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Manufacturer name: Anigma, (A subsidiary of Gateway 2000 ?)
[required!] Motherboard name: Anigma BAT4IP3e
Motherboard schema: Baby AT, Intel 420ex Chipset
Supported memory: 4x72pin FPM sims up to 32MB each, 128MB total
Supported CPUs: Socket 3; 5v and 3.3V CPU supported
[required!] Photo(s) of the motherboard: (must be over 800x600 res and not blurry; either you must be the owner of the photos or these ones have to be free)
Manual(s): (not mandatory but it helps documenting the motherboard a lot)
https://www.wimsbios.com/files/anigbat.txt
http://files.mpoli.fi/unpacked/hardware ... readme.txt
Motherboard BIOS(es):4.04.7 Soldered on board. Any recommended utility for extracting?

Notes: (if you have any useful piece of trivia about the motherboard like fake cache, bad caps, etc)
Integrated PCI Promise IDE controller with ATA2 support
BIOS editor crashes when IDE drive configured > 2.1 GB
PS/2 style mouse and keyboard
Has additional power plug for PCI power
AMD 5x86 identified as "CPU = ??? 100" but functions @ 133 with WB cache
Gateway Part Number MBDPCI003AxWW

I did some testing and the three marked pins here are connected to the 3.3v pins on the PCI slots.

The other three pins are ground.

Anything else I need to give you to get this motherboard added?

I don't think so, it's just christmas/new year eve time so there's less activity right now ^^

I was trying to use the bios recovery tool to take a snapshot the bios and accidentally down graded the firmware to 4.04.6 !!

At least it still runs OK. I'll let you know when I get a new snapshot of the 4.04.7 or newer firmware.

Added here : http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/6992

Let me know when you have a BIOS available for us.

Also, what's the cache sizes supported ? Do you have more details about "anigma" ?

This isn't an authoritative citation, but it is something--

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimcollas/
Mr. Collas founded and owned Anigma Inc., a successful engineering firm specializing in products for the PC industry. Anigma developed system boards for major PC companies including Intel, Packard Bell, Gateway 2000, AT&T, Hewlett Packard, and Tandy. It is estimated that Anigma designed one out of every twenty desktop PC boards sold in the U.S. in 1992. Gateway 2000 acquired Anigma, Inc. in 1992 in order to recruit me as a Gateway executive. In addition to managing over 20 engineering professionals, Mr. Collas personally designed the following products:
- Half a dozen PC system boards for companies like Intel, Hewlett Packard, AT&T, Packard Bell, and Gateway.
- The first Intel 386 based notebook computer system board. The company that produced this product used it to win a large government contract.
- A CPU cache memory management ASIC which I used to design a high-performance EISA architecture PC server system board.

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31 déc. 2020 18:56

Added here : http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/6992
Let me know when you have a BIOS available for us.

The 4.04.c bios linked there seems to work on the board. Didn't seem to improve the HDD autodetection or the CPU detection, but it seems to work. There's a bunch more options in the advanced section of the bios for memory tweaking, etc that I'll have to look at.