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First post, by georgel

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Hi all. Does anybody have experience with this motherboard (and info about it)? I couldn't make AMI ECU work with it.

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Reply 1 of 7, by Deksor

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This is quite an interesting motherboard. Unfortunately no infos about it anywhere ... Can you please send us a better photo so we can add it to uh19 (see my signature) ? A bios dump would be great as well.

If you have made any advancements with this board, it'd be interesting to share ^^

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Reply 2 of 7, by NJRoadfan

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That board uses the HiNT Caeser Mini-EISA chipset. The implementation is limited and incomplete with regards to bus mastering.

You should be able to find the configuration tools and config files here: http://66.113.161.23/~mR_Slug/EISA/

This should work with the AMI ECU to detect the board: http://66.113.161.23/~mR_Slug/EISA/!HIT0001.CFG/

Reply 3 of 7, by Anonymous Coward

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This board has unusual 400mil wide cache chips. Boards often have sockets for those, but they're rarely populated.

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Reply 4 of 7, by georgel

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Sold to an old customer of mine...

CFG files do not describe the way EISA NVRam is accessed. Several AMI ECU versions tested but all failed.

I also "manually" invoked INT 15h clear EISA CMOS RAM BIOS function from real mode but it returned non-supported function code.

Reply 5 of 7, by NJRoadfan

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When the machine POSTs, what is the AMI BIOS string shown on the bottom left corner of the screen during memory test? This will ID the company that made the board. You may want to try the generic Micro Computer Systems configuration tool (CF.EXE) as well.

Looks like it may be a DataExpert board: http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/1494

You can get it here: http://66.113.161.23/~mR_Slug/pub/EISA/source … ICS/MICRECU.ZIP
Also includes a card ID tool.

Reply 6 of 7, by Deksor

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@NJRoadfan good catch !!
Too bad OP sold it :'(

i'd have asked for a better photo/bios dump for it. Unless your customer can do that for us ?

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