My only guesses are either a low-cost Chaintech OEM board their site never listed, or some low-end maker like PC Chips or PC Partner.

It may never be known as there were so many brands making boards back then, many of which disappeared without making much of a memorable impact. I have a similar Socket A board for which I have never found the maker, but I know what Chipset it uses and it wasn't hard to find generic drivers for it.

I'm going to make a guess of ECS and SiS 630 chipset.

Is there some way, some DOS software to "scan" the chipset and know whether or not I can find them for Windows 98 ?

I don't know if any DOS software is that accurate, but Everest Home is quite good under Windows for finding out what things are;

http://filehippo.com/download_everest_home/

If you're lucky, it might even tell you the Motherboard model actually, but this isn't guaranteed.

Ah yeah, Everest... I'll give it a try tomorrow when I try to install Windows 98 along with MS-DOS 7.10

I'm going to make it dual boot somehow, it's the best DOS PC I've ever used until now and I'd like to keep using it on DOS aswell as Windows 98 (you know, for Soundfonts software for my CT3670, Windows 9x games that are quite glitchy on VMWare...)

The only problem is that I don't have Internet over there where I have that computer...

speedsys will tell you the chipset, bios date and video card plus CPU type and speed.

I've honestly never used it, is it a built-in DOS program/command ?

Looking at the southbridge and the CMedia soundchip, it is a PCChips motherboard, on these on the BIOS screen you can see the model number which is Mxxx on these kind of boards, these data may help you finding drivers for it and Speedsys is a DOS program that does not come with the system or Windows itself, you will need to download it

Shameless self promotion

SpeedSys can be found in my benchmarking toolkit; https://www.mediafire.com/?ii8qs1i7whd42es
This contains some utilities, notably here it contains SpeedSys, as well as some common applications to see how fast the system is. Also available with an MS-DOS EXE installer you probably don't need. This tool needs updating and a bug in the menu needs fixing, probably have to wait until after I move now.

I even found Doom in that "utility" pack, WTF ? 🤣

I'll try SpeedSys today, I also put Everest portable on my pendrive and I'll install Windows 98.

Rodoko wrote:

Looking at the southbridge and the CMedia soundchip, it is a PCChips motherboard, on these on the BIOS screen you can see the model number which is Mxxx on these kind of boards

It's a normal AMIBIOS BIOS, I'll look harder for this number.

The fastest way to find it is looking at the BIOS string on the bottom when it boots up, remember to press the Pause key to pause the boot process so you can read it :3

Rodoko wrote:

The fastest way to find it is looking at the BIOS string on the bottom when it boots up, remember to press the Pause key to pause the boot process so you can read it :3

I don't see anything useful there 😢

I tried Speedsys and it doesn't work, it gives some error related to the CPU being in protected mode or something similar, I forgot to take a screenshot 😢
I haven't tried Everest on Windows 98 yet because I can't format the second partition I made with fdisk, it reaches 38% and then it says something like "trying to recover allocation unit *random numbers*" or something similar and stays like that probably forever... I'll eventually try and get a new IDE hardisk all for Windows 98 and leave that one for DOS only as it is.

Without the motherboard model I can't look up its manual online and I can't find how to plug in the pins for the case stuff (PC Speaker, reset button, LEDs... I managed to get the power button by randomly placing it on the pins I found when I turned it on with the classic screwdriver trick)... I'd really want the PC Speaker to work, not because I like it (in fact I hate the PC speaker sounds overall), but because some games use only the pc speaker and there's no way (as far as I know) to redirect it to the sound card... resulting in 100% mute gameplay, such as Arkanoid and Duke Nukem 1.

To get around the Protected Mode thing start the machine and start bashing the F5 button just before the "Starting MS-DOS..." text appears. It should skip loading memory managers and therefore prevent the system entering Protected Mode.

Thinking about it though, you might be better off using NSSI; http://www.navsoft.cz/products.htm
In the Computer section it tries to detect the chipset and should detect most other devices with reasonable accuracy.

Here you have the model and a bit of info of your board :3 (Go to the link)

http://www.fatblokeracing.org/E20699%20Ps-1%2 … herboards.shtml

For the PCChips links that are on the article, since they are dead I recommend you to use the Wayback Machine (http://archive.org/web/)

That's definitely not my model, there isn't the ISA slot my model has...

Looks like a PCChips M754LMR+.
http://www.sbazar.cz/Deben/detail/15859524-za … rocesorem-intel
http://www.motherboard.cz/mb/pcchips/M754LMR+.htm

Yes, that looks really like mine, even the 2 IDE slots are the same colors...
Anyway I scanned my PC with NSSI as HighTreason suggested and these are the "results" (I took a photo at the monitor itself because I can't connect it to my capture card yet as it's still in my other house)

This is the "General Information" screen:

And this is the "Computer" screen where it says something about the chipset and other stuff:

It's funny how it says there's no ISA while it actually is there and I am using my CT3670 Sound Blaster which is an ISA sound card 🤣

And it also says "Operative System: Windows 98" while I'm using MS-DOS 7.10 and there's no trace of Win98 anywhere on that PC... WTF ? 🤣

I just installed an S3 Virge and now it freezes when it reaches "Searching for Boot Record from IDE-0..OK"

😒

Try and see if cpu-z can I'd the board.
But it looks like a old oem board, like a Chinatech or esc or something.