First post, by croton64
Hi guys,
i've found this computer a few weeks ago...been trying to identify the mobo thru images, finally i've reach these forums and registered. I'm from Argentina, web developer and re discovered a incipient love for these old headaches 😁.
Old beige case with black what?...
Came with a TGUI-9680... (will be replaced with TGUI-9400 VLB if i find it).
It was relatively clean.. so someone give it some maintenance, it still has a thermal pad.
On the subject, afaik after dismantling i've found the mobo in question is a PCChips M919 v3.4B/f (some more images later..), the thing is... it post... but can't make it boot.
First i thought the disk was dead... so i choose to boot from floppy drive (i've installed one for testing), without diskette it gives the proper message "No bootable device - insert boot disk ..." etc.. but with diskette it gives "NO ROM BASIC SYSTEM HALTED" message.
I've tried with other HDD (been using it on win98 machine), same results... is it any way to recover the mobo?... should i reflash the bios with an updated version (is there any)?
BIOS ID: 41-P400-001437-00101111-101094-486AVIP-H
I would like to make this devil incarnation work again.. so any help is appreciated.
Regards