gifted by a frend, theres not any sign…
thanks for your help
Laid out like an ECS K7VMM or K7SEM so smells like ECS, they usually put a label on the side of the bottom slot. Dual RAM type like K7S5A..
Oh look at that it is a K7S5A, https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/ecs-k7s5a-v1.1
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
Also matches Elpina M830LR
http://ixbtlabs.com/articles/roundupsis735oct2k1/index.html
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BitWrangler wrote on 2023-10-13, 12:11:Laid out like an ECS K7VMM or K7SEM so smells like ECS, they usually put a label on the side of the bottom slot. Dual RAM type like K7S5A..
Oh look at that it is a K7S5A, https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/ecs-k7s5a-v1.1
yes seems my board…
BitWrangler wrote on 2023-10-13, 12:11:Laid out like an ECS K7VMM or K7SEM so smells like ECS, they usually put a label on the side of the bottom slot. Dual RAM type like K7S5A..
Oh look at that it is a K7S5A, https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/ecs-k7s5a-v1.1
Yes and no - technically it's the K7S5A, but the ECS version of the board is dark brown/almost black. This beige PCB is the PC Chips M830. Not that that makes any difference other than aesthetics.
So not a great mainboard… everage
dionb wrote on 2023-10-13, 17:07:BitWrangler wrote on 2023-10-13, 12:11:Laid out like an ECS K7VMM or K7SEM so smells like ECS, they usually put a label on the side of the bottom slot. Dual RAM type like K7S5A..
Oh look at that it is a K7S5A, https://theretroweb.com/motherboards/s/ecs-k7s5a-v1.1
Yes and no - technically it's the K7S5A, but the ECS version of the board is dark brown/almost black. This beige PCB is the PC Chips M830. Not that that makes any difference other than aesthetics.
Yah, I didn't pick it as K7S5A for sure until I pulled that photo from retroweb where I assumed that if the title was for K7S5A the main photo was actually that, because I thought the one I had was a different color but thought it was my memory playing tricks.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
Believe it or not: pc chips has indeed build some really great boards. And they became masters of disguising their own brand die to their reputation. The chipset cooler and no real identity marks also breathe PC Chips to me.
Stuck at 10MHz...
Anyhoo, that design of board... tips... caps bloat in long term use, check for leaking at base. Be gentle with the USB in terms of loads and frequent higher power device swapping, knew a couple of ppl that had the USB fry. Look for a HoneyX BIOS if you want good overclocking options. It is a fairly fast board, but KT266A is better if you get a good one. Should do Thoroughbreds and Bartons and Mobiles with right BIOS.
Unicorn herding operations are proceeding, but all the totes of hens teeth and barrels of rocking horse poop give them plenty of hiding spots.
One more thing: the first BIOS releases for these boards were catastrophically bad, think memory errors and floppy drive corruption - which led to a lot of bricking when people tried to upgrade the BIOS to fix them. If the board POSTs, check the BIOS version. I would expect any surviving K7S5A/M830 boards to have been upgraded long ago (or thrown out if the user wasn't aware issues were BIOS related), but you never know...
If it's 010816, it needs an update urgently. Whatever you do, DON'T try to update from floppy. Put the BIOS image on a hard drive/CF card/whatever and flash from there.
