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First post, by matze79

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Hi,

does anyone here Own a STB Powergraph 64 Video VLB with S3 Trio 64 and can provide a Dump of the BIOS ROM ?

Thanks

Matthias

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Reply 1 of 8, by douglar

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Is that VRAM or DRAM?

I have a VLB Diamond Stealth64 DRAM which has an S3-Trio64 chip and 64bit memory. I'll post that if you think it's worth the outside chance that it works with your board.

Maybe try the bios posted here first: http://vgamuseum.info/index.php/component/k2/ … m/357-s3-trio64

Reply 2 of 8, by matze79

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My Board is a bit special.
I specifically searching for this BIOS best in version 1.4 but all others also are welcome.

Thanks !

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Reply 3 of 8, by kixs

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Nice card. It seems to use the newer Trio64 chipset as the usual cards. What seems to be the problem?

Requests are also possible... /msg kixs

Reply 5 of 8, by Robin4

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I think he made it self.

Only the difference there is the V+ version of the S3 64 chip.

~ At least it can do black and white~

Reply 6 of 8, by megatron-uk

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That's a really nice looking board for a homebrew design.

How much of it would be directly translatable to a purely ISA design? By that I mean was this card only possible because the Trio64V+ has hardware level PCI and VLB compatability?

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Reply 7 of 8, by matze79

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Yes Virge 325 and Trio64V+ still have VLB Support, i don`t think it would be easy/possible to make a ISA Design with that Chip 😀

This Card was made by Madao (here on vogons) and is really fast.
But i have no HighEnd VLB Board, i only have Shuttle HOT-491.

i really would appreciate the PowerGraph BIOS, to rule some things out.

https://www.retrokits.de - blog, retro projects, hdd clicker, diy soundcards etc
https://www.retroianer.de - german retro computer board