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Good info, all. Thanks! I have another similar Packard Bell on the way that I'm going to steal the motherboard from. It's slightly newer, so it has a lithium button cell instead of the dreaded Varta. I have actually done some of this repair work myself before. I successfully revived a Mac...

You don't need video drivers for DOS, as programs talk directly to the video card. The game has its own drivers, essentially. You can read more about that here. And video RAM shouldn't affect performance, as that's only for reaching higher resolutions or color depths (as you are doing in...

That's sort of what I feared... that seems like a rather important part of the board, given that the onboard RAM is right there. I am going to look for a replacement instead.

Are the ISA risers generally compatible (interchangeable) between these Packard Bell motherboards of the same era? I'm wondering if a 3-card riser would work in a board that was shipped with a 4-card riser.

Looking for someone in the U.S. or Canada who I could hire to attempt to repair a motherboard damaged by a leaking battery. This is from a Packard Bell Legend 125 (PB411a), a desktop 486SX-25 system. The corrosion has resulted in at least two components becoming detatched: PAL16L8 and 74F151...

That looks pretty clean. Have you checked that all the jumpers for CPU speed, cache installed, etc. are set properly? I would be interested in the board if you still have it.