The last couple of days, I've been building a reverse sleeper. I had some minimum features, 486, PCI, 64mb ram.
I was originally using a PCchips motherboard, only because it supported 128mb of ram. But is was sluggish and I assume it's because it doesn't have L2 cache (fake and soldered).
In the end, I switched over to a Gigabyte GA-5486AL. Only supports 64mb ram and has 256kb cache - not sure how that works.
Whilst I was testing it outside the case, things seemed to work ok. After I installed it in the case, the CD rom and floppy drives decided not to work.
CD rom now works, but the floppy drive won't. I switched over the ribbons, played a little with bios, used different drives. I can't work it out.
Also the serial port won't detect the mouse.
Any ideas what I can try or what it could be?
I want to have a SLI setup in the future, but that means no more USB? And a couple more drives, CD and CF drives.
I also plan to have one of the spare large bays modded to have a turbo button and display.
Have a look at the photos and give me some ideas on what else I can add or change.