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Confirmation of identification of a 386 motherboard

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First post, by Gavrilo

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Hello guys, I hope I somehow managed to find the right forum to post my question.

I had one malfunctioning 386 board last year so I threw it to electrical waste. But before that I saved as a picture one part of that motherboard, where jumpers and bioses are located, under this name: FM-SH386-25, which I probably have read somewhere on that board.

Now I came accross this site: https://arvutimuuseum.ee/th99/#1, which was mentioned in one post here on vogons by member jesolo - thanks man. According part 1, 386, pics I was able to find one board which would match the one I had. It is this one: https://arvutimuuseum.ee/th99/m/I-L/30345.htm.

Now the question is: did I find the match? Or it is not the board I had? Mine had one more chip above bioses plus it had jumper P9 in comparison with G386SYM.

If you have som clues or info about it, it would be much appreciated.

Reply 1 of 2, by weedeewee

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It could be. most of the time the RTC chip isn't displayed on any of those line layouts.
Here's the TRW page for it https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/joinda … systems-g386sym

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Reply 2 of 2, by Gavrilo

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Hello, thanks for the answer and the link. So the Motorola chip is realtime clock...didn't know that. Well, now I am really dealing with G386SYM not FM-SH386-25 which I wasn't able to find anyway. Will keep looking on the net for this mobo.

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