She Boots!

[uscrobotics]

Yay! I just finished getting the rest of the COM-A components and the power regulation bits on the board and plugged her into the power supply. Within a few seconds the monitor showed a beautiful BIOS loading screen, and then a "Please insert proper boot media" message!! I guess the lesson learned is take multimeter readings with a grain of salt when there are complex digital components involved... I'm going to get back to the soldering (I can't even begin to explain how unfun putting on those 100-pin XTX connectors is), and I'll let you know how it goes.

--Rand