Reply 20 of 21, by weedeewee
Deksor wrote on 2021-04-21, 17:22:Thanks for the BIOS upload ! Straight away when opening the ROM in a hex editor I can read "MB-1333PMA-CH, MB-1333PMB-CH, MB-133 […]
Thanks for the BIOS upload ! Straight away when opening the ROM in a hex editor I can read "MB-1333PMA-CH, MB-1333PMB-CH, MB-1333PMD-CH, MB-1333PME-CH
MB-1340PMA-CH, MB-1340PMB-CH, MB-1340PMD-CH, MB-1340PME-CH"The POST string is 30-0201-D61223-00101111-050591-OPWB, 1223 being Biostar's manufacturer code, this suggests this BIOS was originally made for one of these boards http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/1068 http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/1069 http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/1067 (and actually the POST string can be found in the second one I listed)
Doing a checksum on these two matching bioses shows me that they're different somewhere. I don't know what's the difference though (bit rot ? different version ? bad dump ?)
loading both in hxd and doing a compare... the first diff in the unknown is 000-1-0000-00-00-0000-00-00-00-8 vs 000-1-0000-00-00-0000-00-00-00-9 in the already listed, so slightly different previous version? only 13 bytes different.
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