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Article #92HELP: Identifying my MB, please
From: Cliff
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 00:00
Date: Sun, 07 Jul 1996 00:00
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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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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,66956ea8566f7829,start X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: 1045b9,66956ea8566f7829,start X-Google-Attributes: gid1045b9,public X-Google-Thread: 11196f,66956ea8566f7829,start X-Google-Attributes: gid11196f,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,66956ea8566f7829,start X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public From: clif@yallara.cs.rmit.edu.au (Cliff) Subject: HELP: Identifying my MB, please Date: 1996/07/07 Message-ID: <4rn7da$cui@goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au> X-Deja-AN: 164070782 organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.systems,aus.computers,aus.computers.ibm-pc summary: Identifying my motherboard