need help identifying mobo

[kef7]

Purchased this pc at a yard sale for $20 (w/2 monitors)and am going to fix it up for somebody that is still running a 386.

It is a socket 7 (came w/ 200mmx) with 4 pci and 4 isa slots. PCB dimensions are approx. 10*8.5 so I guess that makes it a BABY-AT.
4 sockets (marked SIMM 1-4)for 72 pin memory and 2 sockets (marked DIMM 1&2) for 168 pin memory.
Uses award bios (074569538 pci/pnp 586).
Probably intel vx chipset.

Not much is written on the board:
P5 (maybe an S?)F76
VER. 1
Designed in USA
Made in Taiwan

Used MOBIT but that didn't find an exact match.

One weird thing; I took out the 32meg memory that came with it and put in 2 64meg sticks (pc133) but it wouldn't boot (even into bios), removed 1 stick and it would boot but only see it as 16meg of ram instead of 64 so I'm assuming I need to flash the bios to support more ram.

thanks,
kef7

 

[kef7]

okay, used Sisandra and this mobo is a FREE TECH P5F76 w/ VX chipset.

I'm still confused about the amount of memory not being displayed properly but I seem to recall that this chipset had problems with SDRAM. Could it be that I need to use 66mhs sdram vs. the 133mhz that I used?

anyone?

kef7

 

[kef7]

evening bump

I pulled 2 stick of 32mg 66mhz memory from my old micron and that worked fine. However, a 64meg stick (pretty sure it is 66mhz as well) wouldn't boot.

So, anybody else have experience with this VX chipset? It seems very picky with memory.

kef7

 

[kef7]

bump

 

[NelsonMuntz]

I think the mobo is having problems with SDRAM in general. Have you tried EDO SIMMS or DIMMS to see if they are recognized properly? I think this might explain your problem.