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Strange mobo ID
I wanted to download the manual for a friend's 3-year-old
motherboard that had an unusual problem. A picture of the motherboard with the manufacturer's name and model number was pasted inside the computer case. The picture matches the actual mobo, but the BIOS ID string indicates another manufacturer. This in itself may not be unusual because I believe vendors often source their products from another manufacturer and sell it under their own label. However, the vendor's website shows a completely different motherboard under the printed model number, while the actual mnfr ID'ed from the BIOS gives a matching description, picture and manual. The name of the supposed mnfr printed on the sticker is Kobian (brand name Mercury) and the mobo model is KT133, whereas the actual mnfr is Matsonic and the mobo is an MS8117c which does use the KT133 chipset. Has anyone ever come across anything like this ? |
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On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 01:51:39 +0530, "Zotin Khuma"
wrote: I wanted to download the manual for a friend's 3-year-old motherboard that had an unusual problem. A picture of the motherboard with the manufacturer's name and model number was pasted inside the computer case. The picture matches the actual mobo, but the BIOS ID string indicates another manufacturer. This in itself may not be unusual because I believe vendors often source their products from another manufacturer and sell it under their own label. However, the vendor's website shows a completely different motherboard under the printed model number, while the actual mnfr ID'ed from the BIOS gives a matching description, picture and manual. The name of the supposed mnfr printed on the sticker is Kobian (brand name Mercury) and the mobo model is KT133, whereas the actual mnfr is Matsonic and the mobo is an MS8117c which does use the KT133 chipset. Has anyone ever come across anything like this ? Good ole PCChips makes boards very similar if not identical then sells them under different names. The question is then if the assembler goofed and provided wrong Identification or whether the board has the "wrong" bios, which could simply be a cosmetic problem, that the bios is actually the same except for the vendor ID string. Either way, there are likely several avenues for a manual, IF any or all of them still provide the manual and/or have kept their website in order well enough to find it. Download the manual for it from Matsonic and compare the details in the manual, for example the jumpers. If it seems correct it probably is. There might also be silkscreening on the motherbaord itself to identify it, either between the PCI slots, next to the memory or AGP slot, or in one of the corners, usually the edge of the PS2 port (upper left) corner. Even if the manufacturer's name isn't provided there might be the model number, for example "MS8117". |
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"kony" wrote in message ... On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 01:51:39 +0530, "Zotin Khuma" wrote: I wanted to download the manual for a friend's 3-year-old motherboard that had an unusual problem. A picture of the motherboard with the manufacturer's name and model number was pasted inside the computer case. The picture matches the actual mobo, but the BIOS ID string indicates another manufacturer. This in itself may not be unusual because I believe vendors often source their products from another manufacturer and sell it under their own label. However, the vendor's website shows a completely different motherboard under the printed model number, while the actual mnfr ID'ed from the BIOS gives a matching description, picture and manual. The name of the supposed mnfr printed on the sticker is Kobian (brand name Mercury) and the mobo model is KT133, whereas the actual mnfr is Matsonic and the mobo is an MS8117c which does use the KT133 chipset. Has anyone ever come across anything like this ? Good ole PCChips makes boards very similar if not identical then sells them under different names. The question is then if the assembler goofed and provided wrong Identification or whether the board has the "wrong" bios, which could simply be a cosmetic problem, that the bios is actually the same except for the vendor ID string. Either way, there are likely several avenues for a manual, IF any or all of them still provide the manual and/or have kept their website in order well enough to find it. Download the manual for it from Matsonic and compare the details in the manual, for example the jumpers. If it seems correct it probably is. There might also be silkscreening on the motherbaord itself to identify it, either between the PCI slots, next to the memory or AGP slot, or in one of the corners, usually the edge of the PS2 port (upper left) corner. Even if the manufacturer's name isn't provided there might be the model number, for example "MS8117". I made the post mainly as an intellectual exercise to satisfy my curiosity because I'd already downloaded the correct manual from Matsonic. The strange part was that the local assembler had pasted a picture that matches the mobo, with the wrong manufacturer's name printed on it. By picture I mean one printed by a mechanical press from a photograph, not a drawn diagram. And it's not a an inkjet or a laser print. I know the local assemblers and they are NOT sophisticated enough (esp 3-4 yrs ago) to take a photo of the motherboard, have a conventional half-tone printing block made from it with a fake manufacturer's name and model number. And I can think of no reason why they would want to do that anyway. Kobian/Mercury is a common brand around here but is not a particularly prestigious one. And *they* have a very different mobo by that model number on their website. |
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"kony" wrote in message ... On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 01:51:39 +0530, "Zotin Khuma" wrote: I wanted to download the manual for a friend's 3-year-old motherboard that had an unusual problem. A picture of the motherboard with the manufacturer's name and model number was pasted inside the computer case. The picture matches the actual mobo, but the BIOS ID string indicates another manufacturer. This in itself may not be unusual because I believe vendors often source their products from another manufacturer and sell it under their own label. However, the vendor's website shows a completely different motherboard under the printed model number, while the actual mnfr ID'ed from the BIOS gives a matching description, picture and manual. The name of the supposed mnfr printed on the sticker is Kobian (brand name Mercury) and the mobo model is KT133, whereas the actual mnfr is Matsonic and the mobo is an MS8117c which does use the KT133 chipset. Has anyone ever come across anything like this ? Good ole PCChips makes boards very similar if not identical then sells them under different names. The question is then if the assembler goofed and provided wrong Identification or whether the board has the "wrong" bios, which could simply be a cosmetic problem, that the bios is actually the same except for the vendor ID string. Either way, there are likely several avenues for a manual, IF any or all of them still provide the manual and/or have kept their website in order well enough to find it. Download the manual for it from Matsonic and compare the details in the manual, for example the jumpers. If it seems correct it probably is. There might also be silkscreening on the motherbaord itself to identify it, either between the PCI slots, next to the memory or AGP slot, or in one of the corners, usually the edge of the PS2 port (upper left) corner. Even if the manufacturer's name isn't provided there might be the model number, for example "MS8117". I made the post mainly as an intellectual exercise to satisfy my curiosity as I'd already downloaded the correct manual from Matsonic. The strange part was that the local computer assembler had pasted a picture of the correct motherboard with the wrong manufacturer's name printed on it. By picture I mean a blue half-tone image printed by a mechanical press from a photograph, not a drawn diagram, and not an inkjet or a laser print. And the named manufacturer has a very different motherboard by that model number on their website. |
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