[Gllug] Unusual motherboard

[Bernard Peek]

Chris Bell wrote:
> Hello,
>    I have been given a secondhand box with a small VIA-C3-1500 motherboard
> carrying a very small hard-mounted processor that could be an ARM chip. The
> only thing I have discovered is that it is probably designed as a dedicated
> POS box. There are two CD drives and a hard disc but it displays "Mercury"
> then boots with an error message "missing NTLDR". Any ideas please?
>   
The error message is a giveaway, it's from one of the Windows NT family. 
So the board is probably a standard-ish PC designed to run NT, W2K or 
XP. The processor is likely to be one of the VIA chips running at 500MHz 
to 1GHz. If the board isn't an ATX format it might be an ITX type.

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