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| Thread ID: 50984 | 2004-11-08 01:49:00 | OE and IE to IBM 486 running Windows 3.11 | Morse (4575) | Press F1 |
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| 289256 | 2004-11-08 07:32:00 | The system I had several years ago ran fine. It was I believe: 486 DX2/66Mhz 32MB 72-pin RAM + 4MB on-board 2MB graphics ram (inbuilt but not shared) 853MB hard drive No PCI ports (5 ISA I think) ISA 3COM Etherlink III (10Mbps) Didn't struggle at all. My next PC was pretty much the same, but DX4/100. But I would still suggest Win95 if it's 66 anyway. If less then 3.11. Then a P75 @ 100Mhz Then a PIII 500 Then a PIII 733 Then a Cel 1.2 @ 1.4 Then a Cel D 2.4 @ 2.99 And moving into the future, an AMD Athlon64 5400+ :D Cheers George |
george12 (7) | ||
| 289257 | 2004-11-08 07:45:00 | Yes I have to admit 'struggle' is all relative. At the time if you havent experienced anything faster then there is nothing to compare it with, and it seems ok. Just last year I retired a DX/100, with I/O cards, ie the HDD and FDD controllers were on the ISA cards, a 1MB vesa video card and I think 32 MB ram. I just used it as a 'test bed' running up to Win95, but that really struggled. My lowest spec 'test bed' now is a Pentium MMX 200 with 128MB of SD RAM with plugin hard drive caddies. Windows 3.11 really flies on that, and Windows 1.01 flies even faster :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 289258 | 2004-11-10 08:34:00 | Thanks all. Graham - I downloaded Arachne OK but the setup is beyond my limited capabilities - thanks anyway. ?:| Terry - I looked for IE3 but couldn't find it - perhaps you could point me in the right direction? :) |
Morse (4575) | ||
| 289259 | 2004-11-10 08:38:00 | > Then a P75 @ 100Mhz how you oc this? i cant seem to oc my 166, must be through the jumpers? |
Prescott (11) | ||
| 289260 | 2004-11-10 09:25:00 | Hi Morse, you can get various versions of IE for Win3.x from Tucows: win3x.tucows.com Prescott, ~~~~~~~~sy~~~~~~~ achieved immortal fame a few years ago on PF1 for overclocking a P75? to over 100MHz. He was even mentioned in despatches in PC World mag :) Ask him he will know. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 289261 | 2004-11-10 10:07:00 | > > > Then a P75 @ 100Mhz > > how you oc this? i cant seem to oc my 166, must be > through the jumpers? its all in the jumbers ;-) all depends on what mulitpliers and bus speeds are advaiable on the board. |
tweak'e (174) | ||
| 289262 | 2004-11-11 06:32:00 | 50MHz FSB, I put the multiplier up from 1.5X to 2.0X. For yours, a 66MHz FSB, put the multiplier from 2.5X to [Whatever you feel like]. Cheers |
george12 (7) | ||
| 289263 | 2004-11-11 22:47:00 | cool, might give this a go in the holidays, no point really, ill just do it for fun | Prescott (11) | ||
| 289264 | 2004-11-15 08:36:00 | To all interested... Had a great leap forward when I obtained a floppy set for Windows 95 but when I tried to load it was advised that it was for a clean install only. From then on it was a great leap backward following some "happening" when the beast refused to change to Windows and came up with many DOS error messages presumably indicating damage and missing files etc. :( Anyone know how to clean up the hard drive as it advised can not be unformatted for some reason? (C:\ format /s with Windows 95 setup floppy in A drive). Failing that a prayer and a burial seems to be the only option to this illiterate. :_| :_| |
Morse (4575) | ||
| 289265 | 2004-11-15 09:22:00 | Not sure about PC-DOS but with MS-DOS you would use FDISK to delete the partition(s) from the logical drive (and then create a new partition or not?) - once this was done you could slam the first Win95 disk in the drive and it should find it and use it as a boot disk and either start the Setup sequence or put you at a DOS prompt so you could switch to A: and type "setup" to install... It's been a while since the DOS days - I could be wrong?! :D |
HadO (796) | ||
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