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A coworker mentioned that they had an old PC in their garage and I offered to take it off their hands, so now i finally have my own beige box! An IBM Aptiva 2168-M53, with a few upgrades from when it was actually in use. Unfortunately, at least one of the hard drives has the click of death, so I'll have to pull it out, but I have an IDE to SD card adapter that I was going to install while I wait for my CF to IDE adapter to ship (I pulled the sd adapter out of another, less old system I use in my workshop). This is my first time messing around with a computer from when I was too young to really know what was going on, so I have a few questions: Is 1998/9 old enough that it avoids the plague of bad capacitors that killed the PCs I had in the early 2000s? Everything looked fine when I opened things up, but if it's at risk for having one blow, I might see about recapping it. I don't have any floppy discs on hand, I assume I can use some software like rufus to make a bootable drive on my SD card, and have the PC boot to that? And is it possible to install Windows 98 SE over DOS? Ideally I'd like to be able to run both 98 and 3.1, and not having to use multiple partitions would be great.
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Sep 25, 2022 14:15
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I'm having a really weird issue trying to get this thing to boot properly. I replaced the CMOS battery, since it was unsurprisingly dead, but now it takes forever to POST, and seems to have 2-5 seconds of lag on each keystroke, and the speaker screams at me if I even think about touching the keyboard outside of the times it wants to take input. I ended up yanking most of the RAM so that the memory check wouldn't take ages (it literally was taking about 30 minutes to check the 16MB that was in there when I got it) There isn't some kind of weird jumper on the motherboard that can cause it to throttle itself to 8086 speeds, is there?
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Sep 26, 2022 20:19
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Turns out I read the directions for an older revision motherboard, which has a different jumper location  Now it gets through POST just fine, but I get to fight the SD card compatibility demons.
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Sep 28, 2022 19:31
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It almost looks like the switches are connected to those 3 pins? Maybe someone wanted to manually set them?
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