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by kloran-[thrawn34 1 view

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Ok. I am building an older system to play around on. I want to run 3 HDD and a CD-Rom off the controller cards. Is it possible to have 2 I/O cards installed on the system at one time?

I am also having problems getting the video to show up. I havedone all the usuall things and even changed video cards and motherboards.

Also this computer will have a 100mhz 486 CPU, about 40mb of ram a 2gb tape drive, 5 1/4" and a 3 1/2" floppy drive. As well as a 40x cd rom.

Suggestions to make this thing run?

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by tar12

Older system - since you mention it is a 486, then no - you cannot have two I/O cards installed.
For the video card make sure that it is a 4MB or less. The newer video cards are too advanced for the 486 processor.

Hope this helps.

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