Try an more common 5 volt processor and limited the size of the simm memory, better trying other working (tested sticks)

What could happend:
-Onboard power regulator burnt dead, maybe the processor also.. And or damaged the memory.
And really check good if the board setting are set right.. (some people do over look mostly because of hurry)

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KieranD212 wrote:

Problem is i cant get it to boot from a CD as the bios doesn't seem to support booting from CD.

Option to boot from CD didn't appear until the later Socket 7 boards. You need a bootable floppy diskette with CD-ROM drivers to install stuff from CD. A Windows98 boot disk will do the trick.

If the Bios does not support booting from CD, you can install Smart Boot Manager on a floppy disk.
Floppy-Boot brings up a menu where you can select the CD ROM Drive. Useful for things like the Knoppix live CD

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Older boards seems to be more rock solid then newer parts, because of the components are using.. Back in the day they didnt use very small components what they now do.
As its said, its just normal that you cant boot from 486 boards.. because those boards wheren`t that advanced compared with pentium 1 socket 7 boards that later arrived ( socket 7 board where the first boards where booting from cd-rom was possible)

I hope that you dont install win98 on it.. It seems just worthless to me.. Back in the days we just used MS-DOS 6.22 on those machines with windows 3.11
An install of windows 95 could be possible, but then i can recommend the first version over the last version.

Robin4 wrote:

I hope that you dont install win98 on it.. It seems just worthless to me.. Back in the days we just used MS-DOS 6.22 on those machines with windows 3.11
An install of windows 95 could be possible, but then i can recommend the first version over the last version.

Back then you probably ran with 8MB of RAM (max 16) which made Windows95 a dreadful experience on a 486. Windows95 with 32 or 64 MB RAM on a 486 works much better. A quick harddrive also helps tremendously.

Stock the most systems where sold with 8 MB of ram.. The lower cheaper version did go with 4MB.. My dad bought an Highscreen 486 back in the days.. Did know with which processor it came, i thought it was the DX2 50mhz. Later he upgraded it with 16MB of ram.. but het never installed windows 95 on it, but some people may did (i guessing they also had more memory in the system)
And then later the system was upgraded with 20MB of ram and faster processor, because motherboard went dead..

Iam going offline now, i have a bithday now. Today iam 31 years old!. Iam later back online..

Robin4 wrote:

Stock the most systems where sold with 8 MB of ram.. The lower cheaper version did go with 4MB.. My dad bought an Highscreen 486 back in the days.. Did know with which processor it came, i thought it was the DX2 50mhz. Later he upgraded it with 16MB of ram.. but het never installed windows 95 on it, but some people may did (i guessing they also had more memory in the system)
And then later the system was upgraded with 20MB of ram and faster processor, because motherboard went dead..

Iam going offline now, i have a bithday now. Today iam 31 years old!. Iam later back online..

Wow congratulations dude! 😁

At any rate, a faster harddrive (like a 1 gig harddrive, it's really pretty much fast enough in my humble experience) and 32 megs of ram should be enough for 95

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I never found a PCI floppy controller myself either. I'm pretty sure they exist because I've read about them (their name escapes me for now).
Do you happen to have an ISA floppy controller? Those were usually multi-i/o cards

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You can always plug the HDD in another PC and copy the required drivers across and get a bootable system up and running. Hell, in Dos you can do the complete install in another machine and simply move the drive across. Dos is clueless about motherboard, video, etc. Nice and simple. Only thing you may need to do is point the CD drivers to the correct location if the drive is on a different IDE channel. Things like sound and network I'd setup in the actual PC though.

yeh 72 pin Ram isn't cheap, its old enough to be getting rare now 🙁

KieranD212 wrote:

I'm finding it difficult to get a floppy controller card. One problem my mobo does not have VESA slots. I did after days of searchi Find a cheap ide/floppy on eBay so hopefully I win that. Like I was saying I'm thinking of going with a voodoo card with a 2d and 3d core, is this a good idea?

Also I noticed old 72pin ram is much more expensive over here in the UK.

According to Stason, that motherboard should have two VESA slots.

http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/F/FI … ml#.UxTEWcGwWcE

I thought that seemed strange because when you see VIP in the description of a 486 motherboard, that means V for VL bus, I for ISA, and P for PCI. V-I-P.

I wonder why they would go to the trouble of removing the VESA extensions from the last two slots unless it's an OEM motherboard and the OEM thought that since it had PCI slots, that the VL bus slots would no longer be needed and had them left off to save a few pennies. I'll bet if you're handy with a soldering iron and had a scrap VL bus motherboard to pull the slots from, you could solder on the VESA slots and they would work fine.

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KieranD212 wrote:

TBH, the only reason you would want VESA slots is for legacy, still i have no idea why they removed the slots.

Actually, VL Bus slots can be clocked higher than PCI slots so you'll get better throughput from SCSI drives and other fast devices attached to VL bus cards.

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