It looks like it's an AMPTRON DX-9200I

http://www.uncreativelabs.de/th99/m/A-B/33142.htm

Brickpad wrote:

Looks to be the PCChips M915 also known as the Amptron DX9200. I've got the same board, but the ISA slots are white and "Fugu Tech" stickers on the chipset (yeah, right). The lack of an onboard FDD is rather annoying too.

Yeah I was searching TH99 and came to the same conclusion.
However since it doesn't have serial/parallel ports either it looks like one of the ISA slots will go to an IO card anyway. Just have to make sure I find one that won't conflict with the onboard IDE ports. Can you disable or change resources for those in BIOS?

clueless1 wrote:

That's really cool. It would be fun to benchmark the same video card chipset in VLB and PCI on that board.

It would, except that I don't have the same chipset in both PCI and VLB versions. In fact, the only VLB video card I have is a Trident-something, and the only PCI card I have is a Radeon 7000 (which is not even usable in a PC because I flashed it for Mac many years ago and used it in a beige G3 back in the day)

(edit) Not entirely correct. I do have a Geforce 8400GS PCI; for some reason though I suspect I'd have trouble finding this chipset in VLB. 😀

stamasd wrote:

Brickpad wrote:

Looks to be the PCChips M915 also known as the Amptron DX9200. I've got the same board, but the ISA slots are white and "Fugu Tech" stickers on the chipset (yeah, right). The lack of an onboard FDD is rather annoying too.

Yeah I was searching TH99 and came to the same conclusion.
However since it doesn't have serial/parallel ports either it looks like one of the ISA slots will go to an IO card anyway. Just have to make sure I find one that won't conflict with the onboard IDE ports. Can you disable or change resources for those in BIOS?

Haven't used the board in a while, so I can't tell you for certain. I'm pretty sure you can disable the onboard IDE controllers though.

Oh a M915i with real cache ? That's interesting, mine have the fake cache, but it seems that I could put some real chips in there because the traces are actually powered. But apparently, the BIOS have been modified to make you believe that you had real cache 😢
But since your board has cache, it could be the unmodified bios (maybe the one that you can found on motherboards.mbarron.net is the same, but I'm not sure ...)

Mine had cache chips, but they were non functional. Had a soldered bios with fake cache. I really would like to get a proper bios and flast it to this board. It performs EXCELENT.

Geforce 256 (SGRAM)

OK since people are interested in the BIOS, when I get the board I'll make a copy of it and post it.

Last purchases, a few pcmcia and ISA goodness:
a pcmcia/cardbus dvd drive, yes, the card has a dipswitch to change between 16bit and 32bit!

a 230MB magneto optical drive from Olympus with 10 disks, most of them brand new

a Cardbus graphic card for PowerBooks, which is recognized as a Ixmicro 128-3D PCI card under Windows 9x but doesn't do anything...

Leadtek Movie Plus 1100 MPEG1/VideoCD playback 16bit ISA card

and this 8bit ISA TV Tuner

Today I got totally for free a fine CRT monitor. It's an IBM P260, in a very good shape.

It's truly a monster. 21 inch, more than 30KG of weight. I couldn't fit it in my car's trunk.

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I hope it will be a decent DOS performer.

I must tell you I pretty much like IBM design from this period. Now I'm going to find me some IBM PC 300 series unit to accompany it.

Bought this for a few bucks. How does it sound? http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/a~sAAOSwTZ1XmjNi/s-l1600.jpg

oeuvre wrote:

Bought this for a few bucks. How does it sound? http://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/a~sAAOSwTZ1XmjNi/s-l1600.jpg

I was ready to disregard this as a typical card, and close the window when I barely caught notice of one distinguishable feature of this card, which I don't think I've ever seen on any other card: It uses a dual-mono output stage. The LM386 isn't going to win any awards, but the simple novelty of having an audio-board with dual-mono intrigues me. Interesting find--I want one, now.

Well, that is interesting.

[offtopic] someone should make an ISA sound card using vacuum tubes. 🤣 [/offtopic]

Probably a cost-saving measure. With the side effect that the audio output is probably significantly smaller that with the TEA2025.

Found some interesting cards from the car boot sale yesterday, all these were 50p each 😀

First up is this National Instruments PCI-CAN, it seems to be related to automotive ECU's in some way as far as I can figure out. Only bought it because it had that Intel 386 EX 25 MHz CPU on the board! 🤣

Next up is this Sigma Designs REAL Magic DVD decoder, sadly it didn't have the VGA to S-video cable to connect the VGA card.

Next is this ATI Radeon 7000 "GOLD VERSION", anyone know if this is anything interesting? It certainly looks a VERY basic card to have the name GOLD!

Next post will continue with yesterdays haul.

BSA Starfire wrote:

Found some interesting cards from the car boot sale yesterday, all these were 50p each :) […]
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Found some interesting cards from the car boot sale yesterday, all these were 50p each 😀

First up is this National Instruments PCI-CAN, it seems to be related to automotive ECU's in some way as far as I can figure out. Only bought it because it had that Intel 386 EX 25 MHz CPU on the board! 🤣

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Next up is this Sigma Designs REAL Magic DVD decoder, sadly it didn't have the VGA to S-video cable to connect the VGA card.

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Next is this ATI Radeon 7000 "GOLD VERSION", anyone know if this is anything interesting? It certainly looks a VERY basic card to have the name GOLD!

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Next post will continue with yesterdays haul.

I am in the same boat with the MPEG card and the VGA loop cable problem.
If you find a pinout I could try to make a cable for it 😀

Continuing from above post.

soundblaster LIVE! CT4830.

S3 TRIO64V2/DX PCI VGA card.

XFX PCI-e Geforce 6200, I think this is the oldest and lowest spec PCI-e video card I have ever come across.

Got this Creative DXR2/CT7220 PCI encoder card for free:

I thought I could use the VGA passthrough cable from this card for my Voodoo cards, but it turned out to be male-male, not male-female.

Is there anything useful I can do with this card? 😀

Arctic wrote:

BSA Starfire wrote:

I am in the same boat with the MPEG card and the VGA loop cable problem.
If you find a pinout I could try to make a cable for it 😀

Re: How to get Realmagic EM8300 Mpeg decoder to work?

brassicGamer wrote:

Arctic wrote:

BSA Starfire wrote:

I am in the same boat with the MPEG card and the VGA loop cable problem.
If you find a pinout I could try to make a cable for it 😀

Re: How to get Realmagic EM8300 Mpeg decoder to work?

Unfortunately it seems that the website linked to in that post is dead, and the Internet Archive is no help. But I have found info about the passthrough cable pinout in this:

http://greyghost.mooo.com/pccbbs/options/magic1.txt

BSA Starfire wrote:

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Continuing from above post.

soundblaster LIVE! CT4830.

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S3 TRIO64V2/DX PCI VGA card.

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XFX PCI-e Geforce 6200, I think this is the oldest and lowest spec PCI-e video card I have ever come across.

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Got even older pci-e cards 😉
Before Nvidia had native pci-e support they had to make use of a lot of Geforce FX chips so they made the PCX series as a stop gap until their pci-e Geforce 6 cards were ready. Interesting cards but sadly they got worse specs than the agp models :s