Hey my retrofriends ✌
Meanwhile i got my Tandon running. My issue for the bootloop the 286 had was the VGA was set as "bios Autodetect". I disabled the detection and it booted finally.
I swapped the RLL HDD out and inserted an XTIDE-CF unit with a 4GB Card (2x2Gb partition in DOS 5.0)....little bit Overkill i know ^^
Then I installed a 3mb ISA Ram module after searching without success for the proprietary Ram extension, swapped in a 10MHz Coprozessor found in a online flee market(German Ebay-Kleinanzeigen), a SB16 running Unisound (thx to Jaze Fox), an IO controller for the 4xspeed CD Drive (want to try if i can get the IDE header from the SB16 running to save a slot for a network Card),
a second 3.5" floppy drive and last but not least exchanged the LOUD PSU-Fan with a brand new one manufactured by Noctua. I newer saw such a silent 286 PC 🙂
There i one more thing I would like to change:
I know there has been a plus model with 10,7 mhz instead of 8MHz in mine....how did Tandon speeded it up without a 20MHz oscillator?
Here are some pictures
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My Retrosystems:
PIII on GA-6BA running Win98SE
AMD K6 233 on GA-586HX with Win95
Tandon 286-8MHZ Running DOS 6.22 on XTIDE-CF
M326 486DLC + 4c87dlc (Dos+Win3.11)
ECS UM4980 AMD DX2 80 5V (Dos & Win3.11)