lti wrote on 2023-01-01, 21:22:

I also have a new board to add. It's a Gateway Anigma 586. I don't know how to handle the optional features on this board. My ca […]
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I also have a new board to add. It's a Gateway Anigma 586. I don't know how to handle the optional features on this board. My camera isn't very good, but I have pictures of one without audio or video (and with the power supply fan header desoldered).
Form factor: ATX
CPU: Pentium P54C and P55C
Power connector: ATX
Chipset: Intel 430TX
FSB: 60MHz or 66MHz
RAM: SDRAM, maximum 256MB
Cache: 512k
Video (optional): ATI RageII+, 2MB of RAM
Audio (optional): Ensoniq ES1370
I/O: 1x floppy, 2x IDE, PS/2 keyboard and mouse, 2x USB, 1x parallel, 2x serial (1x DE9, 1x header), infrared, 1x VGA (optional), audio (line out, line in, microphone in - optional), 1x gameport (if audio is installed)
Expansion slots: 3x ISA, 4x PCI (3x PCI if audio and video are installed)
This board has a really strange and crude switching VRM circuit, but I don't know if it warrants an "insufficient power delivery" warning. One USB port can be routed to the front or back panel.

https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/anigma-sci-586-pci

evasive wrote on 2023-01-18, 08:20:

Babasha wrote on 2022-10-19, 07:22:

Rare motherboard ABIT VH-20, BIOS, switches and photos - Re: #freshmeatrecovery - Abit VH-20

added. found some info:
https://mobile.twitter.com/S0N1Cua/status/160 … 646721146703872

Ha-ha! Its my baby in new owner hands! Nice mod)))

evasive wrote on 2023-01-18, 08:21:

Yes, we still want the bios as we don't have it yet.

Here you go, dumped via EPROM programmer - looks to be compressed and produces different image then in-system dump via NSSI.
The EPROM was identified as TI TMS27C512, not sure what speed as I didn't remove the sticker. Modern 90ns or better parts should do fine I think.

EDIT: If anyone finds a manual with jumper settings for this exact mobo model that would be great. I experimented a lot and I still haven't found a way to properly set it for Intel 486DX2 with WB L1 cache.

Manual & EISA Config archive for the ECS SL486VE - https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/ecs-sl486ve

https://easyupload.io/zsflza - this is a time limited (30 day) link

I couldn't find this on Retro Web.

MG-1886
386sx 25/33 MHz
Headland HT18/F chipset
AMI BIOS
30-0200-428021-00101111-121291-HT18C-Pa-F

Pictures and BIOS can be found here.

Curious if you could add in downloads page a bios text description in docu's that describes what each bios date/has/does/whatever.
Yeah would take a long time to update many of the older pages but on any newer ones as added would give the person the ability to see what each version covered and if an update would help them.
Just a thought....

I thought of this, but the issue is that boars manufacturers don't often list those, especially back in the days.

And also many bioses were just not available and instead were dumped straight from the board, do it's very hard to determine what changed between two versions.
It sounds good in paper, but the feasibility of this is very small sadly

Deksor wrote on 2023-02-10, 14:39:

Re: Manual for Apricot XEN i-386 or how to enter BIOS ?

another entry for the retro web

ICP SSC-5X86HVGA
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/icp-ssc-5x86hvga
Dumped the BIOS image and took some pictures. Also, found the full manual.

This:
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/ecs-k7sem-v1-x

looks pretty much the same as this:
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/shuttle-ms21l

Even the BIOS setup is the same.
So may be a link could be set between them.

I also compared some of the photos between the TRW page for the K7SEM v1.x and Shuttle's page for the MS21. ChrisK is right on this one - they're the same board - much like the AK12A is the same board as K7VzA Rev3.0 (as far as I remember)

A few more I found out:

Syntax SV400/SV400A - ECS L7VTA2
Syntax S661M - ECS 661FX-M

Possible additional content for the Iwill DP533-S - https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/iwill-dp533-s

- board pics
- latest BIOS & history
- driver package
- changes / additions to existing TRW info
- additional docs / material

https://easyupload.io/ri31g4 - this is a time limited (30 day) link

I recently aqcuired a DTK PKM-0033A mainboard and the only entry on TRW that matches the layout & chipset is Gemlight GMB-486APS

Considering other DTK boards also seem to be know as gemlight, I thought I'd mention it.
photos, & bios image forthcoming, soonish.. not today.

Board picture for this: https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/jetway … 542bs#downloads

Kudos for creating such a useful resource, it's been absolutely handful and fun to use since I got into this retro universe 😀

Hopefully I can make a tiny contribution (and in the appropriate place and manner)

For this board: Acer Power Ultima M3A:

https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/acer-m3a

I'm attaching frontal picture of reasonable quality:

Regards.

I'd like to submit new mainboard for 486 class CPU:

1. Manufacturer: DIGIS
2. Model DIGIS 486EL
3. Jumper settings can be found on stason.org: https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/U/U … 486-486-EL.html
(by the way, I've sent them email with all details about this board and it's been ignored totally....)
4. Hi Res Photo can be found under this link: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1bJqaj … xWc?usp=sharing
5. interesting fact about this board: It is intended for use with EDRAM modules from Ramtron (where dynamic memory is in the same IC as static memory and mainboard does not contain L2 cache).

zami555 wrote on 2023-04-22, 18:44:

3. Jumper settings can be found on stason.org: https://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/U/U … 486-486-EL.html
(by the way, I've sent them email with all details about this board and it's been ignored totally....)

Anything that exists on stason exists on theretroweb 😀 (link here https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/unknown-486-el)

I cannot find any email about a digis 486 by the way, are you sure you sent the mail to the right address ?

edit : btw I added your board

If you could dump your bios, that would be perfect !

Deksor wrote on 2023-04-23, 15:50:

I cannot find any email about a digis 486 by the way, are you sure you sent the mail to the right address ?

I sent my mail to stas@stason.org on August 27th, 2022... a while ago 😉

Deksor wrote on 2023-04-23, 15:50:

edit : btw I added your board

Thank you very much. I'm happy that I could contribute to description of this board in your database.

Deksor wrote on 2023-04-23, 15:50:

If you could dump your bios, that would be perfect !

I will do. It's just I don't know when I will find some time for this. But for sure some day it will be done.

zami555 wrote on 2023-04-23, 17:49:

I sent my mail to stas@stason.org on August 27th, 2022... a while ago 😉

Ah I understand now
We are NOT stason. Stason is a different site and a not very good one at that, we are https://theretroweb.com

Stason will never update their database, because it's not meant for that, it's a clone of TH99 like there are many others. Here's another one for instance https://arvutimuuseum.ee/th99/ . The current version of theretroweb started off as one of them too, except one major thing. TH99 is a set of static HTML files. When I started working on theretroweb back in 2019 (which was called "ultimate hardware 2019" at the time), I parsed every html file and turned them into a SQL database. That means that the content is now easier to update and you can query boards with some parameters. Also the pages are generated dynamically by the server instead of plain files.

Stason will never have that unless they go through these steps, meaning updating is much more complicated (they need to update their html), and I highly doubt they'd even try.

Deksor wrote on 2023-04-23, 18:06:

When I started working on theretroweb back in 2019 (which was called "ultimate hardware 2019" at the time), I parsed every html file and turned them into a SQL database. That means that the content is now easier to update and you can query boards with some parameters

IMHO your website looks very good. For sure it will be my place to go for any new retro mainboard I will get 😀.