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First post, by holoprox

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It seems that there are 2 pieces of ST M27256 (32KB) BIOS chips probably with "286 Modular BIOS v3.04" from Award Software.

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Reply 1 of 3, by Horun

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Well I looked around and did not find any motherboard BIOS for your board. Interesting find that Kentech was based in Hong Kong and had a China factory but appears late to get on the Web (or no one at Archive org thought of scanning their website until 2000)...
For anyone wanting to search further here is what I found:
Kentech Computer (HK) Ltd. Roxy Industrial Centre 58-66 Tai Lin Pai Road, Kwai Chung, Kowloon Hong Kong
factory is at Shenzhen, China, located right across the border to Hong Kong.
Surface Mount (SMT) lines and employs a workforce of 300 employees. The monthly production capacity is 20K mainboards and 350-450K peripheral cards....
FCC ID: KJD commonly: KJDKEN-
Award BIOS ID: K9 (6th and 7th char)
http://www.kentech.com.hk/
http://web.archive.org/web/20001204161900/htt … kentech.com.hk/

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Reply 2 of 3, by SteFam

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Hi,

holoprox wrote on 2022-12-13, 21:20:

It seems that there are 2 pieces of ST M27256 (32KB) BIOS chips probably with "286 Modular BIOS v3.04" from Award Software.

Correct, I know this post is from 10 years ago, but i have the same board currently on the table. I dumped the bios files and send them to the retro web.
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/kentec … kt-0286-v3#docs
Hopefully they will appear there soon. I also added them to my post. I hope this helps anyone.

BR
Stefan

Reply 3 of 3, by holoprox

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SteFam wrote on 2024-08-24, 21:25:
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Hi,

holoprox wrote on 2022-12-13, 21:20:

It seems that there are 2 pieces of ST M27256 (32KB) BIOS chips probably with "286 Modular BIOS v3.04" from Award Software.

Correct, I know this post is from 10 years ago, but i have the same board currently on the table. I dumped the bios files and send them to the retro web.
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/kentec … kt-0286-v3#docs
Hopefully they will appear there soon. I also added them to my post. I hope this helps anyone.

BR
Stefan

Your help will be appreciated!

150+ retro computers on board!
80+ flightsticks!