Got a generic 486 DX2 66 desktop today. Used a 20% off eBay coupon. Has a ODIN DS12887 clone CMOS chip. Just my luck.
Should have used it to buy my favorite dress shoes instead.
Anyway: going to take it apart; clean it and install my Pentium 100 with MOBO. Will need to test the CD-ROM, FDD, HDD and CT2800 it came with.
Spent 90 minutes. Swapped the MOBOs. HDDs and FDDs would not work. Bad PSU. Swapped it out. Now boots FDD. I LLF-ed the IDE HDD. Will install MS-DOS 6.22 tomorrow. CD-ROM may be dead. Will try again tomorrow. And test the CT2800.
Update: CT2800 works great. Getting the case power on button to work with the replacement PSU was quite a mission. But I got it working in the end. Dropped the modem. Waiting for COM1 to arrive from CN. Will need to order LPT1 as well.
Machine came with a CL-5426 16BIT ISA VGA PCB. Struggles with Duke Nukem 3D 800X600. No surprise there.
Should have used it to buy my favorite dress shoes instead.
Anyway: going to take it apart; clean it and install my Pentium 100 with MOBO. Will need to test the CD-ROM, FDD, HDD and CT2800 it came with.
Spent 90 minutes. Swapped the MOBOs. HDDs and FDDs would not work. Bad PSU. Swapped it out. Now boots FDD. I LLF-ed the IDE HDD. Will install MS-DOS 6.22 tomorrow. CD-ROM may be dead. Will try again tomorrow. And test the CT2800.
Update: CT2800 works great. Getting the case power on button to work with the replacement PSU was quite a mission. But I got it working in the end. Dropped the modem. Waiting for COM1 to arrive from CN. Will need to order LPT1 as well.
Machine came with a CL-5426 16BIT ISA VGA PCB. Struggles with Duke Nukem 3D 800X600. No surprise there.
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