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Title: need help with old old hardware
Post by: Elvicat on May 09, 2007, 01:22:33 pm

ok as the topic says... need some jumper info on a old 486 mobo
found a intel overdrive cpu :) but now i can't get the mobo to respond so if anyone can give me some info on a mobo with the marking ms4132 id be glad, i just cant even find the stuff i need via google :(

Title: Re: need help with old old hardware
Post by: miadon on May 09, 2007, 01:31:32 pm

are you sure its the mb thats the problem, and not something else? Are you sure the mb is even alive still?

Title: Re: need help with old old hardware
Post by: Elvicat on May 09, 2007, 01:38:07 pm

not really sure about anything with, it just powers up then nothing... no screen nada tho... the cpu and fan gets power from the socket itself so that much i know works...


*edit*
right... now all of a suddon i get it to boot and it works... heh but for some reason it only shows 896kb ram  :-\ prolly some odd config that needs to be fixed so hm... i'd really need to get my hands on the mobo manual so i can set the jumpers correcly

Title: Re: need help with old old hardware
Post by: Eila on May 09, 2007, 04:37:31 pm

Quote from: Elvicat on May 09, 2007, 01:38:07 pm

right... now all of a suddon i get it to boot and it works... heh but for some reason it only shows 896kb ram  :-\ prolly some odd config that needs to be fixed so hm... i'd really need to get my hands on the mobo manual so i can set the jumpers correcly

Congrats, its an old MicroStar socket 3, ISA/VESA 486 board
try the archives at:
http://cweb.msi.com.tw/program/support/manual/mnu/spt_mnu_detail.php?UID=182&kind=1

Title: Re: need help with old old hardware
Post by: Elvicat on May 09, 2007, 05:18:20 pm

rofl for some odd reason awhile after i got it to boot it suddenly... after some tinkering... started to read all the memory it had in it both 30 and 72 pin simms so now i got a system with a 83mhz intel pentium overdrive and a whooping 16mb ram heh  ;D

Title: Re: need help with old old hardware
Post by: bilbous on May 10, 2007, 07:17:48 am

Thats almost good enough for an automated butt scratcher. I'm using a pentium 166 for a firewall it has 92 megs of ram or some odd amount. It is running Linux of course.

Title: Re: need help with old old hardware
Post by: Raleigh on May 10, 2007, 07:23:47 am

Quote from: bilbous on May 10, 2007, 07:17:48 am

Thats almost good enough for an automated butt scratcher. I'm using a pentium 166 for a firewall it has 92 megs of ram or some odd amount. It is running Linux of course.

There are some tales that people could make a 386 run on Linux as fast as a Pentium 100 on Windows...

Now these old PCs are only useful for two things: Playing old "abandonware" games and as domestic servers for 2-4 computers

Title: Re: need help with old old hardware
Post by: Elvicat on May 10, 2007, 01:38:45 pm

i'm actually collecting these old junkers... especially if they work ;)
here's a list what i got so far anyway... with some still missing but... i'll get around to that some day  ;D
www.geocities.com/elvstrom/my_comps.html (http://www.geocities.com/elvstrom/my_comps.html)

Title: Re: need help with old old hardware
Post by: miadon on May 10, 2007, 01:51:19 pm

I would suggest replacing any batteries in the machines, as one day those things will leak and so will damage the board they are on.

This is the same for alot of old cartridge based games for any computer game collectors.

Title: Re: need help with old old hardware
Post by: Elvicat on May 10, 2007, 03:01:45 pm

wish i could change it but... it uses 1 of thouse sorts thats stuck to the mobo

Title: Re: need help with old old hardware
Post by: miadon on May 10, 2007, 03:18:42 pm

soldered on?

Title: Re: need help with old old hardware
Post by: Elvicat on May 10, 2007, 04:27:59 pm

yeah and i get all "shaky" when it comes to that small stuff... so it'll stay atleast untill it has a prob :P

*edit*
hm looks like its allready a messed up battery bah... well... soldering isnt my thing so... nevermind

[ Edited for language. --Karyuu ]