Re: Hacking/Replacing Phoenix Bios 4.04 on 486 board

Posted on 2022-08-30, 20:46

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Hi! I recently got a good deal on a 486 board from a Compaq 7100 series Desktop PC. It is based on the UMC8881/8886 chipset and comes with decent sound and crappy VGA on board. It is this model: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/trigem-pl4600c The board came with an AMD X5-133 installed. I had …

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Re: Award phoenixnet BIOS

Posted on 2022-07-19, 12:15

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. For a fact I know that the BIOSes that used PhoenixNet were specifically marked with v6.00PGN, Well, respectully, you are wrong! The Soyo BIOS mensioned in this thread is an Award Modular BIOS 4.51PG so there is probably not that ... If you use PCEm replace the GA686BX BIOS in the ROMS folder …

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Re: Anyone here own an Aladdin 7 based board?

Posted on 2022-06-25, 18:38

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Please check out this link it delivers some new info on the matter. There is even a benchmark demonstrating that ArtX graphics being on par with Voodoo 3. https://forum.level1techs.com/t/tech-retrospective-ali-aladdin-7-artx-feat-powercolor-p561a-sunset-on-super-socket-7/185717 on par with Voodoo 3 …

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Re: Award phoenixnet BIOS

Posted on 2022-06-05, 16:13

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Old thread, but it is actually possible to "disarm" an award bios that has Phoenixnet. Phoenixnet is mainly stored in two components, one being ROS.BIN (which contains the splash screen and the actual phoenixnet software) and the NNOPROM which is probably a sort of table so that the ROS actually …

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Re: Anyone here own an Aladdin 7 based board?

Posted on 2022-05-06, 16:15

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Found something that may be a similar thing to the Aladdin 7 chipset, the SiS 540. It's single chip unlike the Aladdin 7 but like the Aladdin 7 it does have an iGPU which is the SiS 300 , and based on the Wikipedia the 3D was likely ok for non 3D-intensive apps and maybe some games. Another thing …

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Re: Anyone here own an Aladdin 7 based board?

Posted on 2022-05-03, 16:08

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Although there is basically no documentation online, there are images of the 5ALI61 Plus with the ArtX chipset. There were also 2 other boards that used this chipset, the PowerColor P561A and the SuperTek ST-A7586B . Both are pretty obscure like other ArtX boards, the PowerColor has a BIOS and a …

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Re: Anyone here own an Aladdin 7 based board?

Posted on 2022-04-25, 13:47

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Although there is basically no documentation online, there are images of the 5ALI61 Plus with the ArtX chipset. There were also 2 other boards that used this chipset, the PowerColor P561A and the SuperTek ST-A7586B . Both are pretty obscure like other ArtX boards, the PowerColor has a BIOS and a …

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Re: Award BIOS with chipset code "2A4UK" or AMI BIOS with chipset code "OP802G-H"

Posted on 2022-03-09, 12:01

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Similar to what weedeewee said, there isn't much online. Doing a search on Ultimate Retro for boards with this chipset and it's pci bridge (https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/bios/?chipsetId=666) only brings up an Award string for the Soyo SY-030E2 (07/12/94-OPTI-802G-822-2A4UKS21-00) and an AMI …

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Re: Looking for an AMI WinBIOS with most or full ACPI support.

Posted on 2022-02-19, 22:42

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What PC emulation are you using to test arbitrary BIOSes? I've tried PCem but being forced to choose a BIOS file format that is commensurate with a specific motherboard is a real pain I mainly use 86box to test roms in an emulator, although renaming rom names/extensions is something I've just …

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Re: Any Super Socket 7 motherboards with AMI winbios?

Posted on 2022-02-19, 16:23

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From looking online, it looks like your best bet for an AMI on Super Socket 7 would probably be a board running on ALi Aladdin V, however the only documented instance of a Super Socket 7 board with WinBIOS that i know of was the TriGem Delhi-III (also sold under eMachines) which is an obscure VIA …

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Re: Looking for an AMI WinBIOS with most or full ACPI support.

