Carts are literally just IDE DOMs
Hmm...are they even protected in any way? Have you been able to dump them?Carts are literally just IDE DOMs
make sure your bios didn't take a dive.
Dumped the bios, matches perfectly to the one you posted earlier.make sure the ram is okay
literally took it out of the box and threw it in an empty PC case without doing anything else to it.Did you boot the consumer board on its own to see it loads up/runs the way it’s supposed before converting it to use it on ex-board?
Something isn't right. Want to send me one of them so I can fiddle around with it?literally took it out of the box and threw it in an empty PC case without doing anything else to it.Did you boot the consumer board on its own to see it loads up/runs the way it’s supposed before converting it to use it on ex-board?
nope I was away over the weekend but I got back yesterday and had 3 new sticks of ram waiting for me... I tried all 3 on all 3 mobos and no change.Now just waiting of on the ex-board to arrive. T, did you get any further with your replacement board?
After about 6 years of plugging in a USB keyboard and hitting F1 to get games to start, THANK YOU! First time I've ever watched it boot on it's own and it was nice.@CoolFox had asked me in passing for help with the BIOS password, but I assumed it was just a curiosity thing. Tonight he explained without it the system is frustrating/pain in the ass to boot!! Decided this was worth while to try and solve. Have past experience reverse engineering AwardBIOS but it's probably been a decade, lol.
Good news friends, I got lucky. The password is:
onestar7
Enjoy