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First post, by xjas

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What the heck is this??

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Am I misinterpreting this or is that a CPU slot and a socket on the same board?

Was that a common thing?

It's in an ad with no real information so I can't identify what it is. Here's an outside pic:
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Reply 1 of 11, by elod

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It's pretty common and I think chances are very high for it to be a VIA chipset. It possbily need some caps changed (or all) but it could only be the light falling strangely on them.

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Reply 2 of 11, by xjas

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Well, I googled "P381CE" and apparently that's exactly what it is. Scant information out there but here's a better pic from Ebay:

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Interesting board. Seems to be an Intel chipset but I can't tell which one. No ISA but it has a Creative sound chip onboard (bottom right.) Wonder if it supports SMP? 😁

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Reply 3 of 11, by xjas

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elod wrote:

It's pretty common and I think chances are very high for it to be a VIA chipset. It possbily need some caps changed (or all) but it could only be the light falling strangely on them.

L0L. Here's another one from Ebay with a bunch of obviously bulging caps. Noted.

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Reply 4 of 11, by Deksor

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PCChips liked to make these. The golden PCB is often the signature of PCChips on late socket 7 and beyond

But as far as I know, once they didn't fake anything, their board were decent

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Reply 5 of 11, by Tetrium

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Likely i810 chipset. I got a board like that somewhere in my attic.
Though iirc mine didn't have a northbridge chipset cooler.

Iirc these boards would support only using 1 CPU at the time, so no using a slot and a socketed CPU at the same time (but feel free to give it a try, I never actually used that board myself).

If anyone would like some pics of that board, feel free to ask and I can see if I can find it again. I don't think I tossed it as I found that board quite interesting (obviously).

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Reply 6 of 11, by graffias79

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I have a Tyan S1854 board with both a slot1 and socket 370. The chipset in mine is the Via Apollo Pro 133A. My user manual warned against using both the slot and socket simultaneously.

This was back in the era where Intel were manufacturing both slots and sockets. I started out with a PIII 733 slot 1 CPU in mine but later upgraded to a PIII 1GHz coppermine s370 "flip chip".

Reply 7 of 11, by SW-SSG

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Yeah, most likely it's i810-based. Seems like it has some DRAM onboard for the integrated graphics (two rectangular chips between the northbridge heatsink and southbridge chip).

Reply 8 of 11, by melbar

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About this Pentium III hybrid board:
you can use a slot 1 cpu or socket 370 cpu, or maybe finally a slotket with S370 cpu using the slot 1 🤣

There were also some Hybrid boards (socket 754 and 939, upgrade possible to 939/AM2) produced by Asrock (using the CPU board like the older slotket's).
The yellow slot is the one for the upgrade...

Mainboards:
K8Upgrade-1689 - http://www.asrock.com/mb/ULi/K8Upgrade-1689/
K8Upgrade-VM800 - http://www.asrock.com/mb/VIA/K8Upgrade-VM800/
K8Upgrade-NF3 - http://www.asrock.com/mb/nvidia/k8upgrade-nf3/
K8Upgrade-760GX - http://www.asrock.com/MB/SiS/K8Upgrade-760GX/index.asp
K8Upgrade-PCIE - http://www.asrock.com.tw/MB/SiS/K8Upgrade-PCIE/index.asp
939Dual-SATA2 - http://www.asrock.com/mb/ULi/939Dual-SATA2/
K8SLI-eSATA2 - http://www.asrock.com/mb/ULi/K8SLI-eSATA2/
939SLI-eSATA2 - http://www.asrock.com/MB/ULi/939SLI-eSATA2/index.asp
939SLI32-eSATA2 - http://www.asrock.com/mb/ULi/939SLI32-eSATA2/

CPU-Boards:
939CPU Board - http://www.asrock.com/mb/spec/upgrade.us.asp? … =939CPU%20Board
AM2CPU Board - http://www.asrock.com/mb/spec/upgrade.asp?Mod … =939cpu%20board

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Reply 9 of 11, by cj_reha

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I have one of these in AT form factor. (PC Chips M766LMRT.) It's housed in an Enlight Exacta case, with a slot 1 P2-400, 96 MB of SDRAM, a 20 GB WD Caviar, and onboard video and sound. Intel 810 chipset. All of the I/O, video and sound is connected by ribbons and there's only 3 PCI slots on it, so limited in terms of expandability, but a nice conversation piece. 🤣

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Reply 10 of 11, by Cyberdyne

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Usually they required a slot terminator, if you used a socket cpu.

I am aroused about any X86 motherboard that has full functional ISA slot. I think i have problem. Not really into that original (Turbo) XT,286,386 and CGA/EGA stuff. So just a DOS nut.
PS. If I upload RAR, it is a 16-bit DOS RAR Version 2.50.