Reply 30660 of 52905, by Predator99
wrote:I have similar board from scrappers and this Philips P3120, in attachment bios. […]
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Adlib looks good, I have learned the date code on the Yamaha is important, but difficult to read.
I have just bought 10 of these boards and some other nice things (sellers photo) - of course I dont need that many. They seem to be boards from a PHILIPS PC-XT (5107). CPU, ROM, RAM-sockets and crystals are missing. Seems to be easy to replace and after removing the COM/LPT connectors this may fit in a standard case. Think 8-bit IDE and Floppy is onboard. Hope a standard BIOS will do the job and I get this running 😀
I think I have one of those systems, give me a shout if you need the BIOS.
Thanks, I would be really happy about this!!! I will let you know when I am ready to test...
Received my XT-Boards today. All was packed in a box without any protection (together with some harddisks and a complete 286-PC - photos later). Strange, all are missing the RAMs and several other components. I already picked one which seems to be complete except the RAM, populated with a 8088, CGA and Supersoft-ROM and it seems to be running (except the RAM of course...). I will keep only 1-2 of these boards...
So Cyrix200+, I would be very happy about a ROM-image. Think I need it to use the 8-bit IDE and floppy interface.I have similar board from scrappers and this Philips P3120, in attachment bios.
Detects only 256 of 512kb - but works! Many thanks for this!!! 😎 There is the string "P3105 BIOS" in it. The parity RAMs are also missing on your board, dont seem to be important.
What is rather surprising to me: Your ROM is also 32kb - and after booting and checking with debug.exe it is fully visible starting at F000:8000..! How does this work on an XT? When booting with another (2 kb) ROM the are before F000:E000 is completely ignored even if there is data on the EEPROM...
This BIOS brought to you by the efforts of the
Workstation Architecture and System Software Group
Philips Electronics Ltd. Montreal. Canada
Software: Eric Anderson - to Martha Reade 09/24/88
Claude Roy - Stress Will Kill You!
Leo Pon - Call Me 4H
Jean-Claude de Blois - La pens‚e domine la matiŠre
Compatability: Nikos Katinakis - Save Early Save Often
Palma Pierantozzi - Dont Worry, Be Happy
Group Leader: Dino Mastroguiseppe - This week beardless
The Boss : Ray Dunn - Have a braw day!
UUCP address: ray@philmtl.philips.xx
EDIT: Now detects 640 kb 😀 Also working at 10 MHz now, this was not possible with the other ROMs. Thanks again silentw, think this BIOS is needed to get full use of the board