[tex]

Sorry for the crap pics, my only camera is my blackberry (I don't have an ipod either - I suck, I know.)

What is everyone's thoughts? I have not had a chance to hook it up yet. The big heatsink raised up is something that has a casing on it, so no more info there. It is a Pentium 4. The RAM is just sets of resistors where the chips should be and has a sticker on it "thermal dimm" - these came in it. The little things in the lower right are 4-pin headers, like an aux audio jumper. I have a good idea what this is, but I need to fire it up first.

[SoulAssassin]

Just guessing but it looks like an early gen P4 intel/super micro server board (lack of USB ports near the audio ports give me that idea and teh southbridge heatsink looks like the socket 370/478 boards). Not sure what you mean when you say that "AM is just sets of resistors where the chips should be and has a sticker on it "thermal dimm" " because I see the memory chips...or are those not DIMMs?

[tex]

the dimms have no actual chips on them, just resistor pairs where the chips should be

[MSP]

Originally Posted by tex

the dimms have no actual chips on them, just resistor pairs where the chips should be

Could those just be RD-RAM spacers? Haven't seen RAMBUS for a while.

[j0k3r]

That looks like an embedded system board, like for an ATM or something.

[MSP]

Yeah, look at all of those weird headers in the lower right corner. Not a standard PC motherboard for sure.

[tex]

I don't know if you can see it, but there wires running all over. They go to different pieces (CPU, northbridge, etc) and then connect back to a header on the side.

On a different note:
Newegg.com - Open Box: TYAN S3870G2NR-RS Dual 940 ServerWorks HT1000 ATX Server Motherboard
Just got one of these with a pair of dual core opterons and 4gb RAM. I need something to put in the pci-x slot. The thing doesn't have a agp or pcie slot so it will be replacing my recently deceased server. I'm jacking a copy of ESX from work to throw on there I think.

[ivanolo]

Originally Posted by tex

I need something to put in the pci-x slot.

Supermicro 8-Port Serial ATA Card - 8 x 7-pin SATA Serial ATA/300 Serial ATA Internal - PCI-X - AOC-SAT2-MV8 - Buy.com

[-Sevendust-]

There should be a code on the motherboard that identifies it that you can type in google.

[Mr. Ali]

dude, wtf, the amount of audio header things on the right corner is fucking insane. You have to find out what those are for.

[superman]

Originally Posted by j0k3r

That looks like an embedded system board, like for an ATM or something.

Agreed, it's definitely for some kind of industrial use.

[mistawiskas]

May be a controler board for an automated systems interconnect bridge. I saw something similar, albeit PII at a mill I worked at. It was controling the scrubber system and thermal venting/anti pollution monitoring of the kilns.
The whole scrubber system cost 6.5 million bux. it did save about 2 tons of sollids from going into the atmosphere in a day.