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First post, by recoil2525

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aquired this not had time to test it yet anyone know who manufactured it

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any help would be apreciated also ive been wonderin the motherboard has thi spider sticker on it an so does the video card that came with it .its not the first tine ive seen these stickers can eneyone enlighten me to what they mean

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Reply 3 of 8, by Old Thrashbarg

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The 'Spider' sticker was most likely added by a reseller. The board itself looks to be an Aristo AM-535.

Reply 4 of 8, by Markk

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I suppose it came out by several manufacturers. First I thought it looks like this : http://stason.org/TULARC/pc/motherboards/K/KA … ium-AM-535.html Notice that the model has the same name as the one Old Thrashbarg found. Also by googling some of the numbers you mention I found this also : http://pchistory.ru/35-8331-02.html .
I wonder if the name "pc partner" has anything to do with pc chips...

Reply 5 of 8, by Old Thrashbarg

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I'd suspect Kadatco was a reseller rather than a manufacturer... there were a lot of little outfits that sold generic motherboards with their own name on the box.

And yes, Aristo and PC Partner are both part of the PCChips (well, actually Hsing Tech) family. There are, literally, a couple dozen different names that all fall under the same company.

Reply 6 of 8, by recoil2525

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thanks every one now i know what it is. i can now have fun playin with it this weekend .the video card that came with its helped me a lot its only an s3 trio but ive bin after one for a while now and there silly money on ebay.

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Reply 7 of 8, by des7uk

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I know this is an old post but I have acquired the same motherboard AM-535 but I'm struggling to find the chipset drivers....to get the usb working any help would be much appreciated.

Reply 8 of 8, by Repo Man11

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Assuming that you're using Windows 98, you'll want to use an older version of the 4 in 1 drivers. Here are the 4.17 Via drivers.

The Via VPX drivers predate Windows 98, so it generally works after you install 98 with the default drivers, but usually there will be improvements with the Via drivers. With such motherboards and Win98, I usually use USB almost exclusively for USB drives, you'll need the NUSB drivers for that.

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