First post, by Stojke
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I found in mud the other day an ET4000/W32P (WinFast T200).
Took it home, cleaned it, check it up, and confirmed that its perfectly healthy (from what I observed) when it comes to visible damage.
I installed the exact same type of memory and pimped it up to 2MB.
When I tested it in one of my motherboards, Chicony 486 (whos keyboard port is long dead (or is it?)) , and it worked normally.
Than I tried it in the Symphony board i have (Young Vega) and it worked there as well.
But because I had some floppy trouble (the stupid board doesnt want to acknowledge my controller) I had to swap different controllers.
Than at one point the image was no longer normal, but a bunch of missing letters, weird letters and colors.
Now its pretty much down to this:
I thought it was a memory issue, so I removed the additional memory I added, yet the same thing happens.
Could this be that the main chip is dead, or maybe something else?
[Edit]
Now it displays POST screen, but halts at memory testing. Some times the image is with out glitches, some times some lines are missing.
[More edit]
Now it started displaying everything correctly and all of a sudden the computer halted. I keep hearing weird twirly noise on my CRT when the halt happens.