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Re: Micronics MB/P5-100MHz



Enclosed is the data for the Micronics MB I bought:

The model I have is a M54Hi PCI/ISA. It has the following
characteristics:

1. Support for 75Mhz, 90Mhz, 100MHz and 120MHz P5's.
   (Personal notes: 75MHz CPU's have 50MHz bus frequency, 90MHz and 120MHz
   have 60MHz bus frequency and 100MHz has a 66MHz bus frequency).

2. 4 SIMM slots (i.e. up to 128Megs). EDO supported.

3. 256Kilo cache, expandable to 512Kilo. The cache can be Pipelined Burst,
   if it's 256Kilos.

4. PCI EIDE (4 drives, 2 floppies - supports 2.88KB), 16550*2, 1*EPP.

5. 3*PCI slots, 3*ISA slots, 1*shared PCI/ISA slot (additional).

6. Flash BIOS.

7. No RZ10000 IDE controller.

8. Triton chipset.

VERY FEW JUMPERS compared to the horrid 486DX-100 MB I just installed
for a friend.

Requires 70ns SIMMS, but I felt more comfy with 60ns.

The MB has Phoenix BIOS with Green support (if anyone is nutters enough to
want it).

My board is currently populated thus:

PCI GPT 2MB VRAM
ISA AHA1542CF (floopy disabled).
ISA NE2000
ISA Sound Blaster
on-board floopies, serials and parallel.

The 1542CF carries four disks, a tape and a CD-ROM. One of the disks is
a dedicated DOS drive (80MB of SCSI-1 drek), the rest is Linux.

I have no complaints of the motherboard. It is well built and installed 
in my rather non-standard box very easily (I have a full tower).

There are two primary complaints, which are not major, but could
hurt some people:

	1. The SIMM slots are opposite the ISA slots and could 
	   preclude installing a full length card.

	2. The CPU is opposite the PCI slots. This is a lot less
	   major since most PCI cards are short.

The documentation recieved with the board is the best I ever saw on a 
motherboard and contained only one error (dip switch missing from
motherboard drawing).

I bought my MB from Mediatek:

Mediatek (Ben Gurion 19, Bnei Brak): 03-618-2499.

CAVEAT: I am a LONG-TIME friend of Mediatek's chief tech. Thus, while
	I am not associated with the company, I am well known there
	and know it well. It has given me superb service and will, I
	hope, continue doing so.

Cheerio!

Marc


---MAV

Marc A. Volovic (marc@leonardo.ls.huji.ac.il)

                 Linguists do it cunningly