VOGONS


First post, by Kepler386

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Hello everyone!

I am a new member of this wonderful community. I have this motherboard, but I’ve found very little information about it.
I’m interested in drivers, documentation, a user manual, and any information about it (configurations, supported processors, etc.). Also, I see that it has additional slots for chips unknown to me, and I would like to understand what they are.
I know the board works with the 386/387DX, but there are additional sockets (AMP and CPU). I would be very grateful if anyone has more information.

Motherboard:
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/nec-po … -series-386-33e

Thank you!

Reply 1 of 3, by PC Hoarder Patrol

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Kepler386 wrote on 2025-02-20, 20:42:
Hello everyone! […]
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Hello everyone!

I am a new member of this wonderful community. I have this motherboard, but I’ve found very little information about it.
I’m interested in drivers, documentation, a user manual, and any information about it (configurations, supported processors, etc.). Also, I see that it has additional slots for chips unknown to me, and I would like to understand what they are.
I know the board works with the 386/387DX, but there are additional sockets (AMP and CPU). I would be very grateful if anyone has more information.

Motherboard:
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/nec-po … -series-386-33e

Thank you!

Welcome to Vogons 😀

The NEC archive doesn't seem to list a manual for this model, and the closest doc I can find is...

The attachment 2012006.PDF is no longer available

Far as available files go, have a read thru this thread - How-to / info: NEC Powermate 386 BIOS setup utility

Reply 2 of 3, by Kepler386

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PC Hoarder Patrol wrote on 2025-02-21, 08:36:
Welcome to Vogons :) […]
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Kepler386 wrote on 2025-02-20, 20:42:
Hello everyone! […]
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Hello everyone!

I am a new member of this wonderful community. I have this motherboard, but I’ve found very little information about it.
I’m interested in drivers, documentation, a user manual, and any information about it (configurations, supported processors, etc.). Also, I see that it has additional slots for chips unknown to me, and I would like to understand what they are.
I know the board works with the 386/387DX, but there are additional sockets (AMP and CPU). I would be very grateful if anyone has more information.

Motherboard:
https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/nec-po … -series-386-33e

Thank you!

Welcome to Vogons 😀

The NEC archive doesn't seem to list a manual for this model, and the closest doc I can find is...

The attachment 2012006.PDF is no longer available

Far as available files go, have a read thru this thread - How-to / info: NEC Powermate 386 BIOS setup utility

Thank you for the information 😀 It will help. But I still trying to figure out what is an extra chips on this board... 4 sockets there (2 - 386/387, 2 - undefined)... Will continue my research.

Reply 3 of 3, by Kepler386

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I got this board without chips in sockets, that's why it's so interesting to determine what exactly it was and try to make it alive in the full configuration 😀 Maybe these 2 sockets for WTL 3167 and 80375... Need to check with the pins.