I picked up this 1996 system a few days ago. To my surprise, it doesn't work at all. It won't boot. No video, no sound. Power "seems" normal but the fan in the power supply is broken (so if I were going the exhaustive route I would certainly part swap that).

And, yeah. Not really much else. This board (which I think is pretty cool) has an amazing failsafe system on it. There's only two jumpers on the board, the rest is a dip switch. The recovery mode prompts the floppy (which is bizarrely specified by Intel, even the case paint color is) to read for a BIOS file. Reset BIOS does nothing.

So in the failsafe mode it does seemingly boot. There's no video, but that is normal. Beeps. Does drive checks. I assembled what Intel calls a "bootable recovery disk." The system reads the files, beeps a few times, and this confirms the operation (BIOS loading) was successful. Then you are supposed to be able to boot normally and go about your business. This does not work.

Any thoughts?