Gumanoid Posted July 17, 2021 Share Posted July 17, 2021 looking for a BIOS image QDI P4U885GRN, alternative name PCI/ISA UD486GRN and MP4-P4U885G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TASOS Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 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 ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gumanoid Posted July 18, 2021 Author Share Posted July 18, 2021 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TASOS Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 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 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gumanoid Posted July 19, 2021 Author Share Posted July 19, 2021 2 hours ago, TASOS said: https://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/Qdi - Legend/bios/486/index.html Great site!! Thanks a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TASOS Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 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. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moi_kot_lybit_moloko Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 great mobo btw. waiting for results. go go old school overclocking! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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