V1.7 in the top left corner, a typical sign of a PCChips board.

This one in particular is a M912 V1.7
http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/573

We only have AMI BIOSes documented for it, if you could provide a BIOS dump of your board, that would be appreciated.

computerguy08 wrote on 2021-03-15, 14:25:

V1.7 in the top left corner, a typical sign of a PCChips board. […]
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V1.7 in the top left corner, a typical sign of a PCChips board.

This one in particular is a M912 V1.7
http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/573

We only have AMI BIOSes documented for it, if you could provide a BIOS dump of your board, that would be appreciated.

Odd, I have a 1.4 and a 1.7 and both have an award sticker on the bios... Can't recall ever having known there were amibios versions for these mainboards.
I'll dump&upload 'm after I finish dinner.

computerguy08 wrote on 2021-03-15, 14:25:

V1.7 in the top left corner, a typical sign of a PCChips board. […]
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V1.7 in the top left corner, a typical sign of a PCChips board.

This one in particular is a M912 V1.7
http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/573

We only have AMI BIOSes documented for it, if you could provide a BIOS dump of your board, that would be appreciated.

Excellent, cheers. I would provide a BIOS dump but I've not got all the bits on hand to get it running just yet. I was worried as I've heard those boards can have fake chipsets and fake cache soldered to the board but luckily this board has real socketed cache. The main chip is silkscreened instead of having a sticker on it so it doesn't seem fake. Seems to be a fairly nice board.

computerguy08 wrote on 2021-03-15, 14:25:

V1.7 in the top left corner, a typical sign of a PCChips board. […]
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V1.7 in the top left corner, a typical sign of a PCChips board.

This one in particular is a M912 V1.7
http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/573

We only have AMI BIOSes documented for it, if you could provide a BIOS dump of your board, that would be appreciated.

Attached, the Award bios for the PCCHIPS M912 v1.4 & v1.7
Bios dates
v1.4 940713
v1.7 941005

It has an interesting cache. i mean someone took smaller cache chips and installed them on regular DIP32 sockets. Your board seems fine and has neither fake cache or "fake"/rebranded chipset.

Deksor wrote on 2021-03-15, 16:50:

It has an interesting cache. i mean someone took smaller cache chips and installed them on regular DIP32 sockets. Your board seems fine and has neither fake cache or "fake"/rebranded chipset.

if you look more closely, it's not some DIP32 imitation, the pcb with 4 sram chips covers 4 dip sockets and isn't even using all the pins of every socket.
also the left and right pcb on the photo are different.
this might require further investigation inquiry & insights 😀 (though probably pretty standard)

That's how it works with regular chips as well, look at the 9th chip, it's not using all the pins either. It's normal. They're just smaller (in terms of capacity) chips.

Deksor wrote on 2021-03-15, 17:17:

That's how it works with regular chips as well, look at the 9th chip, it's not using all the pins either. It's normal. They're just smaller (in terms of capacity) chips.

9th chip? you mean the tag ram.
Guess you missed what I was trying to say, the pcb is just not 1 chip to 1 socket. it's four chips to a partial four sockets. that's all.

Quite odd to see a row of cache chips on a single PCB.

Thanks for the Award BIOSes by the way.