Friday, 9 November 2018

Intel 486dx33 new case.

I have this dx33 machine, that was inside a rather ugly case. Not that the case was in any way broken inside. It was just a bit less beautifull, compared to another case that I had in the closet. So I changed took it apart, and did a rebuild.

First I had to change the case from this:




To this case:





After I took the computer apart, it was time to take a look at the parts. To see how dirty they were, and if I needed to change some of the parts. Well. They looked ok and was in no need of getting cleaned.

Now. What parts did this dx33 machine have? I had the following parts:

 - UMC 486 ISA-Only motherboard, with some UMC 15 ns cache chips.
 - Intel 80486-dx-33 Processor.
 - Socket3 CPU Cooler.
 - One stick of 16mb 72pin 60ns Ram.
 - Tseng ET-4000ax ISA.
 - Winbond ControllerCard ISA.
 - MediaVision Jazz16 Sound Card ISA.
 - 512mb CF Card and Noname China-Adaptor.
 - Sony 3.5 inch 1.44mb Floppy Drive.
 - 8xSpeed CD-Rom Drive.





Then came the rebuild. There is not much to say about this, as it was strainght forward for me to do. I have done this over and over, since the mid-90's. It took me some 30 minutes to put this all together, so instead of just rambling away this time, I will flood the rest of this blog post with pictures.

Enjoy.... 😀





(Can anyone spot the odd' joke, that I made with the Case badge?)



3 comments:

  1. She is a good lookin old "gal" :-)
    Really tales me back to the good old days of computing, before the magic was lost.

    Back then I often spiced up my computers with 7 digit LED displays to show its speed in MHz and extra lights (diodes)... I Even had a pc with a side window long before it become a thing.

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    1. My 5x86-133 machine has a 3-digit led display. Led display's are just a thing of the past, and yet it belongs on those old 386 and 486 machines. If one can find such case these days. My first computer had such a display as well. And later on, I got an 486dx2-66 installed in that case.

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  2. Whoops... 7 segment not digit

    It had 3 digits

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