First post, by Murugan
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- Oldbie
Today, I got my repaired and pretty undocumented Intel 386 board back.
It turned on to my excitement (the first and last time I turned it on, a cap exploded), I could enter the setup utility but since the external battery was long dead it didn't save the settings when I turned it off.
So I made a new external casing with 4 pin wiring and I think here I screwed up. I didn't pay attention to where the black wire was and instead of being on the 4th pin, it was on the third.
I didn't realise it at first but the PC started to act weird when I turned it on. Wouldn't even show Trident 512k etc....
So I checked both coincell batteries if I placed them correctly and then I saw my mistake.
Now even after switching to the 4th pin, the PC keeps acting up.
Pressing the reset button (not ctrl-alt-delete because that doesn't make it boot beyond the Trident line) brings me further down the road to where both floppy drives light up and then it stops again.
Did I short something out 🙁?
My retro collection: too much...