First post, by awergh
Apparnetly a whole lot of stuff was being chucked out at uni today mostly books and stuff but I managed to find my self 3 386 boards and a boring socket 7 board as well. 😀
However none of them seem to post 😢
Now the hard part is to work out what each of the boards is. I'll see if I can find pictures later.
Board 1
American Megatrends Inc (c) 1987
Series-4 Rev-A
Has socketed 386-20 and 387-20
Has socked DALLAS real time chip so no battery bombs on this board
No SIMMs so I assume the memory is socketed on the board somewhere?
Symptoms:
3 beeps continuously
post card says 1.0 presumably 10
This is something about the memory and I presume I should need to reseat the memory but I don't have a chip extractor and am not too sure which is the memory.
Board 2
American Megatrends inc
386SX-XT Series-20 Rev-E
This board has a 386SX-20 on the board and 8 SIMM slots
It has a 6v battery holder which is nice to
it is fairly similar to this board although not entirely the same
http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/A/AM … 86SX-CACHE.html
Symptoms:
1 very short beep
Post card says 3
This is something to do with the memory which is all sims so i can probably reseat them
Board 3
Socketed 386DX-20 no 387 is installed
4 banks of ram making 16 slots they are all in a line.
Unfortunately has a battery bomb but doesn't seem to be much damage on the board but I might be mistaken I think I need to clean up the mess.
I can find no branding on the mobo that I can see. The board is big has 1 8bit isa 6 isa and 1 8bit isa.
The bios is from 1986 I cannot tell you much more then that.
Symptoms:
No beeps
No post code just the leds light up so there is power
Sometimes the keyboard lights would flicker several times
My guess is battery leak is the problem and that needs to be cleaned up.