DonutKing
Experienced Member
Hi guys, really scratching my head on this one.
I have an IH4077C motherboard. I think its made either by Mitac or Chaintech.
Note that there is an IH4077D on TH99/stason but its very different to this board. For starters, my board doesn't have onboard IDE/floppy/serial, and only supports 5V CPUs.
This board has 2 VLB slots and I am using an ET4000 VLB video card and a VLB IDE/IO card. I've also got a Gravis Ultrasound and an SB16 CT2800 in there.
It has 8x 30 pin SIMM slots, currently using 4x 4MB SIMMs. Chipset is a UMC82C491F. 256kb of 20ns cache.
I am trying to run a 486DX4/100 Overdrive in this system. I've tried 2 different DX4 overdrive processors, and they both do the same thing- as does a Pentium Overdrive 83MHz.
The machine will POST and I can get into the BIOS setup, change settings and save, but it won't go any further than that. After the memory test, instead of beeping and going onto the screen displaying the system configuration and continuing to boot the OS, it just hangs there with a blinking cursor. The 'Energy star' logo fades away and the CPU info is still on screen but thats it. The CPU is correctly identified as a DX-4 or a P24T at the right clockspeed.
If I use a DX2/66 it works perfectly.
Things I have tried:
-Went into BIOS, tried auto configuration for chipset features. Also tried slowest options/ max wait states for all options.
-both settings of the '>33MHz'/'<=33MHz' jumper
-both settings of the 'VLB 1 WS/0 WS' jumper
-For CPU selection I have tried both 486DX or P23N/T (only other option is 486SX)
-Tried changing bus speed from 33MHz to 25MHz
-There is an undocumented jumper, JP1 near the keyboard connector. Tried both settings, no difference.
Is there anything else I can try? or is this board simply incompatible with the 5V overdrives?
I could try pulling cards etc but its kind of not very useful to me if I can't use the parts I want in it.... its the only woring VLB board I have at the moment. When I get home I might try an ISA multi-IO card instead of the VLB one and see if that makes a difference.
If anyone has a manual or jumper settings for this board please let me know
I have an IH4077C motherboard. I think its made either by Mitac or Chaintech.
Note that there is an IH4077D on TH99/stason but its very different to this board. For starters, my board doesn't have onboard IDE/floppy/serial, and only supports 5V CPUs.
This board has 2 VLB slots and I am using an ET4000 VLB video card and a VLB IDE/IO card. I've also got a Gravis Ultrasound and an SB16 CT2800 in there.
It has 8x 30 pin SIMM slots, currently using 4x 4MB SIMMs. Chipset is a UMC82C491F. 256kb of 20ns cache.
I am trying to run a 486DX4/100 Overdrive in this system. I've tried 2 different DX4 overdrive processors, and they both do the same thing- as does a Pentium Overdrive 83MHz.
The machine will POST and I can get into the BIOS setup, change settings and save, but it won't go any further than that. After the memory test, instead of beeping and going onto the screen displaying the system configuration and continuing to boot the OS, it just hangs there with a blinking cursor. The 'Energy star' logo fades away and the CPU info is still on screen but thats it. The CPU is correctly identified as a DX-4 or a P24T at the right clockspeed.
If I use a DX2/66 it works perfectly.
Things I have tried:
-Went into BIOS, tried auto configuration for chipset features. Also tried slowest options/ max wait states for all options.
-both settings of the '>33MHz'/'<=33MHz' jumper
-both settings of the 'VLB 1 WS/0 WS' jumper
-For CPU selection I have tried both 486DX or P23N/T (only other option is 486SX)
-Tried changing bus speed from 33MHz to 25MHz
-There is an undocumented jumper, JP1 near the keyboard connector. Tried both settings, no difference.
Is there anything else I can try? or is this board simply incompatible with the 5V overdrives?
I could try pulling cards etc but its kind of not very useful to me if I can't use the parts I want in it.... its the only woring VLB board I have at the moment. When I get home I might try an ISA multi-IO card instead of the VLB one and see if that makes a difference.
If anyone has a manual or jumper settings for this board please let me know
