Hi all
Needing a Pentium 166MMX, I managed to find this motherboard complete with the CPU for basically the same price that CPUs only were selling for on ebay. Sold as non working, the keyboard port had been desoldered, but fitting one from a dead board and it was soon working fine.
However, I cannot pin down what board it actually is!
I'm convinced its a PC Chips board, as it has the same look and feel as the other 2 PC Chips S7 boards I have, as well as sharing the VIA 82885N clock chip with a battery soldered on top like my M549. However having searched through Ultimate Hardware, I haven't yet found a match. Also googling the POST string gives no real clue. It is "10/18/96-i430VX-10031996C-00".
The other confusion is the BIOS chip. It had an Award sticker on it, but peeling this off reveals a chip that I can find zero information on, a H.T. M10360A. I'm sure my M549 board also had a weird chip that I couldn't identify, but I cannot find that right now, I had to replace it as it died shortly after getting it.
I'd like to read this one out in my TL866 so that I can try the BIOS in my M549 board. When the BIOS chip in that died I had to replace it with the BIOS from an M520 and I have never been able to get floppy drives working on it.
Any help identifying the motherboard or the type of BIOS chip it uses would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers
Andrew