Rickajho
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I didn't want to hijack the other recent VLB thread so here I is. This is all sounding familiar:
I had a BEK-V429S VLB motherboard that died - no clock signal on the bus. I was lucky(?) enough to replace it with an MV035 Rev. F VLB board. And things have been kind of quirky moving hardware over to this board.
I configured it with the same settings I had on the old board for an Evergreen 586 upgrade processor. Boot up and the first thing I notice is: The manual for this board references an Award BIOS but what's in there is an AMI BIOS. Should I be worried about that?
Ok, I have video with a Paradise Bahamas VLB board. The problem is the DTC2278E VLB multi board:
No matter what, I keeping getting "FDC failure" on boot. This is an auto detect board as far as floppy goes. If you connect a drive and a cable the FDC on the board is activated. If I remove the floppy in BIOS the error goes away. But I don't have floppy access either.
I really didn't even want to connect hard drives to the card until I got the floppy problem sorted. But not much choice here. Connect two drives to the primary IDE connector and:
Most of the time the BIOS doesn't auto detect any drives. After a couple reseats of the card it is auto detecting the drives now.
But still no floppy drives. If I enter a setting in the BIOS for a drive the "FDC failure" message is back.
Ok, disable the floppy in BIOS again and let it boot. After the memory test you get the BIOS status boot screen (don't know what else to call it.) It shows the both hard drives but...
Neither of the serial ports or the parallel port on the DTC card are detected. All say "none" on the BIOS boot screen.
Noodles to say I'm getting frustrated here. This DTC card was working fine on the old motherboard. The new mobo looks pristine. Unused or hardly used at all. My point there is it doesn't look like it had the typical exposure that could result in dirty contacts. And yes - cleaned the contacts on the DCT card and am about to do that again.
Any ideas what's going on here? Is the mobo too fast for this DTC card? I did note that the BEK mobo had 3 jumpers 37, 35, 33 labeled CPU speed, Write wait state & LRDY of which the manual says "The identifier jumpers allow VL-BUS slave to identfy the speed of the host CPU" The MV035 mobo does not have these three jumpers.
Open for any and all suggestions. I actually need this system to work!
I had a BEK-V429S VLB motherboard that died - no clock signal on the bus. I was lucky(?) enough to replace it with an MV035 Rev. F VLB board. And things have been kind of quirky moving hardware over to this board.
I configured it with the same settings I had on the old board for an Evergreen 586 upgrade processor. Boot up and the first thing I notice is: The manual for this board references an Award BIOS but what's in there is an AMI BIOS. Should I be worried about that?
Ok, I have video with a Paradise Bahamas VLB board. The problem is the DTC2278E VLB multi board:
No matter what, I keeping getting "FDC failure" on boot. This is an auto detect board as far as floppy goes. If you connect a drive and a cable the FDC on the board is activated. If I remove the floppy in BIOS the error goes away. But I don't have floppy access either.
I really didn't even want to connect hard drives to the card until I got the floppy problem sorted. But not much choice here. Connect two drives to the primary IDE connector and:
Most of the time the BIOS doesn't auto detect any drives. After a couple reseats of the card it is auto detecting the drives now.
But still no floppy drives. If I enter a setting in the BIOS for a drive the "FDC failure" message is back.
Ok, disable the floppy in BIOS again and let it boot. After the memory test you get the BIOS status boot screen (don't know what else to call it.) It shows the both hard drives but...
Neither of the serial ports or the parallel port on the DTC card are detected. All say "none" on the BIOS boot screen.
Noodles to say I'm getting frustrated here. This DTC card was working fine on the old motherboard. The new mobo looks pristine. Unused or hardly used at all. My point there is it doesn't look like it had the typical exposure that could result in dirty contacts. And yes - cleaned the contacts on the DCT card and am about to do that again.
Any ideas what's going on here? Is the mobo too fast for this DTC card? I did note that the BEK mobo had 3 jumpers 37, 35, 33 labeled CPU speed, Write wait state & LRDY of which the manual says "The identifier jumpers allow VL-BUS slave to identfy the speed of the host CPU" The MV035 mobo does not have these three jumpers.
Open for any and all suggestions. I actually need this system to work!