Re: HELP! - Dead Intel VS440FX motherboard with BIOS EEPROM overheating

Posted on 2019-08-12, 09:14

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by feipoa

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Reply from TL866IIplus distributor: TL866II can support VPP 18V and VCC 1.8V-6.5V, You don't have to worry about 12 volts. You can test it yourself with a blank chip.if it can not work,Please send me the screenshot of the error message,I'll report your problem to the manufacturer He doesn't seem to …

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Re: Custom interposer module for TI486SXL2-66 PGA168 to PGA132 - HELP!

Posted on 2019-08-12, 06:37

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by feipoa

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OK. So do you think you'll not be proceeding with the PCB? Perhaps someone else will pick it up at some point. Upgrading WinXP is on my list, but time hasn't been on my side recently. And Windows 7 is nearing EOL, so I've been meaning to get Win10, but, time. Also, I couldn't pick one of my kids …

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Re: Experience with Maxthon browser for XP

Posted on 2019-08-12, 02:08

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by feipoa

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That's not a bad idea. Any free Linux VM that you can recommend?

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Re: HELP! - Dead Intel VS440FX motherboard with BIOS EEPROM overheating

Posted on 2019-08-11, 23:18

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by feipoa

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For the Batman board, FMUP is the supplied utility. So you think I need to follow the blind manual procedure I outlined previously? Or perhaps it automatically looks for _.BIO? That would be surprising since the newer VS440FX board needs to be directed to it with the /p flag. I've attached the two …

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Re: Gateway 2000 P5-90 Restoration

Posted on 2019-08-11, 22:36

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by feipoa

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I don't think I've seen a better looking desktop/monitor combination. Are you using the RZ1000 for the harddrive and the SMC SuperI/O for ISA IDE w/CD-ROM? Your system looks very similar to my Gateway Batman's Revenge socket 4 board, which I outfitted with a Pentium 133 overdrive chip. I've not …

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Re: HELP! - Dead Intel VS440FX motherboard with BIOS EEPROM overheating

Posted on 2019-08-11, 10:03

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by feipoa

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Here are the startup options for BIOSUP.EXE . It even has /r to automatically reset the system when finished updating. BIOSup_flag_options.jpg BIOS1013_recovery_using_BIOSUP.jpg This is the error I get when using BIOSUP.EXE to update the .10 Gateway version to my the .13 Intel version. I with the …

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Re: Experience with Maxthon browser for XP

Posted on 2019-08-11, 09:05

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by feipoa

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Thank you for supplying the link for the Extreme Explorer 360 (Chromium 69) for XP discussion. I've added it to my list to read. Recently, I've been falling horrifically behind on retro tasks I noted I would do. I also haven't had time to upgrade my main rig, which is AM2 - 3.2 GHz (X2-6400+) with 8 …

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Re: HELP! - Dead Intel VS440FX motherboard with BIOS EEPROM overheating

Posted on 2019-08-11, 08:56

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by feipoa

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Your hypothesis concerning inability to supply 12V to RP# sounds plausible. Could be that the multiplixer ports used for switching connections are all used up for other pins; could also be that there is a software way to get the job done, but they don't want to bother. I'm guessing the the Micron * …

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Re: Custom interposer module for TI486SXL2-66 PGA168 to PGA132 - HELP!

Posted on 2019-08-11, 07:15

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by feipoa

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Thanks a lot for attaching this. In your opinion, is it ready to order? Were there any recommendations which you weren't able to implement? I personally won't have opportunity to look at this for some time. Would you be willing to provide some 2D and 3D views? I'll try to get KiCAD 5 installed …

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Re: Gateway 2000 P5-90 Restoration

Posted on 2019-08-11, 06:45

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by feipoa

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I don't think I've seen a better looking desktop/monitor combination. Are you using the RZ1000 for the harddrive and the SMC SuperI/O for ISA IDE w/CD-ROM? Your system looks very similar to my Gateway Batman's Revenge socket 4 board, which I outfitted with a Pentium 133 overdrive chip. I've not been …

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Re: HELP! - Dead Intel VS440FX motherboard with BIOS EEPROM overheating

