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Dear All,
I recently bought an old motherboard for my P3-933 processor, turns out that it is a Compaq Motherboard, here is some details I could dig..
From BIOS Page..
Chassis Serial Number H105FR4Z0109
System ROM 686P0 v1.10
Processor Stepping 68A
And From the board
CT:P3B5A1CM4K0QXK
CPQ. Assy. No. 213855-101
CPQ Spare No. 203966-001

I don't know from which type of compaq the motherboard bundled was.. I already upgrade teh ROM into v.2.04, and been able to eliminate the microcode - patch -error..

Could some one give me more spesific detaild on this motherboard?.. (perhaps the front panel mapping?).. because other then booting into bootable DOS CD- ROM and BIOS page, I cannot seem to install anything (Not WinXP nor linux Debian or FC)..

I am currently analyzing the problem and suspect that the motherboard bios has something to do with my problem..

Tq..

Garcia board.
http://www.elhvb.com/ctechinfo/model/garcia/garcia.php

This board should support XP (Compaq lists drivers for DesPro EX/EXS series for XP) but I think the memory sticks may not be entirely compatible/healthy. Run Memtest86 on them to see which one is rotten. And put at the very least 256MB in that machine if attempting to run XP on it.

I guess that's the one..
Thx for the reply Edwin .. I'll retry to install XP later, I already put a 512 MB RAM on that machine, I sure hope it will not go BSOD like the last time before I Upgrade the ROM..

test the memory with memtest86 first to be sure that is not the problem.

I bought the same motherboard, though i can't figure out wich 2 pins i should use for the power connector. Can anybody help me with that?

http://www.elhvb.com/ctechinfo/model/ga ... panel.html

that's the front panel diagram..

my problem is solved .. the processor is broken

sorry to see that. at least you got confirmation now...

tjdykb wrote:http://www.elhvb.com/ctechinfo/model/ga ... panel.html
that's the front panel diagram..

Thanks a lot, you've been a great help.

Regards,

Arie