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First post, by th1r5bvn23

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Hi, recently I'm putting my eyes on some 486 and 586 motherboards on IdelFish. But I have problems identifying some of them and hope you can help me out. Thanks.

An ALi Aladdin V motherboard without any brand... displays ALADDIN5 in the mobo type in system.

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A SiS 496 Socket 3 motherboard.

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Another SiS 496 mobo, paid ¥150 (US $22) for one. Hope it'll work.
Edit: This one should be from T&W (Tongwei), model S486 Rev A2. However I can't find BIOS update nor manual even with archive.org on their official website (http://www.twsz.com). By the way, I want to know that how much and which type (72 line EDO SIMM?) of memory I can install on it. And how much and which type of cache chip (seems to be 4 regular SRAM plus 1 what?) should I install on it.
Edit 2: Found out that 14 pin cache chips would be fine. T&W waas established in 1998 and their first board was 440BX. The board wasn't made by them.

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AMD K6-2+ 500, FIC PA-2013 2.0 (1MB cache), 128MB SDRAM PC100, Voodoo3 3000 AGP, Labway Yamaha YMF719B-S with NEC XR385
AMD Athlon 64 3000+, ECS K8M800-M3, 512MB DDR 400, GeForce FX 5200, SoundBlaster Live! SB0060

Reply 1 of 1, by evasive

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Well, too bad I didn't see your posting earlier, here are the names and numbers on your boards:

Chaintech 5RSA2:
https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/motherboards/8174
Unknown 4IP-SIS-AIO:
https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/motherboards/6264
Unknown S486 rev:2B.3.1 (not exactly your board, but maybe close enough)
https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/motherboards/9874
I have added your 2A board here:
https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/motherboards/9875

If you still have these we'd like complete front/back pictures (hi-res but please <8MB per each) and bios dumps 😁