So I have this 486 DX4 100 on a SIS 496 motherboard. And it works - but only if I put the graphics card in the PCI slot furthest from the CPU. I didn't try a sound card or IO card in the other slots, mainly because I don't have a hard drive of small enough capacity this would work with, unless I could persuade it to work with a larger more modern IDE drive. Therefore I don't have an OS installed.
All the PCI slots look OK and I don't see any other obvious damage. Could it just be something in the BIOS? It would be nice to save this from the trash as there are not so many around any more. And it is somewhat collectable these days.
I hope some of you have more experience of such old hardware.
All the PCI slots look OK and I don't see any other obvious damage. Could it just be something in the BIOS? It would be nice to save this from the trash as there are not so many around any more. And it is somewhat collectable these days.
I hope some of you have more experience of such old hardware.
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