As the title suggests I would like some help identifying this Socket 3 motherboard.
It’s a very versatile board, I’ve currently got an AMD 5x86 133 CPU installed with 32mb of EDO memory. Also has a 3.4GB Quantum hard drive installed too
Nice machine, anyway I would like to find a manual for the board.
Thanks.
Ian´t this one of the PC-Chips models where the traces at the onboard cache chips lead nowhere / to themselves. Even If cache chips are present, they won´t do anything.
Found it: M919
Well OP is lucky because I can see that the COAST slot is populated !
so in the end you actually have cache.
There is some information about it over here http://www.win3x.org/uh19/motherboard/show/583 but it's not complete yet.
You can find more infos here https://www.elhvb.com/mobokive/Archive/PcChip … m919/index.html.
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Thanks both
No way!
I’ve read about this board. I won it recently in an auction. Was about £70 for the fully working PC from Poland.
I did wonder about the card, I assumed it was cache but didn’t understand why it was different to my other socket 2/3 boards.
Apart from PC Chips being robbing gets, this is a pretty sweet board.
Well like I said it's a COAST module but despite having the same form factor as COAST modules on pentiums, this one is specific to this board and using a pentium COAST module in it or using this COAST module in a pentium would destroy both.
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Deksor wrote on 2021-01-17, 16:03:Well like I said it's a COAST module but despite having the same form factor as COAST modules on pentiums, this one is specific to this board and using a pentium COAST module in it or using this COAST module in a pentium would destroy both.
Yes get that, thanks very much for the info,
Found a ton of info here
majestyk wrote on 2021-01-17, 12:13:Ian´t this one of the PC-Chips models where the traces at the onboard cache chips lead nowhere / to themselves. Even If cache chips are present, they won´t do anything.
Found it: M919
Rofl. Wtf... how did that happen lmfao.
That is a PCChips M919 or Amptron DX9500 or DX9700.
R5 5600X, 32 GB RAM, RTX 3060 TI, Win11
P3 600, 256 MB RAM, nVidia Riva TNT2 M64, SB Vibra 16S, Win98
PMMX 200, 128 MB RAM, S3 Virge DX, Yamaha YMF719, Win95
486DX2 66, 32 MB RAM, Trident TGUI9440, ESS ES688F, DOS
Sphere478 wrote on 2021-01-17, 21:10:majestyk wrote on 2021-01-17, 12:13:Ian´t this one of the PC-Chips models where the traces at the onboard cache chips lead nowhere / to themselves. Even If cache chips are present, they won´t do anything.
Found it: M919
Rofl. Wtf... how did that happen lmfao.
Scam
PCChips were scammers, they often did that trick. If you have a 486 or a pentium from them, check your cache ^^
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First they take your cash.... then they take your cache. It’s terrible isn’t it.
But yeah! Like I said, apart from being horrendous thieves, it’s a really nice board.
This is a late revision of the board according to the notes, as the fake cache chips are totally missing.
It’s nice and stable, runs windows 95 no issues at all, nice and snappy in the OS
I’m going to borrow the Voodoo 2 out of my super socket 7 build and play around with that on this board.
I’m aware it’s pointless to do that 😅 but wanted to see how far I can push this board.
