First post, by Sphere0161
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Hello,
I have a 486 and when I tried to turn it on the other day it did not start from the hard drive, so I tried with a floppy disk and I didn´t even get the green light to turn on.
Because I am very stubborn, I kept trying and eventually, I manage to start after a while, which tells me that the hard drive and the floppy disk, are yet working. In any case I found very unlikely that both died at the same time.
Then I opened the computer, and realised that both, the hard drive, the floppy disk (and the mouse) go into some kind of expansion board that provides the computer with the IDE/floppy/com/parallel ports.
I wonder if what it was failing is this expansion board.
Basically, I have very little to no knowledge of those old systems other than turn it on and use it. So I wondered if those boards dieying is a common problem, or if it is the motherboard itself. And in case I need to replace the expansion board, what would be a decent buy in a reasonable price.
Thank you.