First post, by lolo799
As mentioned in the "Bought retro hardware" thread I recently got this combined ISA/PCI POST card and I put it in my P200 machine to test it.
In a PCI slot, no problem, blinking leds, changing codes on the segment display and the PC booted as always.
Next I decided to test it in an ISA slot, removed the ISA cards installed to easily access one of the 3 slots, put the card in the correct way, turned the power on, big mistake, no vga signal, no beeps, some burning smell came up, turned the PC off and looked at the POST card, you can see the damage:
Turned the PC again, nothing, no beep, no vga signal.
Turned it off, removed the other PCI cards except for the Mystique I had in there, tried again, still nothing.
After some tries it did boot once or twice but quickly froze while at the DOS prompt, I stopped messing with it and turned it off for the time being.
Come today, I decided to try again before making a thread about the issues, I put in the PCI POST card in, the error code is 07 every time.
Tried with the ISA/PCI card in a PCI slot, the code i get is either 07 or c1.
Removed all the ram, turned the unit on, greeted by the familiar long beeps, put two of the sticks back in the bottom slots where they were before the incident, no go.
Tried them in the upper slot, PC now boots, I figure the bottom slots are bad, or the two other RAM I had that were in the upper slots before hand went bad.
I removed the sticks that made it boot and put the other ones in, no sign of life again... tried them in the bottom slots, nothing.
I put the two that worked one minute before back in the upper slots, and still nothing turns on, same 07 code on the PCI POST card.
If anyone has an idea about what the problem is and if it's salvageable, that would be great.
Thanks for reading.