First post, by Snoumaan
Hello from Finland!
First topic here. I have this Soyo 5EMA+ SS7 motherboard for long time, like from year 2003. And back then it works, but when I tried to update the bios, middle of update power went off. And after that this motherboard has been in my closet, waiting for better days.
Now I have been trying to get it to work.
Updated bios via programmer TL866II-plus, didn't work becouse bios chip was broken, programmer didn't recognized it. I ordered "new" one, that worked.
Tried to boot with new bios chip and it beebs for graphics card not found and last boot code is 41
I have tried with multiple graphics cars: AGP, PCI and ISA nothing works. Those cards works in different machine.
I allso tried to Uniflash with Abit PX5, it has same bios chip ( MX28F1000PPC-12C4 )
I think it is booting to boot block becouse floppy light is on like 5sek and then off. When I insert boot disk in, it reads like 2-3s then the light stays on forever... And when it is trying to read the disk, boot code goes to FF.
I did make the floppy like this.
Windows 98 machine:
Format a: /s
then only these files I left in disk MSDOS.SYS, COMMAND.COM, and IO.SYS
And after that I created AUTOEXEC.BAT file with two lines and added AWDFLASH.EXE and bios file :
@ECHO OFF
@AWDFLASH AWDBIOS.BIN /cc /py /sn /r
I allso changed the big caps , but no change.
Any good advice where to look next?