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Re: Building Retro 486

You may check the battery. When turning the system off, the system uses the bios to keep the data. With some too low voltage, but high enough to save some of the bits, data may end up corrupted with a reset or power cycle. Since you're using the cr2032 replacing is as easy as it gets, as is …

Re: Building Retro 486

@waterbeesje, thanks for the tips! since my last post just 3 hours ago.. I have burnt my power supply and destroyed it. :c The power switch came into contact with the power supply and completed the circuit because I was being careless. There was a loud pop and it tripped the circuit breaker of my …

Re: Building Retro 486

Hi everyone. Thanks for all the tips and advice. I got the first motherboard to post consistently! It turns out the RAM was bad. Good thing two more sticks of 2x16MB SIMMs came in the mail today. Now I am unable to get past the BIOS. The only adjustment I made was to Enable the Boot Up Floppy Seek. …

Building Retro 486

Hi Everyone, I am new to building computers and I thought I'd be ambitious and decided to build my husband's dream computer, a 486! I am building with a(n) : - Intel 486 Dx4 at 33 MHz x 3 - (2)x4 MB of SIMMs (EDO RAM) which is 8 MB total of EDO RAM - Abit AB-PB4 Rev 1.2 motherboard - new power …

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