Recently came across a ton of old hardware that was to be trashed, going through a lot of it and amongst it is this Socket 7 board: https://i.imgur.com/KvxBT1X.jpg
From what I can tell googling it appears to be a FIC PA-2001. Can anyone confirm that, and in addition, is there any sort of documentation for it/what CPUs/RAM are supported? Ideally I'd like to use it with a Pentium MMX 200 that I have.
Is this of any assistance https://www.cpu-upgrade.com/mb-FIC/PA-2001.html
Looks like you are out of luck with the P200mmx I'm afraid. A S7 mobo with at least 1-3 sdram ram slots with 72-pinn ram with 2-3 ISA cards would be the go I'd imagine looking at the ones I own .
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Apparently 32-bit is dead and nobody likes P4s.
Of course, as always, I'm open to correction...😉
Yes it says MODEL: PA-2001 on the mobo and the picture seems to match this:
http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/2418
No info on that BIOS version (Award 4.01G704). If you get the chance, an upload to db there would be appreciated..😀
(it's an old one if it matches the sticker, but for the sake of completeness)
For dumping, flashrom has a DOS version (included with FreeDOS I think).
Thanks guys. Shame it doesn't support Pentium MMX CPUs but I'm pretty sure I have a Pentium 133 somewhere to at least test it out.
Can I dump the BIOS image from DOS? I don't have an EPROM flasher to do it otherwise.
Hydrohs wrote on 2021-07-14, 00:12:Thanks guys. Shame it doesn't support Pentium MMX CPUs but I'm pretty sure I have a Pentium 133 somewhere to at least test it out.
Can I dump the BIOS image from DOS? I don't have an EPROM flasher to do it otherwise.
I have an Intel 430 VX chipset motherboard and Pentium 75 running Win-95b and it works fine. That's all you need is a 75mhz Pentium or higher for Win-95b, 32mb ram and 256kb cache.
I also have the FIC-PT-2006 which does support the Pentium 200mhz but it's really not needed for a good DOS/Win-95 gaming computer.
I use a Sound Blaster AWE64, 8gb IDE hard drive, and S3 trio64 video card.
