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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: wrag on December 01, 2007, 11:26:31 PM
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someone gave me and old computer. Said it died.
It says MSI 533 on the north bridge heat sink.
It's a pentium cpu
Interesting it has 4 slots but see NO video(AGP or PCI Express X16 slot) card slot?????
AHHHHH I do however see a location that says AGP1 but looks like the slot is gone and just holes for mounting and many soldered spot.
3 are standard PCI and 1 looks very much like a PCI Express x1 slot?
I see printed on it "MS-6174 VER: 1"
Looking at the MSI site but keep coming up with product does not exist????
Looks like I have 2 HD's and 2 CD's one Read only the other looks like a rewritable, and perhaps some memory and a pentium CPU?
anyone have any ideas as to what model MB this might be?
:rofl
Ya I know not much info to go on is there.
Might just start taking it apart.
No idea what still works and doesn't.
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Originally posted by wrag
I see printed on it "MS-6174 VER: 1"
Looking at the MSI site but keep coming up with product does not exist????
Because it's an very old MB.. almost from stone age ;)
IIRC it's from '99, a socket370 mainboard (Celeron & Pentium III), i810 chipset (with onboard graphics ??)
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Try this link. It's text link. It has product specifications for that motherboard.
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:qAlBo_rmdtoJ:herauthon.nl/Docu/manuals/e-books/collection/6214-10/6214-2.pdf+MS-6174&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=8&gl=us&ie=UTF-8&client=firefox-a
to find it, I just did a search for "MS-6174".
That ought to give you specs. There were also driver links for that board in the search results.
wabbit
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I had a heck of a time finding anything beyond only driver downloads for that motherboard. No specs pages and I found conflicting info. I found this On a German site
"Intel PIII EB (FCPGA,CuMine), FSB: 133MHz
MS-6214 - ( MS-6214/6174 v1.0 ) - Max CPU 933mhz"
But I found search strings on Google saying it was a Pentium 4. And from your description on above it looks like it's probably this:
Pentium 4 (most likely a Northwood since the bus speed appears to be 533mhz). Socket 478.
As for the no AGP slots, the motherboard probably is onboard video and is a micro ATX. Does the motherboard appear to be shorter than other motherboards you've seen? Also is there a monitor (VGA) plug somewhere on the back of the motherboard (where you plug your keyboard in and stuff)?
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Well I guess I was wrong according to wabbits site.
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It appears someone cut the vga wiring????
I see what looks like a connector but the ribbon has been cut off short right at the connector.
Yes it looks like a micro.
Read what you put there Wabbit, Thanks.
This system is lookin very much like a spare parts bin.
Thank everyone for a response, and so quickly!