First post, by Wile E. Coyote
Hi,
I need some help identifying this board I got about a year ago. It's been my on-and-off project to find a case for it, but so far no luck. It has a somewhat strange form factor; it obviously is supposed to fit into some kind of desktop case, instead of the normal ISA slots it came with a riser card that has three slots, but when I plug in cards they don't line up with the edge of the mainboard.
At first I thought it might fit into something like a PS/2 case, but the connectors on the back are arranged differently. Maybe it's supposed to go into some kind of industrial application thingy, I don't know; that would explain the high degree of integration for a 286 mainboard: Floppy and IDE controller as well as serial, parallel, PS2 keyboard and PS2 "aux" (mouse) connnector are on board, as is a VGA chip (WD90C10-LR). The chipset is a Chips and Technologies 82C235. It came with a 12 Mhz 80286.
The only kind of identification I could find on the board is "Goldstar GSEP-2302" printed above the four RAM slots. Searching for that only brings up non PC parts.
The thing works quite well but has some strange quirks: To get the floppy drives to work I had to plug in the cable with the middle connector and the drives at either end of the cable. I've never seen something like that before... And sometimes the keyboard input randomly freezes, like someone pulled the plug. Maybe some old capacitors need to be replaced or it doesn't like the fact that without a case the whole thing isn't grounded correctly, who knows.
TL;DR: Does anyone have a clue as to where this thing might have come from and what kind of case would fit?
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