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Man you are fortunate to be able to drive over to your thrift store and just pick out PC stuff. None of the thrift stores by me even have PC computer parts at all. I'm stuck with online shopping and paying for shipping. Good to see that there is a market for the old retro parts. I have the same Pentium 4 CPU in an old XP machine that hasn't been fired up in like 8 years.
It might only be one place in another town, but I'm thankful for it! It sometimes doesn't yeld results. But I keep going anyway, when I have the time. Other than that, everything is online for myself as well. Whereabouts are you sort of located?
The "Chips"-Logo is from the company "Chips & Technology", a well known manufacturer of PC components back then. It has nothing to do with the infamous PC-Chips brand used later by a manufacturer.
Oh really?! It was good that Gigabyte still have the drivers online and BIOS updates. I would love to do a build with it. But I need to get some ATX Cases
Even This Mobo Can Support core 2 Extreme And 16gb Of Ram And Gigabyte Hosting Drivers For Old motherboard Like This But until now, I could not get 4GB DDR2 RAM I have never seen it in the consumer market@@thesmokingcap
About that 8742 error on the 286 board: isn't the Intel 8742 the keyboard controller chip? Maybe that's the problem... I guess you'll need to fix one of the traces that goes into that chip...
I think you're correct. I did a little research and found most of those error codes refer to the keyboard controller. I'll do some repairs on it and see what happens
@@thesmokingcap I also said that because I think the 286 has a special CPU reset procedure that uses the keyboard controller... Maybe the BIOS uses that while doing the POST and that's why it stops and gives up with an error? Just speculating, I have no idea... 😅
