<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">>Does the SunPC software work when the SunPC card is *not* installed? It should do (at least for a DOS session), slowly, as it uses software emulation if the card is not >there. I used to use it exactly that way, back in the 90s.
>If the SunPC software won't even do that, you have a problem that is not merely with the card itself.</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">Yes it runs fine without the Accelerator fitted, I get the SunPC window and Caldera OpenDOS starts up. I did try updating to SunPC 4.2 and that works fine (without the card) as well.</pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">With the card fitted, it immediately faults when you run sunpc, and in fact the machine reboots which is pretty severe :/ </pre><pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class="">I did test the 486 as its socketed and that works fine, and the clock signals etc all look sane. Its a shame as the cards are not too common. There is nothing obvious that is damaged on the board everything looks good under a magnifier.</pre></body></html>