First post, by retro games 100
- Rank
- l33t
Introduction
I am testing a super I/O winbond ISA card, model PTI-227B. When I received this card, many of the jumper settings were set to "Disabled", which was a bit odd. Luckily, the manual came with it - see below for the download link. I set the HDD and FDD to "Enabled", and set the other resources to their default settings. It works, but you cannot boot the mobo if you attach a DVD-ROM reader to the IDE cable in slave mode. Pity.
The card
The PTI-227B is the top card.
The card at the bottom is to illustrate a newer card, which does support ATAPI. I have shown the underside of each card in a smaller "inset" picture. This shows the date of manufacture.
Links
1) Link to the instruction manual. Filename is called manual.7z. It's in .7z format, because the .PDF file is 50 meg!
2) Link to PrimoPDF by Nitro PDF, a free to download and use .PDF converter.
Notes
1) I scanned in each page of the instruction manual, and saved each image as a bitmap picture. I then trimmed away any excess white space inside Paint Shop Pro. I then inserted each "trimmed" picture in to a Word document. I then converted this Word document in to a .PDF file for your convenience, as the .PDF format is fairly widespread these days. In order to convert the Microsoft Word document to a .PDF file, I used a free to download and use converter called PrimoPDF, a link to which is provided in link number 2 above.
2) In order to use this software, you select the Print option in your authoring software. So, for Microsoft Word, you select File and then Print. For the printer, you choose PrimoPDF, because it acts like a virtual printer. From there, it's easy - you just click a few buttons and everything is done.