Whilst bulk purchasing hardware to sell on ebay ive come across this IBM motherboard, it took me a while just to find a model number for it, but i cant find a Manual or Drivers online for it any help would be appreciated?
Manual - https://ftpmirror.infania.net/sites/pccbbs/ne … pdf/24p2969.pdf
Drivers (if you want the official ones for some reason, then again you wish modern manufacturers had websites this convenient to use) - https://download.lenovo.com/eol/index.html select Desktop then Netvista
If the EEPROM is still working you should be able to find out the MT/M in the setup utility, while for drivers it's always best to look up the actual VID:PID of the individual devices 😀
RavenDan44 wrote on 2024-11-16, 10:12:Whilst bulk purchasing hardware to sell on ebay ive come across this IBM motherboard, it took me a while just to find a model nu […]
Whilst bulk purchasing hardware to sell on ebay ive come across this IBM motherboard, it took me a while just to find a model number for it, but i cant find a Manual or Drivers online for it any help would be appreciated?
i've got one of these boards, at the bottom where it has FRU there should be a sticker with the model it should read
LBL PN 32P2995
FRU PN 02R4087
googling the top number suggests that this is a NetVista 8313 which can be found here on theretroweb
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/ibm-49p1605
first thing you want to do is check your AGP slot works, mine doesn't, ive tried a few AGP cards GF4 MX440, GF FX5200 and a Radeon 9250 and i get nothing, theres options in the bios to change between internal graphics or PCI no AGP, mine has a blanking plug in the AGP slot and from what i've found the reason is because the slot isn't functional, but may be on some boards, ive read its down to the chipset which is an Intel 845GL which is apparently why the AGP doesn't work, i dont know if a bios update can fix this, if its a limitation on the chipset it may not, as for drivers the standard intel chipset drivers should work, the audio device is an Analog Devices AD1981B, not sure about drivers for this but my IBM Think pad R40 has the same audio chip and it uses the SoundMax drivers which includes a 3Com EuSynth (softsynth for dos games in windows dosbox) so the driver may be compatible with this board, for cpu it wouldnt boot with a 2.8ghz pentium 4 it just beeped continuously, so i had to put back the 2ghz celeron it came with.
if theres anyone else here who has one of these boards and knows if its possible to get the AGP working i'd be interested to know.
Heres the only info i could find relating to it
https://www.fixya.com/support/t625413-netvist … p_slot_disabled
Just found this seems its been discussed here before
Re: Why 478 and not 775?
Re: Why 478 and not 775?
seems it is a limitation of the chipset, so PCI only, what a disappointment! 🙁
