First post, by JDZero
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I apologize if this topic was covered elsewhere, and will delete this should I be directed to a thread that has already covered this.
A while ago, a co-worker gave me their old 486 computer that they had found in a house they had just bought. After a quick once over, I found a Freetech/Flexus 01-00392 Revision A VLB board inside it, sporting a Socket 3 ZIFF socket. I ended up tossing the rusted out case, and have yet to do anything with the non-functioning 3 1/2 and 5 1/4 drives, instead grabbing a different case that accommodated for vertical expansion slots (it originally came with an ISA Riser card 😜 ) --
At first I was happy to just install a 100mhz Intel 486 in there and call it a day, but recently I was able to grab a Pentium Overdrive (63mhz) CPU, and thought "What the hell?" ..
Of course, the old 486 is small has a lesser pin count than a POD, so I didn't really pay too close attention until I got the CPU in, and then I discovered that two of the pin holes had a wire installed in them. From looking over the pin layout of a Socket 3, the two pin holes that are wired together are S1 (VSS) and T1 (WB/WT) =
My questions:
Question 1 - Has anyone come across this sort of setup before?
Question 2 - Is this important for the Socket functionality?
Question 3 - Can it be removed safely in case it isn't important?
