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i815E and ISA

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First post, by Space Cowboy

Posted on 2014-11-01, 12:38

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Hi people,

haven't been around for some months - I don't really have the time for my hobby:

Guess what I found a few days ago - I've never thought I would see an ISA slot on an i815, but ...:

http://www.cpuboards.com/gl815e

Unfortunately, the board had seen some heavy abuse - the AGP slot is damaged, but all the pins are in position, and it actually works - I'll put one of those black brackets (seen on the early AMD socket A boards).

I doubt I'll use it, cause my P3B-F (which I don't use either) is better suited to my needs, but anyway - I just wanted to share this ... discovery 😀

Reply 1 of 4, by Skyscraper

Posted on 2014-11-01, 12:47

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I think the damage could have been made on purpose to be able to run an AGP PRO card in the slot?

Nice find anyhow 😀

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Reply 2 of 4, by Tetrium

Posted on 2014-11-01, 14:45

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I once build a rig based on an i815 board (made for Fujitsu Siemens) and it also came with iirc one ISA slot. Never used the ISA slot though so can't give you any extra information regarding it.
The ISA slot should be bridged however as (as I presume we all know) ISA isn't natively supported by i815.

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Reply 3 of 4, by F2bnp

Posted on 2014-11-01, 14:48

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Not bad! But as you say, P3B-F all the way 😀.

Reply 4 of 4, by Space Cowboy

Posted on 2014-11-01, 16:29

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Tetrium wrote:
I once build a rig based on an i815 board (made for Fujitsu Siemens) and it also came with iirc one ISA slot. Never used the ISA slot though so can't give you any extra information regarding it.
The ISA slot should be bridged however as (as I presume we all know) ISA isn't natively supported by i815.

Yep, I suppose the big black chips is for the ISA bridge. Was curios, though, and the board came cheap.

I got an Awe 64 Gold recently, so suddenly the ISA slot became a necessity 😀

@Skyscraper: It might be the reason, cause there's not a single scratch on the board, but ... it should have been broken on the back side of the slot too 😀

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