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Anywhere to get a quality MOBO with 2 ISA slots?

mcveigh

mcveigh

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I'm looking for some quality motherboards with at least 2 isa slots. Anyone know of any? It seems like noone make boards with ISA slots anymore.
 
ISA is all but phased out now, you'll never find a new motherboard with it. You'll have to go find something very old (sub PII motherboards) that has ISA slots.
 
Yes I have a couple of direct addressing printers which require mobos with ISA slots. When they burn out, they are a bitch to find anymore.
 
hell yeah... I needed a board with ISA not so long ago. The system was for a Stage setup with a DMX Bus controller (lighteffects control via PC) in ISA, pain in the ass. Found an old Gigabyte GA6BXE and outfitted it with a Celeron in a Slocket...

Gotta love the grabtable at the local computer store 🙂

Check out the For Sale forum or E-Bay for P2/3 Boards or K6-x setups. The older ones have ISA slots and at least have AGP and PC100 or even 133 memory. Good luck.
 
Intel for 1999 spec's called for the elimination of the ISA slot. The last intel chipset to support ISA slots was the BX. VIA's last chipset to support the ISA slot was the KT133A chipset. You need to find a motherboard with one of these two chipsets and then see if the motherboard manufacture put ISA slots on their boards. I had an Abit BX6-R2 motherboard that had two ISA slots and I am using a Soyo SY-6BA+100 that has two ISA slots. Both of these are Intel slot processor boards with BX chipsets.

There are no new design motherboards out there that have ISA slots and no new boards being built with ISA slots. You can still find some of these older boards out there but they are not cheap, which is why the dealers that have ISA slot motherboards still have them. I just picked up a Epox motherboard that has the KT133A chipset and one ISA slot. Another source of ISA motherboards is industrial computers but then you are talking close to custom designed motherboards. At that point it would be cheaper to just buy a new PCI board and new PCI perpherals to go with it.
 
Here is a place that has two Soyo BX chipset motherboards that have two ISA slots.
SY-6BA+IV and SY-6BA+III The 6BA+III is a straight BX board while the 6BA+IV has a Highpoint Raid controller chip besides the BX chipset. The Highpoint raid chips can be a bit flakey. I would just get the 6BA+III.

You never said what processor you are using. These boards will take a slot Intel processor or a slot to chip adapter card so you can use a Intel chip processor. These boards have a good selection of FSB speeds for overclocking and some voltage adjustments too.
 
Yeah...sorry...I knew it had only one ISA slot and he was looking for
2 ISA slots. But I just wanted to show that current Intel chipsets
can/may allow for ISA slots, it's just that the MB manufacturers don't
want to upset Intel, so they don't put them in their MB's anymore......
Greg
 
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