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First post, by pentiumspeed

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I'm trying to rescue this micro industries SBC that has firmware is only set up to boot straight to vxworks. This means must convert nonstandard phoenix pico bios to any of standard firmware that was from any motherboard that uses 430TX chipset, pentium mmx and smc fdc37c932fr, but this SMC also can is same super i/o chipset as SMSC fdc37c932fr. I see this once on a intel motherboard but this was with FX chipset. Mine is TX.

Do you have the firmware bios that matches this criterias that I can use to try to revive this oddball SBC? The attraction to this motherboard does has a Pentium 266MMX BGA. I got this partially working with keyboard when I made a adapter cable but would not go straight to bios when I hit F2 key even POST message says this.

Micro Industries was prematurely dissolved by the owner when could not find someone to run this USA business long ago. According to this wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_Industries

Thanks and cheers,

Great Northern aka Canada.

Reply 1 of 1, by Horun

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wow hard to find. quick digging found a Teknor SBC <Teknor viper-820> (also sold thru www.kontron.com) with 430HX and smc fdc37c932, also the HP 525 used that same IO but with 430FX....no TX found yet
will look a bit deeper later tonite

Hate posting a reply and then have to edit it because it made no sense 😁 First computer was an IBM 3270 workstation with CGA monitor. Stuff: https://archive.org/details/@horun