First post, by Robin4
- Rank
- l33t
I have been busy to build an 486 computer because i want to have some working system now.. I have already managed to matching the parts that are working together. In the first time i had a idea which parts i wanted to use.. But building a 486 is really a hardass it seems. Not all VLB graphics cards and controllers seems to work on a board i had already had repaired. The biggest nagger seems to be the `winbios` that was devloped for the board iam going to use now.. I thought to use my number nine 1MB VLB on this board, but it doesnt seems to work on a board with winbios.. So now iam using the diamond stealth 64 4MB VLB instead that seems to work great.
But now iam on the memory part. It seems for me the weakest part of building the 486 system.
The board does have two 72 pins simms and four 30 pins simms. Because of this it should be a Fast Page Memory board only.. EDO just dont seems to work..
Now i have two boxes here, an small one with tested memory inside most of them are 72 pin simms. These all simm i had already been tested with memtest86 and have marked them with a little round sticker.. There i have written the value of the stick on..
I also have a big box here that is little bit filled with 72 pins sticks, but didnt have tested them and also i dont have marked them for now..
My main problem: Some sticks have written EDO on it ( i know these seems to be edo)
But the most are not.. How can i be sure with sticks are FPM and which are EDO??
Are there pentium boards that would accept one stick only and can determine if there is edo installed or FPM??
~ At least it can do black and white~