Dying motherboard?

[bruto]

The point is that as I've said in the opening post, I've already tried a diferent PSU to no avail. As for getting a new one, no problem, but where do I find a new one with an ISA slot ?

BTW, I haven't shut it down since.

I'm surprised that some enterprising outfit has not come out with some kind of retrofitting device for ISA slots, for people like you who might have some important piece of legacy equipment that requires one. Maybe a firewire to ISA adapter?

I think my current Dell XPST (early 2000 vintage) was the last of the Dells to have one.

 

[El Greco]

I'm surprised that some enterprising outfit has not come out with some kind of retrofitting device for ISA slots, for people like you who might have some important piece of legacy equipment that requires one. Maybe a firewire to ISA adapter?

I think there must be something like that, but in my case it's practically useless since there are no DOS drivers.

Anyway, the problem is now solved!

Not really, I just bought a used Gigabyte GA-6VTXE, complete with ISA slot and everything. It will stand-by in case the other one dies. BTW, I still haven't shut down that PC and it can reboot without problem after brief power failures.

 

[1984]

Not really, I just bought a used Gigabyte GA-6VTXE, complete with ISA slot and everything. It will stand-by in case the other one dies. BTW, I still haven't shut down that PC and it can reboot without problem after brief power failures.

If you ask me, your computer was too souped-up. What I'd recommend is you lose some of that excessive RAM stuff, cut back on the Gb thingy, and definitely downgrade that oversize 25" screen to a 12" monitor.