First post, by LunarG
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Heya Vogoners.
Just spent a day prepping my stupid ATX case and finding a way to safely mount my AT motherboard into it.
The motherboard is now installed, and I'm working on getting all motherboard headers (LEDs, Reset button and so on) hooked up.
I just had to give it a go though, to see if it would post.
First press of the power switch ended with a sinking feeling of despair, as the screen remained blank. I hooked up the PC-speaker to see if I'd get any beeps, and flicked the switch again. Nothing.
After disconnecting my IDE cable (for the CF-IDE adapter) and giving the power switch another go... voila! One computer POSTing like a champ 😁
Turned it back off, popped out the 8MB ram module and swapping it for 2 x 32MB modules and rechecked the IDE cable and power for the CF-IDE adapter. Hah!
My new 486 baby is born! It's detected the 64MBs of ram and it has correctly detected my CF card as a 3996MB hd.
Going to post more interesting information tomorrow, just wanted to post something to vent a bit of my excitement.
Have a very nice evening everybody 😀
Edit: It DID happen (or: I just added a couple of pics to prove it).
Yes, that heatsink is only temporary. Just had to use something to keep it a bit cooler while trying to POST.
Succesfully completed the POST with 64MB ram and DX2/66 CPU. CPU will be replaced with DX4/100. Just need to figure out the jumper settings.
WinXP : PIII 1.4GHz, 512MB RAM, 73GB SCSI HDD, Matrox Parhelia, SB Audigy 2.
Win98se : K6-3+ 500MHz, 256MB RAM, 80GB HDD, Matrox Millennium G400 MAX, Voodoo 2, SW1000XG.
DOS6.22 : Intel DX4, 64MB RAM, 1.6GB HDD, Diamond Stealth64 DRAM, GUS 1MB, SB16.