I bought one of these today to finish my AT system:
It's an XT-286 5162 motherboard. Paid $27 after shipping.
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V'Ger XT|Upgraded AT|Ultimate 386|Super VL/EISA 486|SMP VL/EISA Pentium
Total haul today:
Got for free from goldscraper:
Aztech i38-MMSN824 (seems with real OPL) and 4x 30pin simms with unknown amount.
Asus P5E3 with Celeron E1400 as dummy.
And nice Compaq Presario case,that i already put my A64 in after cleaning.
wrote:Actually these are one of the better motherboards for the older chips. And they're KT-133A boards, which will run at 133 mhz jus […]
wrote:Another cheap board arrived today. Had a AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1333 sitting in my draw and spotted this on ebay. Its a Epox 8kta+. It was boxed in as new condition. £11 delivered. Because the chip is a 133mhz chip and this being the KT133 only supporting 100mhz it would boot a 1ghz. There is a jumper on the board for 133mhz but will not boot when switched. Whipped out the old HB pencil and joined the 4 L1 bridges and selected 12.5x multiplier. Funnily enough it shows a 13x multi on post for 1300mhz. Put 768mb in of the cheap crucial i got yesterday. Will get 98SE installed and have a play. Not decided on what cards to use on this board yet.
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Actually these are one of the better motherboards for the older chips. And they're KT-133A boards, which will run at 133 mhz just fine, they just need a bios update for it. They'll even run with up to mobile Barton AthlonXP Chips as well. I'll try and look through my stuff to find the bios update for it.. but it was a PITA to hunt down on the internet today and I don't know where mine is.
EDIT: Here you go. 😀
https://web.archive.org/web/20020406010150/ht … d/bios/8kta.htm
This at least gives you file names (unfortunately the actual downloads don't work) But then we can google hunt for file names.... and... viola: http://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/Epox/bios/index.html
Just control-F and look for: 8kta2218.exe It's there and works and I downloaded it and verified with the readme file it's for the EP-8KTA+, and the date and file size match up with the EpoX Website.
WOW, thank you for that great post. I've been looking for bios files for this board for a few hours without much luck. That site you posted looks like just what i need! I never had experience with the 8KTA+ in the past as i had a Abit KT7-Raid with a 1.1ghz Thunderbird which i unlocked with some conductive paint, which was a lot more nerve wracking back then as a 18 year old with an expensive CPU 🤣. I'll get the bios flashed and have another go with the 133mhz option.
Thanks
wrote:I bought one of these today to finish my AT system:
It's an XT-286 5162 motherboard. Paid $27 after shipping.
That's a lot of chips!
Got boxed AWE64 Gold today, with user manuals, drivers, etc. locally in my hometown.
Mint condition and very cheap, which makes it a very satysfying deal.
wrote:WOW, thank you for that great post. I've been looking for bios files for this board for a few hours without much luck. That site you posted looks like just what i need! I never had experience with the 8KTA+ in the past as i had a Abit KT7-Raid with a 1.1ghz Thunderbird which i unlocked with some conductive paint, which was a lot more nerve wracking back then as a 18 year old with an expensive CPU 🤣. I'll get the bios flashed and have another go with the 133mhz option.
Thanks
Mine's using an A mobile AthlonXP Barton chip in it which -I THINK- only does like 10x or 11x multiplier with this motherboard (A limitation of the board). But it does do 266 FSB (133 Mhz setting), and I have it slightly overclocked in bios to 300 FSB (which would be 150), and it runs the chip at 1.8 ghz just happily stable. It's my MS-DOS VESA Gaming machine. It even has bios settings for the indiviual ram timings for SDRAM, I think mine runs it at 2-3-3 @ 150 mhz.
And yep no problem... I knew right where to go with it because I had to go through the same steps to find the bios for mine. Basically figure out what the EpoX website used to be, and then plug it in to archive.org and then spawn the website once each year and look at "Models -> Motherboard" until you see the 8KTA+ listed.. back-stepping years until it shows up. Then once you find it, go to the support section to get the resulting page I came up with, which had the file names for the bios's, then just copy-paste in to google and find today-current websites with some copies of em (hopefully).
That's how I found it.. describing it so others can know how to find things in the future.
Remember to save your current bios as well during flashing.
wrote:Mine's using an A mobile AthlonXP Barton chip in it which -I THINK- only does like 10x or 11x multiplier with this motherboard. […]
wrote:WOW, thank you for that great post. I've been looking for bios files for this board for a few hours without much luck. That site you posted looks like just what i need! I never had experience with the 8KTA+ in the past as i had a Abit KT7-Raid with a 1.1ghz Thunderbird which i unlocked with some conductive paint, which was a lot more nerve wracking back then as a 18 year old with an expensive CPU 🤣. I'll get the bios flashed and have another go with the 133mhz option.
Thanks
Mine's using an A mobile AthlonXP Barton chip in it which -I THINK- only does like 10x or 11x multiplier with this motherboard. But it does do 266 FSB (133 Mhz setting), and I have it slightly overclocked in bios to 300 FSB (which would be 150), and it runs the chip at 1.8 ghz just happily stable. It's my MS-DOS VESA Gaming machine.
And yep no problem... I knew right where to go with it because I had to go through the same steps to find the bios for mine. Basically figure out what the EpoX website used to be, and then plug it in to archive.org and then spawn the website once each year and look at "Models -> Motherboard" until you see the 8KTA+ listed.. back-stepping years until it shows up. Then once you find it, go to the support section to get the resulting page I came up with, which had the file names for the bios's, then just copy-paste in to google and find today-current websites with some copies of em (hopefully).
