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Re: When did you purchase your first 386 / 486 Computer? Availability vs the early 90's affordability norm.

My first PC, in mid 1993, was a 386SX-25 with 2 MB of RAM, 105 MB hard drive and either a 256k or 512k VGA card (think it was some sort of Trident, but not 100% sure any more). No sound card or CD drive. It ended up not working right, would keep locking up in certain games, so the store eventually …

Re: Broken Asus P5A?

The easiest way to check is with a POST diagnostic card. Most will have several LEDs that show the status of certain power rails or signal lines, including the reset signal. Reset should only be on initially, at power up, until the PSU stabilises the output rails and sends a 'power good' signal to …

Re: My First 486 Build!

Most ATX to AT converters don't provide -5V, not unless the ATX power supply also provides it (which only those about 15 years old or older do). To get around that, some converters come with their own voltage converter, which gets -5V from one of the other rails (usually -12V), but such converters …

Re: Voodoo3 2000 with missing caps

I have a V3 2000 that also had two of those caps missing when I got it, in my case it was C95 and C98. Except my card refused to boot at all in that shape, I'd get the one long and two or three short error beeps when trying to boot up. After I soldered on a pair of ceramic smd caps (16V, 10uF), that …

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