Divarin
Veteran Member
I have had for the past few years this 486 (a dx-33) which has been relying on the XTIDE Universal Bios (sitting on a rom chip in a network card) to support the hard drive in the system.
The hard drive is an 80 gig drive but is recognized as an 8 gig drive and I have currently 2 2-gig partitions (I haven't needed to use the other 2 gigs)
That is all working fine but now I am in the process of swapping out the motherboard so that I can upgrade to a DX2-66 and giving me the option to use an VLB video card in the future.
I have moved over all of the cards from the previous motherboard to the new but the XTIDE boot screen does not show up.
I seem to remember when I was setting up the dx-33 system that I had to enable an option in the CMOS menu to enable an "option rom". however this system has no such option.
The new motherboard is a Shuttle HOT-419 and it's using an AMI-BIOS.
The AMIBIOS does auto-detect the drive as an 8 gig drive but freezes on startup before boot.
Any ideas why the XTIDE Universal Bios is not being executed on POST?
The hard drive is an 80 gig drive but is recognized as an 8 gig drive and I have currently 2 2-gig partitions (I haven't needed to use the other 2 gigs)
That is all working fine but now I am in the process of swapping out the motherboard so that I can upgrade to a DX2-66 and giving me the option to use an VLB video card in the future.
I have moved over all of the cards from the previous motherboard to the new but the XTIDE boot screen does not show up.
I seem to remember when I was setting up the dx-33 system that I had to enable an option in the CMOS menu to enable an "option rom". however this system has no such option.
The new motherboard is a Shuttle HOT-419 and it's using an AMI-BIOS.
The AMIBIOS does auto-detect the drive as an 8 gig drive but freezes on startup before boot.
Any ideas why the XTIDE Universal Bios is not being executed on POST?