07/01/96-I430VX-2A59GV59C-OO BIOS DOWNLOAD

blo · Thu Apr 15, 2004 10:27 pm

Could anyone point me the way to the right BIOS FLASH + FLASH UTILITY for this board... The company is no longer trading, (PRIME TECHNOLOGIES), and i've looked everywhere i can think of.
Here is the boot screen numbers (bottom of screen)...
07/01/96-I430VX-2A59GV59C-OO
Thanks very much in anticipation.
Blo.

Fri Apr 16, 2004 1:11 am

Vision Top VT-586VX mainboard
but they are dead,too

All I have is a Beta-Bios 12/97 for a Board with your Bios-ID 2A59GV59C-00

Please have a look at you mainboard - maybe there is model and revision number printed onto it !

blo · Sat Apr 17, 2004 10:37 pm

VT-586VX is all that's written on the board... I've just given the PC back to client without flashing. Everything's working fine - but a 1996 bios isn't good is it!
I couldn't wait any longer, so i installed win98, a new CD Rom, office 97, and only 40mb EDO Ram... My mate's hopefully sorting me some more Ram, as the ONE PLACE that actually had some EDO, wanted £35 for 2 X 64mb second-hand sticks

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Many thanks. Blo.

Sun Apr 18, 2004 12:17 am

Better use 4x16 or 4x32 if you could get them cheap - look at Ebay as they tend to be very cheap to nearly worthless there

blo · Sun Apr 18, 2004 5:41 pm

Denniss wrote:Better use 4x16 or 4x32 if you could get them cheap - look at Ebay as they tend to be very cheap to nearly worthless there

Is 32mb the maximum for each slot then!
... I didn't think of that...
Cheers. Blo.
p.s. Which is fastest, 60ns or 70ns

Mon Apr 19, 2004 3:11 am

64MB sticks usually have 4 memory chips and that might be tricky/impossible to use on an older board .
32MB sticks usually have 32/8/4 chips and should work without problems in your board

Mon Apr 19, 2004 11:13 am

60ns is faster than 70ns

BiosMan · Mon Apr 19, 2004 7:12 pm

i430VX uses 16 Mbit technology.

So 32MB SIMM per slot Maximum (times 4 slots for 128MB Maximum System RAM)...16 chips per module.

If the thing has DIMM slots, it can take a 32MB DIMM per slot (16 chips per module as well??)...so you are better off with EDO SIMM than DIMM.

blo · Tue Apr 20, 2004 9:26 am

mny thanks to you all... Blo.

Tue Apr 20, 2004 11:22 am

16MBit is maximum for SDRAM - EDO uses less adress lines so limit is higher there

Wed Apr 21, 2004 10:51 pm

If the board supports EDO DIMMs limit is 64MB per DIMM usually. If you can find them that is.

BiosMan · Thu Apr 22, 2004 1:46 pm

I've seen EDO DIMM's only once.

I didn't know EDO had less address lines than SDRAM...is this true??

So then for a board like my DFI that has 2 DIMM sockets, I could run 2 64MB EDO DIMMS for 128 MB...correct?

What would be the "advantage" here...less power draw, speed, or...???

blo · Fri Apr 23, 2004 10:59 pm

edwin wrote:If the board supports EDO DIMMs limit is 64MB per DIMM usually. If you can find them that is.

This Vision Top VT-586VX mainboard only accepts 32mb edo in each of the 4 slots...
But just to get things clear in my head - Can i Only use SIMM, with upto 8 chips on the side.
Thanks again, Blo.

Ritchie · Sat Apr 24, 2004 8:05 am

BLO:

p.s. Which is fastest, 60ns or 70ns

RAINBOW:

60ns is faster than 70ns

I easily get confused on this issue also. But I am trying to make some rules for myself to remember, such as:

1) When talking about time measurements, you usually want computer tasks to take less time, so a smaller number is better. Therefore, as Rainbow says, 60ns is faster than 70ns since ns is a time measurement.

2) When talking about speed measurements, you usually want computer tasks to happen faster (again amounting to less time), so a larger number is faster. For example, an obvious measurement is Hz or MHz such as in screen refresh rates and CPU speeds respectively. So 85Hz is a faster refresh rate than 75Hz (resulting in less flicker) and 3000MHz or 3GHz is a faster CPU speed than 2000MHz or 2GHz.

3) When talking about size measurements, it can work either way.
- In terms of storage capacity, a larger number is obviously better
because you can store more. So 100GB is better than 10GB.
- In terms of space used, a smaller number is better. If the same file
can occupy either 5MB or 2MB, 5MB is favourable as far as space
used in concerned because it leaves you with more free disk space.
But if the file is compressed from 5MB to 2MB, the 2MB compressed
version may not be as convenient and ready to access as the orginal
5MB version.

So I would not mind a computer with the following specs:

10GGHz CPU (GGHz my own abbreviation for googool-hertz)
10GGPB HDD (GGPB my own abbreviation for googoolplex-byte)
100GHz Display refresh (Gigahertz)

Googool and googoolplex are very large numbers; if anyone is interested in details I can provide links.

I hope I have not attempted to explain too many things which will be too obvious to everyone - I don't mean to waste a post - just to provide some info to help newbies.[/quote]

BiosMan · Sat Apr 24, 2004 3:33 pm

blo -

What types of memory slots are available on your board?

I have 2 i430VX based boards...each has 4 SIMM slots, but one has 1 DIMM slot while the other has 2.

There were EDO DIMMS made at one time (I've seen them)...do not confuse them with SDRAM DIMMS.

16-chip, 32MB SIMMS are the most common that I have found.