Doornkaat wrote on 2022-02-28, 21:47:Have you tried just removing it? If my theory is correct and it only has to do with POST code LEDs it shouldn't keep the board from POSTing if the part is removed.
Well I'll be damned!
It works! BUT the D-LED's on the rear still seem to be working too.
No idea what that chip does then.
craig26283 wrote on 2022-04-08, 20:10:Well I'll be damned! […]
Doornkaat wrote on 2022-02-28, 21:47:Have you tried just removing it? If my theory is correct and it only has to do with POST code LEDs it shouldn't keep the board from POSTing if the part is removed.
Well I'll be damned!
It works! BUT the D-LED's on the rear still seem to be working too.
No idea what that chip does then.
That's a bit puzzling but if the board works that's a win in my book! 😁👍
craig26283 wrote on 2022-04-08, 20:10:No idea what that chip does then.
Me neither, but it seems important. I'm puzzled that it works 😀
I'm expecting at least some PCI slots to misbehave.
Check page 17 here:
Go figure! 😀 Redundant ICs aren't good for the bottom line. 😁 Joke aside, I am happy that your board works.
@quicknick - thanks for the schematics. 😀
Have you found any fun new hardware to restore?
Did I find stuff to restore? Well ... I really hate to brag but in this instance there is no other way to put it. 😁
Over the last two years my life has been turned upside down and only now there are clues that it is starting to reach an equilibrium. What's in store for the future? I really don't know but at some point I intend to start posting again.
One thing has remained unchanged though. 😁 My "hunger" for parts has only intensified. The stuff bellow has been gathered over the course of the last 8 or so months. Also, I extended my area of interest in regard to what parts I collect.
Some of them have been restored and sold. Some have been repaired and some wait patiently for me to take care of them. 90% of them are alive and kicking. As usual I took pictures and each and every one of them has been catalogued and put into a folder.
The list bellow is not complete and the pics will contain stuff that it is not listed.
Abit Fatal1ty FP-IN9 SLI 1 with mystery CPU
MSI Geforce 4 4200 Ti AGP 8x
AXP 2000+ Palomino
OCZ - DDR2 RAM - misc
Gainward nVIDIA 8800GTX 768MB PCI-E
Intel Pentium III 1GHz/133 - SL52R
Gigabyte GA-8N-SLI ROYAL
PC Siemens Nixdorf PCD-3Msx - 386
GA-486SV REV.7 + AMD DX2 80MHz, S3 VLB - battery damage repair - all good.
Abit KG7-RAID - mighty AMD 760
MSI K7 PRO Slot A + AMD 600MHz - AOpen HQ45A case and AOpen 250W PSU
FDD 5.25" + 100 floppy disks, many new
PEAKTRON ELECTRONICS PA286-SA1. My name is Harris! 80286 Harris! My 16MHz are ready to rumble the bits and bytes! 4x1MB 60ns FTW!!!!
TANDON TM848E 8" FDD
ASUS K7M + AMD 750MHz - busted USB ports. Easy fix. A minor problem at the AGP port. Easy fix.
Gigabyte 6VTXE + Celeron 1200 - needs caps and some attention at the AGP port. Easy as pie.
ASUS A8N-SLI S939 with PCI-E A64 3200 - in great shape.
NOS Kingston 2x32MB SIMM 72 pins
AMD 486DX2-80
Creative Sound Blaster SBS38 Speakers
Funky Ball mouse
512MB PC 133
DELL Geforce 2 GTS 32MB
Creative Sound Blaster 128 PCI
ISA TV Card Fast Movie Machine - HUGE!
Pentium 2 400
AMD Low-power Athlon XP 2500+ AXDL2500DLV4D
AMD Mobile Athlon XP-M 2800+ AXMA2800FKT4C
AMD Mobile Athlon XP-M 2400+ AXMD2400FJQ4C
AMD Mobile Athlon XP-M 2400+ AXMD2400FVF4CE X 3pcs
AMD Mobile Athlon XP-M 2500+ AXMH2500FQQ4C
NOS Western Digital WD1600AAJB Western Digital Caviar Blue 160GB 7200RPM 8MB Cache IDE / PATA / ATA.
20x NOS Kingston KTH-VL4/64 64MB SIMM 72 60ns. 2x32MB. HP(R) P/N: D4543A
10x NOS Kingston KTH5365/128 128MB PC100 SDRAM. HP(R) P/N: D5367A
ATI Radeon 5970 2GB
NOS Asrock K7Upgrade-600
NOS ASUS A7N8X-X
NOS MSI K8N Diamond Plus
NOS ASUS P5N32-E SLI is in the P4 box
NOS MSI K8T Neo-V
Digital Equipment Corporation PRIORIS MTE
Target PC DFI 430VX P166MMX S3,
Thermalright IFX-14 Inferno Fire eXtinguisher with HR-10 cooler
FUJITSU: M2654SA 2055MB 5.25"/FH SCSI2 SE
MSI K7T PRO - SK.A KT133
ABIT BX-20 with a P2-400 CPU
ASUS P/I-P55TP4N Socket 7 - a very nice board
Mitsumi CD-ROM DRIVE 16bit I/F CARD 74-1881A, controller for old CD-ROM units. 2 pcs.
