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Looking for Philips P3238 motherboard documentation (286 12.5Mhz)

marcopolo

marcopolo

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Hello,

I'm trying to upgrade a 286 PHILIPS P3238 to 4Mb of RAM without any success.
The motherboard has a lot of jumpers and switches.

Does anybody have the documentation?

Thanks,
Marc
 
I remember upgrading the RAM in the 1990s when I owned this PC. I do not remember whether jumper settings were required. I do remember plugging in either 70NS or 80NS SIMMs.
 
Hi PeterLI,

Thanks for the link, I had not found anything about the P3238 on his site.
Email sent, wait and see :)
 
Update: hoping someone in SK will mail me the hardcopy manual tomorrow. Will probably take a few weeks to arrive. Will photocopy & scan it.
 
Et voila! BTW: what did you do with the soldered in DS1287? I will have to ship it to CA to have a socket soldered in. Send me a PM in case you would like me to email you the driver diskette.
 
Thanks to Chuck(G) my Philips P 3238 is now fully operational.

Had to replace the FDD but that is OK. :) Not related to Chuck(G) of course. Need to source a small IDE HDD to check whether the MOBO IDE works. ;)

Ironically the mouse driver shipped with the Magnavox HeadStart 286 does not work. A random generic mouse driver works great with both a MS and Philips mouse. So weird.

Runs like a 80286; which it is! :)
 
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Just a parenthetical note. Peter sent the motherboard to me asking for a socket to be installed for the DS1287. This is a motherboard with a quantity of SMT on it and I considered that removing the DS1287 and installing a socket might result in some unintentional desoldering or damage to the surface-mount devices. So I modified the DS1287 in-place to use a coin cell. Easy enough to do with my Foredom tool and a soldering iron. The coin cell holder was glued to the top of the DS1287 with Gorilla (polyurethane) glue--for some reason, my 5-minute epoxy didn't want to stick to the DS1287,
 
A bit of an observational note, having seen this thread play out... this thread is useless without pics or links, with two folks coordinating a hard-copy mail hand-off in public ;)

Would it be appropriate to ask that the documentation be scanned into PDF, placed on a reliable file server (or maybe attached), and posted here, so anyone with the same question in the future can have the docs available forever into the future? :) You got this far - you have the docs - maybe post it?

Updating the original post with a link to the file would be an awesome service :)
 
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