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Who has the best 486 and 3.1 PART 2

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Name: Muddawg
Date: May 11, 2005 at 23:39:26 Pacific
OS: Windows 95A
CPU/Ram: 33/50 mhz 486, 16mb ram
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Hey Guys im continuing a thread i saw earlier about who haws the best 486 and windows 3.11. Mine has Win95A, but i really want to show it off to some peeps :P

I found mine at a Value village. It's A Compaq ProLinea 4/25s. Not actutally sure of clock speed but its between 33 and 50 mhz (acording to jumpers) It orginally had a 128mb hd NO RAM 0.o and no expansions. I bosted it up to 16 mb and discovered the HD had win 3.11 on it. i coppied it over to a larger 1.2 gig i installed. after that unplugged the 128mb hd and hooked up a 48x ATAPI CD ROM drive in its place and also stuck in a 10mps NIC card, a ATI Mach 64 2mb ISA card, and a sound blaster (unsure of model, but it has a Atapi CD ROM Header) to avoid screwwing around with the dos drivers, i installed windows 95A to the larger HD and got my sound blaster etc. all working. after that i hooked up the cd rom to the sound blaster and put the 128 mb hd back on the IDE header and now use it for virtual memory (btw i only have a primary IDE header, no secondary :'( Everything was auto detected and installed like a dream. after that i also installed IE 5.5 and MSN Messenger 5.0, along with Windows Media player 6.4. Internet and MSN works awsome, but media player is only able to play WAV, MIDI and Music cds at full speed. (can't play MP3 or WMA :P not gonna even bother with videos hehe

so the specs are

486DX2 33\50 mhz (ya i know i should know but i dont :\
with future expasion for an overdrive CPU(Someday)
Windows 95A (ya this is 3.1, but i wanted to post it here anyway :P
16mb of ram
1.2 Gig Quantam HD
128 MB Connor HD
Internet Explorer 5.5
(all expansion cards are ISA)
Novell/anthem 10MBPS NIC
ATI MACH64 2MB graphics card
Some Creative soundblaster card with a ATAPI CDROM header and has a 48x CDROM hooked up to it (think im gonna switch it for a 32x in my good com :D
oh and a 3.5 floppy OF Course :P

also managed to hook it up networked to my new com. Worked great :)

anyays thanks for listning to my ramble

Muddawg
oh and btw im on it right now and posted this message from it :P



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Response Number 1
Name: 98viper
Date: May 14, 2005 at 20:18:03 Pacific
Reply:

wow, kool, that's awesome! I used to have a 486.... man that was a good computer too. yeah I managed to bump the RAM in it all the way up to 64MB. I had 4 16MB 72 pin SIMMS in her and she flew. When I had Windows 3.1 on it, it was crazy fast. It took a Windows 95A upgrade without any problems. Yeah, that was a good machine. Those 486s are older but are by no means out of use. I think I even had mine running Deer Avenger 2. It was awesome


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Response Number 2
Name: Leo the 28C (by Sulfurik)
Date: May 18, 2005 at 06:32:00 Pacific
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I had one also...it was an HP Vectra 2V or V2 or whatever it's called, and it had 16 MB RAM, a 1 GB hard drive, an Intel OverDrive 66 MHz "extra" processor, and I think 1 MB video and only system speaker sound... XD
It had DOS7/Win3.1 and NT4 dual boot...
It broke after a time after I bought it tho... :(

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Response Number 3
Name: x86-586
Date: May 19, 2005 at 05:45:57 Pacific
Reply:

Those are good systems but heres mine

Compaq Unknown model
AMD 120Mhz Pr100
98Mb Ram
Primary Controller 2.1Gb Western Digital
Primary Controller 2.1Gb Western Digital
Secondary Controler 52x LG Cd-rom
8Mb ATI (ISA Or PCI I cant remember)
PCI 100 MBP/s
ISA Creative WaveXtreem 32
3 1/2 Floppy
5 1/4 Floppy
Dos 6.22 & Windows 3.11
Windows 95
And Windows NT4
Try booted lol

It was used for a extremly small file server and to play older dos and windows games


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Response Number 4
Name: EM386N
Date: May 22, 2005 at 03:25:19 Pacific
Reply:

Unknown Make

486DX2 66MHz
32Mb Memory SIMMs
15GB Maxtor HDD Primary IDE Master
323MB Western digital HDD Primary Slave
ISA Sound Blaster
ISA Trident Video Card
PCI 56K Modem
Realtek PCI fast Network Card

I had windows 3.1 and dos 6.22, Upgraded to Win 95.

Then for good measure I loaded Windows 98 just to see if it worked
And it did.


Expect The Unexpected


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