First post, by douglar
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Disclaimer: I know this this is a total vanity project. It's not worth the time or money, but back in the day, I always wanted to make out the config, but it was often too expensive or too risky, because I wouldn't want to melt down by primary computer. But when I could do stuff like get 16MB of ram in the 386sx and it booted OS/2 reasonably well, it felt super cool.
Here's the 256K chips in the board today. Cache size jumper settings are silk screen on the board.
First I got 5 of these off ebay, (4 for the cache, one for the tag) installed & jumpered, but the motherboard wouldn't post.
Tried reinserting & rearranging. No dice. Tried using the original tag. No luck there either.
Did I just waste $7 and get the wrong type of sram? Or are they relabeled ? or maybe just total garbage??
So I then I splurged and spent $9 to get 5 of these:
They were not a total fail. The motherboard completes the POST and reports a 512K cache, but never boots. Perhaps a bad chip?