Which board do I have ?

[Saf]

hi, I'm a german student and i got a big problem:
a friend brought me an old motherboard, only
the board, nothin else. now I need the jumpersettings to get it working, but I don't know the firm which produced it for there is no sign on it.
the only things I found are:
PB number: 618916-003
PBA (AA) #: 541288-206
it's got a Dallas BIOS (DS12887)
and an intel chipset (S82433NX)
it also has an socket5 and is PCI with 4 (strange) EDO slots
is there anybody who can help me or who knows
an adresse where I can identify it ??

thanks, Saf

[Rookie]

I also have a PB labeled board that I need info on. My best guess is that its a Packard Bell (which are supposed to suck real bad)
The PB # is one tell tale sign. The ram slots are slanted at a 45degree angle?
Mine are as well- the only board I've seen that one is a Packard Bell, and an old 386 compaq.
The Dallas bios stuff is probably the real time clock and not really the bios.
If you got it to boot to at least the post screen you could maybe run ctbios on it and garner some more info that way.
This presupposes you get power to it and install ram and video card and floppy (to put the ctbios floppy in after youve booted to dos from a win9x boot disk).
If your lucky there may be jumper specs silk screened on the board with some idea of bus speed and cpu mulitplier info to get a cpu to boot to the POST screen.
HTH
Rookie

[This message has been edited by Rookie (edited 12-19-1999).]

[Saf]

yo, the ram slots are slanted in a 45degree angle indeed.
but I don't think that I can get it to boot,
cause I have really no idea how to put the jumpers (for the CPU voltage as well).
but if you could so, there's supposed to be a BIOS number on the post screen.
I found a page where you can identify your board if you have that number.
the url is: www.motherboards.org (http://www.motherboards.org)

anyway, thanks, Saf

[Tuba]

If you can find an FCC ID# on the board you can try http://www.customcomputer.net/fcc.htm

That might just give you an idea....

[Axel]

SAF - the RAM slots are at a 45 degree angle - sounds more like a sound-blaster card than a mother board,
Anyway - are the RAM slots 30 pin simms or 72 pin simms?

[Axel]

you might try here to see if any of the descriptions match what you have.
http://www.asus.com/Products/Motherboard/archives.html

I'm not sure that the board is of any use to you regardless. It's too old to do much with being a socket 5 and will be difficult to install and get drivers for.

[800XL]

Sounds like it could be an actual Intel board. One thing I can tell you is that it is old. The NX chipset was short lived at best and from the dark ages of Pentium class boards.

[Wiz]

i had an old IBM 486 that had the RAM at 45 degreees.