First post, by Jackal1983
Ok, so I have this damn near mint 386 mobo (supposedly was used in token ring routers) with the aforementioned chipset. It boots with both a 386 DX-33 and a AM386DX-40 (after a crystal swap) after I had the bios chip reflashed with the C&T reference bios. However I cannot get it to boot with 2 separate TI 486DLC-40s. Both get slightly warm to the touch (unlike the other 2) and throw error "0206" which is supposed to mean "CPU Register Check Failed". Initially I thought it was a power related issue (lot of tiny electrolytics on the board) so I recapped most of the board (except the caps on the expansion bus) and the PSU I was using (145 watt Delta AT PSU, just the electrolytics, I couldn't get the value of the one film cap on the PSU and I don't know enough about the ceramic disk caps or the blue tantalums) but no dice. Tried it without the mobo cache, no dice. Doesn't even POST. Anyone ever heard of any boards from circa 1992 that flat out refuse to boot that CPU? All I had in it was the post card and a VGA card. I think I might have even tried it with just the post card so I doubt it's expansion card incompatibility. I suppose I could have gotten 2 bad chips, but that would be monumentally crappy luck.
