'When you smell the right scent, let your instincts take over!!'... or
something like that. That BIOS number is *identical* to the board that
gave trouble here .... and as further interest (to those watching), this
is also the same BIOS identified in my board the has the spurious
mouse-lockup problems..
2A59Ht5BC-00: PCCHIPS Manufacturing Limited (Fugutech) M520 or M525 or
Elpina - Amptron PM7900 orMG Microgram (model:??) or
PM-8815A VX-PCI Board or ALTON Aries + or Elpina Topsearch
TS-M-8VOC or ASEAGATE VXor Amptron PM-8800 or Concord COA-520
or Pine PT-7502 or EL-J19 or Eurone EM-5100V
As best I could identify the boards here, they were made by Fugutech and
although this company still has a small website, there was no information
on the board itself. The above info was gleened from;
www.ping.be/bios/numbers.html , and there's pointer on the flashBIOS
thing as well. There's a couple of these sites though (a searchengine
sting of BIOS +award +flash will work ;) I believe these boards to be good
to 200Mhz of cpu, but I begin to believe they have very bad trouble with
the cyrix. Granted, without the actual jumper assignments, life is tough,
but in my mucking around I found there was no way to clock the cyrix
PR150+ to it's rated speed...133Mhz looks like the top-end. Dunno why,
maybe the idea of creating a 150Mhz clocking is beyond the scope of this
board..ie; 100/120/133/166/200 seem possible.
I might warn you I recently released the same BIOS'd motherboard here of
it's linux duties, because of a strange mouselockup phenomina whilst using
ppp-link to my ISP. This board is now down in the shop running win95,
which seems unperturbed by all this silliness. I now run a TX chipset
board with a *genuine* intel 200 CPU, and immediately have appreciated a
downward move in my humble opinions regarding cyrix & linux...if you think
about just replacing the cpu, I suggest you hold this in view (^;
Cheers!
Db
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