MrKsoft - Can't you just replace the dodgy cap? Surely thats the "cheapest" solution (if it doesn't work after it will have only cost a couple of quid). Just make sure to get caps with the same capacitance/voltage I'm just building my first retro machine and have been getting stung price wise so I …

It's a bit difficult as a semi-poor high school student :P I can afford little things, a $5 CompactFlash adapter here, a $10 sound card there... but the motherboards seem to be a bit pricier than that. (Cheapest Socket 7 board I saw was $10 but it was a crap OEM board that didn't have any ISA slots …

Alright, I removed everything and it's the same deal. Removing the video card makes it do the beeps for "no video card" and then after a while it does the constant beep. However, I might have found the culprit. I found what appears to be a leaking capacitor on the corner of the board (If someone …

Okay, so, I got the motherboard into its new case. However, now I'm having a major problem. The system starts up fine and goes through the POST process, but right when it should finish, after checking RAM and detecting IDE devices, it stalls, then after about ten seconds the PC speaker just goes …

Okay, after looking over what I can do, I'm going to push forward with this Pentium board. If I have issues with certain games I can always go back to my 486. As Mau1wurf1977 said, I have it and it works, so why not use it? A few more random thought based on the responses: -Okay, so I probably won't …

I had no idea that the Pentiums were problematic (I thought it was just PII's and beyond). I wouldn't mind going for an AM5x86-133 system. I actually considered it but then I went on Ebay and realized that Socket 3 boards have their prices shot into orbit. And let's not even get started on the …

First off, hello everyone, this is my first post here. I'm probably a lot younger than some of the crowd around here, but still very interested in old hardware and games. Anyway, I have liked DOS games since I first started with PCs. I first came in touch with them when I was four years old (1996), …