After 3 years of regularly going to flea markets I finally found a computer there! It was a garage sale type of flea market and I happen to spot this beauty in someone's garage. 30 year old 386.
First power on and wiggling a bit at the memory Simms. No beep. Guess it's a project. I don't have the time for it right now though, so I'll put it back together and put it on the ever growing pile for now. All I wanted to do is neutralize the battery leak before it causes even more damage and assess the situation.
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First power on and wiggling a bit at the memory Simms. No beep. Guess it's a project. I don't have the time for it right now though, so I'll put it back together and put it on the ever growing pile for now. All I wanted to do is neutralize the battery leak…
So, the post codes can mean wildly different things depending not only the BIOS maker but also version. Older AMI BIOSes up to 1991 point to a memory issue. Newer ones up to 1993 to something completely different. This 74F00 hex inverter is of course highly suspicious, as are two or three traces coming from the chipset.
Source: http://mrbios.com/techsupport/award/postcodes.htm
Source: http://mrbios.com/techsupport/award/postcodes.htm
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