My motherboard is supposed to be a Jamicon 586A-AT. 586A-AT is silk screened between the 2nd and 3rd PCI slots.
Additional information is that I found my motherboard's BIOS String ALADDIN5-2A5KKSMAC-00 identified on Wim's Bios Page as the SuperPower SP-A586B motherboard. Apparently this MB sold under the San Li, Hope Vision, Super Power and Jamicon brand names.
The BIOS is identified as Award Ver 4.51PG Release 19981030-0
The serial number on the Award BIOS chip is S/N 115123221 and it is identified by BIOS Wizard as a 128KB BIOS on a 1Megabit chip.
ALADDIN5-2A5KKSMAC-00 is the BIOS string identifier.
The BIOS I want for this machine is on the www.hongen.com web site as file
a586b-a9.zip
and is listed as about 141KB. The first three available BIOSs are listed as a586b-a6.zip, a586b-a7.zip and a586b-a8.zip and are less than 128KB.
This fits in with the Ver 3.3-66 ALADDIN5-2A5KKF9BC-00 BIOS on my RedFox motherboards being identified by Bios Wizard as a 256KB BIOS on a 2Megabit chip. Under Fordlian/RedFox there are four Award BIOSs identified for the Aladin V chip set. Ver 1.4, Ver 1.6, Ver 3.3_33 and Ver 3.3_66. I am sure that the last two implement DMA 33 and DMA 66 modes respectively. The first ones go on a 1Megabit chip and the last one goes on a 2Megabit chip.
From the Chinese and Anglo characters on the Hongen web site I can figure out that the earliest BIOS doesn't support the AMDK6-III and AMDK6-2+. I also guess that the more recent BIOSs support the DMA 33 and DMA 66 modes of the IDE Controller and probably additional SDRAM memory configurations.
>Similar motherboards with the ALI chipset run ATA 66 HDs. The example is I have other REDFOX AGP-ALI Rev F motherboards with the same chipset using bios ALADDIN5-2A5KKF9BC-00 WITH SAME ALI chipset that run ATA 66. My one Jamicon board with bios ALADDIN5-2A5KKSMAC-00 ONLY RUNS udma MODE 5 WITH THE SAME DRIVES. oN THE redfox BOARDS THE ide hd CONNECTOR HAS ONE PIN REMOVED IN THE CENTER to connect the ATA66 cable. I know the board originally did not support ATA66 and was built with ordinary IDE connector and later after the BIOS change they just resorted to snipping the center pin.
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ALADDIN5-2A5KKSMAC-00 upgrade
It should be SuperPower SP-A586B.
These BIOSes are the latest for SP-A586B (there are more versions of this board):
128KB - version A.5 - "11/04/1998-ALADDIN5-2A5KKSMAC-00" - http://www.adhoc.de/mainbo/Treiber/A586B-A5.zip
128KB - version A.7 - "09/01/1999-ALADDIN5-2A5KKSMCC-00" - http://www.adhoc.de/mainbo/Treiber/A586B-A7.zip
256KB - version A.9 - "11/29/1999-ALADDIN5-2A5KKSMCC-00" - http://www.nix.ru/support/drivers.html? ... &vendor=20
It's possible that versions A.6 and up are not for your board version.
These BIOSes are the latest for SP-A586B (there are more versions of this board):
128KB - version A.5 - "11/04/1998-ALADDIN5-2A5KKSMAC-00" - http://www.adhoc.de/mainbo/Treiber/A586B-A5.zip
128KB - version A.7 - "09/01/1999-ALADDIN5-2A5KKSMCC-00" - http://www.adhoc.de/mainbo/Treiber/A586B-A7.zip
256KB - version A.9 - "11/29/1999-ALADDIN5-2A5KKSMCC-00" - http://www.nix.ru/support/drivers.html? ... &vendor=20
It's possible that versions A.6 and up are not for your board version.
Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
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Thank you for the Russian download site URL. Exactly what I needed. The Taiwan SuperPower site is down.
