First post, by krivulak
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Hi,
I got my hands on a nice 386 motherboard. Problem is that somebody threw it to the recycling facility and it got stripped from all chips including BIOS. I can not find usable copy anywhere.
Phil from Philscomputerlab has similiar one on his website, but sadly he does not respond to my e-mails.
https://www.philscomputerlab.com/forex-386--486.html
Does anybody have this board? I wouldn't care too much if it was some ordinary chipset like OPTI or Chips, but FOREX is something I haven't heard about until I got this thing. And also - it already shot me with a piece of tantalum capacitor so I want to get it up again.
The chipset is FRX46C421A and FRX46C422.
By the way, the chip I got in the board right was burned by me, it was the only Forex BIOS I could find, but it was for 486dx board. There was no point of trying that, but I thought what I had to lose...
Also, it has the dreaded proprietary local bus which is often mistaken with EISA bus. What a piece of technology...
Anyway, thanks for the help!