Pardon for the late reply. Here are the exact locations of the missing caps (the yellow circle is a cap that I'm pretty sure is the wrong value on my card). https://imgur.com/a/p6CEXAi This card has been turned on like this - it was advertised as "plugged in, worked, then didn't". That is somewhat …

Yeah, I’m going to see if I can order all of them at once from one seller. And I assume I can use higher voltage rating, correct? Like, 4,7uF 25V instead of 16V?

I’m considering Nichicons mainly because when looking online, one seller has all of the caps I need and they just happen to be Nichicons. :-D (and they’re gold-colored, so they’d fit the color theme perfectly, but that’s a minor thing) You reckon they won’t make that much of a difference? The FG are …

CT4390, the longer one.

Hey all, Got myself an AWE64 Gold for a steal - 10$! Missing the card bracket (no biggie, I can fabricate one) and 2 of the caps are knocked completely off the card. No wonder the seller listed it as "non-working, plugged it in once and it worked, then wasn't detected". Looks like somebody had tried …

Well, I got it figured out somehow. :-D As for the BSODs, yes, it was the drivers. I found a way to omit that, though. While being a batch noob, the stuff I did wasn't THAT hard, and I figured since I got it working, someone else who might have a similar problem might stumble upon this and get some …

Pardon my late reply - college got in the way. hwdetect.bat is a carefully-crafted batch file - and it is only created after Win95 finishes installing and proceeds to restart the computer to finish the installation. I'm going to look at the .iso image and try to find it; if I fail, I'll copy it from …

Hey folks, I managed to fix that PB 640 mobo I've posted about (rotten recovery jumper pin, what are the odds?). I've managed to obtain quite a few Master CDs(if anyone wants an image tell me), and picked one that is most likely to be packed in with the PC. (Aug 1996 MultiMedia). I've managed to …

Update - changed one jumper, the Password Clear jumper, back to the "clear/disabled" setting. Focused on the RAM sticks - maybe one of them is bad. All I get is 3 low-tone buzzes on recovery mode - on normal mode the computer stays dead and silent. I have a AMI BIOS - according to a cheat sheet 3 …

Yes, it does make a low, switching buzz. My guess is the BIOS can't be damaged since when shifted into recovery mode, it behaves like it should. I should clarify - after getting that bit of advice on the jumpers, I did manage to boot and POST succesfully once by shorting the pins into the "normal" …

Sure, there is a procedure to re-flash the rom with an updated one by going to the recovery and inserting a floppy. I don't really think this is the problem, though. Perhaps it's something of a bad/improperly inserted memory, or something. Will try that before I do any BIOS flashing.

Yes, the board was operating before capacitor replacement. The caps were in really, really bad shape and the 2 big ones had already bloated, so there was no point in waiting on a disaster. Fresh new CMOS battery was also installed. All the jumpers have been set accordingly, to a non-overclocked …

Quick, short one - the kind you'd hear on passing the POST. I've connected a floppy drive and inserted a DOS boot disk - the computer does a floppy seek test and proceeds to load something from the floppy.

Hello! I've picked up a Packard Bell Multimedia PC, one in a designer tower. The timestamp says 1996, and the motherboard is the 640 model, that is, Pentium 133, 16megs of ram, a riser, all that. Went ahead and replaced the caps on the board successfully, and after that it turns on and emits a beep …