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Re: Heard of Opti 386WB motherboard??

#1172
From: Frank Pikelner
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 14:31
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In article <BtLuFA.D7t@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>, ajt@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Andy Thomas) writes:
|> 
|>  >From: ca566@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Holloway)
|>  >Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
|>  >Subject: Heard of Opti 386WB motherboard??
|>  >Message-ID: <1992Aug20.212156.6336@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
|>  >Date: 20 Aug 92 21:21:56 GMT
|>  >Reply-To: ca566@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Michael Holloway)
|>  >Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
|>  >
|>  >
|>  >Has anyone heard of a motherboard called Opti 386WB?  Do you have the name
|>  >and phone number of the manufacturer or their US representitive?  I have a
|>  >bad motherboard that calls itself an Opti 386WB Ver 1.0, made in Taiwan. 
|>  >The retailer I bought it from is not interested in supporting the product
|>  >and I was wondering what information I might be able to get either from the
|>  >company or from other people with Opti boards.  Any information will be
|>  >appreciated greatly?
|>  >
|>  >
|>  >Thanks
|>  >Mike
|> 
|>   I have had one of these for a little over a week.  I got mine from
|> ABS Computer Technologies.  It's on sale now - 386/40 w/4MB and 64K
|> cache for $298.  When I got it, it didn't work at first.  I reseated
|> some of the chips and it started working.  Also, the manual shows the
|> jumpers for the cache size select backwards.  (It came with the jumpers
|> in the right place).
|> 
|> Andy Thomas
|> ajt@mentor.cc.purdue.edu

My motherboard is by EXCLUSIVE and is a OPTI 386/WB (40MHz). I've got 2 of these
machines running and so far, so good.
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