Good to see the board already has a BIOS that does what you need. Enjoy!
derSammler wrote:dionb wrote:If slapping a sticker on a board and throwing out a press release makes someone a motherboard vendor, Packard Bell, HP and Dell suddenly became major board vendors 😉
That on the top left is not a sticker but silkscreened on the PCB. Apart from that, searching for "Chaintech FT440BX" gives even less results than searching for "Promise FT440BX". Chaintech was a well-known brand, so if this is a Chaintech board, there should be references to it. And finally, that website you quoted seems fishy. Trying to download any BIOS redirects to BIOSAgentPlus, where you have to register and download (buy?), well, BIOSAgentPlus, which I guess is just what it sounds like: adware. The only matching search results you get when searching for "Chaintech FT440BX" are all pointing to that, btw. I don't see how a single, fishy website can be taken as a proof that the board is from Chaintech and not from Promise. We have "Promise" silkscreened on the PCB and a press release from Promise announcing that board. So that's what it is.
Just a quick clarification here though. I was not suggesting downloading whatever was behind those links, but to use the BIOS strings on WimsBIOS as a point for further searching (I'm disappointed to see the original BIOS links on WimsBIOS no longer work). The fact the FT440BX gives the same strings as the Chaintech 6BTR is the giveaway. If you google for that you find:
http://www.buildorbuy.org/1disc.html
Promise RAID MB ft440bx = Chaintech 6BTR MB
and then in Russian (which I've dumped in Google Translate for the quote below) no mention of FT440BX, but a description of the 6BTR with a (very low res) picture:
http://www.ixbt.com/short/100399.shtml
Chaintech has released a new product. To the 6BTM hit, an IDE RAID controller was added, similar to Promise Fastrak (levels 0, 1, 0 + 1). As a result, the resulting 6BTR motherboard supports up to 8 IDE devices (2 ports - a full-featured IDE controller on the board, and 2 ports, with the ability to boot from them - RAID). And in the rest - the usual 6BTM.
Apart from the colour of the two extra IDE connectors, that's the exact same board you posted here.
And as the BIOS strings are the same, they really do use the same BIOS files. As far as I can see, there are only references to the Chaintech 6BTR in Russian or Serbian, so I figure this particular board was marketed as Promise FT440 in the US/Western Europe and as Chaintech 6BTR in the East. So I stand by my earlier statement that Chaintech made this board and that if you need to look up something about, Chaintech 6BTR is just as valid as Promise FT440BX. Either way it's pretty obscure with very little info available.