Hi folks,

Some few months ago i got my hands on this board, to finally build a 486 PC with a DX2/66.

Overall the board was in good condition, I've only had to remove the barrel battery which was starting to leak. I've soldered a CR2032 replacement and it works perfectly fine.
After checking some older graphic cards and soundcards, actually a S3 Virge with 2MB and a SB16 seem to work very well. Dosbench checks look pretty good.
Also in the first place i decided to go with a ATA CF Flash card with 512 MB for DOS and some games which i copied from another system. I've been also checking some old HDDs, the oldest a super noisy Quantum one with 250MB up to a FuJitsu with 3,2GB. All gets detected in the Bios and works accordingly.

After finding a decent AT Case i've decided to eventually finish the project and clear up the workspace for another future projects. The only thing missing was connecting a CD-ROM drive, to get my games onto the machine.

Now here the problem arises: Non of my CD-ROM drives gets detected in the BIOS. I've tried about ten drives, dating from 1995 up to 2007, and nothing. They simply dont show up in the list of detected drives. I know they are working, because they work, or at least get detected on another Pentium III machine. I've checked if maybe the IDE Channels are faulty, but e.g. every HDD gets detected on channels IDE1 or IDE2, whiled none of the CD-ROM drives does. I've tried various cables, Master Slave jumpering etc., also to no luck, while it's all working on the other machine.

Actually the system works on Bios Version WA3, but i'm not really sure if an update will change anything. Did anyone encounter a similar problem with this board and maybe has a solution? Thank you in advance! 😀