First post, by wacha
Hi, Vogons community.
I have a 486 board that came with a box of old hardware that I would like to test to see if it even works. The thing is that I am unable to identify it and I've never played around with 486 era hardware before. As I was born in 1990, my area of interest starts with the first Pentiums and very late DOS/Windows 95. I have uploaded a few pictures of the mobo to see if someone can help me.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-88a0_gAm-4Q … iew?usp=sharing
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-ESzF0eTXM8Z … iew?usp=sharing
My questions are:
- Does anybody know the full name of the board? I can read mb-4d33/50n ver:A but no manufacturer. Google says it might be an Aquarius, but none of the pictures match my board.
- Do you know if the DX2 66 that I intend to use is compatible?
- Can you help me decipher the jumper settings on the board? Say I want to power it on with the DX2 66 and 16Mb of SIMM RAM (two sticks). What settings, if any, would allow me to test the board without breaking anything?
- I see there is no battery, will it power up without one? I've read that 486 era boards are quite picky with batteries, but logic says it should boot, just not save any setting changes.
I have a compatible keyboard, ISA and VLB video cards and SIMM RAM. Should be enough to at least boot, no?
Thanks in advance.