OT [plug] ISA Video card

[John Knight]

Do not stick in the "PR 200"! PR means "performance rating" (of an original 
Pentium CPU) and ti actually runs at 166 Mhz making the entire thing just a 
wee bit disappointing. :(

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>At 02:45 PM 18/08/01 +0800, John Knight wrote:
>>Is this a recent motherboard by chance(within a year or two)? If so
>>(Socket A per chance?), I've got a mate with the same problem. If other
>>pluggers dunno what the problem is, then I'll ask him for you.
>
>A fairly old board actually, a FIC VT-503.
>http://www.fic.com.tw/fic/Products/Mainboards/1stmain/vt-503.htm
>It currently has a pentium166 running in it (on loan) with plans of a spare
>IBM PR200 going in.  Currently it has AWARD BIOS ver. 109GI15 (21/01/1998),
>and I have ver. 109GI16 ready to flash.  I'm getting very much to the
>conclusion that the motherboard has problems.
>
>
>
>>>At 02:30 PM 18/08/01 +0000, Mike wrote:
>>>>I'll happily swap you a couple of ISA ones for a PCI :)
>>>
>>>Not that many spare PCI's sorry :(
>>>
>>>Thanks to those that replied, I now have an old ISA card that works but
>>>still no joy with the original problem... the box hangs at "Verifying DMI
>>>pool data"
>>>I am on page 30 of google looking for the above line and most answers 
>>>point
>>>to booting from a floppy.  I have tried every boot option, every BIOS
>>>option, cables plugged and unplugged, CMOS battery out and pins shorted,
>>>etc, etc and is still the same.  Any drives are autodetected ok, but no
>>>h/d, cd, or floppy will boot.
>>>I realise this may be off topic but if/when this machine lives it will be
>>>my server.
>>>Any clues from anyone please?
>>>
>>>
>>>>At 08:13 PM 17/8/2001 +0800, Nathan D wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >Would any kind pluggers out there have a spare ISA video card that
>>>>could be
>>>> >spared for a few hours?
>>>> >I have a FIC VT-503 motherboard with a suspect faulty BIOS in it.  I 
>>>>have
>>>> >found - "Try using an ISA VGA card and see wether that system will 
>>>>allow
>>>> >you to perform a Boot Block."  Only problem is that I only have one
>>>>old ISA
>>>> >card and it is of unknown (not working?) quality.  Plenty of spare 
>>>>PCI's
>>>> >around but I'm hoping the ISA will let me flash the BIOS.
>>>> >I am in Roleystone and am happy to travel to nearby areas.
>>>
>>>regards,
>>>   Nathan
>>>
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