The 386 I'm currently using doesn't have a hard drive auto-detect option while the seemingly defective board does. Both use AMI bios so it got me thinking.
Are there any BIOS updates for those boards out there?
Has anybody tried swapping BIOS chips?
Funny thing is that one of the BIOS chips says '386DX...' on the label, while the other one actually says '486DX...' on a 386 motherboard!
I don't see any harm in swapping the BIOS chips. Just try it out 😀
I've done some hot-flashing and BIOS chip swapping in a number of 486 boards. BIOS updates were relatively uncommon during the 386 era, and I guess it's a matter of obtaining a BIOS update for that particular motherboard, if it exists. Some motherboards do not have the DIP-type BIOS chips, and are soldered. A Socket-5 motherboard of mine has a soldered chip on the motherboard, which is quite flat and short, and I had a hard time finding it the first time, and I could only Flash the BIOS.
Yeah well, at least the chipset module of the AMI BIOS should be for the same chipset if you swap the chips.
I don't think a HDD auto detect feature is relevant to have in BIOS.
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