I fixed the problem, it was my keyboard all along. I sourced a very basic usb keyboard without backlighting and now all works well. I was using a spare mechanical keyboard with backlighting which caused all my issues. Maybe it was drawing too much current?

Well check for solder joints and also clean the board. For the second board, don't connect the power supply to it until you change all the caps. i've ordered replacement caps for both boards, when they arrive i'll scrub the board with alcohol and install them and report back if it turns out to be a …

flupke11 wrote on 2023-08-21, 08:15: I would certainly replace the caps on those mainboards. Even when they arent visibly bad, can they still be causing issues?

Power supply can be the cause, what about the mosfets? Find someone who can flash the BIOS to the latest version and also post photos of both boards. https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/shuttle-fs56-v2-0#downloads Mosfets look okay, psus on both seem strong but i will try to turn both on with a …

Hello to all, I have picked up 2 shuttle xpc's - an ss58g and a ss56g. They are both showing signs of instability such as boot looping when trying to enter the bios, sometimes not recognising usb keyboards and mouses, no signal until power cycling a few times and always booting into safe mode ( …

I just tested this method on my Thinkpad R52 and it indeed works! Had to modify the ATI Catalyst driver a little (added device and subsystem IDs to the .inf file and also modified the CPanel.dat so the control panel software can be installed. The modified driver is available here (as well as some …

This is a few years late, but I just extracted the Catalyst 6.2 drivers, pointed the device manager to the folder, and selected Radeon X300 as the display device/driver to use. Selecting Radeon 9600 also works . It runs fine for me on the T43. I was playing Quake 2 and 3 on it without issue. The …

Hello to all, I have come across a thread where a user named kjliew has gotten DSOAL working in windows 98 to get working EAX with CPU acceleration but it has been inactive for quite some time and no updates have been made. Is there a link somewhere to this specially compiled version of DSOAL, or is …