First post, by Nexxen
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Hello!
Said board has a burnt filter on the V line of the PS2 USB header.
I have no idea of the values I have to look for to buy a new piece of. The board works perfectly except for the PS2 header.
- solved by soldering everything together; suggestion of a 0.5A ferrite bead as a filter.
I was wondering, should I desolder the 4 pin header and solder a PS2 port to help speed up things or leave it as it is for "(fill the blank)" reason?
If I'm not wrong it's only for mouse support. Or maybe just any kind of PS2 device?
Edit: I withdrew the idea.
Any help is appreciated. 😀
https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/GA-5AA/s … #support-manual
Edit: board has issues installing W2K with anything above K6-300, K6-2/iii makes it hang unless I fiddle like crazy with bios settings and results are inconsistent.
Random reboots arise.
With W98SE is more stable but hangs and reboots occasionally.
- solved: VRM caps faulty, soldered new caps and works 100%; probably K6-2 -iii, MII and 6x86 PR300 require higher cpu voltage stability that faulty caps couldn't provide.
Edit 2: Windows 2000 works but because of a bug only @ half FSB. W98 and Xp work @ full FSB
BIOS chip is Winbond W29C011A-15
PC#1 Pentium 233 MMX - 98SE
PC#2 PIII-1Ghz - 98SE/W2K