something like this? : https://www.amazon.com/Pc-Accessories-Connect … K/dp/B01G7HT89I

The chips on the shown board are from (late) 1997. this "manual" is pretty close https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/A/ACHME-COMPUTER-INC-Pentium-MS-5146.html here is another link from an old MSI Page https://web.archive.org/web/20040223004121/http://www.msi.com.tw/program/support/manual/mnu/ …

I hope they still work I tested my 430 a little bit and left it plugged in. It still works and even the battery is holding some kind of charge. It only complained once that the Cmos battery is probably broken, but after that it booted fine. Should I even try? Depends on what you want to do with it. …

I have a 430CDT and a 440CDT in my collection. If i can do some measurements or can help in any other way let me know. I also have a Eprom reader... but i dont know if i can read the Bios off my 430. I have never taken it apart and i dont know if the BIOS chip is socketed. ... I hope they still work …

Some years ago i got this Siemens Nixdorf Scenic Pro M5. Siemens (Nixdorf) was something like the german IBM. They made some very boring but high quality and expensive PCs that were targeted towards professional users. Its from the time where Siemens wanted to be funky like Apple with their …

Some time ago I made some 3D printable CPU trays and RAM holders. I uploaded them to Thingiverse. There are remixes of my CPU trays for other cpu types available too. https://www.thingiverse.com/barreljack/designs

I found a video from Adrians Digital Basement on exactly this PC ... He is a great dude and active in the Retro scene. Maybe he will have a look for you and even read the Bios... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbL6JuUesiA

...but even I know that no replacing the chips will do exactly zip, not only did they put fake chips on the board they are not even connected via traces to the CPU on teh vast majority of the boards I have heard stories about. I thought to see traces between the chips on the first picture. this is …

These cache chips on this tiny mini board . .am I right in thinking they are in fact the wonderful fake cache ICs ? Google gives exactly 0 results when searching for "16c328ah" ... Thats not a good sign. And the "WRITE BACK" makes it look even more fake. It feels like "Hey look at these chips... …

It should be a 512kb (Kilobyte) Module. 32x32kbit (per chip) x4 (chips) / 8 (a byte are 8 Bits) . If my math is wrong please let me know how to calculate it right. Datasheet for the chips: https://www.renesas.com/us/en/document/dst/71 … uage=en&r=13441

The NVASGP chip is (probably) a copy of the Yamaha YMF289B-S FM Chip. https://pdf1.alldatasheet.com/datasheet-pdf/view/101283/ETC/YMF289B.html The YMF289 is a slightly newer low power variantion of the classic YMF262 FM chip. Yamaha YAC-516 is the Digital to Analog converter (DAC) for the YMF289B. …

Finding drivers can be a little bit of a pain.

My guess is that it is a sample based sound editing solution. For like mixing in recording Studios. After a little bit of googling i found an oldlisting on Aliexpress for this card. https://de.aliexpress.com/item/32895103941.html It looks like it was a solution with several different cards and (as …