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Asus 486 System

I bought the motherboard in the late 2000's to use as a DOS gaming setup, but since moved most of that activity to Dosbox, and for hardware based Windows retro gaming, a suped-up Pentium IV.

Instead I kept the board around to host my various INMOS Transputer host cards, which really only work properly within DOS (there are various Linux drivers, but none [including my own] are really kept up to date).

In late 2020 I decided to rehouse the board in an old AT desktop case that I had stored for quite some time.

Hardware

Case

  • AT desktop case
  • 400W Corsair ATX power supply
  • ATX to AT power cable adapter
  • Repainted black from faded beige :)

Motherboard

  • Asus PVI-486-SP3
    • 3x PCI
    • 1x ISA/VESA Local Bus
    • 3x ISA
    • 2x 72pin SIMM
    • 2x IDE, 1x FDD, 2x Serial, 1x Parallel, 1x AT keyboard, 1x PS/2 mouse (header only)
  • AMD 5×86 133MHz
  • 64MB 50ns SIMM
  • 512KB secondary cache

The keyboard controller chip (AMIKEY-2) was dead the last time I tried, so I had to desolder it and source a replacement.

Storage/IO

  • Onboard PCI IDE controller
  • Front panel mounted CF reader
  • 3.5“ 1.44MB floppy drive

Video

  • Voodoo 3 3000 PCI (16MB SGRAM)

Networking

Other Cards

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