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Gainward 5VPA - looking for manual / jumpers

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First post, by fool

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Is there manual for Gainward 5VPA super socket 7 motherboard (AT)? Cannot find from the internet... All of the found links are long dead.
I'm trying to upgrade BIOS to get K6-2+/III+ support. AWDFLASH belives BIOS is write protected and therefore I need to find if there is jumper for write protect enabled.

Toshiba T8500 desktop
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Coming: 40-pin 8MB SIMM kit, CS4232 ISA wavetable sound card

Reply 1 of 2, by Horun

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Ok found the specs and jumper settings as well as BIOS and drivers. Created a psuedo manual in .htm and MS Word .doc off the archived pages at WayBack and zipped them up.
BIOS and drivers are mirrored at ftp://retronn.de/.
BIOS: ftp://retronn.de/driver/Gainward/Mainboard/Bi … s/Socket7/5vpa/
Drivers: ftp://retronn.de/driver/Gainward/Mainboard/Dr … r/Socket7/5vpa/
Hope they help. The one DOC has errors, cannot help that...
added: Unfortunately there is nothing about the BIOS write protection in the jumper settings, just CPU and voltages. Try the AWDFLASH.EXE in the BIOS part of the ftp link.

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Reply 2 of 2, by fool

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Thank you! Those were well hidden. Need to save those files to some "non-volatile" memory.

I believe it will work with the correct awdflash file and options. I used some random awdflash without options.

Toshiba T8500 desktop
SAM/CS9233 Wavetable Synthesizer daughterboard
Coming: 40-pin 8MB SIMM kit, CS4232 ISA wavetable sound card

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