Chances are your 486 board will only post with FPM instead of EDO. Do you have any FPM memory laying around?
Remember that you'll need only 1 stick, 486's don't need pairs 😀

Well, that did it. Found a little baggie of ram that said "ZEOS FPM 4MB Modules" on it. The thing booted right up.

I dug through the boxes of parts that came with all the machines I got in this haul and found an old WD Caviar 1gig drive and figured that'll do. Turned the machine on, checked the BIOS to make sure the hard drive parameters were set correctly...and they happened to match the particular drive I randomly grabbed.

I rebooted, DOS started up on the drive, loaded the ASPI CD drivers...and then the thing booted into Netware 4.0. I guess my friend's dad used this thing as a server at some point.

Anyway, as the machine currently sits:

ZEOS Gosling
486 (I think it's a DX 33. The BIOS reports a fpu and 33mhz speed)?
8MB FPM ram
WD Caviar 1GIG
Diamond Speedstar Pro VL 1MB
3.5/5.25" floppy drives
Toshiba something or other SCSI CD drive

Thinking of dropping in either one of the SB16s I have or the CT 4380 AWE64 as a sound card and be done with it parts wise.

I still need to find some kind of manual or jumper settings or something for this thing. Anyone know where I could find those?

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Well, that did it. Found a little baggie of ram that said "ZEOS FPM 4MB Modules" on it. The thing booted right up.

I dug through the boxes of parts that came with all the machines I got in this haul and found an old WD Caviar 1gig drive and figured that'll do. Turned the machine on, checked the BIOS to make sure the hard drive parameters were set correctly...and they happened to match the particular drive I randomly grabbed.

I rebooted, DOS started up on the drive, loaded the ASPI CD drivers...and then the thing booted into Netware 4.0. I guess my friend's dad used this thing as a server at some point.

Anyway, as the machine currently sits:

ZEOS Gosling
486 (I think it's a DX 33. The BIOS reports a fpu and 33mhz speed)?
8MB FPM ram
WD Caviar 1GIG
Diamond Speedstar Pro VL 1MB
3.5/5.25" floppy drives
Toshiba something or other SCSI CD drive

Thinking of dropping in either one of the SB16s I have or the CT 4380 AWE64 as a sound card and be done with it parts wise.

I still need to find some kind of manual or jumper settings or something for this thing. Anyone know where I could find those?

Cheers! That's one problem out of the way! 😁

For jumper setting, my preferred way is to find it's model number and manufacturer.
A really good source is "Total Hardware 99" (or just th99 in short), you can find it by using google.
If you can take a clear picture of the board and write down all printed words/numbers on the board and upload them, perhaps I could help you find the correct entry in th99 😀

TH99 doesn't have the Gosling on there. It has a few other Zeos boards but not that one, so that's a loss 🙁

I recently found this:

http://www.mpcdrivers.com/file_lib/zeosbbs/zeosbbs.html

Seems to be a partial archive of the Zeos BBS files. I'll see if I can run through some of the files to get an exact identification of my motherboard when I get home.

Figure the link might be helpful for anyone else with issues with Zeos boards.