GFXcel chipset mobo, model#?

**sethfp** · January 23rd, 2004, 06:48 PM

Trying to identify a mobo. It has a GFXcel chipset, and PC133. Can't find a model#.

**sethfp** · January 23rd, 2004, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by daffy86

http://www.webattack.com/get/aida32.shtml

It is a barebones system. Nothing to run a diagnostic on.

**NooNoo** · January 23rd, 2004, 07:12 PM

PC chips lottery

Have fun!

**sethfp** · January 23rd, 2004, 07:28 PM

Originally Posted by sethfp

It is a barebones system. Nothing to run a diagnostic on.

I know it is a micro AT, with AMR, 2 PCI, and AMIBIOS 1999.

**Orangeman** · January 23rd, 2004, 10:39 PM

Hi Seth,

I did a check of 566 processors. It appears that the word 'Celeron' keeps popping up again and again. Evidently there is no such thing as a Duron 566 and I wasn't able to find when I do a search for Pentium 566 it says Pentium Celeron 566"

Hope this helps,

Orangan

**sethfp** · January 24th, 2004, 05:57 AM

Originally Posted by daffy86

How many pin socket

A PGA70 socket, was told it can take a 566Mhz CPU.

**Ruslan** · January 24th, 2004, 12:20 PM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

PC chips lottery
Have fun!

Yes,check it out!
It is most likely PCChips motherboard or one of their clones (one of my friends has system with GFXcel (renamed by PCChips SIS630) chipset motherboard)...

http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q39...-bin/pccout.sh

**sethfp** · January 24th, 2004, 08:19 PM

Originally Posted by Ruslan

Yes,check it out!
It is most likely PCChips motherboard or one of their clones (one of my friends has system with GFXcel (renamed by PCChips SIS630) chipset motherboard)...

http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q39...-bin/pccout.sh

Is it listed as GFXcel or SIS630?

**Ruslan** · January 25th, 2004, 11:57 AM

Originally Posted by sethfp

Is it listed as GFXcel or SIS630?

At this page (given by NooNoo already) it is listed as "GFXcel (SIS630)"...

(it is the same chipset...
http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q39...ips/pccjs.html
Choose CPU type - Celeron Socket370 first... then chipset, and so on...

By the way... if the motherboard is able to boot, you can see at the bottom of the boot screen text string with information regarding BIOS - actual model name of your motherboard should be inside that string...

**Ruslan** · January 25th, 2004, 12:11 PM

Originally Posted by daffy86

http://www.amptron.com/ Discontinued products /

755LMB

itS liStEd as GFXcel

Why you're so sure?

Amptron is actually just only one of numerous PCChips clones... It is actually could be a M755LMR motherboard, but also M756XXX, M757XXX and M758XXX as well...

That BIOS string could actually tell us a lot...

**sethfp** · January 27th, 2004, 03:03 AM

Originally Posted by Ruslan

At this page (given by NooNoo already) it is listed as "GFXcel (SIS630)"...

(it is the same chipset...
http://www.stud.fernuni-hagen.de/q39...ips/pccjs.html
Choose CPU type - Celeron Socket370 first... then chipset, and so on...

By the way... if the motherboard is able to boot, you can see at the bottom of the boot screen text string with information regarding BIOS - actual model name of your motherboard should be inside that string...

Can't boot--it has no RAM. It has 2 DIMM slots. What kind of RAM would it use? Would it boot with RAM, but no mobo drivers? The BIOS listed on the links are made in 2001. The mobo has AMIBIOS 1999.

**Garak** · February 1st, 2004, 11:26 PM

From memory, PC66, PC100 or PC133 will work in this motherboard, I advise you keep it to 128meg sticks at a maximum as I have seen alot of problems with 256meg sticks in these boards and earlier. Also, you don't need mobo drivers to get this powered to test it out. Just a working CPU and some ram.

Windows 2000 / XP should have all the drivers for this motherboard - although I think the sound is CMedia 8330 - drivers can be found URL=http://www.cmedia.com]here[/URL]

Good Luck, and I hope this was of some use.

**sethfp** · February 13th, 2004, 07:17 PM

Originally Posted by daffy86

http://www.amptron.com/html/m755LMB.html

It is the m755LMB(the only one with an ITE chip), and found a manual:

"For this mainboard, you must use 168-pin, 3.3V unbuffered SDRAM memory modules. If the installed CPU uses a 100 MHz system bus, you must use PC100/PC133 memory. If the installed CPU uses a 66 MHz system bus, you must use PC66/PC100 memory. You can install any size memory module from 16MB to 512MB, so the maximum memory size is 2 x 512MB = 1 GB."

If the installed CPU (66/100 MHz system bus) determines the RAM speed, how do I know which to use?

**Ruslan** · February 13th, 2004, 10:33 PM

Originally Posted by sethfp

If the installed CPU (66/100 MHz system bus) determines the RAM speed, how do I know which to use?

I would recommend PC-133 - then you can use any CPU...
(just only make sure it is branded memory stick), good PC-133 works fine at any speed, including 66Mhz. I have been using Infineon and PQI PC-133 memory sticks with similar MB (SIS630E chipset). Tested with Celeron 500 (66Mhz) and Celeron 800 (100Mhz) - works fine...
As long as you're using good memory, shouldn't be any problems... Besides, in BIOS should be options for memory timing like "Mem CLK=FSB+33Mhz" ,"Memory CLK= FSB", or "FSB-33Mhz" (my MB has special hardware jumpers for that), so it is possible to adjust memory timings for reliable work...