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First post, by weldum

Posted on 2018-12-12, 18:19

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hi, i have a motherboard that has no markings or anything useful

it has a VIA C3 Samuel2 processor soldered @ 800MHz (133x6)
VIA PLE133 chipset
Trident Cyberblade I7 GPU
VIA AC'97 audio
Realtek RTL8100 nic
3 PCI slots
2 PC133 ram slots
VIA VT82C686B southbridge

the pcb is black
it says V1.3

i need to identify it so i can upgrade the bios, it doesn't work with bigger than 8.4gb drives

DT: R7-5800X3D/R5-3600/R3-1200/P-G5400/FX-6100/i3-3225/P-8400/D-900/K6-2_550
LT: C-N2840/A64-TK57/N2600/N455/N270/C-ULV353/PM-1.7/P4-2.6/P133
TC: Esther-1000/Esther-400/Vortex86-366
Others: Drean C64c/Czerweny Spectrum 48k/Talent MSX DPC200/M512K/MP475

Reply 1 of 6, by bjwil1991

Posted on 2018-12-12, 19:38

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Do you have a picture of the board itself?

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Reply 2 of 6, by tayyare

Posted on 2018-12-12, 20:52

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weldum wrote:
...it has a VIA C3 Samuel2 processor soldered @ 800MHz (133x6)...

An industrial board?

GA-6VTXE PIII 1.4+512MB
Geforce4 Ti 4200 64MB
Diamond Monster 3D 12MB SLI
SB AWE64 PNP+32MB
120GB IDE Samsung/80GB IDE Seagate/146GB SCSI Compaq/73GB SCSI IBM
Adaptec AHA29160
3com 3C905B-TX
Gotek+CF Reader
MSDOS 6.22+Win 3.11/95 OSR2.1/98SE/ME/2000

Reply 3 of 6, by SW-SSG

Posted on 2018-12-12, 21:14

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ECS P6VEM2 matches those specs, but has a light-brown PCB. Photos?

Reply 4 of 6, by weldum

Posted on 2018-12-13, 00:39

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sorry, here are the pictures, i don't believe that is an industrial board, it seems that here in Argentina these were sold as if they were really good machines.

Reply 5 of 6, by SW-SSG

Posted on 2018-12-13, 03:44

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"S8601MP" on the label atop the LPT port points to Syntax S8601MP. Looks very much like a relabeled version of the ECS board I linked, without the ISA slot.

Reply 6 of 6, by weldum

Posted on 2018-12-13, 18:04

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thanks a lot SW-SSG, i've upgraded the bios and i've noticed that it post a little bit faster, however it still doesn't boot in linux (not enough memory to load specified kernel), it added USB-HDD boot support but it doesn't work, lan boot doesn't work either (before wasn't working either, it had the novell rpl boot program), but it works a little bit better in windows so it's a win i guess

thanks SW-SSG, tayyare and bjwil1991 for answering

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