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Hi, I just got my hand on an old Pentium board and have set it up in a system. I'm able to boot up into DOS without problems. Well almost... the amount of RAM reported at startup (memory test) is incorrect. The BIOS seems to always report 8MB regardless of what I put in there. At the moment, I have ...

Rainbow: After sorting myself out a bit, you are right in that the CMOS/RTC is part of an integrated chip on the Mobo. I had confused the CMOS and the BIOS chip and was actually asking if I would have burnt the BIOS chip. So I guess the board is toast... After a closer inspection of the board, I cou...

Thanks for the reply Rainbow, but that wasn't quite what I was hoping to hear. :( Unfortunately, I did power up the board while the jumper was set. Actually, I got the information about the jumper from http://strieg.mse.uiuc.edu/54pv.html. There aren't any details, hence the mistake... or so I'd lik...

I was better off when I started... <sigh> I am trying to build a PC using old bits 'n pieces I was given by a mate, but now not much happens when I give it some juice. I'll just get some of the hardware details out of the way: Mobo: TMC PCU54PV 1.10 BIOS: AMI CMOS: CSI CAT28F101P-15 MSO9345B Now whe...