First post, by evoportals
Hello Vogon,
I come to you in a time of need. Many moons ago in 1996 when I was a teen my dad upgraded our 386 desktop to a 486 DX4 120mhz. It lasted for years and was a really good PC until we finally moved on to a PIII 450mhz in 1999. The only remnants that remain of this childhood PC is the case, the 486 cpu, 3com ISA network card, and the box from a Sound Blaster Pro. Regrettably, most of the parts were thrown away when we upgraded.
I've SCOURED the internet looking for the model of the motherboard. Going by memory here is the description of it.
- Ran a 486 DX4 120mz
- It MUST have had 8 SIPP and 2 SIMM memory slots because in my high school electronics class there was this idiot that was stealing memory from his part time job at a computer shop and sold me 8x 1mb SIPP and 2x 4mb DIMM memory modules for less than half the price which we used totaling 16mb.
- NO PCI slots, all ISA and VLB
- At least a few VLB slots
The layout looked something like this but a gold color and I have vivid memory of there being a single voltage regulator with heatsink near the CPU socket.
https://www.elhvb.com/webhq/models/486vlb3/m912v17p.jpg
Please, if anyone knows of a motherboard with 8x SIPP and 2x SIMM memory slots that ran DX4 486 CPUs and was all ISA with a few VLB slots, please share. Along with a single voltage regulator with heatsink near the CPU socket.
