ASUS ISA-486SI Motherboard BIOS - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

21 Jan 2002

On Jan 21, 12:17, David C. Jenner wrote:

...
  I have an ASUS ISA-486SI motherboard, Copyright 1992.
 I have the manual for it.  The manual does NOT describe
 any sort of BIOS upgrade, such as reflashing it, like later
 boards in my collection do. 
I've not seen any 486 of that era with flash.  More likely a PROM.

...
  The BIOS is not
 Y2K compliant.  It appears to work OK when I set the
 current date/time, and when I turn it OFF/ON, it retains
 the current date >2000 without problem. 
Is that a typo?  If you can set dates after 1999 and it retains them, and
gets leap years correct, what's the problem?  My 1993 Phoenix BIOS (EPROM,
not flash) is fine, for example.

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