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Turns out it was the adapter, I got the two from China today, first task was to format and check the file system was displayed correctly in fdisk, it showed up as FAT16 as I hoped, installed DOS, no problems, restarted and it still wouldn't boot, it seemed to find the boot record then just...

I'm upgrading a PC of my dads, it has a Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3 motherboard and the cheapest Celeron processor I could find at the time, it's a long story how that CPU ended up in there but the short version is it was only meant to be temporary! I bought a used i5 2500k from a well known auction...

The adapter and CF card are keyed, neither can be plugged in the wrong way around. Nope, I'm formatting from MS DOS 6.22 on a Pentium 166, I did try formatting from Windows 10 later to see if it would work but, as you say, the partition isn't recognized in DOS. I've also tried setting the...

Had another go this morning, I noticed after formatting the CF card in DOS, then running fdisk and viewing partitions, the file system is showing as "F@T06". The IDE to CF adapter that I have has a female connector that plugs straight into the connector on the motherboard, the 2 that I've...

I'm building a DOS PC (or two, or three!!), today the last of the parts I needed arrived so tonight I finally got to start playing, only I can't even install DOS! The CF card is detected in BIOS, I can boot from floppy, run the DOS setup and let it prepare the "hard disk", then it restarts, gets...

I have an M572 motherboard that's missing some capacitors, I'm going to replace all the capacitors but obviously don't know the value of the missing ones, I could guess, going by the silk screen and photos from google, but I'd rather have confirmation! Looking at the board with the CPU socket...

I stumbled in to another retro kick and dug out some old bits, and bought some more, to build an early '90s PC (actually bought enough to build 2 or 3, depending on what works and what doesn't!), hoping to have everything for this bank holiday weekend, but unfortunately only a processor came in...

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I went through something similar a couple of years ago! Back in the day I had an A1200, once I started my journey down memory lane I've ended up with 2 x A500+, 3 x A500 an A1200 and an A2000, as well as a couple ram expansions, an external FDD and a HDD (same as yours IIRC) for the A500/+, a...

I saved my pocket money to buy a book on building your own PC from Maplin around '91-92, a short while later my dad took me to a computer fair looking for a 386, he'd almost settled on one when the guy at the stall told us there's a guy a few stalls down selling 486s for some crazy cheap price...

Is it a case of low end boards will never achieve the same results as high end boards, or is it luck of the draw with low end boards and more certainty in high end boards? Aside from that, how much difference will it make? I was planning an upgrade from my i5 3570k to an i5 8600k until I saw...

It’s a rift compatibility issue with some USB controllers that I’m trying to avoid, my current motherboard has some Etron ports and some Intel ports, to get my rift to work I need to have the Etron ports disabled and, although supposedly compatible, if I have either the rift or sensors plugged...

@JasonM Do you have a rift? If so, do the on board USB ports work or do you need an extra PCIe USB controller? My main concern is with compatible on board USB, although with the Z370 HD3/HD3P if I use my Startech PCIe USB controller it will operate at full speed, whereas a lot of other boards...

Although a great deal on the Ryzen, I still need to put the cash in the bank to cover the upgrade, so would likely miss this offer. For some reason I thought 8th gen Intel was new, until I looked at my wish list after I saw your post and saw that I added the 8600k last year!! I can hold out a...

I’m toying with the idea of upgrading again, I’ll be needing motherboard, processor and memory, currently have an i5 3570k on a Gigabyte ga-z77-d3h. I’ve decided on an i5 8600k, so looking for an ATX z370 motherboard. The only other requirement is rift compatible USB, the more the merrier! As...

It would start now I’m without VR wouldn’t it! My 10 month old 1080 died a few days ago and I’m not liking the way the warranty is going, so no VR purchases until I know what’s happening, I bet I miss some great deals on games I’ve been waiting to come on sale!

I've made my spare bedroom into a VR room, my PC is still in my main bedroom, with a hole through the wall for the rift cables, a display port cable and a USB extension. I have a GTX 1080 (2 x display port, 2 x HDMI, 1 x DVI), the monitor in the main bedroom is connected by DVI (has DVI, HDMI...

I've just tried two sensors in the Inateck with Microsoft drivers and the headset in USB 3 and then 2 on the motherboard, same problem, then again with two sensors in the Inateck with Fresco Logic drivers and the headset in USB 3 on the motherboard, this worked the best with only one slight...

When I use Windows drivers for the Inateck card I get a warning in Oculus Home saying "USB driver update recommended", no warnings at all when using the Fresco Logic drivers. Every time the display freezes I get a warning saying "poor tracking quality" for either a sensor or the headset...