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486 boards IDs?

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First post, by Marmes

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Can anyone help me identify these boards?
I need to get their bios, they are corrupted. I used others from another board, and they boot, but not correctly.
Here are the photos.
Thanks!

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Reply 1 of 3, by Skyscraper

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The first looks like a PC Chips M915, the other also looks like PC chips, it can probably use the M915 BIOS aswell as the layout is similar just with one less VESA slot.

The cache chips are probably fake on both boards but the performance should be ok anyhow.

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Reply 2 of 3, by Sutekh94

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Both of those reek of PC Chips as has already been mentioned, the top being an M915i and the second being an Amptron DX-9500 (Amptron being another name for PC Chips). Looks like you've also run into fake cache on the M915i at least, possibly on the DX-9500 as well. Performance shouldn't be that bad, fake cache aside.

Also, you can tell the first one's an M915i by the way it says "secondray" HDD.

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Reply 3 of 3, by Marmes

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Thank you both! Now I have 2 fully working motherboards with fake cache 😁