First post, by LR35902
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Hello everyone,
I recently acquired a socket 8 motherboard plus processor during a sudden inexplicable interest in computers of this period.
If this is the right place, I would like to ask some questions about it.
The board in question is an MS6104 (which is MSI I assume) running a Pentium Pro 200 (256k) and a mix of ram adding up to 32MiB.
1. Is there any non totally-luck-based way of acquiring an i/o shield for this board? The shield I need:
(This image is directly taken from the german wikipedia page about I/O-shields 😜 )
2. The memory check upon boot seems to repeat itself for a total of three runs. I am planning on upgrading the ram anyway, but is this anything to be concerned about?
3. I am currently using an Eagle S3 Virge/DX as a videocard. It works, but the image is somewhat rainy, with lines seeming to glide from the top right to the bottom left of the screen. I am not sure what to make of this.
And of course, this board has no external battery, so I will have to replace the pesky rtc chip. So I haven't done anything with it other than staring at it booting.