First post, by therevisiona
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Hello,
I have asked many questions on this forum, and now it is time for a build log. (sorry I do not have any pictures)
The parts for this build were sourced from many sources (friends, coworkers of my dad, dumpsters, etc..) during the last two years. First came the sound card, then the IDE controller, after was the motherboard, and the last was the video card.
The Video card was sourced about a month ago from my friend, which meant that I had no knowledge if the hardware I got actually works or not. Built it this morning.
Specs:
ASKA 286-16 Moherboard (ACT A27C001 Chipset)
4x Goldstar GM71C256A-80 256x1 bit DRAM
Trident TVGA 9000i
DTK PTI-227w Super IO card
Yamaha Sonata SR-S163 (seems to be rare, only found one on eBay, uses standard Audician 32 drivers)
TEAC CD-ROM Writer (2001, did not find any period correct CD-ROM)
Seagate ST340810A 40 Gb HDD (did not find any period correct drive, use Ontrack Disk Manager for usage)
Samsung Floppy drive
Generic AT 300W power supply
Build log:
So first we have to prepare the motherboard. First thing I did, removed the barrel battery and replaced it with 4xAA battery. Then, powered it on without a video card (did not have one). NO ram error beeps, only missing video card beeps. Then I waited... and finnaly someone gave me a video card. Tried it anndd.. nothing. Cleaned the contact and tried again and lo and behold it fired up. So I had pretty much working computer, just did not have a case. Ordered one on eBay, while waiting prepared the HDD and installed all the drivers. Yesterday, the case arrived and finally built it today. Case is quite rusty and bit me a couple of times. Will purchase RustOFF and remove the rust. Cleaned it with a compressor, and washed the front panel in my shower. So finally it is time for games. Here is a list of games I already tried:
Lemmings
Supaplex
Keen 4
Keen 6
Pacman
PC-MAN
MS. Pacman
Wolfenstein 3D
Duke Nukem 2
Jill of the jungle
Prince of persia
Space quest 3
Also installed Windows 3.0, I do not know why, probably just to play solitaire 😀
Changes I would like:
More period correct HDD
More period correct CD-ROM
More memory
More period correct sound card
This was my build log, hope you liked it 😀