liqmat wrote:Interesting. I picked up that black tower which is also an early 1990s 486 EISA build. Please make sure to take lots of photos of that. What mobo do you have?
Mobo is an ECS SL-486E, 8x EISA, one of which has VLB as well (which has major issues - anything I stick in there short-circuits and/or starts smoking, so this board is EISA only as far as I'm concerned). Today I operated on its Dallas DS1387 RTC Ramified, and despite making a complete dog's breakfast of the module, the operation seems a success, with both regular BIOS CMOS and EISA settings being saved. If they're still saved tomorrow, I start to build - and yes, I'll open a topic for it.
Apart from that motherboard, I'll include a Buslogic BT-747S EISA SCSI controller to run the drive on, a Compaq CPQ3001 EISA VGA (whose .cfg isn't working, more fun ahead), and I'm looking for a 10/100Mb EISA Ethernet adapter too. The motherboard is a 5V only desing, but I have an interposer that should let me use a DX-4 100 or better. Just need to find a heatsink for its MOSFET.