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AMI BIOS or AWARD BIOS UPGRADE?
Name: Kyle Date: December 8, 2001 at 10:15:37 Pacific
Comment:
I am having a little problem, I do not have to upgrade my bios but how do i know what kind of mother board it is, (there are STD stickers all over the place but that is including my power supply and my Hard Drive Right now i have a 06/06/92 Ami Bios and it is (according the hardware setup when it switches the screen after the RAM Count) A Cx486DLC with 33mhz. Can anyone help me, plus how do i upgrade
Name: Kyle Date: December 8, 2001 at 10:19:05 Pacific
Reply:
I forgot, No I Thinks, I want sure answers
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Response Number 2
Name: The Doofus Date: December 8, 2001 at 12:29:05 Pacific
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Cx486DLC is a Cyrix First generation 40 MHz CPU, it has nothing to do with your BIOS or motherboard other than the fact that the motherboard supports a 486 CPU which I'm sure you already knew. "Sure" enough of an answer for ya?
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Response Number 3
Name: Mark p Date: December 8, 2001 at 14:18:42 Pacific
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Doof DLCs came as 40 & 33mhz.
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Response Number 4
Name: Mark p Date: December 8, 2001 at 14:25:30 Pacific
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Kyle look for a FCC No. Then do a search for details about it.
Failing that replace the mobo with one that suits the case-AT style, I'm guessing. There are a lot second hand socket 7 and later systems being thrown out these days.
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Response Number 5
Name: Ken Date: December 9, 2001 at 19:25:30 Pacific
Reply:
DOS utility for motherboard identification:
ftp://ftp.ulaval.ca/pc/lc/CTBIOS.EXE
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Response Number 6
Name: sparks Date: December 17, 2001 at 17:37:05 Pacific
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Time to upgrade, fella....last time I bought a Mr. Bios chip to hotrod a 486 it cost me $79. Get an FIC VA503+ motherboard, any AMD K6 CPU you can locate (try Starsurplus.com), 128 megs of PC100 ($15 at Office Depot if you watch the sales), drop it into that AT case and watch it ROCK. Least you can expect is 30x the speed you have now. I've built 5 of these for different people and another one is in progress.
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Response Number 7
Name: Drew Date: February 3, 2002 at 09:37:03 Pacific
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Kyle,Use a start up disk to get the system to post and during the memory check look for the bios # and version and write it down.There are a number of web sites that can identify the motherboard manufacturer from these numbers.For example i'm working on one that has a bios number 40-0203-2a4ibg3i-v.2.03 the g3i at the end identifies that it's a gemlight motherboard.
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