First post, by senrew
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Well, while rebuilding my SS7 machine, I discovered some caps had leaked and the solder points had come completely apart. As I don't have my tools, I have to consider this board dead for now.
In my depression, I made a thrift store run this morning, and at the first place I went, found a damn nice AT machine. It's an Acer Acros 500HD. I saw the Pentium Inside badge on the case, took a look and saw the slots were all populated and up to the register I went. $25 on the sticker, turned out to be 50% off day on all electronics, so I get the whole thing for $12.50.
So, it's a Socket 5 P100, POST screen shows 74-something k of RAM, it's got an STB Horizon+ PCI video card (CL GD5430), and an Acer Magic S20 sound card. The case itself is pretty damn nice, all black AT case with black 4x CD and floppy.
I've attached a picture of the front below.
Anyway, I get it home and plug it in to test it out. POSTS just fine (no clue how to get into the BIOS though...any help on that part?). It doesn't recognize the drives connected to the IDE headers though. I swapped hard drives, no go. I swapped cables and tried with both drives, nothing. The IDE controller must be dead I'm thinking.
Now, the entire system is nice for the time, I'm guessing early-mid 95? However, it's just too slow for my tastes. What I'm planning, is to simply swap the boards for a nice AT Socket 7 or SS7 and reuse the case as it's so damn sweet.
Can anyone recommend a board that's somewhat easy and/or cheap to find as a replacement?
Also, where would a Socket 5 pentium system slot in for most people's gaming needs? I could always just grab an IDE controller card and bypass the onboard altogether.
Halcyon: PC Chips M525, P100, 64MB, Millenium 1, Voodoo1, AWE64, DVD, Win95B