I'm on the way now with my new TR100/815e chipset, Pentium-lll 1GB Coppermine build. I plan to use this as an MS-DOS 6.22 only setup for awhile to re-learn DOS and play some games. The re-learning process activity should keep me occupied until snow season. Nothing like Mt. Baker backcountry overnight camping. Funny I still can't find anyone with the same love for snowshoe travel huffing a 60lb pack? Last two years I experienced a couple unexpected snow storms, found myself breaking camp at 1:30AM 2023, and 2:30AM 2024. I chickened out in the middle of both storms due to similar 35-50mph gusts and heavy snowfall/snow drift, still have not devised a good plan for solo emergency self extraction buried in heavy snow fall... But I'm getting good experience packing and hiking in the dark. It was terrifying in 2023, 3.5 hours until I finally found my snow buried car. I fell twice in 4' deep snow, I'm on a death wish. Seriously, don't try this alone, it's foolish, especially if you have a cat that depends on your safe return.

So far I have a couple questions/problems to solve, help please... The board I have is Compaq branded apparently, I see a .5 second flash 'Compaq' logo at power-on, BIOS is pretty generic. Other than that, it was a surprisingly easy and un-eventful initial power-on, thankfully... It's always a potential nightmare when cobbling together all new components and expecting everything to be smooth sailing, troubleshooting nightmares for me is the norm. I prefer the add one thing at a time when possible.

The board does not have a speaker hook-up, only an empty pad identified for a board mounted buzzer. So I soldered a small internal 5v 8 ohm speaker to the buzzer location (see image), but no sound, and no BIOS sound enabling settings, what's the deal?

The downloaded TR100 manual is vague for case wiring. I'm still not sure where to connect the power LED case wires to the board? The reset, hdd, and power-on are all well marked on the board, but not the power-on LED?

I want to add, I find that heatsinks with the 'wider' baseboard type connection design put less stress/pressure on PGA2 type CPUs (heat spreader top).

Again, all help/advice appreciated, thank you...