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First post, by Lakz

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I've been trying to find what type of motherboard I have. It doesn't seem to have many identifying marks, but I'm told it was likely intended to be a server.

I know the following about it:
-Was made by Technology Power Enterprise
-8 SIMM slots (should be expandable up to 16mb)
-8 16-bit ISA slots (one of which is longer than the others)
-Foxconn is written on the ISA slots
-I found it has "Made in Taiwan R.O.C." under the sticker between the ISA slots
-Other sticker had "TP Enterprise © 1989" under it
-AMI BIOS code: DINT-6132-040990-KF

Link to a few photos I've taken of the motherboard and an ad I believe for the board. Please let me know if other photos are needed.
https://imgur.com/a/ukwNVNt

Reply 1 of 10, by Deksor

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It looks very similar to this board : https://www.ultimateretro.net/motherboards/1917

But it's not exactly the same ...

This company is recorded in our database (also the post string confirms it's the correct company) but your board isn't listed https://www.ultimateretro.net/motherboards/?m … ufacturerId=389

I'd be interested by a bios dump in order to have a backup available for anyone 😀

Last edited by Deksor on 2022-03-13, 21:59. Edited 2 times in total.

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Reply 3 of 10, by Deksor

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You need to pull off the two "Ami" chips ...
Now if your board turns on, you can run this piece of software instead http://cd.textfiles.com/microhaus/mhblackbox3 … MORY/GETROM.ZIP

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Reply 4 of 10, by evasive

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Found some info on TPE here:
https://archive.org/stream/eu_BYTE-1991-02_OC … 02_OCR_djvu.txt

This:

TP386/33C: 8.3 MIPS

is having the same rating as the board in your advertisement.

Reply 5 of 10, by Lakz

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evasive wrote on 2020-09-22, 09:49:
Found some info on TPE here: https://archive.org/stream/eu_BYTE-1991-02_OC … 02_OCR_djvu.txt […]
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Found some info on TPE here:
https://archive.org/stream/eu_BYTE-1991-02_OC … 02_OCR_djvu.txt

This:

TP386/33C: 8.3 MIPS

is having the same rating as the board in your advertisement.

By looking up "model no. tp386/33c" from the document brought up a site on OS/2 compatibility. I believe the computer I have is the "ARES TP 386/33 SONIC" as the ad did state the mobo had compatibility with OS/2 and the case that held the mobo had ARES on it.
Site:
http://www.mit.edu/afs.new/sipb/project/os2/compatibles

Reply 8 of 10, by Lakz

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Deksor wrote on 2020-09-28, 04:51:

Here is appropriate I think

It doesn't seem I can attach files that I got from the getrom program. Would there be a way to convert a file that is a type: file to some other format that Vogons would accept?

Reply 9 of 10, by debs3759

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You could zip or rar the files. That can be uploaded here

See my graphics card database at www.gpuzoo.com
Constantly being worked on. Feel free to message me with any corrections or details of cards you would like me to research and add.

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