Posted on 2022-02-19, 16:18

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Got a dim recollection of coming across it on another PII board, not sure if it was mine or someone elses, but despite the mid shock (Eww, thought we were done with this crap) I can't recall details. Might have been an Abit, they were always trying weird stuff. Just to close this thread, WinBIOS …

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Re: Where can I find "AMIBCP" (for DOS) ?

Posted on 2021-10-27, 07:17

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Here's some recreations of AMIBCP 4.2 (wbcp40.exe) in action, found inside of a wordperfect format AMI WinBIOS chipset manual. These come from an archive of the AMI FTP, which can be found here (https://ia601602.us.archive.org/view_archive.php?archive=/24/items/ftp-ftp_megatrends_com/ftp.megatrends. …

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Re: What's the latest chipset you know of that runs Award 4.51PG?

Posted on 2021-09-25, 08:24

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Well, color me surprised. I legit never expected that ASUS and MSI had 4.51 on their AMD751 iterations, and thought that MSI used the usual 6.00PG and ASUS used Medallion (similar to their CUSL2 and TUSL2 boards.) As for the EPoX I listed: 694X + 686A. Basically a mATX 694X mobo, and it's fast and …

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Re: What's the latest chipset you know of that runs Award 4.51PG?

Posted on 2021-09-24, 21:07

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IIRC, EPoX also used 4.51 on the EP-3VCM I have, though newer subsequent releases run 6.00PG I think. As for AMIBIOS 6, I have a strong feeling ASRock used it up until they implemented i848P/865P/PE/GV Pentium 4 solutions. IIRC all their Socket A mobos use AMIBIOS 6 I think (or a close variation …

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Re: What's the latest chipset you know of that runs Award 4.51PG?

Posted on 2021-09-24, 20:25

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IIRC, EPoX also used 4.51 on the EP-3VCM I have, though newer subsequent releases run 6.00PG I think. As for AMIBIOS 6, I have a strong feeling ASRock used it up until they implemented i848P/865P/PE/GV Pentium 4 solutions. IIRC all their Socket A mobos use AMIBIOS 6 I think (or a close variation …

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Re: What's the latest chipset you know of that runs Award 4.51PG?

Posted on 2021-09-24, 18:29

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The corner of my brain with the weak read heads and bad sectors wants to tell me I might have seent it on a SiS635 P4 board, but not very certain of it. Good idea doubting, as i couldn't find anything for a SiS 635 4.51PG anywhere online. Maybe it's a variation but i doubt it. The latest SiS i …

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What's the latest chipset you know of that runs Award 4.51PG?

Posted on 2021-09-24, 18:01

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Hi Vogons, so this is something I've been curious of for a bit now but i've been looking at what was the latest chipset ever to run Award 4.51PG (or it's variations). Afaik, 4.51PG started being replaced by it's successor 6.00PG around 1999/2000. Because of that, the latest VIA chipset i know of to …

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Re: Where can I find "AMIBCP" (for DOS) ?

Posted on 2021-09-14, 19:16

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Gah, just spent far too long fussing with an archived partition image in xubuntu, thought there was something wrong with it because lubuntu mounts it automagically, when xubuntu won't, and won't mount from inside parted... well so much for the "easy" way, mount did it of course, doh. Anyhoo, I …

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Re: Where can I find "AMIBCP" (for DOS) ?

Posted on 2021-09-14, 11:43

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Hey. Following the story of yesterday, where I found a few versions of Phoenix BIOS tools while scrubbing on my HDD archives... I also found a few versions of the AMI BIOS firmware tools, which I guess are worth of archiving too. * AMI.ROMUtils.v800 , which probably isn't useful for our retro …

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Re: Board ID help - Intel 42oEX (Aries) PCI 486 - repost

Posted on 2021-09-11, 22:53

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This is the first time I've seen this chipset. Very cool, how does it perform vs the contemporary SiS, UMC, and Opti chipsets? I've always understood that prior to the Triton, choosing an Intel chipset would only be for "nobody got fired for buying IBM" situations--i.e. nothing spectacular about …

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