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sliderider wrote:

According to Stason, that motherboard should have two VESA slots. […]
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KieranD212 wrote:

I'm finding it difficult to get a floppy controller card. One problem my mobo does not have VESA slots. I did after days of searchi Find a cheap ide/floppy on eBay so hopefully I win that. Like I was saying I'm thinking of going with a voodoo card with a 2d and 3d core, is this a good idea?

Also I noticed old 72pin ram is much more expensive over here in the UK.

According to Stason, that motherboard should have two VESA slots.

http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/F/FI … ml#.UxTEWcGwWcE

I thought that seemed strange because when you see VIP in the description of a 486 motherboard, that means V for VL bus, I for ISA, and P for PCI. V-I-P.

I wonder why they would go to the trouble of removing the VESA extensions from the last two slots unless it's an OEM motherboard and the OEM thought that since it had PCI slots, that the VL bus slots would no longer be needed and had them left off to save a few pennies. I'll bet if you're handy with a soldering iron and had a scrap VL bus motherboard to pull the slots from, you could solder on the VESA slots and they would work fine.

That because he maybe have the later version of that board.. It was very common that these PCI / VLB combo doesnt performed really great.. Later they have removed the VLB slots in later versions because they werent needed anymore because of available PCI slots on the board.

Why its still a VIP board? Because when this board is made they designed it as a pci / vlb combo board.. But decided some months later to leave it off on later revisions.. So it have the older name, with a new design.

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KieranD212 wrote:

Alright so i decided to put in a ST 486DX4 66mhz just to see if it was the 5x86 that was the problem or maybe i had not configur […]
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Alright so i decided to put in a ST 486DX4 66mhz just to see if it was the 5x86 that was the problem or maybe i had not configured the 5x86 properly, there's a lot of undocumented jumpers on the board. I now get this screen if i don't use the onboard IDE or floppy. Ignore Drive A as i forgot to set it off.

I'll try an ISA card to see if i can get it to boot from floppy or from a Samsung 2gb hard drive i have Free DOS installed on.
I actually have a matching pair of 32mb sticks but i only used one for convenience just now.

I just wanted to see if the board would work with another cpu as then i could replace the 5x86 and keep the board as its hard to find inexpensive PCI socket 3 boards.

That looks ok but your disk isn't bootable. I would go back to the onboard floppy controller.
It does sound like either the CPU is bad or the board doesn't support it or a jumper is wrong.

I'm not surprised that the larger HDD didn't work, even limited to 32GB, as that is still past the limitations of most IDE controllers back in the socket 3 days. Although I'm sure you can find exceptions.
It does look like there are some incorrect jumper settings on your motherboard though, as your board looks to have L2 cache, and the POST screen reports no L2 cache.
I'd recommend going back and rechecking every jumper you can find documentation for, and also google for pictures of the same model motherboard and compare with those, based on which CPU's they have installed, just as reference. I myself have had to resort to this method, as there's no documentation for my motherboard to be found anywhere.