The 7th PC is back, and with a vengeance!
Posted 2010/09/07, 00:23 GMT +4

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http://cyrixdisk.livejournal.com/9992.html

Finally. At the time of writing, though, I am actually trying to quadruple-boot
Windows 98 Standard Edition, Windows 98 Second Edition, Windows Millennium
[Edition], and Windows 2000 Professional. ;D It's difficult, though. (This will
be updated when it is finally finished.)

It's been two weeks. :3

The specs:

Generic case, but the sticker/plastic emblem (now gone) said 'Computer 2000' on
it
A-Trend ATC-6240M motherboard
Quadruple-boot Windows 98, Windows 98SE, Windows ME, and Windows 2000 [formerly
No OS just yet, but is planned to have Windows 98, Windows 98SE, and Windows
2000 as a triple boot]
Bestec 250W max power supply (from 2002)
448 MB RAM [formerly 320 MB SDRAM (was originally 336 MB, but the four RAM
sticks did not play nice)]
40GB Toshiba 4025GAS, 40GB Hitachi Travelstar... Yes, notebook drives.
Intel Pentium II 400MHz
Two USB ports, v1.1 (so far) along with a Belkin 5-Port USB 2.0 PCI card
3Com 10/100Mbps PCI LAN Card
Two Floppy Drives
Aopen CD-ROM Drive (56X)
Matshita UJDA760 Notebook DVD/CD-RW drive
Creative Sound Blaster Vibra 16X CT4170 ISA Sound Card (Seriously.)
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz 5.1 Surround Sound PCI Sound Card
nVidia Geforce 3 Ti-200 (Non-Detonator drivers had issues with W98 Standard,
Second Edition, and Windows ME...)


How this came to be: I was doing some random Internet browsing, this time about
graphics cards, and someone mentioned something about blown capacitors. I
looked it up, and found a website about bad capacitors. Since 7th had problems
with random reboots and false memory errors (using Memtest86+), I looked at the
motherboard and saw nine blown capacitors where the CPU slot was. Replaced
those ASAP, despite my limited soldering skills, and now it works.

Updated 2011/02/05: Updated the specs list. Also fixed typo of the
motherboard's model number. It's the ATC-6240, not the ATC-2640. xD