need help to Identify the brand and model of a MB??

[Grant_H]

I have a few older computer parts laying around and I was going to use them to build my mom a half way decent computer. The mother board I have has nothing writen on it so that I can identify brand or model, I have the installation cd but I also am unable to find a brand or model #.
Howerever, I did determin that It has a VIA chip set, It is standered size, has 4 pci slots, 3 dimm slots, 1 agp, 1 sound card slot, and 1 short agp like slot. it's a socket 370 PIII. The 2 ide and power slot, run single file along the same edge as the ATX type ports. It also has onboard video and sound cards.

OH ya, the installtion cd has PC 100 V7.75 writen on it, It also has word perfect on it. And a few other things, I don't rember right off hand.

[flaninacupboard]

if you've determined it's features and you have the driver cd, do you really need to know the model number?

[BJ_M]

If the motherboard has an AMI BIOS, read the BIOS ID string and cross reference it on the AMI site. AMI has a Motherboard ID Utility which is designed to assist in determining the manufacturer of a motherboard using AMIBIOS that you can download from:
<http://www.ami.com/support/mbid.html>.
If the motherboard has an Award BIOS (now made by Phoenix), go to the "Motherboard Manufacturers" page for a cross-reference of ID numbers and motherboard manufacturers:
<http://www.phoenix.com/pcuser/phoenixbios/motherboard.html>

[Jayhawk]

After you get it up and running you can run AIDA32 (free) and it should tell you. Realize that doesn't help you now but it might later for BIOS upgrades.

Here's a link to a review of 10 VIA chipset motherboards that support the Pentium III. You might want to check out the pictures to see if anything looks familar. Supermicro should also be added to yor search. They used a VIA chipset also.

http://www6.tomshardware.com/motherboard/20010430/

[Gritz]

SiSandra 2004 will tell almost everything about every component in your system .... even run apps for tuneups and some benchmarks. The basic version is free also!! http://www.sisoftware.net/

[Grant_H]

The board is not in a system yet, I need to know what the model number of the board is so that I can get the right processer and stuff to use it to build a comp.

[BJ_M]

get a 800 or 1000 p3 with 100fsb and 2 sticks of pc100 sdram 256 each ..

that will work 99% of the time in a pc100 board ..

[Jayhawk]

The key as to what the chipset supports is identifying the specific identifier. Can you make out the chipset identifier number. The motherboard manufacturer isn't all that important right now if you can pin down the VIA number. Have you removed the heatsink covering the chipset yet.

[Grant_H]

I figured out that it is a pc chips M780. Thanks for the help.

[Jayhawk]

Great news, it should make a good machine. Looks like a Pentium III in the 700 - 900 range and a couple of sticks of PC100 or PC133 should do it. Everything else appears to be on board (video, audio, etc). Probably want to skip the onboard video but it would be fine for surfing.

[Grant_H]

It is for my mom, and she would never know the difference no matter what video card is used, so that's not a problem. I did get a good deal on a PIII-1.13 Ghz processer $90. That is the exact size limit of the MB.

[gmatov]

PIII 1.13 at 90 bucks is a bargain? Where the hell do you live? At the show, Sunday I bought a board AND an AMD 2400XP processor for 121 bucks, including tax at 7 %. Additional 60 for 512 RAM.

If money is no object, go buy new for the kindly old biddy.She DID raise you for a buncha years.

Cheers,

George