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Re: HELP: Identifying my MB, please

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From: Mark Hewitt
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 00:00
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Cliff wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>         I am trying to identify my motherboard so that I can consider my options
> with regards to BIOS upgrades.   I have the manual but nowhere does it specify who
> or where it was made.
> 
>         The cover states that it is the
> 
>         P5I437P4/FMB
> 
>         - Supports P54C, P54CTB, P55C
>         - 2.5V Circuit on board ready for the P55C
>         - Intel's F437 chipset
>         - Supports 4x72pin SIMMS, expandible to 128Mb
>         - Supports EDO/Hyper Page mode DRAM, as well as Standard Page mode DRAM
>         - Supports Write-Back Cache policy for 256Kb/512Kb L2 Cache
>         - Supports Burst, Pipelined Burst or Asynchronus Cache
>         - Supports PIO and Bus Master IDE
>         - Supports up to Mode 4 Timings
>         - Supports transfer rates upto 22Mb/S
>         - Supports 2 Fast IDE interfaces for upto 4 IDE devices
>         - Supports 2 Green modes: standby and suspend
>         - 4 x ISA slots and 4 x PCI slots
>         - Uses the Winbond IO chip W83787
>         - Supports upto 2 floppy drives
>         - One game port
>         - ALL IO ports can be enabled/disabled
>         - Two high speed 16550 compatible UARTS with 16-byte send/receive FIFOs and support MIDI mode
>         - One parallel port, with switchable address and multi-mode selection(SPP/EPP/ECP)
>         - Licensed advanced Ami WinBIOS, Supports Flash ROM BIOS, PnP ready
> 
>         Any help finding out who makes this board so I know what I'm looking for is
> greatly appreciated.    Currently I have it equipped with
> 
>         - P5-166
>         - 32Mb Standard DRAM's (2x16)
>         - 2.5Gb Quantum
>         - SB32 PnP Card
>         - 8x CD-Rom (running of EIDE controller)
>         - 3.5" & 5.25" Floppies
>         - ET4000/W32 PCI
>         - Conner Tape-Stor 800
> 
> 
>         Thanks for any help...
> 
> -- Cliff
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ~  Cliff Wakefield ( clif@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au ) /A3000@25/10/720    ~
> ~  3rd Year Computer Science                      / PicassoII + Nec3D  ~
> ~  Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology       / ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ~  Duty Programmer, Bundoora Campus             / Pentium 166/32/2.5   ~
> ~  http://yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au/~clif         / ET4000W32P/SB32/8xCD  ~
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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From: Mark Hewitt <mahewitt@netusa1.net>
Subject: Re: HELP: Identifying my MB, please
Date: 1996/07/15
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