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First post, by derSammler

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Digging through the 30 mainboards I acquired lately...

Can anyone help me identifiying this Socket 7 mainboard? There's not much info found on the PCB. It reads "35-8320-03" between the PCI slots, but that's it basically. Date code is week 13, 1997, Intel VX chipset. Cache looks fake to me (most pins have no connection). I guess it's a PC Chips board..?

Reply 1 of 8, by Skyscraper

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It's a PC Partner motherboard

New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.

Reply 4 of 8, by Skyscraper

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The number follows PC Partners numbering scheme and I think there is a PC Partner 35-8320-XX i430VX motherboard. At least I saw a manual referenced when I did a quick search, the link was dead though.

I also think I used to use that exact motherboard model or one very similar to it for "hot flashing" as the BIOS socket is placed at a convenient location. I can't check though as my board has been lost in storage the last couple of years.

New PC: i9 12900K @5GHz all cores @1.2v. MSI PRO Z690-A. 32GB DDR4 3600 CL14. 3070Ti.
Old PC: Dual Xeon X5690@4.6GHz, EVGA SR-2, 48GB DDR3R@2000MHz, Intel X25-M. GTX 980ti.
Older PC: K6-3+ 400@600MHz, PC-Chips M577, 256MB SDRAM, AWE64, Voodoo Banshee.

Reply 5 of 8, by derSammler

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dionb wrote:

Does it boot? If so, check the BIOS string, that should give you a positive ID.

No, it doesn't. Problem is, not all jumpers are described on the board. Tried booting with a known-good P133, but nothing.

Reply 6 of 8, by derSammler

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Skyscraper wrote:

The number follows PC Partners numbering scheme and I think there is a PC Partner 35-8320-XX i430VX motherboard.

Ok, found it, thanks. 😀 It's a MB520NH, downloads are still up here: http://support.pcpartner.com/support/bios/i430.htm

Reply 7 of 8, by Wolfus

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Hi, I found "02" version of this board. Sadly, PC Patrner website is dead since ferbruary and there are is downloadable stuff on wayback machine 🙁 Do you have a manual? Thanks!

Reply 8 of 8, by computerguy08

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Wolfus wrote on 2022-05-18, 11:48:

Hi, I found "02" version of this board. Sadly, PC Patrner website is dead since ferbruary and there are is downloadable stuff on wayback machine 🙁 Do you have a manual? Thanks!

All that you need is here https://www.ultimateretro.net/en/motherboards/6604