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First post, by naujoks

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Here I'm trying to revive a Gigabyte GA-586S.
I've cleaned it, replaced the missing battery holder, put contact cleaner in the sockets and checked for bad solder joint and broken traces.
I've tried two different CPUs (P166/P166 MMX) and a variety of RAM sticks.
I managed to install DOS alright but it now completely freezes either immediately or a second or two into trying to run a program, sometimes it freezes even during going through the AUTOEXEC.BAT.
It's running the latest available BIOS.

Any idea what might be wrong or what I could try?

https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/gigabyte-ga-586s

Reply 1 of 4, by dominusprog

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Disable the L2 cache in the BIOS and see if it makes any difference.

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Reply 2 of 4, by ux-3

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Does it run from floppy?

If you go HDD/CF/???, disable UDMA.

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Reply 3 of 4, by Gmlb256

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Which DOS are you using? And how the HDD is formatted?

Reply 4 of 4, by Nexxen

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"MADE IN TAIWAN", are those broken traces there?

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