looking for a BIOS image QDI P4U885GRN

[Gumanoid]

looking for a BIOS image QDI P4U885GRN, alternative name PCI/ISA UD486GRN and MP4-P4U885G

[TASOS]

20 hours ago, Gumanoid said:

looking for a BIOS image QDI P4U885GRN, alternative name PCI/ISA UD486GRN and MP4-P4U885G

Very hard nowadays to find a 486 mobo bios.

Do you have the ability to check if a certain bios is the right for your board ?

Can you unzip and test with somekind of utility ?

 

[Gumanoid]

Unfortunately, I received a board without a BIOS chip at all. One hope is that someone has one in the collection and will be able to read the dump.

[TASOS]

The early Jan 1997 screenshot of the QDI ftp shows very few options

https://web.archive.org/web/19970130115152/http://www.qdigrp.com/html/bios.html

 

You are looking for this one (with UMC um8886f / um8881f chipset)

https://www.elhvb.com/webhq/models/486pci/p4u885.htm

 

Your best shot at the moment , is to test one of those bios that are still available at the old mobokive archive.

https://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/Qdi - Legend/bios/486/index.html

 

The worst scenario is that you will programm the new bios chip but the board will not start.

Start with the 885v23 , it was made for the P4U885P3 (it looks very similar to yours).

http://www.amoretro.de/2012/09/qdi-mp4-p4u885p3-pcb-v2-0-umc-88818886-486-pci-motherboard.html

 

[Gumanoid]

2 hours ago, TASOS said:

https://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/Qdi - Legend/bios/486/index.html

Great site!! Thanks a lot!

[TASOS]

2 hours ago, Gumanoid said:

Great site!! Thanks a lot!

Yes , the www.elhvb.com is a must have for all old-timers !!!

They host two bios databases , the mobokive and the kuriaki

and they also host many manuals for old boards.

 

They sure deserve a donation , for all support that they offer.

 

[moi_kot_lybit_moloko]

great mobo btw. waiting for results. go go old school overclocking!