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Does anyone have a BIOS for a SIS 460 (85C460) 486 based motherboard?

mR_Slug

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I've got this 85C460 based VL-BUS motherboard that I'm not getting a clock signal at the ISA bus. I've traced it to the chipset, and there is nothing there either. There are two clock signals going into it, a 33MHZ, and a ~14MHz. All tests are made at the chip.

The datasheet for the chipset states that the divisor for the clock has to be set in a register. I don't have an original BIOS for it. Tried the SS diagnostic ROM, and a BIOS from a SIS 471. Two modes of thought:

1. Perhaps the BIOS has to put some value in here very early in the POST to get the ISA bus up. OR,

2. The chipset has a default value, and there is something else preventing it from outputting a clock signal.

Either way the correct BIOS would be much appreciated. I've hunted the net but can't find it anywhere.
 
I always thought that the main difference between the SiS460 and SiS461 was that the 461 added VLB support. Yours is a 460 with a VLB slot. Weird.

You can ask Feipoa on VOGONS. He has a 386 motherboard based on that chipset. There's a reasonable chance it would work.
 
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