First post, by aaronwhooley
Hey guys!
I have a 486 umc8810p motherboard, and I have come across a most unusual workaround on this board when one installs a pci network card!
No matter what you try when you simply Insert a pci card and boot into windows 9x it will recognize the card but no matter what driver you install it will fail..
After running the diagnostics it told me that the computer never assigned an Irq! A pci device!? I thought pci was pnp. It is but this bios was made before pnp was a thing!
So to make the card work, in the bios I had to assign an irq to the pci card. Rebooted and hey presto! Worked perfectly.
Hopefully this helps someone else. 😀
*My retro rig*
1994 Peacock 🦚 “Professional”
Intel dx4 100 MHz
UM8810p AIO motherboard
32MB Ram
52x CD-ROM
540 mb Quantum Fireball
AWE 32 ISA
S3 Trio 64 PCI
Voodoo 1 4mb PCI
Realtek LAN PCI
Hyundai Image Quest v770