Summary: The sad thing is that the school system through away a pentium 90 PC. That sucks! You would think a school system would offer it to a student or dona...
Summary: The box you are referring to us usually called the computer and less often the CPU. (The CPU also refers to the chip on the motherboard inside th...
Summary: Check the computer with a recent boot disk like the one from Windows 98 SE.Use fdisk to determine the presence of partitions on the hard drive.To read...
Summary: Mr. Brandal, Below are the SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS for that card from Creative; I like to have sound cards in all my computers so for my 386s I usually go...
Summary: I know That this a w2k/XP dos problem but i need Help on a FIX. I think we all need a FIX. Here at work on the SHOP Floor we have 386 computers runnin...
Summary: jboy, thanks for the information about the architectures. I found out that that card is an extended memory board, because the boot up counts up to 307...
Summary: Pentium, possibly 486, with TrueColor graphics card and ample memory. Must run under MS-DOS, FreeDOS, or FreeDOS32. So it can be Windows 9x started up...
Summary: For the record, a SVGA monitor can display output from a VGA card. A VGA monitor MAY not display output from a SVGA card. You say you have a 386. The...
Summary: hehe, use a side effect of choice choice /ck /t:k,2 /t tells choice to default to k if no key is pressed in 2 secounds hope that will do it for you NO...
Summary: Ah, StarControl II. A classic, and one of my favorites. Old games like this are the reasons why I try to maintain complete backward compatilibilty ...
Summary: I know there are a lot of DOS internet browsers out there, but most of them are for dial-up. I just got high-speed cable internet service and cut off ...
Summary: A lot of that is male cow excrement. It mostly refers to what it can utilize on the processor it runs on. Pentiums are 32-bit, so it's not exactly pos...
Summary: You've got a 386 or 486, right? The BIOS limits you to 540 megabytes. A different motherboard or running a Promise technologies EIDE MAX or an ...
Summary: What kind of power supply do these solar powered machines have? Isn't it easier to use newer laptops/desktops (286/386 or 486) for your purpose or is ...
Summary: CD burning requires a Pentium or better processor. Time to get a more capable computer. See your CD-RW drive makers recommendations for an absolute mi...
Summary: Doc, Everything I read tells me your card is legacy compatible with sound blaster. I know, I know...it don't work. Try any suggestion you can find an...
Summary: WHY Why go back to the old DOS? The new Windows ME already get rid of most of the DOS commands. It left the useful command. It is better for you t...
Summary: If you can not get the original setup disk I have found that some times you can access setup with epson setup floppy. sometimes it works and sometime...
Summary: any beeps on power up? Try replacing the RAM if you have any extra that are known good. If that's not it, then take a close look at your power supply....
Summary: Absolutely not. It's memory requirements a stunning low: 286, 386 or 486 -- 640K to 10 MB max (ya really gotta work to use that much extended memory, ...
Summary: Only go to websites after you have looked on the bottom of the hard drive. Usually somewhere there they will show how co configure the jumpers f...
Summary: you have to tell us about your computer. what size and speed and memory and what company made the bios. is it pent? or 486? what o/s ver do you have?...
Summary: Hi... I was just wondering... I once had maybe 5 or 6 bad sectors once when I improperly shut down my computer (It was a 80386 DX or 486, whatever, wi...
Summary: If your bios only shows a: and c: as boot drives I doubt if that computer will even take XP. The option to boot from the cd has been common since P-I...
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