First post, by Maraakate
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- Oldbie
A friend of mine had some old hardware she was getting ready to pitch and one of them was a 486 tower. It had a Tseng ET4000 but had some custom soldering jumpers here and there. When I went to turn the machine on a tantalum cap popped on the ET4000. I removed the card, and the machine does attempt to boot. There is some series of beeps. I want to try another card in there and see if it's worth spending any more time on it. I don't want to spend huge bucks here and I have never played with a lot of stuff from the Pre-Pentium 1 era. Any recommendations on something cheap I can put in this machine to verify if it works properly and can upgrade later?
The motherboard is GA-486US (unsure of brand), Rev. 3. RAM is populated and a CPU is in there. I removed the controller cards and the SB Pro 2.0. Put the SB Pro 2.0 in a P1 machine and that does work fine! 😀.