luckybob wrote on 2022-05-23, 02:51:Dump it.
Ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
Since you're here I feel I should inform you I will be documenting a PR440FX build here in the coming weeks
luckybob wrote on 2022-05-23, 02:51:Dump it.
Ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure
It does have Adaptec SCSI on board along with some Cirrus Logic GPU, wonder if they are part of the on board BIOS or are running alongside of it.
It does have Adaptec SCSI on board along with some Cirrus Logic GPU, wonder if they are part of the on board BIOS or are running alongside of it.
I'd wager heavily on all of those devices having their bios code mixed into one chip.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
luckybob wrote on 2022-05-23, 05:49:It does have Adaptec SCSI on board along with some Cirrus Logic GPU, wonder if they are part of the on board BIOS or are running alongside of it.
I'd wager heavily on all of those devices having their bios code mixed into one chip.
Might actually be worth dumping the Bios then, Have to strip the system shortly as it needs a good clean and I want to throw a 1mb PPro in there, still waiting on the FPM Simms to arrive so I can deck the system out, might see if I can throw a SCSI HDD in there or a SCSI CDROM, perhaps both as its using IDE right now.
debs3759 wrote on 2022-05-22, 22:23:ontrca wrote on 2022-05-22, 21:37:Would anyone be interested in seeing a bootup screen picture?
Maybe tomorrow? 😀Bootup screen will be appreciated for UltimateRetro website, as will a dump of the BIOS
BIOS files are still reachable on Wayback...
https://web.archive.org/web/20030329224329/ht … bios/60a-b1.bin
https://web.archive.org/web/20030329224329/ht … bios/60a-b2.bin
https://web.archive.org/web/20030329224329/ht … bios/60a-b3.bin
...along with the associated manuals
luckybob wrote on 2022-05-22, 22:35:https://i.imgur.com/WzeqyzC.jpg […]
I would have been here earlier but I was watching a 100-minute expose on Babylon 5. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FfKOubWE14 )
Welcome to the Pentium-Pro master race!
Ironically, those thermal pads often worked better than typical heat sink compound (of the time). Tolerances for heatsinks were very loose by today's standards. The pads were often better than goop until the pentium 3 /athalon era when they flipped the die to allow direct exposure.
I also want to echo @debs3759's request for a bios dump, boot images, and proper board pictures.
Excellent.
It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
