I've seen your card. I always liked Gainward cards 😁

And now...

286-20 is in the mail... eta 2 weeks 😁

I hope it works like it was advertised... don't ask me about the price 😊

Does someone recognize this board? I've already searched stason, but nothing 🙁

kixs wrote:

286-20 is in the mail... eta 2 weeks 😁

Does someone recognize this board? I've already searched stason, but nothing 🙁

Wow! That's the first time I've seen a PC Chips motherboard with the brand clearly displayed. Was it a reputable manufacturer at this time? Or was the market small enough that word of mouth about bad products took a long time to spread, so they weren't worried about showing the brand name prominently on the board?

That's probably a late 286 motherboard given the use of 30-pin SIMM slots and low component count.

I bought this off ebay. An exact motherboard replacement for my 386/486 system.

I LOVE this motherboard. Literally LOVE it. You can select CPU MHz by switches...no jumpers. Just flip a few switches and you can put your 386 from 12Mhz to 16Mhz, 20Mhz, 25MHz, 33MHz, and 40MHz. One of the easiest motherboards I've ever used to change MHz.

Not only MHz-selectable switches, but you can pop in a 486 (like the one I just bought) and use it as a 486 motherboard with one VLB. Yeah yeah, two VLB would have been nice, but one is fine for such an era-switch machine.

I'll be testing this tonight to make sure it works, then throw this in an anti-static bag with a few desiccant packs and hope it works 10 years from now when my other motherboard explodes from playing retro games. 😎

kixs wrote:

I've seen your card. I always liked Gainward cards :D […]
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I've seen your card. I always liked Gainward cards 😁

And now...

286-20 is in the mail... eta 2 weeks 😁

I hope it works like it was advertised... don't ask me about the price 😊

Does someone recognize this board? I've already searched stason, but nothing 🙁

The price was 06.179 I can read it clearly, the question is, in what currency? 😁 Perhaps a packing date of some sort?

Seems like a nice board you do not see a 20 MHz 286 capable board that often or the CPU for that matter 😀

This is another picture of this board. Only slightly different. The chipset can be seen - VLSI. This is all I can find 😕

Unknown 286 motherboard

Anyone interested in these cards? They are sold on a danish online trading place.... (seller's might only sell and ship to nordic countries)
Each cards are at a price of 100 Danish Kroner's a piece and different seller's (That is aprox' 15 US Dollars)
I have more than enough as of now, that's why I am tipping people off here. Hope it's ok, as the Ebay thread is for Ebay only.

AWE64-Gold
http://www.dba.dk/lydkort-creative-ct-4390/id-1015844690/

AWE32 (not shure what model, its got mem-sticks in the slot's)
http://www.dba.dk/lydkort-creative-awe-32/id-1015762085/

brostenen wrote:

Anyone interested in these cards? They are sold on a danish online trading place.... (seller's might only sell and ship to nordic countries)
Each cards are at a price of 100 Danish Kroner's a piece and different seller's (That is aprox' 15 US Dollars)
I have more than enough as of now, that's why I am tipping people off here. Hope it's ok, as the Ebay thread is for Ebay only.

You can post in the Ebay thread, many have posted from other places than Ebay in it previously.

vetz wrote:

You can post in the Ebay thread, many have posted from other places than Ebay in it previously.

Thanks. 😀

tayyare wrote:

I have the almost exact same card, exact latout to last detail except: LS-212 instead of OPL, and Analog Devices AD1846JP instad of big Crystal chip. On the label at the back says "MediaMgic 9501". I tried and look around but never able to find any useful info or drivers. I wonder if yours is also "9501"?

AFAIK the Crystal and AD1846JP are just the codecs, and the datasheet for the crystal chip even claims compatiblity with an AD one (I did not check to see if it is the AD1846JP), so I guess the Turtle Beach drivers (or, really, the normal unbranded OPTi 82C929A ones) should work just as well.

got some older video cards in the post yesterday, bought from ebay in a bundle for a song. Also included was an ASUS FX5200 not in the pics as i put it into "project dustbin" for testing.

Larger shelves and storage containers 😀

Time to re-organize and bag and tag everything.

Containers at sale for $8 at woolies, shelves from Officeworks. $25 or so delivery fee into rural WA for 30 Kg is great. I like shopping from Officeworks.

kixs wrote:

I've seen your card. I always liked Gainward cards :D […]
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I've seen your card. I always liked Gainward cards 😁

And now...

