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by orion24
Sun May 24, 2020 2:19 am
Forum: Other BIOS update issues.
Topic: Need MS-5108 BIOS
Replies: 6
Views: 6291

Re: Need MS-5108 BIOS

Yeah, I finally got it to post! After lots of soldering attempts I did make a stable connection and read the BIOS from an EPROM programmer and flashed it to another chip. The board did post and it constantly hanged at POST screen.Then I changed the keyboard controller to another one and this time it...
by orion24
Fri Apr 10, 2020 2:53 am
Forum: Other BIOS update issues.
Topic: Need MS-5108 BIOS
Replies: 6
Views: 6291

Re: Need MS-5108 BIOS

It did come with a BIOS chip, but uppon closer inspection (after I couldn't get it to start), I noticed that the chip was misplaced in the socket and one of the pins was broken as well. The keyboard controller was also misplaced. I tried to solder a pin in the location where the broken one and then ...
by orion24
Thu Apr 09, 2020 3:29 am
Forum: Other BIOS update issues.
Topic: Need MS-5108 BIOS
Replies: 6
Views: 6291

Re: Need MS-5108 BIOS

Those socket 4 were unique. Very high end and expensive, few items sold and probably with pleanty of bugs. I never owned one in their glory days. Now I got one for my collection and intend to build a P66 with FDIV system with this board, assuming I can get it to work.
by orion24
Sun Mar 22, 2020 11:06 am
Forum: Other BIOS update issues.
Topic: Need MS-5108 BIOS
Replies: 6
Views: 6291

Need MS-5108 BIOS

Looking at this page http://www.kva.kursk.ru/bios1/HTML1/microstar.html it mentions the MS-5108 BIOS but the link is dead. Does anybody have it?