4.0 (at...

I am in the process of purchasing a Model 30 which comes complete with an 8503 monitor (burn in free), Model M keyboard and PS/2 mouse. The unit is in great cosmetic condition, and the seller has replaced the original Alps floppy drive with a Mitshubishi unit from a donor unit. The original hard...

As I have posted elsewhere, I have a Zenith SupersPort laptop with 20MB JVC drive. The heads have a horrible habit of sticking to the platter at seemingly random times. Due to the fact the controller is JVC and not IDE, I have not been able to source a viable replacement drive. The heads stick...

My Pentium 75 rig runs on the original RTM version of Windows 95 quite happily still. What sometimes perplexes me is that the A:\ drive is shown under Windows as a 5 1/4 drive while it is in fact a 3 1/2 drive. Was this something generic in Windows 95 or has m installation just identified the...

Hi guys, I guess I have aquired a pretty varied collection of laptops over the years. My personal favourites are my Hewlett Packard 110 Portable and Hewlett Packard 110 Portable Plus (see pic below) for which I spent more money on replacing the batteries than on the units themselves 😂...

I aquired a Datavue Spark some time ago, which is in immaculate condition and still boots up perfectly. The Ni-Cd battery pack was of course dead, and I kept getting an irritiating "battery nearly dead" message on the screen accompanied by a classical XT bleep even when the unit was running off...

I have been having issues trying to transfer files from my 486 rig to my HP 110 Portable Plus via the 9114B disk drive and figured out it had something to do with the formatting of the diskette. I managed to get hold of the HP110.SYS driver (which was originally made by Sydex) and had some "fun"...

Hi everyone, I am a Brit living in the Netherlands and have a love of "old things" which include pocket watches dating back to the mid 1700's but also more recent things such as vintage computers. I am a mechanical engineer so am usually able to fix most of the mechanical issues related to old...

Hi all, I have an 8088 Zenith SupersPort, which functions fine with exception of the hard drive. When I have not used the unit for a while the 20MB HDD seems to overspeed when it first boots and it can take 5 or 6 boot attempts until the HDD spins upto the correct speed and then DOS boots just...