I have a NAS I built based around a HP Prodesk 600 SFF and Openmediavault Its current uptime is over a year, hasn't skipped a beat. Cheap and upgradable. Its main uses are as a media file server for my Kodi PC attached to the TV, a backup server for the Windows Computers and as a file server for my …

A QTEC branded ESS Solo-1 sound card, with SB-Link pads. Going to experiment with adding a header as the motherboard has the SB-Link connector. Can you share the drivers from the CD, please? Thank you. I've installed the card and it works well. Havent tested in DOS mode yet, but its installed the …

Kahenraz wrote on 2022-12-28, 16:35: Can you share the drivers from the CD, please? Thank you. Yes of course. Once I've confirmed them as working I'll get them zipped up and attached.

Grabbed a couple of things for my 98 SE Build, both NOS, still sealed until I opened them. A QTEC branded ESS Solo-1 sound card, with SB-Link pads. Going to experiment with adding a header as the motherboard has the SB-Link connector. A Belkin PCI Network card, gigabit with 98SE drivers according to …

While there is the capacitor plague to consider, most electrolytics will fail over time, not always catastrophically on their own but their ESR and capacitance will shift with age as the electrolyte dries out. Whether this is a problem depends on where the capacitor is used in circuit. More of an …

Thought I would reply to my original question with a fix I found this evening, in-case anyone hits this thread. Looked again at this issue tonight, but I didn't have the equipment available to reprogram the BIOS. So I tried plugging in another card into the ISA bus, in particular a Network card. Low …

Nexxen wrote on 2022-12-01, 20:22: Nice build 😀 Tried hitting @200mhz? Thanks. Not tried 200Mhz yet, but I probably will at some point 😀

'Finished' my 486 Build. I've used quotes there as we all know they are never truly finished, there is always something more to tinker with :D Some of the grey paint has worn off the power button, if I can get an exact match I may end up touching this up. Soyo SY-4SAW2 AMD-X5-133 (Am5x86-P75) @ …

Built a Socket 7 Pentium VRM today. It uses some prototype board, a 15+15 RA connector and a Chinese special '20A' Buck Converter. I think 20A is wildly optimistic, but it should be find for what the motherboard (GA-586ATM/P 66Mhz FSB) can handle. Had to go with a 12V input as the chip/circuit they …

Built a Socket 7 Pentium VRM today. It uses some prototype board, a 15+15 RA connector and a Chinese special '20A' Buck Converter. I think 20A is wildly optimistic, but it should be find for what the motherboard (GA-586ATM/P 66Mhz FSB) can handle. Had to go with a 12V input as the chip/circuit they …

First of all I would check all jumpers. Maybe some of them lost contact. I don't think faulty caps cause the system not running at all. Probably it would become instable. Also maybe some chip lost contact: try to check contacts of smd chip with a needle or a toothpick and contacts of bga chips …

majestyk wrote on 2022-11-24, 08:34: I can recommend Rubycon ZLH or ZLS or some Panasonic low (not "lowest") ESR series with a decent 105° lifetime of 2500 - 5000h. Can also recommend the Rubycons/Panasonics. Think the Panasonics will be a little cheaper but still good quality.

If you don't have an ESR meter to check them, replacing the caps isn't a bad idea. Worst case you can just remove them if you cant get the board working and reuse them. BIOS is also an option. Also, if you have a method of measuring it, check the clock generator/main oscillator is working OK.

The first point of any repair is to measure voltages. Check input and output voltages from regulators. The fact your post card shows nothing may indicate a missing supply rail, although Im not certain on that.

Hardware testing done, Dallas RTC modded, so I started to build my Pentium Overdrive system in an absolutely huge tower case. Been a while since I built anything of this era, I was quickly reminded how sharp the steel can be in these cases :D One plaster later and the motherboard and cards are …

I have had this problem and it is generally either caused by a duplicate pnp entry using the same resource - irq etc, or as rasz_pl said a eeprom that has memory errors when writing and updating escd. For the duplicate entry/ resource conflict I fixed by re-flashing the bios and using the option to …

Dug my Pentium 180 MMX Overdrive out of storage and was pleasantly surprised to find out it actually works. Even more surprised to find out it will run and bench at 200Mhz without problems. The wife cant understand why that makes me happy, but shes happy Im happy 😀

My first post and I'd like some help please. Been getting into vintage computing recently (Im old enough that I used similar hardware back in the day) and I have a weird issue I cant solve. Motherboard: Soyo SY-4SAW2 with Am5x86-P75 Soundcard: Labway ES1868F Ess Audiodrive Whenever I install this …