- HELP identifying a vintage motherboard
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Ive had this board around for sometime. made a few attempts to google n id it with little luck. Figured maybe soome of the members might know something. The 486DX processor legs appears to be soldered to a socket thats solderedt to the board. Only numbers that I can find on it anywhere is "US4386A2" on a corner. Has 8 sticks of 30 pin fpm ram?
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...anything on the back?
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no sir. nptta thing.
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Fire it up on the bench and look at the bios screen. Google the bios version and maybe it will tell you the motherboard id.
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This is the closest I could find for you....and it is pretty close, but there is a bit different 16/32 bit slot setup. The link does say the manufacturer was QDI
US 3486 MCA Bus Motherboard
that should get some assemblance of layout, jumper settings etc. Just use the info to do a bit more research for this particular model. Sorry it is not exact, but it is pretty **** close.
PROFIT is made when you BUY/ACQUIRE NOT when you sell
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"fire it up on the bench"... haaa I wish I were that astute... THANKS webuy'.. more than I had to work with
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Whats so diffucult? its complete. Hook a power supply and any stock pci vid card to it. And jumper the ps on. Take five mins.Originally Posted by grouchyolddude
"fire it up on the bench"... haaa I wish I were that astute
You can get a pci vid card off of ebay for 10 or less. And they actually do make adapters to convert the norm stand of 20/24 pin psu to the atx standard this is.
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So I lead you to the water, now your choice to drink lmao. But if it wont run its nothign more than wall art or coversation piece. Unless you scam people buy selling as untested and for parts knowing its bad, which I dont condone
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You would need either an ISA or VLB video card to test that board NOT PCIE!
Looks like an unidentified hybrid board. You can see pinholes for a 386 CPU and 387 FPU that were not attached. The 486 CPU is probably not soldered to the socket, but you need a special pry bar made for CPUs to remove it without making a mess (ZIF sockets were not out yet).
How much did you want for it?
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I didnt say pcie or pci express. I said PCI which it appears this board has to slots
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My bad didnt realize i linked to a pcix card, doign twenty things at once.
Elsa Gloria Synergy 8 Vivo KJGP2VIVO PCI Video Card 30405 8MB 2D 3D | eBay
That will work for example pci
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NOT PCI either!
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dude it has 32bit MCA Local Bus slot and 16bit ISA slots. FURTHER, even if not tested, it CAN be sold just fine on Ebay. You just list it untested...that IS NOT A SCAM and I would be offended if you suggested I did it that way. Not many people have the old power supplies NOR cards that would work....hell he MIGHT not even have the correct monitor to hook it up (ie the connector). I didn't look at what connector it used. I have sold things untested and frankly, I am not ashamed one bit...I just declared it as such.
Now, even testing might not even be worth the time or effort. I have not looked at the going rate for functioning 486 MB's. If I am getting $50 for it and have find all that stuff...ummm no thanks...sold as untested and move on. If $500, then ok, do the legwork. I have several old CPU's here. My buddy worked on computers for many years...they PROBABLY work as he pulled them from working machines. I don't have systems to test, nor will I go to the trouble of doing that. I MIGHT sell them as untested, not sure yet. If I do, I will put a marker on it and offer a 72 hour return policy...which I never offer returns otherwise. Bet I check and compare the pics of the chip where someone doesn't send me a different one.
Anyways, thought I would throw that out there as the post READ like it was an offhanded shot if it was sold untested. IMO of course.
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Just to clarify MCA bus is proprietary to IBM and a couple very rare clones and this board does not have MCA.
That motherboard has ISA slots and a couple VESA LOCAL BUS slots (also known as VLB) that are ISA slots with 32 bit extension slot inline.
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you guys are mostly talkin waaay over my head. Sorry :P I do occasionally sell as "untested" on fleabay. BUT Ive never sold something as such 'knowing' it doesnt work. No harm, scam or foul in that IMO. Im not setup to test most items. I will plug in n test a complete tower to boot to bios before selling any parts as tested/working. I also mark parts to avoid fraudulent returns, and state that in listings.
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for the over 50 crowd that was a bewildering conversation....but i think i see some silver memory sticks on the bottom right of the first picture...the oldest set of computers i found had those silver ram sticks...were they more common back 1995 or so?
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Yes, there were a fair amount of silver ram. I do not recall why, but I am betting the temps didn't run as high.
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8 sticks of silver ram.
Yup Gus, Im that "over 50 crowd" :P
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