Good question! and the honest answer is that I don't know for sure! I see no reason that a regular through hole resistor wouldn't work although you may cause more damage to the board later on if the solder joints are weak or the resistor was torn off accidentally. The solder beads should be applied …

you'll need: solder wick/braid, a very fine soldering iron tip, some very fine needle nose pliers or surgical forceps to hold the lil' bastard and a very steady hand. If you can find any then leaded solder will work best as it'll reflow better. 1. use the braid and soldering iron to clean the plated …

I hope I'm not crossing any lines here but I'm curious; I see lots of posts here from people testing retro hardware and have learnt a huge amount simply from browsing old threads and I am consistently impressed at the sense of community here. I've been wondering for a while what it is that makes you …

Another Benchmark for you: PC 3 CPU: Intel 486 DX-50 Mainboard: Unknown (no stickers or manufacturer's markings anywhere) Amount of RAM: 16 mb Amount of L2 Cache: 256kb Video card: Trident TVGA9000C (ISA) 3dbench score: 25.6

PC 1 CPU: Intel 486 DX4 100 Mainboard: unknown (Siemens Nixdorf PCD-4h) Amount of RAM: 24 MB Amount of L2 Cache: Unknown Video card: Onboard S3 3dBench: 62.5 PC 2 CPU: Intel 486 DX2 66 Mainboard: unknown (Digital DECpc LPv 466d2) Amount of RAM: 16 MB Amount of L2 Cache: Unknown Video card: Onboard …

Thanks, Good stuff to know. So it sounds like I've made a jumpered adapter effectively with a fixed jumper - in this case a diode. I was working from common sense and a pretty vague pin out list! I don't suppose you have the pinouts of the auto-sensing adapter? It sounds like that's the one i need! …

Wow! 68 views and no-one knows anything?!? Well, in case anyone cares or needs to know also: The sense pins these days do not really serve much of a purpose. As long as the monitor can support various refresh rates its just a matter of connecting pins 7 and 10 with a diode orientated so that the …

I've just acquired an old mac, problem is that I only have 'normal' monitors and the mac has a two layer low density connector for video. I know the pin outs to build an adaptor to solve this problem but i'm having trouble understanding the sense modes. from what i can gather the computer will …

Its the remains of a 486 no-brand laptop. (see picture) The screen died and the shell was smashed beyond repair (It's had a hard life before it reached me!). Seems a shame to throw it out as its still functional. I was thinking I'd try and mount the internals in a home-grown case behind a monitor …

I first played this on my original computer: A P166MMX with 196mb RAM and a 12mb Voodoo 2. Half life ran perfectly but the load times between sections were just long enough to be annoying! I still have this computer and still play old games on it on an almost daily basis!

I have these cards going spare. All of them were recently pulled from 486 machines and were working then. I have no use for them and it seems a shame to throw them out. I'm in the United Kingdom so would like to ship there (as it's cheaper!). PM a shipping address if you are interested, I guess …

Thanks, that info is good to know! Yes the board does have sockets available, apparently it can take up to 256K. The sockets themselves are shaped oddly, I've not seen any like this before except on old video cards. Any idea if its still possible to get hold of cache chips? (please excuse the poor …

thanks, you've convinced me!

Hi! i have a 486 DX2 66 in a board that will accept a 486 DX4 100 that i've gotten hold of. This board unfortunately has no extra cache memory. As this effectively cripples the computer's performance is the processor upgrade worth it? If so what kind of benefit would it bring? For extra information …

Hi, I hope this is the right place to ask this. I have recently acquired another 486. Unlike my others it is completely unbranded. I googled the bios number and have found that it was made by a company called " Consolidated Marketing Corp" my searches for board info have so far turned up nothing …