Thanks everyone, some helpful ideas and am super grateful for the pointers. I am still diagnosing the fault with the onboard controller and i think i have ruled out the connections to it but not certain as yet. All my old ISA hardware has long since been passed on but i liked the idea of the …

I am trying to repair an old Amstrad (Mega PC/496SLC) and troubleshooting a failed IDE controllder (WD76C20). Whilst i'm working on it, i will likely need an ISA controller card to get the system booting. However it has a single expansion slot available and i'd like to add a CF reader to it. Is …

Ah kala, thank you for the welcome! Yes, i am probably going to have to lift the headers to examine their condition - some of the pins appeared to have weakened over time so those were replaced. I suspect i am going to have to follow the trail and see where it takes me. It seems my copy of the 386SX …

Such a cool place and so incredibly heart warming to see that the Mega PC lives on. I hope i'm not late to the club. I also hope the thread is just taking a rest. I recently found my old Mega PC (with the 486SLC 25MAB chip) in my storage facility and with it all my original games and disks. I still …