The CMOS battery used to be the NiCd battery (3.6V) and the person removed it to prevent damage and I don't see any corrosion or bad traces on the board. Strangely enough, I've never heard of Symphony as a chipset company.

Found info: It's a VEGA VS486F-VL3, and here's the detailed specs of the motherboard.

Yes, I have some other 468 motherboards with "Symphony" Chips too.
How good are these motherboards ?

Just bought two motherboards, both VIA chipset:

Acorp 6VIA81P - VIA 693, slot 1
LuckyTech P5MVP3 - VIA Apollo MVP3, Super 7 (my 2nd one)

Will post up some pictures tomorrow when they arrive.

bjwil1991 wrote:

The CMOS battery used to be the NiCd battery (3.6V) and the person removed it to prevent damage and I don't see any corrosion or bad traces on the board. Strangely enough, I've never heard of Symphony as a chipset company.

Found info: It's a VEGA VS486F-VL3, and here's the detailed specs of the motherboard.

I'm pretty sure there was never a NiCd battery on this board, the solder holes look unused. I think there should be a (Dallas?) RTC (including battery) in the empty socket right next to the BIOS chip.

Also don't forget to bend back one of the power supply pins 😀

You're right. Silly me. Maybe the NiCd battery was optional at that time or they didn't want the battery acid destroying that board. It's pretty cool, though.

Does anyone know the manufacturer and model of this motherboard ?

It's a VEGA VS486F-VL3, and here's the detailed specs of the motherboard.

liqmat wrote:

SEGamer wrote:

liqmat wrote:

Not a terrible price. Shipping isn't terrible either coming from the Ukraine. Tempting.

Yep, I bought one last week to replace a PC Chips M919 board since it's really picky with detecting the M919 cache stick. I think I need to get fast page RAM for it but all I have is EDO at the moment.

Well, I couldn't resist and I bought one as well. Let's hope they are working boards. Great price if they are.

This may start sounding like a round of the anonymous ebayjunkies but I just bought one as well. Long live the "eba.. I mean "Bought this retro hardware today" thread!

I had an M919 powering my second PC (Cx5x86/100) back in the '90s, and I kept using it well into the 2000s as a dedicated DOS machine. Nostalgia!

...nope. SO not buying another one. Good luck with 'em, guys. 😜

xjas wrote:

I had an M919 powering my second PC (Cx5x86/100) back in the '90s, and I kept using it well into the 2000s as a dedicated DOS machine. Nostalgia!

...nope. SO not buying another one. Good luck with 'em, guys. 😜

It's not a M919. It's a FIC 486-VIP-IO VIA chipset based motherboard and looks to be a high quality PCI/VLB/ISA combo 486 board... if they work.

^^ oops, I misread SEGamer's comment & carried that through to the rest of the reply chain. The FIC sounds like a good board. Hope they arrive live. 😀

I just got a Apple //e Platnum

It came with the Super Serial card and 5.25 drive controller card

Honestly, the IIe is probably my favorite system to work / play with from that era.

VIA C3 667 (Samuel AFAICT) worrh buying for $5 or not?

My 200MHz Pentium MMX arrived that I posted last week. It does have a MHz Display in it. (G-568) I plugged it in and it works, but there's a few segments of the 7-segment LED's dead. I'll be ordering a new 7-segment display module and soldering it in to fix it. 😁 (just have to find the right one -- 188 # layout, 18 pin mounting, 0.5" digit height, 0.75" package height) Overall, the PC is in a little better shape that I originally anticipated. Now to throw my 486 components in it!

Leds don't really die. At least not the old red ones.

It's far more likely the jumpers are wrong.

My boards just came in today!

Acorp 6VIA81P, with Pentium 2 400MHz SL357:

(disregard the card in the AGP slot, it's a Radeon 9250 128MB I use for testing)

and the LuckyTech P5MVP3 which I'll have to look into as it doesn't POST.

luckybob wrote:

Leds don't really die. At least not the old red ones.

It's far more likely the jumpers are wrong.

Jumpers are correct. I have the schematic / jumper legend for it. LEDs are dead.

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I just got a Apple //e Platnum

It came with the Super Serial card and 5.25 drive controller card

Good catch, when I look at the cosmetic state of that Apple machine. No matter if the machine is an 8088/8086, Apple, Amstrad, Commodore or other brands. Then there are something quite unique to the 8-bit era. I really don't know what that is, or it is just the fact that I used machines in the late 8-bit era. Anyway.... Great catch. Hope it was not extremely expensive.

Bought myself a nice Acer 1120SX. The seller said it would start and show the bios screen, but he had no HD or boot floppies, so he didn't know it it was 100% working.
I'll find out soon enough though. I've wanted a nice desktop model system for a while, and I've wanted a 386, so this should be a nice starting point.
I need to find a suitable sound card for it of course, and budget is an issue.
This will almost certainly need a Dallas replacement, and possibly a better graphics card, but I'll see about that as I test it out.