That's how I found it.. describing it so others can know how to find things in the future.
Remember to save your current bios as well during flashing.
Its very useful info, especially seeing as EPOX is now defunct and the sites no longer work! Only problem i am facing at the moment is how to go about flashing the bios! I have a floppy drive but unfortunately no disks! I was going to attempt to do a flash via CD but that would mean i could not save the bios. Any tips? Should i try and source a floppy? I'm not sure of the bios version on the board.
we're getting terribly off topic for this thread, you should probably go start your own thread for this, just saying. 😁
Indeed, i will start a new topic. Thanks for your help and.... sorry everyone for cluttering the thread.
Picked up a hefty "MicroExperts" labeled case today at an estate sale for $5.
P3-550, 256mb ram, Yamaha YMF724-V and some SIS chipset video card.
The caps behind the CPU are in pretty poor shape...
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Picked up a hefty "MicroExperts" labeled case today at an estate sale for $5.
P3-550, 256mb ram, Yamaha YMF724-V and some SIS chipset video card.
The caps behind the CPU are in pretty poor shape...
Awesome.... A Globalwin 802 case. This was my first 'Overclockers' case when i got my Thunderbird setup. I'm sure the motherboard tray is removable?
Received this drive today and spent a few hours trying to make it work with no success 🙁
3.5" works fine but I haven't been able to read or format disks with the 5.25" drive. Tried many different things in
3 different systems so I'm giving up for now.
Also picked up this little baby for $10:
Compaq Presario 2266.
Apparantly it's a Cyrix MII system based on SIS 5598 chipset.
The audio card appears to be a SIS 6801; I'm hoping it's Soundblaster compatible. It looks hardly used, it'd be a nice little DOS pizza box.
Got an Advent 5480DVD laptop today, sadly the keyboard problem it had was on the motherboard and not the keyboard itself. However, I took more than enough good parts off of it, and put them on my Pico N340S8 to create... the Frankentop. Yes, the screen bezel is a different colour to the palmrest!
Lukeno94, the blue-and-silver colour scheme kicks ass! I never heard of Pico and Advent trademarks, are they specific to your location? 😀
wrote:Received this drive today and spent a few hours trying to make it work with no success :( 3.5" works fine but I haven't been abl […]
Received this drive today and spent a few hours trying to make it work with no success 🙁
3.5" works fine but I haven't been able to read or format disks with the 5.25" drive. Tried many different things in
3 different systems so I'm giving up for now.
Don't you need that "catweasel" ISA card to run this?
(I want one too 😁 dual floppys rule!)
wrote:Lukeno94, the blue-and-silver colour scheme kicks ass! I never heard of Pico and Advent trademarks, are they specific to your location? 😀
Advent is the store brand of PC World/Currys/Dixons that they use for computers. As for Pico... I can find basically nothing on them, or nothing that refers to them as a laptop brand of any kind. There's a Vietnamese shop by that name (but the BIOS was always in English, so I doubt they're linked), and a company known as Pico Technology, who build data logging things, but no evidence of them selling laptops. This basic laptop was sold by a huge number of companies in varying forms, and some things point to Gericom being the main OEM - this was also a brand sold by various chains.
The Pico part was the metallic ice blue/silver base unit; the keyboard is from the Advent 5490 (which appears to match the Pico but use the darker blue in place of the ice blue) and the top grey part is from the Advent 5480DVD. The difference in spec was basically a 1 GHz 133 MHz FSB PIII, 256MB of RAM and XP Pro (strangely, the CoA pointing to Lenovo Singapore) with the Pico, and a 800 MHz 100 MHz FSB PIII, 128MB of RAM and Mistake Edition on the Advent. They use desktop CPUs, which run cooler than the laptop equivalents!
wrote:Lukeno94, the blue-and-silver colour scheme kicks ass! I never heard of Pico and Advent trademarks, are they specific to your location? 😀
Advent were the in-store brand for PC World, at least, here in the UK; http://www.pcworld.co.uk
Edit: Oh, damn, ninja'd. Never mind.
I did explain this once in a very active thread a while ago, but I suspect you probably missed it for some reason or other.
Anyway, I have one Advent PC but it was long since dismantled as it used the notorious MS-6340M motherboard, an Athlon 1000 with a tiny heatsink and a weird 100W non-standard PSU.
wrote:Advent were the in-store brand for PC World, at least, here in the UK; http://www.pcworld.co.uk […]
wrote:Lukeno94, the blue-and-silver colour scheme kicks ass! I never heard of Pico and Advent trademarks, are they specific to your location? 😀
Advent were the in-store brand for PC World, at least, here in the UK; http://www.pcworld.co.uk
Edit: Oh, damn, ninja'd. Never mind.
I did explain this once in a very active thread a while ago, but I suspect you probably missed it for some reason or other.
Anyway, I have one Advent PC but it was long since dismantled as it used the notorious MS-6340M motherboard, an Athlon 1000 with a tiny heatsink and a weird 100W non-standard PSU.
Doesn't surprise me. The base system for these, although quite quirky, is pretty well thought out, but the 7094 laptops I had most certainly weren't. Admittedly, the 5480DVD was crumbling badly, and the screens are notorious for cracking around the hinges, but the Pico is still structurally sound, even after being messed about with, and they run fairly coolly (but not quietly, since the fan is always on.)
Bought a SCSI DVD-R on eBay: IDE is dead and SCSI CD-ROMs have trouble with CD-R(W)s apparently.
