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ok I got some questions
1) Anyone know where I can get DOS drivers, or similar sound card DOS drivers for a Realtek AC-97 card?2)How can I copy my old 486 hard drive onto my new machine through a LAN cable?
3)is there anyway to install DOS from my old 486 onto my new machine?
4) or is there anyway to install my old soundblaster 16's onto my new computer?
5) or how do you setup two windows and switch between them (ie. have both win 98 and XP on my machine)
My specs by the way are:
P4 2.4 gHz
512 DDR RAM
ATi Radeon 9000 Pro
Win Xp Home Edition
Realtek AC 97 sound card
any other questions on my specs just askAny help would be appreciated, thanks
There isn't a DOS driver for Realtek AC97 card so far.
To copy your old 486 hard drive onto my new machine through a LAN cable, you can install some LAN software, such as MSCLIENT 3.0 or MS LAN Manager 2.1.
If you mean you want to install your SB16 ISA card onto my new computer, then it depends on if you have any free ISA slot on your new system.
What's the size and file system (e.g. FAT16, FAT32 or NTFS) of your hard drive? And how many partitions are there?
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"I have one 80 gig FAT32 hard drive, no partitions."
Sure, you can install DOS onto your system. Try install MS-DOS 7.10, which should be able to see and access all data on this 80GB HD. More information about MS-DOS 7.10 is available from:
http://newdos.yginfo.net/msdos71/index.htm
For more information about the types of DOS that support FAT32 drives and large hard disks, you can take a look at this page:
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ok so how do I install this thing? do I use the installation set up thing first then use the bootable disks when I restart my computer?
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You may make the MS-DOS 7.10 boot disk from the boot images and boot your system from it to check if it will see all your 80GB HD first. If YES, then install MS-DOS 7.10 from the installer. Detailed instructions on how to use it are already available from that page.
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ok I scrounged my 486 up from the garage, if I can get the sound card out is it possible to have to sound cards in one machine or does that cause conflicts?
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To have sound cards in one machine is usually OK, but not recommanded. This does cause conflicts sometimes.
Almost all ISA sound cards should work fine in pure DOS with drivers.
Some PCI sound cards will work fine in pure DOS as well, as long as there are DOS drivers for them. For example: C-Media 8738, Sound Blaster PCI 16/64/128, Sound Blaster Live!, SiS 7018, and most Yamaha PCI sound cards.
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ok so if I take my sound blaster 16 ISA out and install it on my 2.4 ghz it should work in DOS with dos games, btu what about my realtek when I want to configure for newer games not in DOS wil it dtect my realtek or my SB16?
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Do you have any free ISA slot on your new machine? If yes, then that's fine. Unfortunately, many newer machines don't have ISA slots for ISA cards at all.
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I don't exactly know what an ISA slot looks like, I never really have taken my machine apart
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