First post, by Raph33BDX
Hi everyone,
New here! 😀
I recently found two old pc cases and a box with some random stuff (ram sticks and a few AGP cards) in my attic and thought I would give a go at building a nice DOS gaming pc.
One is an Olivetti PCS40 with a 486DX33, 8Mo ram and an Oak OTI087 1Mo on a FIC motherboard, VT486-VC VT82C495, with I/O controller card.
The other, more recent, an IBM Aptiva 2144 131SLI, with a Pentium 166MMX (originally a P75 but I replaced it some years ago), 24Mo EDO, an inbedded Trident TGUI9680 graphics card, not sure about the amount of ram but the two extra ram chip slots are occupied. There's also a Sound Blaster Vibra16S sound card. From what I can remember, this was a cheap watered down version of the SB16.
It has an adapter card with 3 ISA and 2 PCI slots.
Not sure about the motherboard, chipset is Opti82C556/557M, there are several places with info that looks relevant to it, such as "FRU-11H8440" and " Pro57A Rev. 4.0".
Does anyone know this board? Is this base setup suited for DOS games?
I can't test the Olivetti as I do not have a suitable keyboard (keyboard port is not PS/2)
Here are a few pictures of the motherboard I took out of the case for cleaning.