ALADDIN5-2A5KKSMAC-00 upgrade
Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2002 3:09 pm
My motherboard is supposed to be a Jamicon 586A-AT. 586A-AT is silk screened between the 2nd and 3rd PCI slots.
Additional information is that I found my motherboard's BIOS String ALADDIN5-2A5KKSMAC-00 identified on Wim's Bios Page as the SuperPower SP-A586B motherboard. Apparently this MB sold under the San Li, Hope Vision, Super Power and Jamicon brand names.
The BIOS is identified as Award Ver 4.51PG Release 19981030-0
The serial number on the Award BIOS chip is S/N 115123221 and it is identified by BIOS Wizard as a 128KB BIOS on a 1Megabit chip.
ALADDIN5-2A5KKSMAC-00 is the BIOS string identifier.
The BIOS I want for this machine is on the www.hongen.com web site as file
a586b-a9.zip
and is listed as about 141KB. The first three available BIOSs are listed as a586b-a6.zip, a586b-a7.zip and a586b-a8.zip and are less than 128KB.
This fits in with the Ver 3.3-66 ALADDIN5-2A5KKF9BC-00 BIOS on my RedFox motherboards being identified by Bios Wizard as a 256KB BIOS on a 2Megabit chip. Under Fordlian/RedFox there are four Award BIOSs identified for the Aladin V chip set. Ver 1.4, Ver 1.6, Ver 3.3_33 and Ver 3.3_66. I am sure that the last two implement DMA 33 and DMA 66 modes respectively. The first ones go on a 1Megabit chip and the last one goes on a 2Megabit chip.
From the Chinese and Anglo characters on the Hongen web site I can figure out that the earliest BIOS doesn't support the AMDK6-III and AMDK6-2+. I also guess that the more recent BIOSs support the DMA 33 and DMA 66 modes of the IDE Controller and probably additional SDRAM memory configurations.
>Similar motherboards with the ALI chipset run ATA 66 HDs. The example is I have other REDFOX AGP-ALI Rev F motherboards with the same chipset using bios ALADDIN5-2A5KKF9BC-00 WITH SAME ALI chipset that run ATA 66. My one Jamicon board with bios ALADDIN5-2A5KKSMAC-00 ONLY RUNS udma MODE 5 WITH THE SAME DRIVES. oN THE redfox BOARDS THE ide hd CONNECTOR HAS ONE PIN REMOVED IN THE CENTER to connect the ATA66 cable. I know the board originally did not support ATA66 and was built with ordinary IDE connector and later after the BIOS change they just resorted to snipping the center pin.
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Additional information is that I found my motherboard's BIOS String ALADDIN5-2A5KKSMAC-00 identified on Wim's Bios Page as the SuperPower SP-A586B motherboard. Apparently this MB sold under the San Li, Hope Vision, Super Power and Jamicon brand names.
The BIOS is identified as Award Ver 4.51PG Release 19981030-0
The serial number on the Award BIOS chip is S/N 115123221 and it is identified by BIOS Wizard as a 128KB BIOS on a 1Megabit chip.
ALADDIN5-2A5KKSMAC-00 is the BIOS string identifier.
The BIOS I want for this machine is on the www.hongen.com web site as file
a586b-a9.zip
and is listed as about 141KB. The first three available BIOSs are listed as a586b-a6.zip, a586b-a7.zip and a586b-a8.zip and are less than 128KB.
This fits in with the Ver 3.3-66 ALADDIN5-2A5KKF9BC-00 BIOS on my RedFox motherboards being identified by Bios Wizard as a 256KB BIOS on a 2Megabit chip. Under Fordlian/RedFox there are four Award BIOSs identified for the Aladin V chip set. Ver 1.4, Ver 1.6, Ver 3.3_33 and Ver 3.3_66. I am sure that the last two implement DMA 33 and DMA 66 modes respectively. The first ones go on a 1Megabit chip and the last one goes on a 2Megabit chip.
From the Chinese and Anglo characters on the Hongen web site I can figure out that the earliest BIOS doesn't support the AMDK6-III and AMDK6-2+. I also guess that the more recent BIOSs support the DMA 33 and DMA 66 modes of the IDE Controller and probably additional SDRAM memory configurations.
>Similar motherboards with the ALI chipset run ATA 66 HDs. The example is I have other REDFOX AGP-ALI Rev F motherboards with the same chipset using bios ALADDIN5-2A5KKF9BC-00 WITH SAME ALI chipset that run ATA 66. My one Jamicon board with bios ALADDIN5-2A5KKSMAC-00 ONLY RUNS udma MODE 5 WITH THE SAME DRIVES. oN THE redfox BOARDS THE ide hd CONNECTOR HAS ONE PIN REMOVED IN THE CENTER to connect the ATA66 cable. I know the board originally did not support ATA66 and was built with ordinary IDE connector and later after the BIOS change they just resorted to snipping the center pin.
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