Another update: So for anybody wondering, yes you can unsolder the DRAMs, and it works perfectly fine. It's counting 128MB RAM (from an external SODIMM) and happily ran through memtest86 with no issues. The hot air was good fun, and I ended up blowing away a resistor (although it was actually part …

A little followup (of a sort). I have been doing some digging, and it seems that I should be able to unsolder the DRAMs from the board, and it'll basically work as if a slot of RAM was removed. I need to look a little closer, but I performed a test with an old PC100 DIMM on another motherboard; I …

I've got a Compaq Presario 1260 laptop I recently picked up. It's a rather nice little unit, if quirky. It's an AMD K6/2 333, got a nice screen, pretty decent inbuilt audio, but it also has 32 MB of PC66 RAM soldered to the motherboard. Unfortunately, the onboard RAM is testing bad around the 30MB …

PC/104 industrial mainboard with Vortex86 166MHz CPU (Pentium-compatible, speed adjustable in BIOS), 2,5" HDD mounted underneath, 128MB RAM, FDD connector, USB, VGA, 4 COM ports, etc... I made a ISA to PC/104 adapter, so standard cards can be plugged in. You can see the size compared to a compact …

Well that's exactly the heat sink I'd want. Unfortunately delivery to me in the UK makes it a bit pricey, but it's always an option. I did wonder about epoxy, but I prefer clips. However, I found something more close to home! http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CPU-Fan-Cooler-12-Vdc-Heatsink-PPC0745-Wires-PC- …

Does anybody have a P75? If so, what sort of cooler have you got on it? I ask because I've had a hard time finding a cooler which fits the board properly. It's a Socket 5, but the retaining clips are offset from oneanother, meaning it needs the Z-shaped retaining wire clip, rather than the straight …

I've had a quick play with x86box, so I'll see where I get with that. Thanks 😀

I'll give it another whirl then. Plan B is bochs I guess.

i would still suggest virtualbox, its quite configurable and its not so bad with old software really unless there is a specific problem that you know of; Last time I tried OS/2 in Virtualbox it just hung. Netware was a bit of a pain to get running vaguely well. Apparently it's because of the …

Hi, Driving home from work the other day, I was passing the time mulling over a fun little project to do with an emulator. I thought it might be interesting to try doing some networking stuff (networking being my bag). I contemplated something like OS/2 server and PXE clients, or Netware and clients …