I have a little bit of a mystery computer that I saved from my local thrift store. Paid a whopping $4.95 for it.
Anyway, thing thing was CLEAN. When I say clean, I mean it got dusty taking it home. The case front was mangled but the system booted fine. Even the onboard battery was still good and the date was only 1 day off.
Because the case front was missing it was in non-turbo mode, so after a little poking around I managed to find and jumper it into full speed, but immediately following it seems like something took a dump because it now fails to boot, claiming the ide controller has failed. The hard drive is fine, I put it into a different system and it booted like before. I'd like to find more information on it but after about 6 hours of google searches, I find bunk.
I want to keep it for gaming, as it would be the fastest 486 class board I have. That and I found it rather humerous when I noticed the "USA" chipset which was made in japan... ALL the drives were samsung drives, which I found rather odd.
And just for background information it has 256kb onboard cache (hard soldered on) :evil: Came with 4x 4mb simms, I'm concerned that they are fake parity (see picture) The vesa ide controller has "TERRA 3000VL" under a 2nd layer of silk screening, its hard to read but I cant find any info.
I apologize for the crappy cellphone photos but any information would be very helpful and appreciated.
Anyway, thing thing was CLEAN. When I say clean, I mean it got dusty taking it home. The case front was mangled but the system booted fine. Even the onboard battery was still good and the date was only 1 day off.
Because the case front was missing it was in non-turbo mode, so after a little poking around I managed to find and jumper it into full speed, but immediately following it seems like something took a dump because it now fails to boot, claiming the ide controller has failed. The hard drive is fine, I put it into a different system and it booted like before. I'd like to find more information on it but after about 6 hours of google searches, I find bunk.
I want to keep it for gaming, as it would be the fastest 486 class board I have. That and I found it rather humerous when I noticed the "USA" chipset which was made in japan... ALL the drives were samsung drives, which I found rather odd.
And just for background information it has 256kb onboard cache (hard soldered on) :evil: Came with 4x 4mb simms, I'm concerned that they are fake parity (see picture) The vesa ide controller has "TERRA 3000VL" under a 2nd layer of silk screening, its hard to read but I cant find any info.
I apologize for the crappy cellphone photos but any information would be very helpful and appreciated.