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thx, I know, the 3.2x Versions (f,h & j) are 'everywhere' to find,
but with these Versions the Board wont boot with 180mhz setting (dont know why)
I could get my Hands on the Bios-Ver.3.1, but it is not working, this seems to be only for the Revision 2.x of the Board (which I have 1.1)

maybe a ...

thx a lot,
there's something to try out

Hi,
I'm searching some old Bios for an
Elitegroup UM8810paio 486-Board

I've maded it to run an Amd5x86 at 180mhz on this Board, stable
(thats possible because the UMC-Chipset supports 60mhz Fsb)

but there is an weird Problem, with the later Biosversions (3.2x),
it wont boot with 180mhz (at 200mhz ...

Mine is also from Rectron, found out with ctbios

hi, folks

today I had an Idea,
if I haven't a 486 with Flash-Rom, I tried to make one..
now I've tried the following:

I take the Bios-Chip out of an old Soyo 586 Mobo who is broken,
its an 29EE010,
loosened the original Chip of the Mobo, started with Bootdisk,
removed the Chip, Jumper to 5V, put ...

found out the following:

Its a Arstoria AS496 (never heard)

Award 4.51G
AS-496 SIS 496/497 BIOS VER-1.0 07/30/96

07/22/96-SiS-496-497/A/B-2A4IBR22C-00

the Bios-Chip:
http://www.8ung.at/andreaz/bioschip.jpg
is this a Flashrom, the Eproms have such a round sight to to delete ?

@Rainbow
you're ...

well I'm new here,

at first, HI :D

I'm screwing at an old PC, just for fun,
its a 486 with an 5x86-133 Amd, and , I am astonished, there is an Flash Bioschip on the Board.
Now I changed the Epa-Logo with Convert 1.2 and want to reflash it to the Chip, but it wont work
there is always the Message ...