#pentium

Sometimes things don't go to plan. I went to go rotate my trusty Gateway 2000 system and the videocard said no. After that I was getting beep codes indicating no videocard detected.

Time for troubleshooting!

Oh... okay then I guess not?

Entered into SVGA mode in Windows 3.11 so... I guess it was a fluke?

Lets make sure the AWE32 card is working, and it was. The system can't run Impulse Tracker but OCP works no problem.

Okay, fine, well, since I've opened it up to troubleshoot lets do some work in there.

So, a bit of history, when I first rebuilt this machine, it was 2018 and I had just gotten it. There's a possible post for all the photos I took cleaning it up and rebuilding, it but needless to say I was not very good or through with cable management.

Yes, those are double AA batteries taped to a bracket, those are the RTC batteries.

And it stayed pretty much that way, even after I put in a Pentium Overdrive chip.

Nor did I bother with the front panel wiring. For shame.

There we go. There's a lot of wiring to the front panel. Three LED's, one push button and one key switch. That white assembly carries the system speaker and the front case fan.

A nice crop of the CPU, a socket 3 Pentium Overdrive chip running at an oddball 83 Mhz. Below that is the 128MB of system RAM (only 64MB usable.)