Ms-9803 Motherboard Replacement

jaso15a802dc

New member
Joined
Jan 27, 2025
Messages
1
Hello to the clever people whom can help me.
I have a machine that uses an MS-9803 Motherboard, a chip (see Picture) running Windows XP Embedded.
I urgently need to build a spare machine that I can swop out with the existing one if it decides to retire or die.
I hope there is a solution out there.

Cheers
 

Attachments

  • 20250123_200840.jpg
    20250123_200840.jpg
    1.1 MB · Views: 25
It's probably this, also called the GM965 / GME965? https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813130108
Manual, https://gzhls.at/blob/ldb/0/8/1/8/dc6e8eca0a457bdb1cefeb25aa47623f43ac.pdf

As you can see in thread like these, that is hardware from 17, 18 years ago, so naturally, you can only search on the used market, like eBay and such. If you are lucky, you find a bundle like that which is similar to yours. Bundle probably meaning, board + CPU + RAM. The RAM will hardly ever die, the CPU also quite unlikely, the board, a bit more likely to develop problems (but even the spare board is not exempt from this, due to the bathtub curve of failures).

Then of course the PSU can easily cause trouble after this time, due to the electrolytic capacitors used inside PSUs which are prone to degradation from aging (the electrolyte can slowly escape over the years). But then you can get any PSU that fits into the case, which i would assume has to be SFX size. This board still has the old 20-pin ATX header (not 24-pin as later boards), but the PSUs have essentially a 20+4-pin cable, where you can detach the 4-pin part. So you'd just get a modern PSU to replace that old one, should the old one start to cause instability or power-related issues.
 
Back
Top