First post, by keropi
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- l33t++
Hiya!
I recently got gifted these two mobos, they work fine and I've replaced their batteries with coin ones successfully. I have some questions about them because quite frankly back on the 386 era I did not bother much with upgrades etc...
The left one has the cpu soldered in an adaptor with pins. Can you fit anything else other than a 386 there? (ie can you upgrade it to a 486?)
Also do BIOS updates exist for such mobos? Both have the same AMI bios with the puke color scheme 🤣 , should I bother searching for updates? Obviously I don't really know their maker/models yet since I have left them at my office and the pics I took do not help 🤐
Regarding HDDs, am I locked in those pre-defined types and have to use overlay software for bigger ones? Can anyone recommend a nice I/O card with some buffered hdd access? I have some generic 16bit ISA ones but they are nothing special IMHO (or I should not pay attention to that since the system will be a 386 after all?)
I am excited to build a working system (thinking to use the left mobo with the soldered 386DX) since I never had the joy of using custom made 386/486 (I went from IBM 386 to Zenith 486 that also had most devices onboard). I also think I'll add a Cirus vga with a 8bit SB (or sbrpo) and maybe my GameBlaster , no point having it stored 😁
Thanks for any info/comments/ideas 😊