Hello guys, I need some advice from you/ So today I got old IBM CGA video card by mail and wanted to check it in my 8086 machine. Upon power up, one of the capacitors blew up! 4.jpg Back of the board: 3.jpg This is one of the three-legged tantalum capacitors that were popular back in the day, right? …

Some chipsets that come to mind are Headland's HT12 & GC101A-PC chipsets, VLSI's VL82C10x , UMC's UM82C206 & Suntac's ST62c2xx chipsets. What about G2 (or later Headland) GC102 chipsets? Are those normal?

Hi all! I want to assemble a 286 machine and I need some advice from you guys. What 286 motherboards are considered better than others? What models should I look for? AFAIK there were motherboards with SIMM slots, were they more or less common? Should I try to buy one? Were there models with CR-2032 …

Ended up buying ECS P5SV-B rev 2.0 motherboard on SiS 5571 chipset in very good condition. While in transit, somehow keyboard port fuse got broken, so the keyboard wouldnt work. Not sure what caused this, the fuse itself looks good. Good thing this can be fixed easy. It came with Pentium MMX 200, …

what motherboard was in the Pentium 100 PC that just failed today? it was on i430VX chipset The fastest non-MMX P54CS will run on any So7 board. Not So5 (without modification) as it needs the second multiplier pin for 3x multiplier. So that gives you a lower limit. As for the the upper limit, you …

Hello guys! Some help needed with choosing Socket 7 motherboards. My old Pentium 100 MB died today, fixing it would take some time, so I decided to purchase something new from the same era. Read some info, now kinda confused. Don't want to go too high to MMX/Pentium Pro/PII era. I want to be able to …