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| 44304 | 2002-04-17 08:52:00 | I plugged my old 486 back into the wall for the first time in a while (i had hopes of running it as a server of some sort). However, sometime during the absence of power to the box, some gremlins got in, and when i turned it on today, all the magic smoke escaped. Jimbob |
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| 44305 | 2002-04-17 10:24:00 | Oh dear, how sad, never mind :) Maybe it was just electrolytics in the power supply, if so you may be lucky and another powersupply could see it up and running if the M/B is ok. | Guest (0) | ||
| 44306 | 2002-04-17 12:37:00 | I think you had a lucky escape. Remember the bus wars?...VESA local bus, PCI local bus? Graphics cards that had 1MB of memory? HDD of 348MB (if you were rich)? Memory that cost $100 per megabyte? With a bios that supported only 16MB max? Arrrrgh...the horror of it all! Better you attach a rope to it and call it a boat anchor or see if MOTAT will find a place for it in their IT museum. Actually, I'd better come clean here. I recently got *my* old 486 up and running and our youngest is using it for games...very simple games, I should add. Good luck with the resurrection. You *will* need it. :-) |
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| 44307 | 2002-04-17 23:31:00 | Go The 486ers!!! I have been recently reviving 486s as they are cheap to get parts for and easy to learn how to pull apart and put together computers. First make sure that when you turn it on, the power supply fan starts up, if it does, you *should* have a working power supply (maybe). If it starts beeping lots, then you have got fryed ram usually, and if nothing happens you may have no CPU workie, or a bad video card. If you are familiar with the internal workings of computers (486's and modern day comps are basically the same inside, just minus PCI, AGP, SD & DDR ram, plus VESA & 30 pin ram.) I always take everything out (come on, dont be shy!!) and leave in a keyboard, cpu, Ram and video card and of course the powersupply( *IMPORTANT* make sure you remember which way round the Powersupply cables go, i have not had them mixed up yet but i assume something very bad would happen if you did!) switch it on and see what happens. spare parts are pretty cheap on sites like www.trademe.co.nz Good Luck!! |
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| 44308 | 2002-04-18 03:56:00 | Hahaha I found the source of the magic smoke!! I red and black wire emanating from the PSU had gotten cut when I put the case back on, it had shorted, and the entire length of wire is now melted and there is a plastic line where the plastic dripped onto the case. It had also blown the fuse in the PSU. I new fuse and one less wire coming off the PSU board and its all go again!! WOO HOO, win3.11 here we come!!! |
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