Reply 20 of 103, by Elia1995
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wrote:Can you post a picture of your test setup? Also one of the whole motherboard would be helpful too. I had a similar issue with an AT machine recently, and not all AT power supplies and motherboards are created equal! Ask me how I know... POOF...
I put the motherboard on the box, plugged in the AT PSU and then what ? I can't find where to plug the POWER SW anywhere on the board, I can only find the pc speaker, reset button, leds and "keylock" which I have no idea what it is.
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Now back to the other computers, today I tested every single computer once again, all of them, except for that AOpen one which I disassembled yesterday, the ASRock with bulged caps and the Pentium II Slot one which I don't have the processor, seem to work, even the Sempron one today after retrying with different PSUs and even after I replugged the one that is inside the case and removing all the case cables from the mobo and plugging in only the POWER SW, turned on.
I'll now quickly post all the HWiNFO screenshots I took of each computer I got the test to work, except the Pentium III computer, because for some reason it doesn't like to boot from any CD...
I'll first post the photo of the computer and then the HWiNFO screenshots, so you all can take a look at the specs such as BIOS, chipset and, where is integrated, VGA (those which I didn't take the screen for the VGA page means I used my RIVA TNT2 because they didn't have the integrated graphics chipset.
For reference, here's the VGA page of my RIVA TNT2, it's nothing special, really... just 32 MB of VRAM (more than the built in TNT2 that my Celeron build has: 24MB)
Yes, it's a TV I'm using... I literally ran out of extra monitors.
Ah and don't look at the RAM because it's basically the same RAM stick I just put and pull in each computer to test them.
Here's the Pentium III on which I couldn't get it to boot from my UBCD:
Ok, first computer:
This FS is completely silent because it doens't have any fan, the CPU cooler is a huge heatsink as you could see in the photos yesterday, but it runs very hot, especially when it shouldn't (boot and a simple DOS HWiNFO).
The built-in graphics chip is an S3 ProSavage DDR, but HWiNFO couldn't see how much video memory it has.
Now it's turn for the Sempron:
So it really is a Sempron after all.
This one it seems to run very cool instead of the previous Athlon XP 2600+.
(Note: I haven't changed the thermal paste in any of those computers yet, I just turn them on, do this quick HWiNFO thing and shut them down to avoid to overheat the CPU with their old and possibly dry thermal paste)
Now it's turn of the PC on which I tested most of the SDRAM, the A7A266:
So this is one of those PCs without integrated graphics, I used my RIVA TNT2.
Here's the Duron on which I tested some more SDRAM:
This one doesn't have integrated graphics as well as the A7A266.
I didn't bother doing the HWiNFO on the ABit NF7, I know that motherboard like my current main PC, since it is a very important motherboard for me, it has an nForce 7 chipset and is a Socket A motherboard, both my 2006 PC and this "new" one have an AMD Athlon XP 2600+ (like the Fujitsu Siemens PC) as CPU.
I'll use there my nVidia GeForce 7300 and my Creative Sound Blaster CT4750 just like I did with my 2006 PC, as well as the exact same hardisk with Windows XP ready to use (basically when that PC died I removed the hardisk and stored it away with other hardrives, never used it again, luckily it still works and I'll be able to make a video like "let's remake my 2006 PC" in the near future).
Currently assembled vintage computers I own: 11
Most important ones:
A "modded" Olivetti M4 434 S (currently broken).
An Epson El Plus 386DX running MS-DOS 6.22 (currently broken).
Celeron Coppermine 1.10GHz on an M754LMRTP motherboard