Roman555 wrote:

cyclone3d wrote:

HAHAHAHAHA!
That page was mentioned on some old forum post about upgrading the SATA BIOS for motherboards.
Seeing Russian tech forum posts translated to English by Google Translate is super hilarious.

Do you mean http://computer-master.by/oldromby/topic4632.html ?
Yes, It's funny even in Russian because the forum's people used words that were slightly changed in a funny way 😀

Yep, that is it.

Here are the drivers for Tekram TR-822 v1.0.0.28. They work with Win 9x/NT4/2k/XP. Can be used with other Silicon Image 3112 based SATA controllers if you remove Tekram's SUBSYS 08221DE1 from the INF. Although if your controller is some noname, you can simply flash it to TR-822 using the forementioned v4.2.12 BIOS.

konc wrote:

The 4.2.27 is in fact the add-on card RAID BIOS. And guess what? The damn thing works!!! Flashed it, reset, and it just booted a […]
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The 4.2.27 is in fact the add-on card RAID BIOS. And guess what? The damn thing works!!! Flashed it, reset, and it just booted and entered windows.

So it's true, they did break compatibility with older system with versions >4.2.27. If anyone has such a card and it recognizes the connected device but it hangs/freezes when accessing it (either attempting to boot or simply access a file after booting from another media), downgrade your BIOS to 4.2.27.

So let me just attach this hard-to-find BIOS here as well (origin is cyclone3d's link of course):

r4227.zip

Phew, that was a close one! Again, thank you all guys for your interest and especially you cyclone3d for finding the damn file (just how though? I need to improve my skills!)

so whats the ideal scenario for using this bios?
ANY SIL3112 PCI SATA card? (2 ports - SATA 150)
installed in ANY win9x PC? Slot-1 CPU? 440bx chipset?
am i hot? warm? cold? 🤣
will this work in my GA586VX (p75)???
does this bios support win95 osr2.5? win98se?

chrisNova777 wrote:

so whats the ideal scenario for using this bios? ANY SIL3112 PCI SATA card? (2 ports - SATA 150) installed in ANY win9x PC? Slo […]
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so whats the ideal scenario for using this bios?
ANY SIL3112 PCI SATA card? (2 ports - SATA 150)
installed in ANY win9x PC? Slot-1 CPU? 440bx chipset?
am i hot? warm? cold? 🤣
will this work in my GA586VX (p75)???
does this bios support win95 osr2.5? win98se?

As I already wrote, something older than a PIII that recognizes the connected device but hangs/freezes when accessing it (either attempting to boot or simply access a file after booting from another media). I have no way of knowing what exactly they broke with the later BIOS versions or what machines it affects, but it's confirmed that downgrading fixes at least one case. Drivers definitely exist for win98se/ME/2K/NT4, I'm not sure about other OS'

ok i will try to see my experience is like
i have a P1 gigabyte board with a p75
and a slot1 440bx board by abit with a pIII 700mhz i can test on
so that covers the full range of p1 to pIII prety much