Nothing will happen, apart from a bad-sector check done by the drive, because the 386 can not bypass the IDE circuitry and that will simply not do a...
As for legality, your are, strictly speaking, not allowed to sell the real CD either. Beta software is confidential and even MSDN discs with ordinary...
Same here. I have two large MSDN boxes full of every OS from DOS to Windows 2000. Every version, every language, DDKs, SDKs, and what not. Wanted to...
My comment would be to compare prices to other 5150 sold on ebay, because $850 for a non-working, used 5150 with a 3rd-party monitor is insane. Look...
You don't really need a video for that. Set your multi- or ohm-meter to ohm/resistance measurement, connect the black probe to GND on the mainboard's...
No, this chip has nothing to do with power at all. Ignore that chip, it's fine. And as you were told already, the PSU has no soft-power on/off. It is...
When I got my 5150, I installed an XT-IDE with a 32 MB DOM in the only remaining ISA slot and added a 8087. I kept everything that was already there...
Based on what you call "Behavior 2" and "Behavior 3", you have a problem with the mainboard, not the PSU. Probably a short somewhere (I see tantalum...