Recent content by Byrd

I'm sure I posted drivers for this card for you with Windows 3.1; it might just be a 258K card. I suspect if not working with the WD stock drivers stay on the Standard VGA ones, some drivers here https://vogonsdrivers.com/index.php?catid=82

Looks like it was bring your daughter AND hippie day they took that picture - good find!

Check around the ground pins on the socket, which were very hard to desolder I found. In my case I needed to run a desolder braid over some of these and reflow. Not my most elegant work - did a couple of months back - but another 128K lives and sockets are great for inevitable "bit rot" of...

I had a very similar output when I replaced my 128K 16 x 4164 DRAM with sockets; wouldn't say it was an enjoyable job and found two shorts when I checked it over. The DRAM tester will also be your friend.

Once you get a good charger, have often found it takes a moment with charger plugged in for 30 - 60 mins then press power to see if it comes to life. Fingers crossed you get a chime and off you go. On further inspection replace the caps in the LCD which will improve image quality when done...

Sounds like a lot of good work done. Does it try to seek for a floppy disc or access the SCSI bus in any way - do you get a chime? You should get to the flashing cursor if no boot device presuming all is well. Have a good look over (and under, desoldered) the Classic SWIM chip which can often...

What's the model of your Orange 386? I suspect the earlier 386SX cards were "VGA" which noted standard VGA resolution of 640 x 480 4-bit colour depth. Have a look over the card and Google what you think the video chipset is, it might be Video 7, Trident, Cirrus Logic.

Yes it looks like some sort of enhanced RF shielding - see "Tempest" Macs of the same era. Is the mask handmade? It's probably worth a bit noting copper prices nowadays.

Google "VGA breakout adapter", there are several variants not as elegant at this, but short profile and suitable

Can confirm 'D' size tantalum caps fit quite neatly onto the pads if you pre-solder the pads, flux and position the larger cap on top (pre-tinned).

Windows 95 didn't have many interface sounds as I recall - Windows 98 had many more themes to try.

I reckon Virtual PC gives half the rated CPU speed for desktop performance - running Office style applications, but pretty much for games don't bother. There is a version of VirtualPC that supports 3DFX cards "natively", which I once got all excited about and tried however very jerky not just...

I'm not misunderstanding anything. You're referring to a Discord discussion nobody here knows about, and I'm kindly asking you to keep things cool.

@Jubadub please keep discussions on topic and not cross over forums targeting ptricky. This is relevant to Macintosh Garden, not here.

You'll find out pretty quickly once disassembled if the LCD is good; apply gentle pressure to the connectors and ribbon cables while on to see if you can elicit a change. Clean all connectors this includes the flat ribbon connector to the LCD in particular don't let liquid get around the LCD as...