P2L98-X...is this an Asus board?

[stuman74]

Hello,

I was looking into my cousin's HP Pavillion 8360 and saw that his motherboard was marked as a

P2L98-X

It looks a lot like an Asus board since they list a lot of "P2L" models, but I cannot find any info anywhere on this particular model. It has a 66 MHz bus, supports up to a Pentium II 333, has two dimms, onboard sound and video, an AGP expansion slot, 2 PCI, 2 ISA.

Any help is much appreciated.

 

[rosarian007]

I have heard of the Asus P2L97, but not P2L98. I extremely doubt that's an Asus motherboard.
http://www.asus.com.tw/products/Motherboard/slot1.html

 

[Eug]

Asus LX board I believe.

 

[AndyHui]

It looks like an ASUS LX board designation.....but the -X on the end kind of throws it out....ASUS hasn't put an -X on the end of a name since the SP98 and KN97 to denote that they are ATX instead of AT where all the boards in the family are AT.

The 2 PCI slots indicates that it would be a Micro ATX board....in which case the letter at the end would be a -M rather than a -X.

 

[stuman74]

Maybe it was made specifically for HP?

 

[AndyHui]

Possible.....

But ASUS normally releases all the boards that it makes for retail purchase as well, which the P2L98-X is not.

 

[stuman74]

I checked it again. It is actually P2L98-XV rev 1.02. Still probably doesn't help.

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Here are a few photo's I took of the board:

p2l98xv1
p2l98xv2
p2l98xv3

 

[AndyHui]

That's very odd.....an ATi graphics chip AND an AGP port...

It certainly looks like an ASUS board....the P2L97-A is similar with the onboard video, but does not have the AGP Port.

 

[stuman74]

And it looks like there is a version with an extra PCI slot since there is an outline for one below the AGP slot.

 

[Eug]

That IS an Asus board.

 

[stuman74]

I think it is too. I just cannot find any info on it.

 

[stuman74]

TTT