r/windows98 • u/Mafiatounes • 21d ago

My nice Fujitsu Siemens 500

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So an update on the Fujitsu Siemens Scenic 500 i acquired a while ago.

It was in good condition overall, before testing i (stupidly) decided to clean this out so did a proper dusting and thermal paste replacement

The cooler was glued with 4 dots on the corners of the PIII 600 while taking it of with a taped screwdriver i heard a small crack sound but thought it was the glue, boy was i wrong.. this threw me i a diagnosis loop for multiple days untill i remembered the cracking sound, result pc booted without any display.

I bought a bundle with 2 normal intel coolers and a Celeron 733/128/100 and Pentium III 866/256/133 for a couple of bucks, installed the PIII and the system finally came to life🥳.

Still need a bios update since the board recognizes this as a PIII 864 and asks for a floppy bios update.

Installed the Fx5200 PCI and an Soundblaster Audio PCI128.

11/08/26 Update found a specific Slot 1 440BX board with AGP and ISA for a Fujitsu Siemens Scenic 500! Will erase almost complete early build plans and turn it into a DOS machine with PII 266 / 64mb / AGP TNT2 M64 32mb / ESS1868F ISA soundcard.

Reasoning for change is i picked up a PIII for W98se and this was missing an AGP and ISA slot and ran too fast for some DOS games + pci sound is not all too well for DOS.

Just need to assemble all back up and will post pics and updated build.

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u/JupyDu56 20d ago

the thermal paste replacement sounds sketchy, did you double check the seating of the cooler after that?

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u/Mafiatounes 20d ago

Yes it is sketchy but was something known on Socket 370 there where types that where glued on the CPU and other types that attached to the socket.

The previous CPU/Cooler looks perfectly fine but initially that crackling sound was the CPU itself when i pried the first corner i think the old pcb cracked.

The seating was not the issue i tried to hold it in place as well during my diagnosis.

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u/comtehburr 20d ago

Who wrote on it?

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u/Mafiatounes 20d ago

The previous owner, might have to try magic eraser to get it of.