Soyo SY-6VBA-133
I picked this up as faulty not working for a few pounds a while back and managed to repair it.
It's a lovely board, I've still got to get a Northbridge heatsink that the previous owner scavenged, I'll test it but not push too hard yet (heatsink ordered).
So I got this FortéMedia FM801 card and with it installed, it stops the PC from booting. I could see anything physically wrong with it, so decided to give it a good scrub and wash, then dried it with hot air. Now the PC boots, whether it will work or not, we'll find out.
Linux on a nearly 30 year old CPU is just like magic!
Well, this looks promising, maybe the easiest fix ever for a soundcard:
It was really bizarre that it was stopping the PC booting, I checked and cleaned with Isopropyl Alcohol first but it didn't work.
But a wash in the sink with fairy liquid and a brush, rinse and dry?! 😂
Well, I couldn't get any drivers to work with the card at all, so yeah, I have to come back to it in the future.
But what I did manage to do was find 4x 256MB PC133 sticks of RAM that work in this, so I can have some fun with a 1GB RAM Pentium II 😉
Gammitin (Ben) 💾
