Quiz: Identify a board for me - please?

[Pauly]

Hi to everyone here - its my first post.

You see, I didn't know where to turn. I've recently acquired a BX motherboard from a friend, I have a 500mhz celeron lying around so I thought I'd make a server/router out of these bits to share our houses' ADSL connection.

Simple? Well, yes and no.

The mobo is an ATX slot 1 board, with 4 PCI and 2 ISA and 1 AGP slots. It has a very fetching pale blue switch block to set bus speeds and multipliers. It has no manufacturer markings on it other than the model number.

This is: "KOB8BX-ATX".

Does anyone know who made this mobo? I need to know because the jumper/switch block settings need changing (the previous owner had a slot1 300mhz Celly - I'm plugging in a slocketed 500mhz PPGA version)

I'll post a photo up if that helps.

Thanks in advance,

[Nighthawk]

Try www.motherboards.org (http://www.motherboards.org) . They have lots of information. Also, trying a quick search on www.metacrawler.com (http://www.metacrawler.com) or your favorite search engine might net some info.

[Pauly]

I'd already tried meta crawler and other search engines to no avail.

I gave motherboards.org a whirl and tried their MoboID script where you supply the BIOS' serial number and it derives the motherboards manufacturer.

This returned the OEM "Procomp". A trip to their website revealed that they don't make motherboards with BX chipsets http://www.sysopt.com/forum/frown.gif

Looks like I'm gonna have to have a fiddle with the switches and see what happens.

Celerons are multiplier locked yeah? So the worst that can happen is it not boot when I get the multiplier wrong?

Ho hum...

[Sterling_Aug]

http://www.ping.be/bios/

[Pauly]

Again, thanks fo rthe link but that didn't tell me anything else that the other site hadn't already told me. http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

Like I said, I'll have a fiddle when I gt some time...

[Nixona]

Does the motherboard have an FCC ID? If so you can look it up at http://www.windrivers.com

Just a thought. The only thing you have to get right is the FSB, no matter what multiplier you set it for, it will boot with what it's locked at.

[scourge]

This website helped me identify a board recently. Just put in what you do know and if it's a PCChips board, it'll tell ya.
http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q3998142/pcchips/