First post, by ReeseRiverson
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I figured I best post all these in one thread instead of making one for each, so I shall begin with a motherboard I am going to put back into a case, once I get a plan for the battery taken care of.
Does anyone know anything about this motherboard? It has a Texas Instruments 486 CPU, and it runs at 33MHz. About all I know, and it works just fine. Seems comparable to my Packard Bell 300SX Intel 386SX 16Mhz system in performance. This is just basing off how Bubble Ghost runs and my judgement, whether I am right or not. 🤣 - Though the battery did leak, and left most damage as you see there, but it didn't damage anything but where the positive part would go. I was wondering if I could solder wires into where the battery originally was soldered into, and tie that to a dual double A battery box, equipped with rechargable double A batteries for the 3 volt operation, since I already have these items, or if I should just make a connector and hook onto the External battery connector there, and not deal with a rechargable set?
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Also, I have another board I'd really like to fix, if possible. It had ran well for me once upon a time, but it ended up not booting, but just giving out beep codes. What I hear from the speaker, are two high beeps close together, and then eight regular beeps, and then silence. Though according to what I read, there was 1 long, and 8 short beeps, which stand for display failure... but that can't be since I know the VGA cards I have are good, and I even tried one that I know for sure works. Here is a picture of that board, and it has no onboard CMOS battery, and I know it never seemed to have saved any settings for long when it did work.
Then finally, my last question for tonight, is this sound card... I have not tested it, but I am quite curious about it, and wondered if anyone may know anything about it? The largest chip seems to be a Texas Instruments DSP. With the number TMS320M520PQL on it.
