The Mother Board

I recently picked up this mother at a street sale for $1,5 , the only problem is of course no manual / drivers / cables.. if any one can remember anything about this mobo at all... please email / post

it's a 486 dx with 8 30 pin simm slots
5 isa slots
1 vesa 8 bit slot

That M326 would be a PC Chips model number:
http://th99.dyndns.org/m/U-Z/32353.htm

But the VESA slot is not there, just an ISA 8bit so I suspect it is a different model. Can you send me a picture on evasive@motherboards.org so I can check and verify?

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Hello evasive, i send you the pictures of the 326, i hope help you.

Yep it is the M326 alright, with an 8bit ISA slot. On further inspection I see DX-*800 and an "A" looking familiar. It's an Amptron board, a DLC/DX-5800B:

http://th99.dyndns.org/m/A-B/31960.htm

Essentially a PC Chips M326 with some extra labels. I think that link is pretty much everything that is still known/online, Amptron has gone t*ts-up a few years ago.

Have fun reviving it, remember you need to fit memory in quads of the same size/brand/speed, not all memory will work in there.

Thanks for the pictures, they may come in handy for identifying a brother or sister of this board.

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You are the one evasive, thanks for took time to search the board info.

Today i buy (sorry, my english sometimes is bad) a 1982 PC sinclair zx-spectrum almost new, and work! the cost: 25 dollars. How much cost a sinclair like this, working of course, in your country? you are in USA?

You are from Netherlands, sorry, i not see your location

In 1999 I travel to europe and visit VAALS a town near the frontier whit deustchland and belgium and visit MAASTRICH to, beautyfull country Netherlands. Saludos desde Uruguay!

Last time I saw one for sale in the US, it went for about $75, if I recall. Depends on the condition, and what it came with.

Your english is fine. Better than most of us that grew up speaking it.

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Thanks fuss but my problem with the english is to arm phrases, Vocabulary is almost ok but the phrases is my principal problem. Thanks for the price info!

Do not worry about your "English". It is a very difficult language to master.

As to that ancient motherboard, have fun with it. The memory modules would be 30-pin SIMMS, either a 9-chip or 3-chip version with minimal 70 ms. response. May take a 4 MB module, but 1 MB modules were most popular. Might still be some available on eBay in Computers and Networking. If you have no luck in locating those modules, I do have quite a few in the 1 MB size.
But a caution.. don't try to load any Windows version beyond 95 or NT 3.5 on that system. And good luck with a hard drive, its largest acceptable size would be about 540 MB if partitioned properly.
The rear of the motherboard, by the keyboard port, would have a battery for the BIOS. Likely the battery is dead, yet they still are available.. 3.6 volt atypical. Or there may be 4 pins nearby, to which you could connect an external 3 volt battery. If the battery (if still there) shows signs of blue or white ooze, unsolder it before the acid eats through the board traces!

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Ok karl, thanks for the info, but the batery i have allready unsolder it because some acid it was chamfer over the board, but the traces are ok. One more time thanks for the advices. Regards!