Piringa
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So I was throwing out the trash and I threw a bag of trash over the doors of the corral and I missed the trash bin. I went inside the corral and found an old keyboard on the floor and I thought ka-ching. I had just found an old pc. Everything was there. To get to my question.
What can I do with this system. Any ideas?
It runs but I think it has some problem with the hard drive or ide controller or something. I opened it up and it seems to be an old 486 box. Im not sure but I think all the devices were connected via isa as opposed to more modern systems that use pci slots. The ports didnt look like the pci slots im used to seeing so I'm just going on a hunch. It has 16 megs and no cd rom, but one 3.5" floppy and a 5" floppy. When I opened the box I saw the hd and it said the capacity was 240 megs or something. I was laughing but I was like ok i guess its right, the American Megatrends Bios says 1985 - 1992. So Im guessing windows 3.0 or something. The mobo has no ide controller built in, the ide conrtoller is a separate device. The HD's ide cable is pluged in to this device that is connected to the mobo through isa or whatever kind of port that is.
here are some pics.
ps. It wont boot to the OS. Hard drive not ready error.
What can I do with this system. Any ideas?
It runs but I think it has some problem with the hard drive or ide controller or something. I opened it up and it seems to be an old 486 box. Im not sure but I think all the devices were connected via isa as opposed to more modern systems that use pci slots. The ports didnt look like the pci slots im used to seeing so I'm just going on a hunch. It has 16 megs and no cd rom, but one 3.5" floppy and a 5" floppy. When I opened the box I saw the hd and it said the capacity was 240 megs or something. I was laughing but I was like ok i guess its right, the American Megatrends Bios says 1985 - 1992. So Im guessing windows 3.0 or something. The mobo has no ide controller built in, the ide conrtoller is a separate device. The HD's ide cable is pluged in to this device that is connected to the mobo through isa or whatever kind of port that is.
here are some pics.
ps. It wont boot to the OS. Hard drive not ready error.
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