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First post, by Hoping

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Hello, this is my first post and already asking for help to say hello properly.
Well, this board came to me without the BIOS chip and I can't find the brand or the model. After hours of searching in TH99, in google, here in Vogons, and there, I already don't know where. I' couldn't find anything aside from two or three images very similar, and one board also very similar to sell in an auction site.
So I decided to try a BIOS for a board with the same chip set (430vx) and the same super IO (SMC) and it shows image but doesn't complete POST.
SoS I'm asking for help to find it's BIOS, I only can use the hot swap method so I don't want to try like ten different roms because of the risk of swapping the roms with the board powered on.
Thanks in advance.

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Reply 1 of 5, by PARKE

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The layout of the VRM heatsinks reminds of Elpina/PCChips - maybe that piece of info can send you into the right direction.

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Reply 2 of 5, by Roman555

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PARKE wrote on 2020-07-31, 17:29:

The layout of the VRM heatsinks reminds of Elpina/PCChips - maybe that piece of info can send you into the right direction.m537a.jpg

I agree about PCChips. It looks like PCChips A101 v1.1
It's a photo of v1.4 I suppose:
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Re: Help with my first retro PC build?

Found a link from that topic
http://th2chips.freeservers.com/a101/index.html

[ MS6168/PII-350/YMF754/98SE ]
[ 775i65G/E5500/9800Pro/Vortex2/ME ]

Reply 3 of 5, by Hoping

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Hi, thanks, I've spent hours looking, pcchips, bcm and other but for sure the a101 seems to be it, on the link provided it talks about the rev 1.1 and the smc super io. I feel silly.
I'll try it tomorrow.
Thanks a lot.