NOS Enermax Coolergiant 535W - absolutely minty fresh with a golden case. This would fit nicely into a Slot A Golden Orb kind of build. 😁
Misc VLB, ISA Controllers
Trident 9440 VLB Video card made by SPEA
Cardex/Gainward Tseng ET4000 with funky SIPP like memory. Probably an industrial card. PN: 9307-20
PCI Trident TGUI9440-1 bought for the VRAM chips. 😁
ZT52FA250HSS - ZOTAC ZT52FA250HSS ZOTAC GeForce FX 5200 128bit 256MB AGP
Gainward 8 MB Intel i740 ICUVGA-GW804
ATI Rage 128 AGP
P3 550
Zalman S775 cooler.
Two BIOS chips in search of their missing mother(board). I'm sure that the 286 motherboard is already minced meat ... RIP
Intel 486-DX2 66MHz 5V SX911
Intel Pentium 133MHz SY022
Intel Core 2 QUAD Q9400 SLB6B
Intel Core 2 DUO E8600 SLB9L
ASUS 8800 GT TOP EN8800GT-TOP/G/HTDP/512M
Mystery Z80 Computer. Some type of a homebrew computer.It need further investigation.
ASUS A8N32-SLI + A64 4200+ S939 + 2x1GB DDR400 Team Group XTreem
The BOX from a DFI LanParty nF4 Ultra-D - If I have the boxed it means that in my future it is written that I will also find the motherboard. Right? 😁
ACER AL532 1024x768 LCD monitor for testing purposes.
AMD 486 DX4-100
Intel I7-870
Intel SL4CE 800MHz/100
nVIDIA 6800GT PCI-E with Arctic Cooling NV Silencer 5
ATI Radeon 5850 1GB
PowerColor Radeon 7000 Video Card RV6P-NB3 64MB PCI
Gigabyte GX-X58A-UD3R + I7 960
MSI Radeon HD 2600 XT 512 MB GDDR3 - silent
ASUS P5B Deluxe + E6700
Socket 3 system + VLB + Extension cards
CLUB3D RADEON 9600 256MB GDDR CGA-E966TVD - 9600XT 256MB AGP
ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe
Medion MEDION 2001 (ASUS CUV4X-CM OEM) + P3 1GHz + GF4 4200 Ti 64MB
ASUS CUSL2
SY015 Intel Pentium 150 MHz
2x Athlon 64 3200+ for S754
Gigabyte GA-7VAXP Ultra K7 triton 400
Matrox MGA G200
PowerColor Radeon 9600SE Video Card R96LE-C3S AGP 128MB
PNY Tech PNY nVidia Quadro FX 500 128MB QFFX500A8E12X-G
Gigabyte GA-GF1280 Geforce 2MX 32MB AGP
Amstrad PCD1512 DD without the monitor which also houses the PSU and without the peripherals. A lucky find nethertheless
Lexikon HD352 hardcard MFM hdd 20MB - functional belive it or not!
Gigabyte GA965P-DS3
SGI O2 R5000 - 200MHz, 384MB RAM, 2x 4GB 7200RPM SCSI HDDs, Toshiba XM-5701B SCSI CD-ROM
3dfx VooDoo Rush. Adrenaline Rush 3D Jazz Multimedia Inc.
A bunch of 286, 386 and 486 motherboards.
Etc.
More later? We will see what the future has in store for us. 😀
Sweet!! Definitely looking forward to see the future.
Me too! 😀
Impressive! But I think you need more Western Digital Caviar Blue 160GB HDDs 😆
Indeed! 😀
I used a couple of them on two different Slot 1 motherboards though and on all of them I had issues with Win 98. Corruption of data after I finished the Win 98 installation. Registry ...bla bla. I tried different Win 98 SE versions but this solved nothing.
I reduced their capacity with Hitachi F-Tool to make them usable on 440BX boards. The boards I used were Abit BE6, ASUS P3B-F. When I put back my old Quantum Fireball AS 40GB all my troubles went away. Maybe they are too fast and the ATA 33 on 440BX causes issues or maybe the HDDs themselves require something that the older controllers do not have. On Win XP on the same system I had no problems.
Even with the ATA66 controller on the Abit BE6 I had the same issues with Win 98 and these WD drives but none with the Quantum.
I even tried some PCI - ATA adapters but I had various issues and in the end I settled on using older drives in my test systems.
Robert B wrote on 2022-12-30, 20:13:Indeed! :) […]
Indeed! 😀
I used a couple of them on two different Slot 1 motherboards though and on all of them I had issues with Win 98. Corruption of data after I finished the Win 98 installation. Registry ...bla bla. I tried different Win 98 SE versions but this solved nothing.
I reduced their capacity with Hitachi F-Tool to make them usable on 440BX boards. The boards I used were Abit BE6, ASUS P3B-F. When I put back my old Quantum Fireball AS 40GB all my troubles went away. Maybe they are too fast and the ATA 33 on 440BX causes issues or maybe the HDDs themselves require something that the older controllers do not have. On Win XP on the same system I had no problems.
Even with the ATA66 controller on the Abit BE6 I had the same issues with Win 98 and these WD drives but none with the Quantum.
I even tried some PCI - ATA adapters but I had various issues and in the end I settled on using older drives in my test systems.
yes windows 98 and other dos windows cannot run on partitions larger than 120gb so a patch is needed and can be obtained here: https://www.philscomputerlab.com/rudolph-r-loew-patches.html
Happy to see you back, Robert B!😃
