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First post, by Major Jackyl

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Hey, I recently found this board, but it doesn't have many identifiers on it. A bit of searching spawns PCChips M748, but mine's a bit different. Says rev V1.4A on it somewhere. I thought it was a P2 450 in it, but it was just dirty; it's a P2 SL3EE, 400/512. (lol, the CPU world page had a picture of a watercooled one,XD) The bios had it clocked at 233 (but is locked, of course). It has 1x128MB and 2x32MB IBM modules in it (I initially thought the three of them were the same).

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I'm having a few issues with it right off. The FDD controller seems broken. The floppy (tried two known goods) doesn't read at all. Doesn't fail it, though... It does go green when I flip the cable, so it's doing something.
The other issue is the power button. It works to turn it on, but not off... The HDD light is always on, too, but dimly. I might not have them plugged in correctly. The Power LED works.

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I'll probably be installing W98 on a drive later today and maybe Everest will tell me exactly what board it is, unless you beat me to it (likely)

Got my DOS drive plugged in, just to boot it properly (since no-go on floppy).

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Reply 1 of 6, by PcBytes

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https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/pcchips-m741lmrt

ECS BIOS changes it to Award, PCChips BIOS' is AMI.

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Reply 2 of 6, by Major Jackyl

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PcBytes wrote on 2024-09-07, 20:54:

https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/pcchips-m741lmrt

ECS BIOS changes it to Award, PCChips BIOS' is AMI.

Awesome, thank you! That's definitely the one.

Main Loadout (daily drivers):
Intel TE430VX, Pentium Sy022 (133), Cirrus Logic 5440, SB16 CT1740
ECS K7S5A, A-XP1600+, MSI R9550
ASUS M2N-E, A64X2-4600+, PNY GTX670, SB X-Fi Elite Pro
MSI Z690, Intel 12900K, MSI RTX3090, SB AE-7

Reply 3 of 6, by Major Jackyl

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This tidbit made me crack up, 🤣

Main Loadout (daily drivers):
Intel TE430VX, Pentium Sy022 (133), Cirrus Logic 5440, SB16 CT1740
ECS K7S5A, A-XP1600+, MSI R9550
ASUS M2N-E, A64X2-4600+, PNY GTX670, SB X-Fi Elite Pro
MSI Z690, Intel 12900K, MSI RTX3090, SB AE-7

Reply 4 of 6, by Joakim

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Major Jackyl wrote on 2024-09-07, 21:12:

This tidbit made me crack up, 🤣

Haha!

It sais nothing about mounting a socket 7 processor into the slot 1 though!

Reply 5 of 6, by Major Jackyl

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100% Operator error, 🤣

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Working on the floppy now

Main Loadout (daily drivers):
Intel TE430VX, Pentium Sy022 (133), Cirrus Logic 5440, SB16 CT1740
ECS K7S5A, A-XP1600+, MSI R9550
ASUS M2N-E, A64X2-4600+, PNY GTX670, SB X-Fi Elite Pro
MSI Z690, Intel 12900K, MSI RTX3090, SB AE-7

Reply 6 of 6, by Major Jackyl

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I replaced the battery and the floppy works. I should've looked around in the BIOS again first to see what it was...

Main Loadout (daily drivers):
Intel TE430VX, Pentium Sy022 (133), Cirrus Logic 5440, SB16 CT1740
ECS K7S5A, A-XP1600+, MSI R9550
ASUS M2N-E, A64X2-4600+, PNY GTX670, SB X-Fi Elite Pro
MSI Z690, Intel 12900K, MSI RTX3090, SB AE-7