Which Zeos MB is this? Please help!

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2 total messages Started by John Whetstone Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:00

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Author: John Whetstone
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 1996 00:00

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   I recently got a new motherboard to replace a fried one I have now,
but before I swap everything out, I wanted to check what the new one
supports.   It is for a Pantera P90 that is over a year old.  
     My old board is labeled Zeos #100-0053-04, and is from around
January of 1995.  Also, it is only configurable between 90 and 100 mhz
pentiums.  
   The new board has the number 100-0055-03, (assembly 010-0052-03C,
if that matters) and on the other edge it says that it is a Rev 3A
board.  
    Both boards have the same PCI chipset (Intel #S82433NX), but the
old board has an NCR chip to the left of the SIMM slots, while the new
one has an SMC chip.   My questions are,  does this board support the
same 256k external cache that I have on my old board?  Does the new
board support EDO ram?  Does it support Parity ram?  Does it support
processor speeds over 100mhz?   Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.

John Whetstone
"...now you see that evil will always triumph,
 because good is dumb." -- Dark Helmet

Re: Which Zeos MB is this? Please help!

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Author: Mark
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 00:00

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John Whetstone wrote:

>      My old board is labeled Zeos #100-0053-04, and is from around
> January of 1995.  Also, it is only configurable between 90 and 100 mhz
> pentiums.
>    The new board has the number 100-0055-03, (assembly 010-0052-03C,
> if that matters) and on the other edge it says that it is a Rev 3A
> board.
>     Both boards have the same PCI chipset (Intel #S82433NX), but the
> old board has an NCR chip to the left of the SIMM slots, while the new
> one has an SMC chip.   My questions are,  does this board support the
> same 256k external cache that I have on my old board?  Does the new
> board support EDO ram?  Does it support Parity ram?  Does it support
> processor speeds over 100mhz?   Any help would be greatly appreciated.
> Thanks.

John - the new board is older than your old board, but it is a fully 
functional board, boards before 010-0052-01 did not have functional 
printer ports using the enhanced mode, and may also have had the keyboard 
beep problem that identified the older boards also.

Your board is two rev's (-03C) above mine. Since it's the same flavor as 
my board, I would assume that it does not support EDO, the cache would be 
fine, no parity, and that it will not work correctly even with a 100mhz 
chip in it. My board will almost function correctly with the 100mhz intel 
chip in it (I only bought the P90, friend loaned me a P100), my tape 
drive bombs out after saving 4 meg (floppy based Conner TS850) every time 
when it's set to 100mhz with a 100mhz chip in it.

later....

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