I think I saw almost all of the old fic manuals on their site. 😉

They are incomplete. What I attached to the first post is from their website + other sources. I'm hoping someone has a complete manual for this thing.

I'm screwed aren't I?

Oh well, if I can't find a complete manual I'll just shove this in the "kind of unusable stuff" box.

Sorry. I am on my phone right now. So I missed some of your post. 🙁
How about total hardware99?
https://th99.bl4ckb0x.de/m/E-H/32707.htm

Back on track, with my computer now.... I have found something else, a site that I have not seen before.
Perhaps this is complete, perhaps not. As I do not have this motherboard, I have no real overview.

http://www.filewatcher.com/b/ftp/ftp.fic.com. … -vip-io2-0.html

The files off http://www.filewatcher.com/b/ftp/ftp.fic.com. … -vip-io2-0.html are exactly what I posted above, just merged.

The ones off https://th99.bl4ckb0x.de/m/E-H/32707.htm are way more then what I had and better organised, but it's still missing the pull-down jumpers...

Well... Can't find anything else regarding this board. 🙁
Real shame. Perhaps someone here on the forum have a complete scan.

Looking at various sources. Are you shure it has pull/up-down? It might be kind of automatic, just like on pentium boards.
I simply can't find any sources that points to it.

I'm not, but the VIP-IO(1) has them, and this board is very close to it layout-wise.

In any case, one of the links you posted is a really big help. Lots of settings not in the manual scans I have.

Thanks.... Thought that it might contain information that was left out or unread-able elsewere.
Regarding the Pullup/down thing.... Have been comparing the layout picture from the site I posted and total hardware, with the the info on jumpers that are there. And as far as I can see, looking at a glance, there are no Up/Down-specific jumpers.

The bad thing is, that I do not have the physical board, so I can not see if the pictures/drawings of the layout have missed 5 jumpers.
Not as many jumpers as on the 486 VIP IO board. The IO2 edition might have some Pentium era technology.
Sort of a late 486 board, from the time of were Pentiums were too new and too expensive and the 486's still ruled.
Perhaps in the time of mid-early to mid 1996? (april/june-96) Have not seen any releasedates or actual hardware, so it is 100% guessing.
Might even be from the same month's, just 1995 instead...

With FIC you are usually better off going direct to their FTP site. It usually has more.
ftp://ftp.fic.com.tw/motherboard/manual/486/486-vip-io2/

PCBONEZ wrote:

With FIC you are usually better off going direct to their FTP site. It usually has more.
ftp://ftp.fic.com.tw/motherboard/manual/486/486-vip-io2/

It's the same stuff I attached to the first post. Thanks for trying to help anyway! 😀

The link brostein put up has more in depth jumper settings so I'll try setting up using those, maybe it will fix the issue.

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The bad thing is, that I do not have the physical board, so I can not see if the pictures/drawings of the layout have missed 5 jumpers.
Not as many jumpers as on the 486 VIP IO board. The IO2 edition might have some Pentium era technology.
Sort of a late 486 board, from the time of were Pentiums were too new and too expensive and the 486's still ruled.
Perhaps in the time of mid-early to mid 1996? (april/june-96) Have not seen any releasedates or actual hardware, so it is 100% guessing.
Might even be from the same month's, just 1995 instead...

It's a late 486 board indeed, but the only real difference between it and the VIP-IO(1) is EDO support. If you use EDO, the board is pretty fast, but I want to use FPM on it, witch performs horribly.

It's a great board in some aspects (PS/2, PCI+VLB+ISA, voltage regulator that supports 3.3v, 3.45v, 3.7v, 4v and 5v and the IDE controller is pretty speedy) - but for it being a 1995 board it does not have flashable EEPROM and it does not have out-of-the-box 5x86 support. 5x86 CPUs are supported via bios update witch I have yet to do. It won't be running a 586 anyway - I'll stick my Intel DX4WB in it and set it to 120Mhz (stable in windows at 3.45v).