ACORP also sells a similar ALI V SS7 MB but with 2 SIMM and 2 DIMM and on their web site they say:
5ALi61 Ver: V1.3a 1MB Flash Rom
5ALi61 Ver: V1.4 1MB Flash Rom
5ALi61 Ver: 2.2_33 2MB Flash Rom For "ALI M1543C A1" south bridge chipset
5ALi61 Ver:3.3_66 2MB Flash Rom For "ALI M1543C B1" south bridge chipset
RedFox / FordLian sells this board and sold it a number of years especially in India where it went through upgrades losing its' SIMM slots. They have the same 4 BIOSs available and all they do to implement 3.3_66 LIKE MY 2 REDFOX boards is use a 2Megabit flash ROM chip and remove the necessary pin in the 2 IDE connectors on the MB so you can install the necessary DMA 66 ribbon cable.
My Superpower / Jamicon MB has the ALI M1543C B1 south bridge chip but I hated to try using the RedFox BIOS because the SP / Jamicon MB uses a different version of the UMC I/O chip. I wanted to get a SuperPower BIOS in case the difference in the I/O chip made the RedFox BIOS unsuitable.
I can find a 2 Megabit chip at a local surplus place and I can remove the necessary pin in the IDE connector.
ACORP also sells a similar ALI V SS7 MB but with 2 SIMM and 2 DIMM and on their web site they say:
5ALi61 Ver: V1.3a 1MB Flash Rom
5ALi61 Ver: V1.4 1MB Flash Rom
5ALi61 Ver: 2.2_33 2MB Flash Rom For "ALI M1543C A1" south bridge chipset
5ALi61 Ver:3.3_66 2MB Flash Rom For "ALI M1543C B1" south bridge chipset
RedFox / FordLian sells this board and sold it a number of years especially in India where it went through upgrades losing its' SIMM slots. They have the same 4 BIOSs available and all they do to implement 3.3_66 LIKE MY 2 REDFOX boards is use a 2Megabit flash ROM chip and remove the necessary pin in the 2 IDE connectors on the MB so you can install the necessary DMA 66 ribbon cable.
My Superpower / Jamicon MB has the ALI M1543C B1 south bridge chip but I hated to try using the RedFox BIOS because the SP / Jamicon MB uses a different version of the UMC I/O chip. I wanted to get a SuperPower BIOS in case the difference in the I/O chip made the RedFox BIOS unsuitable.
I can find a 2 Megabit chip at a local surplus place and I can remove the necessary pin in the IDE connector.
It turns out to be a royal Pain in the Ass to change different sized flash rom bios chips if you can't get a chip that is supported by UNIFlash.
In order to flash the latest BIOS I have to replace the 1MBit chip with a 2MBit chip. I have found surplus ASD AE29F2008 to be available here.
The ASD AE29F2008 came surplus out of an unknown computer using an AWARD 686 BIOS. I'm sure that I will need to overwrite the ASDs BOOTBLOCK BIOS in order to make it compatible with my ALADDIN5 M1542 A1/M1543 B1 chip set. The AMI or AWARD flash utilities will not overwrite the BOOTBLOCK BIOS.
UNIFlash has support for the ASD AE29F1008 FLASH ROM Chip
*AE29F1008 = Winbond W29EE011 | 128KB
but doesn't list the 2MBit ASD AE29F2008 FLASH ROM Chip.
Unless I can get a version of UNIFlash that supports the 2MBit ASD chip I will have to take the UNIFlash list of supported 256 KByte chips to the surplus house and start peeling back the labels on all of the available surplus chips until I find one that is supported.
In order to flash the latest BIOS I have to replace the 1MBit chip with a 2MBit chip. I have found surplus ASD AE29F2008 to be available here.
The ASD AE29F2008 came surplus out of an unknown computer using an AWARD 686 BIOS. I'm sure that I will need to overwrite the ASDs BOOTBLOCK BIOS in order to make it compatible with my ALADDIN5 M1542 A1/M1543 B1 chip set. The AMI or AWARD flash utilities will not overwrite the BOOTBLOCK BIOS.
UNIFlash has support for the ASD AE29F1008 FLASH ROM Chip
*AE29F1008 = Winbond W29EE011 | 128KB
but doesn't list the 2MBit ASD AE29F2008 FLASH ROM Chip.
Unless I can get a version of UNIFlash that supports the 2MBit ASD chip I will have to take the UNIFlash list of supported 256 KByte chips to the surplus house and start peeling back the labels on all of the available surplus chips until I find one that is supported.
I think that ASD AE29F2008 should be detected as Winbond W29C020. Have you tried it?
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