bobwatts wrote:
Hi Gang!

After much fiddling around, the 'ol 486 PB tower is on the 'net.
Sure is a lot slower than a 3+GHz Whizzbang.........

It is painful to be reminded of how primitive the very early PNP BIOS' were.
This 486 PB has a 450 PNP Ver 1.1a BIOS that is aggravating in the least.
The computer came with a 2gig HDD, and it had a DDO. I don't like those, so
I wiped out the first 10 cylinders, and rebooted. The BIOS "saw" the whole
2gig drive, but after saving to BIOS, it refused to "see" it again. Nothing
helped, clearing the BIOS, pulling the 'bat, nothing.

Re-installed the DDO, installed Win95. Had some problems setting up the
networking, 'cause I didn't know the NIC card that the computer came with
was bad. Installed 98 SE, then figured out the NE2000 card was bad,
installed an ISA 3COM PNP card, and you see the results.

( How do I look? :-)

The installed CD-ROM drive was bad also, but everything was an easy fix. Now
that it's up and running, it's time to put it on the shelf. I'm not used to
this "speed".

Still offering a reward for a P60 tower version !

bobwatts




When I put a larger HD in my PB P-1 I ended up also using an overlay...
had not problems with it.

I did try a PCI IDE card...but the system never detected it.


BTW I have a 386 in my collection with win95 on it and it works just
fine on-line