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First post, by noshutdown

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as you can see, its a late compact 8088 mainboard with integrated chipset and few components. is it possible to find the model and manual?
what i concern about most is whether it would support ide harddrives if i plug an ide controller into it? and would 16bit isa cards function?
also it supports 640kb of ram only, would there be any difference with 1mb?

Reply 1 of 2, by Grzyb

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You can try searching here - https://www.stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/m8088_1.html
Anyway, looks like a pretty generic turbo XT board, can do without the manual.
As with all XT-class boards, for IDE drives you need an 8-bit IDE controller (eg. XT-IDE), 16-bit ones won't work.
As for other 16-bit cards, it depends on the card - eg. many 16-bit VGA cards do work in 8-bit slot, but some don't.

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I'm not sure about it, but it doesn't seem that board supports more than 640 KB RAM - the empty sockets are probably for parity chips.
Anyway, on those XT boards with support for 1 MB RAM, it isn't very useful - the extra RAM is typically used as a RAM-drive.

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Reply 2 of 2, by root42

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I think I see an Acer chip on the middle right. So you can probably reduce your search to Acer boards.

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