Made some progress. I found the sound card's drivers and it's working great. Still waiting for a reasonably priced RAM card...

maxtherabbit wrote on 2020-01-12, 02:39: another option to broaden your search is the Intel Above board, but the software is a little wonkier and I feel it isn't quite as nicely made overall they do work fine though I've seen those on eBay. They seem to be more expensive than AST and Boca cards …

I heartily recommend the AST Rampage 286 cards. Deals do come around for reasonable prices on ebay but you have to be patient Thanks Maxtherabbit! There's one of those on eBay right now. It's half populated and at $89.99. Do you think that's a fair value? That's quite high, I got mine for about …

I forgot to mention that I would like to add a sound card. I have a generic Taiwanese card that sports an OPTi chipset (82C930A). Do you think it would work in the 5162? How about the IDE connector on this card? I know those connectors are usually intended for connecting CD drives but, as it has …

Anonymous Coward wrote on 2020-01-11, 16:18: You shouldn't need a new BIOS to install an IDE drive. You just need to use a drive overlay such as ontrack disk manager. I've no experience with Ontrack Disk Manager or any other drive overlay. I already downloaded ODM and will give it a try. Thanks!

maxtherabbit wrote on 2020-01-11, 15:05: I heartily recommend the AST Rampage 286 cards. Deals do come around for reasonable prices on ebay but you have to be patient Thanks Maxtherabbit! There's one of those on eBay right now. It's half populated and at $89.99. Do you think that's a fair value?

Hi there! My name is Jose and I'm new to this community. I'm from Chile and I've been collecting computers from the 80's for a looooong time. It all started with my 1982 Timex-Sinclair TS1000, then the Apple IIc arrived and after that it was all downhill ... Anyways, I've this fantastic IBM 5162 …