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First post, by Mod_Man_Extreme

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Hey everyone, I'm having some real trouble trying to figure out just what the jumpers are on this Austin branded computer. There are no labels on the board at all, aside from the jumper numbers, and no diagrams or descriptions anywhere inside the unit that I can see.

The two barcodes with numbers on the mobo brought back zilch when searched, and there doesn't seem to be any 'Austin' branded systems on Stason that correspond to the 'pizza box' form factor in this board. Looking up the FCC ID on the back brought up some more results. Namely that the model number for the computer is the 'ACS486LPG' and that the OEM was IPC Technologies INC. Link here: https://fccid.io/HA7ACS486LPG

The board has an OPTI chipset and overall is a really nice socket 3 system. With tons of full size ISA slots (5) considering it's low profile design, a standard PSU, 4 RAM slots and hopefully 64mb ram support and the ability to run an AM5X86 CPU l, as my standard Turbo Chip booted fine, albeit at the wrong speed.

If anyone can help ID this board I'd really appreciate it!

Pictures are here:
https://imgur.com/a/wdr9j

Reply 1 of 4, by Mod_Man_Extreme

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I finally got a chance to tear apart and clean the system then take some high quality photos. The CPU is a DX-2 66mhz, the system is running a Phoenix Miser/DT chip, and it is an Opti 82C802 G chipset.

Pictures are here:
https://imgur.com/a/4FfmR

Edit: accidentally hit post before finishing up.

Reply 2 of 4, by Anonymous Coward

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I remember Austin made some pretty nice 486 PCs in the early 90s. Nice find.

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Reply 4 of 4, by PCBONEZ

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The BIOS String might give some clues.

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