Manual needed for an IBM 300GL motherboard...

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bannshiii
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Hello,
what I've got here is an IBM 300GL machine and need some help.
1. What kind of motherboard is this?
2. Where could I find some manual for it?
I can give the following info (as detected by Everest software):
Motherboard ID <DMI>
Motherboard Name IBM 656385U
North Bridge: VIA VT82C694X Apollo Pro133A
South Bridge: VIA VT82C596B
BIOS Type IBM
IBM BIOS Model Number 656385U
IBM BIOS Serial Number 78TWLYG
IBM BIOS Version PJKT31A

Any help highly appreciated, thanks in advance.
P.S. CPU - Pentium III 600 MHz Slot 1
zonxar
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Have not found the board manufacturer or manual, but here are a couple of support links:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... IGR-4HDPPT

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... 4D4KB9#via

:)
guardian-of-hades
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For the most part the early IBM PC300GL system boards were built by a 3rd party in the UK, Mexico and Florida the company was called SCI (i worked in the factory in the uk where they were built in the testing area, testing them before shipping to IBM, :( sorry to all who have these and they don't/didn't work), this company has since folded.........
the later boards were built inhouse by IBM at their factory in Scotland, then later sub-contracted out to another manufacturer

From the IBM web site the only manual for your given model is in slovenian

ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/pc/pccbbs/co ... 4l2300.pdf

page 21 in the PDF file using some basic translation

Front Side bus is 100MHz 133Mhz
Memory is 133MHz SDRAM DIMM's
in 64Mb, 128Mb, 256Mb 512Mb NON-ECC DIMM's
64Mb, 128Mb 256Mb for ECC DIMM's
Max memory is 1Gb

AGP slot is 4X

I hope this helps

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