[Niku-Sama]

i'm not talking about a main system, although some day in the past it was some ones main system.

any way i have an XT style 286 system with a 287XL FPU and about max ram (isnt double stacked yet). was a programmers system still has the mechanical keyboard but not an IBM M.

usually with some thing like this i look it ovwer for any obvious problems, boot it and go from there to see what i need to do to it before i take it apart and clean it. if theres something completely gone in it or its super dusty i skip to completely cleaning it.

any way this past the basics over view not a whole lot of dust so i go plug it in, hook it up to my monitor flip the big red switch and snap, not a big one, not any thing from the mobo it came from in the PSU and no burn marks on PSU connectors so i think the hardware may be saved.

any way the PSU, i know alot of these are made specificly for the computers they came in, not really to be a pain in the ass but since there wasnt a major standard. i am just wondering if its worth trying to thrift out another PSU or open this one up and find the offendee.

the the kind with the big red switch on the side.

i was considering using the 80-88 PSU to check the rest of everything but its of a far older generation even though they share the same mobo lay out

[ratbuddy]

Hey, sorry I missed this. Still have the rig? What model is it?