16-11-2021, 06:21 PM
OK, I got my new motherboards today. They are a lovely purple colour. I put one on the desk, stuck a stick of ram in it, a video card and my nice Duron 700 CPU. I bridged the pins on the motherboard to get the power going and it posted right away! There is a beeper built into the motherboard which is very nice.
So I put in a hard drive and it booted to an ancient version of Ubuntu (10.10), but was quite slow with only 256 mb of ram. I put in three 256 mb chips and it was actually quite responsive.
I tried to load Win XP, but on the GRUB menu it doesn't seem to like the USB keyboard for some reason.
So the next phase will be to put it in a case, hook up optical drives and 3.5" floppy and install Win Me.
Amazingly the BIOS has support for all sorts of floppy drives, 5.25" and even 2.88 Mb 3.5" for example.
So I put in a hard drive and it booted to an ancient version of Ubuntu (10.10), but was quite slow with only 256 mb of ram. I put in three 256 mb chips and it was actually quite responsive.
I tried to load Win XP, but on the GRUB menu it doesn't seem to like the USB keyboard for some reason.
So the next phase will be to put it in a case, hook up optical drives and 3.5" floppy and install Win Me.
Amazingly the BIOS has support for all sorts of floppy drives, 5.25" and even 2.88 Mb 3.5" for example.