Posted on 2019-08-10, 09:37

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by feipoa

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I was considering again the recovery method for updating the BIOS on my Batman's Revenge board as this board was already on my testbed. It contains BIOS 1.00.10.AF2T, the T being OEM for Gateway. I run FMUP.EXE on the BIOS update disk and get the following error: Batmans_Revenge_1013_BIOS_Error.jpg …

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Re: HELP! - Dead Intel VS440FX motherboard with BIOS EEPROM overheating

Posted on 2019-08-10, 08:15

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by feipoa

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This is just a guess, but I know of a few instances where it was helpful. Since you appear to know someone who has the same board, it may be worth asking them to provide a BIOS dump created with UniFlash (check the documentation to be sure that the chipset is supported first). Those are usually …

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Re: HELP! - Dead Intel VS440FX motherboard with BIOS EEPROM overheating

Posted on 2019-08-09, 11:29

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by feipoa

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Those instructions were last reviewed in 2017, so I wonder if they are still relevant? The instructions ask that just a formatted diskette be used (needn't be a bootable disk) and the disk needs to contain the *.BIO "recovery file". But what about the other parts of the BIOS? For the Batman's …

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Re: Repository of AMI flash utilities

Posted on 2019-08-09, 10:32

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by feipoa

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Here's a few. Contains versions: AFUDOS 4.01 AFUDOS 4.07 AFUDOS 4.40 AMIFLASH 4.60 AMIFLASH 4.65 AMIFLASH 5.20z AMIFLASH 5.30 AMIFLASH 6.20 AMIFLASH 6.34 AMIFLASH 6.45 AMIFLASH 8.14 AMIFLASH 8.15 AMIFLASH 8.26 AMIFLASH 8.27

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Re: HELP! - Dead Intel VS440FX motherboard with BIOS EEPROM overheating

Posted on 2019-08-09, 10:21

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by feipoa

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Are specific recovery disks needed for the corresponding motherboards? For example, I see one for the socket 4 Batman's Revenge board here, http://files.mpoli.fi/hardware/ROM/OTHER/ , called BATREVRD.EXE. I am guessing I run this and it creates a bootable diskette? Unfortunately, this site doesn't …

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Re: HELP! - Dead Intel VS440FX motherboard with BIOS EEPROM overheating

Posted on 2019-08-09, 00:41

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by feipoa

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Yes, kixs has this board. I sent him a PM earlier about it, but I don't know which version of the AMI flash software would be most appropriate for this oddball BIOS. Do you know? I suspect NSSI may not be sophisticated enough. I started a thread asking if anyone knows of a about an AMI flash …

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Re: HELP! - Dead Intel VS440FX motherboard with BIOS EEPROM overheating

Posted on 2019-08-08, 22:02

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by feipoa

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Wow, thanks a lot for looking into these files. I'm not familiar enough to know what to do without doing research. BIOS Recovery? You are referring to this: 1.13.5 BIOS Recovery (J6D1) This jumper lets you recover the BIOS data from a diskette in the event of a catastrophic failure. The default …

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Repository of AMI flash utilities

Posted on 2019-08-08, 20:33

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by feipoa

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Does anyone know of a repository of all the AMI flash utilities? I'm looking for one which works with my Intel socket 4 motherboard, and also one for a socket 8 pentium pro board.

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Re: BIOS needed for Acer V12P socket 4 motherboard

Posted on 2019-08-08, 20:25

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by feipoa

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Well this motherboard looks pretty well built, not quite as solid as the Intel one, but pretty good. It has this interesting row of solder points, two parallel rows, around the SMD cache chips. Apparently, there was a very rare 512K cache upgrade module that would plug in there. I don't know if it …

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Re: Batman's Revenge socket 4 motherboard - need manual

Posted on 2019-08-08, 11:42

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by feipoa

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I think the last bios for this motherboard had version 1.00.13.AF2 http://download.viglen.co.uk/files/motherboards/archive/Batman_Revenge/10013AF2.EXE I attempted to update this BIOS to my motherboard using Intel's fmup.exe utility, but I receive an error message. The selected FLASH Data File …

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