Sorry for extremely late reply everyone. I found the problem after all. The motherboard settings (jumpers) were incorrect. I am using a Intel DX4-100 overdrive chip, the settings were for another CPU. The table on how the jumpers should be set was a little misleading in terms of the way it was …

I played with many BIOS settings - even put 'defaults' back in. I messed with the timings in the BIOS. I've changed video cards, I'd put different RAM in (even a single 8 MB stick). When I run basic DOS apps, all is well - no crashing it seems. I've made sure the computer is not on turbo mode too. I …

I will do - I left the computer at my workshop. I'll bring it home tomorrow, so I can take some pictures and take an inventory of all the parts. I bought the mobo on eBay a couple of months ago. Basic machine with DOS 6.22 - was fun to put together!

Hi everyone, I recently built a 486 computer. I used to work at a computer store in my teens and I had to build these all the time. Was hammering out about a dozen computers a week (part time job). Reason for my writing; I am having trouble getting Doom (either the shareware or the registered full …

Other "benefits" this board offers: you can plug a CD-ROM drive in to the secondary IDE port. I'm not too sure how many 486 boards allow that. I was impressed. Been meaning to do this for a while, setting up a 486.. Today that dream is a reality with the M918i Motherboard... All parts from eBay/ …