[Freedos-user] Drivers or tips for 3 ISA sound cards?

2015-05-30 Thread John Hupp
I have 3 old ISA sound cards that I was trying to get working in an old Pentium 150 machine with a default FD 1.1 installation. But so far no success. I list the card, a driver link, and my brief note for each. Perhaps one of you will have a known-good driver or a tip/trick for any of these:

Re: [Freedos-user] displays GRUB on startup

2015-05-30 Thread Felix Miata
Eric Auer composed on 2015-05-30 09:08 (UTC+0200): > However, with your Pentium 4 MAINBOARD, chances are a > bit better - cap technology has improved since then, Not materially WRT replacements for motherboards of that period. Newer boards have taken advantage of design evolution that reduces use

Re: [Freedos-user] displays GRUB on startup

2015-05-30 Thread Mateusz Viste
On 30/05/2015 09:08, Eric Auer wrote: > Yet > mainboards often have multi layer PCB and lots of tiny > features, so you still have to be experienced to get > them soldered properly :-) Last time I did this, I went the easy way, and didn't de-soldered the old cap at all, instead I removed all of i

Re: [Freedos-user] displays GRUB on startup

2015-05-30 Thread Eric Auer
Guys, >> I took a look, and the capacitors seemed to be fine. > > Including power supply? Mains caps in a power supply in the 230 Volt AC part of the world can be charged with 300 - 400 Volts and considerable capacity, even a while after you unplug things. You do NOT want to mess with those unl