want to back up my vision software

[stayouttadabunker]

Mine has Windows for Workgroups v3.11 on it.  Sad thing is I remember when that was new 

I typed in WINVER.EXE and got the same thing. 
I actually still have a copy of that somewhere...I think it was loaded via the floppy disk...argh!
Below is a picture of how I remember it the last time...  >>>

[a69mopar]

Below is a picture of how I remember it the last time...  >>>

Looks like somebody misunderstood the term REBOOT!.  Must have been booted several times...  

W

[stayouttadabunker]

  That's a sad looking thing isn't it?   

[a69mopar]

There have been a few times recently that I want to throw my tower out the window.  I imagine the results would look similar.

Thanks,
Wayne

[Forrhouse]

In regards to the flash memory, there are sockets, but they are quite expensive about $300 sometimes more.
Intel flash has long been obsolete. Intel doesn't even make flash chips anymore. These Intel chips are very unstable.
My advice is don't mess with them!
Eric

[brichter]

There are no sockets for this type of flash that I have ever found, they are surface mount devices (56 pin SSOP). The highest density SSOP socket I have ever found is 34 pin. If you have a source for these, please post the link to where I can purchase them, I have some people who need a large quantity for a different application.

Bunker, you can see them on the board, they are under the left side PCMCIA card holder, and marked Intel Flash. 4 of them have stickers (2 Microsoft and 2 Phoenix) and the other 4 do not have stickers.

As Eric said, you really don't want to have one of these fail... so I'd remove that RFA card before BSH and you have to find another LCD motherboard.

[stayouttadabunker]

I took it out right away after you said to take it out...
I was just a pullin' yer leg... 
If it blew  it blows...
just trash it in the name of slot education...
I must of re-booted it and uploaded the RFA about 50 -75 times anyways ...
I looked at everything the cards had...nothing exciting but it was fun
to hook up a keyboard to it.

The LCD basically turns on/off when I turn my desktop computer on/off.
If I don't want to turn my desktop off..I just reach behind and
pull the 4-pin power plug from the LCD board - no problem there.
I didn't really search on the board for a possible header that
connects to a power switch of some sort.

I played with the MMLBII and the earphone jack and the JP3 jumper.
Can't get it the earphone jack to put out anything.
I still really don't know what the JP3 jumper is for.
I'll do some searching.

I threw the LCD back into the S2000 topbox and did the same MMLBII sound tests
while it was in the topbox...still can't get the earphone jack
to work no matter if the JP3 jumper is on or off.

I might work on the VGA pins header later on and
see if I can plug in a 24" wide-screen LCD monitor...
You guys know me...I'll tinker with this puppy until I
learn everything I want to know about it or blow it up! lol

We don't need no stinkin' manuals now do we?

[stayouttadabunker]

Contradicting myself,  I found this....uh...out of a manual...
Finally! The definitions for these weird things! lol
Also, the 2-pin Molex on the back of the LCD computer
is an input plug...not an output as I thought.
I'm assuming there needs to be a short 2-pin harness
that routes from the amplifier board to the LCD>>>

[Ron (r273)]

So if everything else fails, read directions manuals?    

Ron (r273)

[stayouttadabunker]

So if everything else fails, read directions manuals?   

Ron (r273)

Lol yeah...I tend to overlook those things! 

[stayouttadabunker]

These particular CF flash cards work very well with the Vision LCD computer.
All I had to do was format them in "FAT" with a 1024 cluster size.
They were very inexpensive and plentiful on fleecebay as people don't really use these anymore.
The funny thing is someone still had some stag party photos on them...
I'd love to post them up here but this is a PG website...

I tried to partition the 4GB SanDisks I have into 2GB's and
make a 1024 cluster but the LCD would NOT pick it up.
I'd always get an "Incompatible Media" error on the LCD display.

[elvisc]

How to install drivers of PCMCIA PC CARD FLASH Storage?
I have SimpleTech Cards 20MB and 64MB and when I insert it they allways give me a exclamation in Device Manager Generic PCMCIA Memory Card.
Any idea?

[stayouttadabunker]

I've never used those ones but upon a google search, I found a post on Tom's Hardware by a guy named WyomingKnott who says that those cards seem to be part of Hitachi?
Here's a link to that blog and there's a connection to the Hitachi/SimpleTech links...>>>

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/279448-45-simpletech-drivers