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Okay, here's the deal. I just got this motherboard off of a friend of mine. He says he's not sure if it works or not, so I'm curious as to if it would work or not. I know that it is a SS7 mobo and I'd like to put a K6-3 in it and overclock it. Can someone help me identify this motherboard and also let me know if I could test it with a Intel Pentium 133 I have laying around. I'm not sure if socket 7 mobos are compatible with socket 5 (I think that's what P133s are) cpus. Thanks.

ID needed for this mobo

Okay, now this motherboard won't even post. Here's what all I've had in it when I've tried posting:

Unknown motherboard (think it's the ECS posted below because of the big similiarities)
AMD K6-2 400 MHz
16 MB EDO RAM (it's the only thing I had laying around... and I didn't want to pull any PC133 out of my computer)
HP Floppy Drive
Acer 50X CD-ROM on the Master IDE (tricked the old HP into thinking there was a hard drive there)
Diamond Viper V550 16 MB (Nvidia TNT2 chipset)
160 Watt AT PS
Keyboard

Okay, I think that was everything. When I go to power on the computer, the keyboard lights flash, the light on the CD-ROM stays constantly lit, and the monitor goes from standby to active for under 5 seconds and then goes back to standby. Anyone have any ideas for me?
 
Got any serial numbers? What BIOS is it using? That has to be the weirdest configuration I've ever seen. Check out where the IDE controllers are! Odd. The chipset is the VIA MVP3 Rev. A, but there are about half a million of these running around, so it will be hard to find without more info.
 
I just got it today. I noticed the AT and ATX power supply connector on it so I tried putting it in an old HP case. That failed considering the old mobo had a riser card on it. Maybe I'll get a little daring with it tomorrow since I don't have work or school. I'll post some more info as soon as I can get it
 
socket 7 is backward compatible with socket 5. socket 7 allows compatibility with MMX-enabled cpu's. So intel Pentium non-mmx processors will work in both socket 5 & 7 mobos, however MMX cpu's will only work in socket 7's.

Good luck and hope that helps!

🙂
 
i can't use sandra right now to get an id on it because i wanted to make sure that i could put a P133 into it and i need to find out the correct way to hook up the at power supply to the board. if this is something that works, i don't really feel like frying the board or my P133 that works still.
 
I do remember that not all (possibly any) Super 7 boards work with P54C processors (aka a P133, they need at least an MMX). So you may need a newer CPU to test it.
 
Hmm... I was just thinking about this. Okay, this motherboard has a DIN5 connector for the keyboard. I planned on using a USB PCI add-on card for this and I'd like to know if I can just use a USB keyboard and mouse. Will this cause a trouble with the BIOS not finding one through the DIN5 during startup?
 
many boards that old don't have the option to disable the keyboard halt when nothing is attached
 
That board looks similar, but there are a large number of differences, and it would take a pretty big revision for that to happen. I've been threw all the major sites, and even a list of every socket 7 board, my conclusion is that the company no longer exists. You have to remember back in the socket 7 days, there were a lot of board makers, and most weren't any good.

http://www.jc-news.com/pc/Sockets'n'Slots/Super-7_Specs.shtml

this should have it, but many links are dead
 
black... thanks for the info, i think that's the right id on the board. i knew i was going to hook a keyboard up to it, but i wanted it to be usb... oh well, i guess i just can't have fancy technology for it. now to find me a cheap at case since i can't use the hp sittin in my room.
 
The only difference I see between the unknown motherboard and BlackFlagg's finding was the color of the connectors which wouldn't be that big of a revision.. Or am I missing something else that is different?
 
RDMustang... there are different colors for the connectors and slightly different placement of them, but that's the closest i've seen so far. plus it holds up to the agp, pci, isa, simm, and dimm slots. hopefully i'll be able to have it up and running with a amd k6-2 400 mhz within the next couple of days and i'll post what it turned out to be.
 
Its not just the colour, the placing is off, and look at the other parts of the board. They are missing small things here and there. Its probably a reference design.
 
Okay, this is probably a no brainer for you guys. The AT power supply I'm using to test this motherboard out is split into two pieces. The colors of the wires go according to the following:

PS1: Black, Black, Blue, Yellow, Red, Orange
PS2: Red, Red, Red, White, Black, Black

So I don't fry the motherboard if it does work, what's the correct way of hooking it into the motherboard posted at the top? Thanks
 
Okay, here's the new issue going on here... I got the AMD K6-2 for this motherboard and I tried testing it. It won't post. The keyboard lights flashed, got a power led lit, but nothing on my monitor would show and no beep codes from the speaker. I know there's some kid of voltage going to the cpu due to it's slight heating up. Here's what I had hooked up:

Unknown motherboard (think it's the ECS posted in here)
AMD K6-2 400 MHz
16 MB EDO 60ns
Diamond Viper V550 16 MB AGP (Nvidia TNT2)
Floppy
Keyboard
160 Watt PS

Anyone got any clues? I'm wondering if it's the video card, but I won't know until my friend either gives me back my PCI Voodoo Rush (which I doubt will happen since his computer sucks) or that he gives me the old ISA he used to have.
 
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