I haven't read the full original post and just assumed your system is stock. If you're running a 2TB internal HDD, then you're probably running a custom NAND. Can you confirm by seeing if you get a purple Xell screen when powering the system on by pressing the drive eject button? I did some …

This will sound crazy, but have you tried a faster CPU fan? My Abit BH7 powers off almost immediately with particular fans connected to the CPU fan header. These fans do not return any value for fan speed. Using a fan from a stock intel cooler results in a successful boot. Booting with the intel fan …

With the Transfer Cable mentioned above, you can access the contents of a phat xbox 360 hdd using a program like Xplorer360 or FATXplorer. One of those will work. This might work with a 360 slim hdd attached to your motherboard's SATA, but I cannot confirm. However, you will probably run into …

Building on the above suggestion, your BIOS might have a USB legacy support feature that might need to be enabled, but there might also be options called something like "USB Mouse Support" and "USB Keyboard Support", which can be set to OS or BIOS. If set to OS, then it is the operating system's job …

Manual: https://theretroweb.com/motherboard/manual/5ats-627b5e99da24b765790028.pdf Your board has a PS2 header, but the manual contains no pinout. If you want PS2, you could do what I did with my GA586-TX2 . There is a non-zero chance that the PS2 header on your board has the same pinout as my board …

I would like to add that PCI sound cards have a greater likelihood of working in pure DOS on the i845 / ICH4. I have an SB Audigy 2 ZS running on an Abit BH7 (chipset i845PE) with drivers from Joseph_Joestar's guide . Sound in DOS games works just fine from a "restart in MS-DOS mode" environment in …

I suggest plastic reconstruction using baking soda and super glue: https://youtu.be/n1meoZaHYZo Take caution and do some research beforehand to determine if any harm will occur with the products of your choice.

I'm sharing this here in the interest of having the pinout in question documented on the net, in hopes of the process or pinout being useful to someone. I wanted to connect mice to my GA586-TX2, but there was no PS/2 bracket with the board, I could not get serial mice to work (ctmouse or the M$ …