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5.25" Dinosaur conversion
Name: Terry Date: January 31, 2000 at 20:10:49 Pacific
Comment:
I have a very old PC for my kids I'm trying to add a 3.25" floppy drive to the system to make it more compatable. I wanted to know how to install new hardware in DOS the system is running DOS 5.0. Also was there a routine way to enter the bios in the olden day's I belive this PC is pre 1990 anywhere from 1987 to 1990 it has a pheonix rom bios and a seagate bios revised in 1990. I can't seem to find the right combination to enter the bios for setup. One more thing is there a site that could offer information on the internal makeup of the older PC's it looks very forigen to me (no cpu fan ) and where is the cpu anyway can I change it?
Name: Mike Date: February 1, 2000 at 08:32:45 Pacific
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there is no standard way to get to cmos/bios. As to adding the hardware, you just need a ribbon cable that has the correct end, and an adaptor for the power plug. There is no drivers, etc., it just sets up in cmos/bios. There is no fan, and you probably can not change out the cpu.
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Response Number 2
Name: # Date: February 1, 2000 at 11:25:21 Pacific
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On some older machines. BIOS does not support 3.5" drives at all!
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Response Number 3
Name: teissier Date: February 2, 2000 at 01:41:49 Pacific
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Hi
You computer seems to be an old 8088 computer or 8086 with no way to enter BIOX, so it's not possible to add a 3.5 Disk, but you can put a 5 1/4 disk in a newer PC to be able to trasfer files from the old to the new.
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Response Number 4
Name: Mark Date: February 14, 2000 at 19:22:23 Pacific
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We use 8086's at work as dummy terminals, they all run off 3 1/2in boot disks.
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Response Number 5
Name: paul Date: December 17, 2000 at 05:15:01 Pacific
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i have an old 386, with 35meg hdd, ega monitor, windows, has pheonix bios and it has 1.4 and 1.2 meg floppy drives, if you evercome accross the setup disk or keys to enter the bios please could you help. i live in newcastle australia.
Summary: Only yesterday I had to convert 360kb 5.25" floppys to 720kb 3.5" floppies. 5.25" disks have not been touched for at least 14 years. Had no problem doing conversion, but ran totally under dos. First b...
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