More goodies from my favourite recycler - a Leadtek Winfast T200(VLB) card (Tseng Labs ET4000/w32p) and a DataExpert Opti495SX 3/486 motherboard. Both are working with only minor repairs.
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It's kind of funny, my quest to get one good Tseng VLB card has resulted now in three of them (2x ET4000/w32P cards, 1x ET4000/w32i motherboard) so I'm probably not going to keep all 3. The Genoa Phantom 32i card looks far rougher than this Leadtek following my repair attempts so I'll probably be holding on to it - kind of a shame since it's way easier to fit extra RAM onto this leadtek card.
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As a bonus, here's a backup of the BIOS from the card:
WINBOND27F256@DIP28-LEADTEK-WINFAST-T200(VLB)-ET4000-W32P.zip
The DataExpert Opti495SX motherboard is quite neat, the 386DX-40 works just fine but it can have a 486 fitted and that can then use a VLB video card. It originally wasn't working because the board had its jumpers set for the not-included 486 CPU 😀 A fair bit of battery corrosion cleaning was needed too, one of the big power traces fell off while cleaning and is now bolstered with a capacitor leg 😁
For some reason this Tseng card doesn't work on this board, but a Cirrus Logic CL-GD5428 card does.
Of course when the motherboard is running from the 386 CPU, the VLB doesn't work at all since the chipset doesn't get involved with the VLB connections.