Hello, Roy.

About your mainboard, which is most likely a PCChips M571 -  I'm
surprised you still seem to be "fishing for help" here, and seem
unable to ID the mainboard on your own.

Mystery Mainboard ID, In general - - .

One way -  write down the "BIOS String" which appears at bottom of the
screen during POST.  Look up mfgr and likely find more at wimsbios.com.

Another way - run program CTBIOS.EXE  which I know you have there.
It will run off of a DOS/Win9x hard drive, but if you're messing around
with Linux on that HDD,  might be best to put the program on a
DOS-based boot diskette.

Hint, hint -  if you have a "genuine" PcChips M571 board, that BIOS
string, which will appear at bottom of screen during POST, and will be
reported back by CTBIOS.EXE,  there will be the numbers "571" near the
end of the "string".

 RJT> Any comments from all of you guys with regard to chipsets,  board
 RJT> makers,  etc. would be of some interest.

I'm not a fan of "cheap" mainboards - - I have seen too many of them die
premature deaths (i.e. within a year or two).  More recently than the
vintage you seem to be "bottom fishing" for,  even name-brand boards
seem to be dying too early -  probably associated with that "capacitor"
problem" which has been discussed here.

Somehow, some way, sooner or later, I think you will be glad when you
finally make a break from what seemed good 6 or 8 years ago, and move
beyond AT cases and buying used BabyAT form factor mainboards with
chipsets which will only support 200Mhz level P54C/P55C pentium class
processors.

- - -  JimH.
... So easy, a child could do it. Child sold separately.
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