286-20 is in the mail... eta 2 weeks 😁

I hope it works like it was advertised... don't ask me about the price 😊

Does someone recognize this board? I've already searched stason, but nothing 🙁

This is a pretty interesting 286 board. I've never seen one that is half baby AT size before. Also, it appears the keyboard controller is built into the chipset. The chipset is the VLSI "SCAMP" which seems to be a pretty good one.

http://www.datasheetarchive.com/dl/Scans-006/ … ns-00138803.pdf

Manual even says the chipset has built in PS/2 mouse support (not implemented on your board obviously)

Great find. Hopefully I'll find the manual or more info about the board itself.

Can't wait to try it out and compare it to Octek 286-16 Fox II Rev 3.2 with Headland HT12 chipset. OK, it's 4MHz (25%) difference in CPU clock - but I'm interested in overall performance. Then I can close my 286 search chapter 😉

I bought an IBM PCJr for $10. I had one of the PCJr joysticks already but I haven't been able to test it yet because I need to get its wacky power brick.

Indrid Cold wrote:

Bought this 'little' boy, this morning: ViewSonic P220f 22" CRT

I used to have a 19" Viewsonic that was a beast. A 22" must be huge!

Hmmm, some mobos for today!

All of them at ATX, intel i430TX socket 7 boards.
All of them have 2x UDMA33, 2x USB, 2x COM, 4x PCI and 4x ISA and 2-3 SDR slots and they work! 😁

They are in order of appearance: QDI Titanium IIB (BIOS adjustable settings), ABIT AB-AX5 (BIOS adjustable settings), Soyo SY-5XA (DIP switch), DFI 586ITXD (DIP switch)
Does anyone know if any of them support K6-III cpus with a bios mod?

GeorgeMan wrote:

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Hmmm, some mobos for today!

All of them at ATX, intel i430TX socket 7 boards.
All of them have 2x UDMA33, 2x USB, 2x COM, 4x PCI and 4x ISA and 2-3 SDR slots and they work! 😁

They are in order of appearance: QDI Titanium IIB (BIOS adjustable settings), ABIT AB-AX5 (BIOS adjustable settings), Soyo SY-5XA (DIP switch), DFI 586ITXD (DIP switch)
Does anyone know if any of them support K6-III cpus with a bios mod?

I have a similar board out of a gateway system - unfortunately it doesn't work. No matter - I like my S7 systems in AT form factor anyway (more compact).

I am however looking for a couple of ATX Super Socket 7 boards - with AGP, FSB 100 and ATA66 support - preferably one with a VIA MVP3/MVP4 and one with an ALi Aladdin V chipset. Particularity an MVP4 with AGP solution - those are quite rare and some integrate an ATA100 VIA 686B or newer southbridge. I have one out of a Daewoo system (K6-2+ 450/128kb L2 cache and Lucky Tech P5MVP4-ATX 99X + Riva Vanta), but it died (quite spectacularly) a few years ago due to a bad PSU. Killed both the K6 and the mainboard

I think that socket 7 is not up to AGP/ATA100.
There is socket 370 for them to shine.

I had the same opinion, but without one exhaust fan, every single socket7 AT system was getting more hot the more I was using ut.
I also don't like the fact that on AT you are stuck with headers headers headers for everything (PS2, USB, COM etc) and on most boards the IDE/floppy cable ports are in a position you actually cannot do any cable management.

FSB 100 is nice, so are K6-IIIs, but for me, socket 7 is limited to 1985-1995 games, purely DOS. Windows 3.11 just for fun, and Windows 95 just for easy file transfers over ftp.
For 9x games, 3D, etc etc a Tualatin/2x VoodooII/Geforce2-3 is what really shines.
Pentium 1 cannot keep up but the very first 3D games, so there is no point in struggling to play newer ones at 10fps anyway.
I also tend to trust intel chipsets. No other VIA for me, thanks. 😜

GeorgeMan: Read this. Apparently this guy was working on BIOS mods to support the K6-2+/3+ processors on two of these boards... you can try emailing him to see if he's got any beta versions he was working on.

alexanrs wrote:

GeorgeMan: Read this. Apparently this guy was working on BIOS mods to support the K6-2+/3+ processors on two of these boards... you can try emailing him to see if he's got any beta versions he was working on.

Thanks for the suggestion, I just mailed him!