Reply 40 of 44, by shadmere
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The board is an Opti 895 1442G. I can find lots of information about "Opti 895", but haven't seen a BIOS that says it's specifically for 1442G. I assume I do have to find one that is specific to this model, right? It wouldn't just be any old Opti 895 bios?
Huh, okay. So now it's just acting weird. I turned off internal and external cache. Since the XT-IDE didn't work, I removed it.
Now I can't access the CompactFlash at all, it seems. BIOS recognizes it (still sporadically, and often returning different values), but it sees something. And C: drive shows up. But format.com errors at the end, saying it was unable to write BOOT. And fdisk /mbr or fdisk just lock up. Clearhdd.exe returns 'error 80' and tells me to check my Borland C++ manual for help, 🤣.
I also set the memory settings to their highest numbers. I have two 32 mb sticks that I've tried for many of these tests, and their label at least says FPM. But for the last few days I've also been running many tests using a stick of 4 mb RAM, just in case. All of my results today were attempted with both the 4 mb stick and a 32 mb stick (separately, of course). The RAM didn't seem to make any difference.
I put the XT-IDE back in to see if maybe I could use it to re-format the CF card, but after 12 reboots, it has yet to actually see the card again. Kinda sad, like it was trying it's best at first, but now it's given up. 0_o