My USB floppy drive works on Windows 10 64-bit, so floppy drives in general should be supported. Does the BIOS have a seek floppy drive on boot option and if so, is it enabled? You should hear some noises from the drive if it is during POST. Can you try booting from a floppy? That would rule out a …

The SEC KM416S1020CT-G10 is a 512K x16 Bit x 2 Bank SDRAM chip rated at 100 MHz. Each chip is 2 MB, 4 chips means 8 MB in total. If it isn't a hardware defect (which would be weird because usually you have artifacts or the card doesn't work at all), I suspect a software issue. Did you check if there …

I used a Transcend 133x 32 GB CF card for my retro build where I just discovered today that it seems to be not 100% compatible with my system. Windows 98 SE felt like it was working fine, but I got some random kernel32.dll errors here and there. Windows 2000 setup crashed with BSOD directly after …

Well, a short update: I thought I saw some corrosion on the external cache chip, so I did a quick cleanup and reflow with fresh solder. No change at all. But then I reset the BIOS and forgot to turn on the ECC setting for the SDRAM. What shall I say, it boots every time since then. I did a little …

Good catch. I'd probably change all of them anyway, I did that in my previous recappings too. Just to make sure.

Nice, thanks a lot! I'll do some RAM testing and then decide what to do about the caps. It is really weird for me that everything seems fine once the PC has actually booted.

I see. I didn't use polymers yet, even though I have read about it. So, the original ones are GSC 1000 uF 10 V 105 C and Stone 330 uF 25 V 105 C. I need to stick to the voltage rating of course, at least not go below, but I didn't see the capacity available with the Würth polymers. For electrolytics …

Thanks for the link! I can just use polymer ones? That's good I guess 😀

Well, I would need to order (correct) type of caps first and then hope I don't mess up the motherboard while trying to get the old caps out. That's why I'm a bit reluctant to rush the recapping. But yeah, considering that this hardware is decades old it is a potential source of problems... Any tips …

Unfortunately, I don't have a POST card. I will try memtest86 and maybe test with different RAM. Note on that kernel32.dll error: I had a similar one when closing Internet Explorer recently. I did some tests with 7-zips integrated benchmark and no issues there. I'd like to run prime95 too. Any idea …

I can give this a shot before recapping, sure. Some time ago I recapped a MSI K8T Neo2 that had a couple of blown caps next to the CPU and was working completely fine. I guess you can never be sure with that old stuff. Edit: In case I'm going to replace the caps, any hints for what type is needed? …

Hi, I recently reactivated one of my retro systems and I'm experiencing a weird problem now. The board randomly won't post, like no picture whatsoever, no signs of booting, especially when doing a reboot/warm start (!). Reset doesn't work then and it sometimes needs multiple power cycles to get it …