Well, not sure what info you need, but this is what I find:

http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/A/AS … 6-ISA-386C.html

Better than nothing ? 😎

As for how 386 mobos work in general, limitations etc etc, your guess is as good as mine (or better!), me somewhat clueless atm.

As for which mobo to get, here's a link that might help a bit:
http://www.redhill.net.au/b/b-93.html

And there are other pages there as well.
Granted, no mention of Asus, but...

This is actually the exact 386 motherboard I'm using but mine has a 33mhz CPU.
It's the best mobo money can buy in my opinion so don't hesitate.
The only drawback is that you're limited to 8mb RAM if you don't find the special 32bit RAM epansion card for it but 8 meg's will get you far on this motherboard.

If Amigaz says it's a good motherboard, then it's a good motherboard! 😁

Say Amigaz, how come you've changed appearance? You look evil! 🤣

More than 8MB of ram? What are you, some kind of power user? 😁

It has cache, so it's good. There is not much more to say about 386 mainboards...

2Mourty: basically what the others say, buy it and enjoy. Heck I still remember a friend of mine (R.I.P) he had a 3/86 with 16 megabytes of ram, and they all thought he was crazy. Because he chose to get that "much" ram in his machine. But low and behold now a days we have a fuckload of ram in our computers compared to what people had back then in harddrive space.

Thank you for the info, I will see if I can win the auction, I'll let you all know.

It may be a good board, but it uses nonstandard cache chips. If one of those goes bad, you're going to have a big problem find a replacement.

It's the best mobo money can buy in my opinion so don't hesitate.

So you know this 386er board: http://mail.lipsia.de/~enigma/neu/pics/386babyscreamer.jpg ?

It even has already IDE/Floppy/Serial onboard and 8 full length ISA slots.
I am not sure though if it supports 4 MB SIMMs.

Wow, integrated I/O and disk? Nice.

AMI Baby Screamer is a great board, but once again this one has the non standard chips. You should try to find a later revision of the Baby Screamer which has standard 28-pin SRAMS.

2Mourty wrote:

Thank you for the info, I will see if I can win the auction, I'll let you all know.

Did you win?! 😀 Someone got it for an incredible EUR 2.65. What a bargain! Wish I'd gone for it now! 🤣 No, I hope you got it. 😀

Unfortunately, no, I didn't win. This the first time I have biffed an auction like this in my life 😵 I was at work and even though I had tracked it for 5 days I spaced it. I'm kicking myself really hard right now.

2Mourty wrote:

Unfortunately, no, I didn't win. This the first time I have biffed an auction like this in my life 😵 I was at work and even though I had tracked it for 5 days I spaced it. I'm kicking myself really hard right now.

Step into the world of bid software...then you can take a nap, go on holiday or whatever and let the software do the work 😉

And then you wake up and come back and realize you spent over 9000 dollars on Dos 3.0

Moogle! wrote:

And then you wake up and come back and realize you spent over 9000 dollars on Dos 3.0

Hehehe, reminds me of two snipes I once did -

When I was new to bid software, I saw an awe64 on ebay, so I entered an insane snipe amount of $123.45 - I just picked that amount out of thin air, not really thinking. Didn't think anyone else would bid on it, let alone a lot of money. Woke up next morning, nearly had a heart attack - I won! 😳

awe64 arrived a few weeks later (international shipping was also a killer). Tore away the sealed wrapper (this was prolly the reason the bidding went nuts, the box was sealed) and found the awe64 box full of crap! Not literally of course, but full of garbage - old modem manuals, old cds, just junk really. (Some devious person must have expertly resealed the box.)

Seller wanted to see photos of this "mayhem delivery", and in the end agreed on a full refund. Phew. 😅

Other kamikazee snipe I did was - saw a 486 mobo and entered crazy amount of 88.88 euro (just liked the silly symetrical number), and woke up next morning, and found the bidding ended on 88.89 euro. I lost, but I pushed up the winner's amount by a huge amount. (I thought no one would bid more than say 20 on it.)

Bid software is good, but use with a bit of caution! 😀

Digging up this thread a bit, because of its title 😀... I could use a hint regarding the battery "issue" that usually applies to such an old board.

Apart from the possibility to attach an external battery (by the way, which pin is + on that three-pin-and-a-gap connector?), the relevant jumper can also point to an "internal" one.

Now, there is a place labelled "BATT" right under the keyboard connector, but nothing seems to have ever been soldered there (at least not on my ISA-386C) - is it OK to solder a "modern" support for coin-like batteries (distance between pins seems to match), or should I stay on the safe side and stick to the external battery connector?

Better stick to the battery connector, the empty place is for a rechargable battery type and if its missing there may have been more components left out as well.

While searching for the pin-out I've read that 386 boards usually need 6 volts from the external battery - is that true? I really don't want to fry my new toy... 😀

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