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First post, by Eep386

Posted on 2021-02-01, 01:10

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I managed to snag this interesting early 430FX Socket 5 motherboard a while back. I'm still looking for an updated BIOS, or maybe a generic-enough MR BIOS that may work. There's one big catch to this board: there's no onboard super-I/O chip! Most if not all 430FX boards I know of, use some form of super-I/O chip to control the floppy, parallel and serial ports, but this odd duck doesn't have that, offering only two PCI IDE connectors along with four ISA and four PCI slots. So, I have to use an ISA paddle card to provide the missing stuff. Talk about an awkward Socket 5 board.

Anyway, I've dumped the BIOS that came with it. It's VER:1.0 11/05/95 according to the BIOS sign-on.

Filename: Zida 5DIL - AmiBIOS VER-1.0 11-05-95.ROM.zip
File size: 102.17 KiB
Downloads: 28 downloads
File license: Fair use/fair dealing exception

Life isn't long enough to re-enable every hidden option in every BIOS on every board... 🙁

Reply 1 of 9, by Deksor

Posted on 2021-02-01, 08:33

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Thanks for the bios dump !

Can you shoot a nice photo of your motherboard so we can add it here ? http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/6254

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Reply 2 of 9, by evasive

Posted on 2021-02-01, 09:45

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added the bios with string: http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/6254

Reply 3 of 9, by Eep386

Posted on 2021-02-05, 22:46

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Finally, a picture of the board:

Life isn't long enough to re-enable every hidden option in every BIOS on every board... 🙁

Reply 4 of 9, by Deksor

Posted on 2021-02-05, 23:44

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oh that's too bad, the board is out of the frame 🙁

Sorry for being picky about this, but I prefer to have good enough photos (other than being out of frame, the photo is ok !)

If it was just for the left corner with the KBC I wouldn't mind too much, but here the part on the right is missing too many details.

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Reply 5 of 9, by Eep386

Posted on 2021-02-07, 03:15

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...Is this any better?

Also, did you add what little I was able to dig up on the Prolink P386SX-25PW?
In the absence of proper documentation I'll have to 'experiment' with the jumper settings to determine what the ones not described by the P386SX-16/20C do.

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Reply 6 of 9, by maxtherabbit

Posted on 2021-02-07, 04:15

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Great looking board. Makes me miss my lost socket 4 system

Reply 7 of 9, by Eep386

Posted on 2021-02-07, 05:29

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Yeah it's not a bad board. Not the fastest but it's pretty solid stuff, just got to be mindful of the caps Zida put too close to the CPU socket fan clips. I worked around those caps by replacing them with caps mounted on the backside of the board.

Life isn't long enough to re-enable every hidden option in every BIOS on every board... 🙁

Reply 8 of 9, by Deksor

Posted on 2021-02-07, 11:41

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Thanks, the second photo is perfect 😀

For your other 386SX board, I don't think I did ... Can you link me where you did the content or (if you have the time) make a summary of all the infos ? I go through so many motherboards that I sometimes forget to add them.

Edit : photo added to the page 😀

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Reply 9 of 9, by evasive

Posted on 2021-02-08, 07:59

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Deksor wrote on 2021-02-07, 11:41:

I go through so many motherboards that I sometimes forget to add them.

We added 2000 of them to UH19 alone since last november I think, so yeah.

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