62-1217-001437-00101111-071595-440bx

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hi there,
can anyone help me in identifying my motherboard? i want to do a bios-upgrade (ami-biosdate is now 7/15/95) because i have troubles installing a new caviar wd400 harddisk. the bios-id says 62-1217-001437-00101111-071595-440bx, so i have found out that it should be a pcchips-board, but i can't find the model, which is necessary to do the bios-upgrade.
thnx
wilfried

[ajzchips]

Identify it at http://go.to/th2 (use the DO NOT KNOW section).

i've checked the "don't know"-section already, but can't find matching results (probably i enter something wrong but i don't know where)
the computer which causes the problems is an celeron 500 machine, with 440bx chipset, 3 isa and 3 pci-slots, 3 memory-slots, 2 usb-ports,sound and vga onboard.

[ajzchips]

Try selecting only the cpu/socket type and the chipset. Then compare the 6 or 7 pictures that show up. Might be a small database problem.

thank you, your tip was helpfull (the database wasn't wrong, i did a query with faulty parameters, there are 4 instead of 3 PCI slots), i've found that it should be either a pii-3100a or b, but i can't see the difference between them. i'll print out the manuals and see if i can find something (i've noticed that de bios-versions are different so i have to be sure!)

thnx anyway

hi,
sorry to bother, but it's me again: after taken a close look at the pictures on the site and the motherboard of the computer, i see there are some significant differences:
the mobo in the troubled pc looks very similar to the models pii3100a and b but the ide and floppy controllers aren't located under the memory-slots but to the left of it, there are other differences also but the picture on the site isn't clear enough to tell which parts it concerns (the picture becomes blurry when i try to zoom in)
although these two boards are the only ones the query returns with the combination 3 isa/4 pci slots, i find it to risky to use the mentioned bios-upgrade (990210s.rom) because if it isn't the wright one, i'm in the sh.t
is there another way to find out which is the right bios-upgrade for this machine?

hope someone can help me out

wilfried

[ajzchips]

Hold it!

The boards you mention don't have onboard VGA nor onboard sound.

You might have an M767.

AJZ,

i'm beginning to doubt if the mobo is really a pcchips-board (although bios-checks say so), because i can't find one in the database that gives a full match with the components on it.

it certainly isn't an M767, because the lay-out is completely different, i would like to show you a photo of the board of the computer, but i don't know how to insert the pictures in this forum

wilfried

i've found a way to show the pictures of the mobo: i've downloaded them at the following adress:
http://www.cartogra.com/home/ViewMyAlbu ... id=2006356

maybe this can help

thanks

wilfried

[ajzchips]

Argh!!!

You should have said it had dual slot 1...

Is this M750I it?

AJZ,

indeed, it looks a full 100% like the picture of the m750i
sorry for the trouble, but i didn't even thought that the second brown socket could be a second processor slot, i thought it was an agp slot altough it was in een awfull position to mount a video-card (why on earth would they put two processors on a low-entry machine like the one i'm having trouble with)

thank you so far but now the next questions: which bios-upgrade can i use: is it the one for a m750 (990210s.rom), because i don't see one for a m750i... and will that upgrade allow me to use the 40gb harddisk (which was the initial starting point for all the trouble)

hope you can help me one more time! (thanks god there are some good willing people who give service manufacturers should give!)

wilfried

[ajzchips]

Don't worry. The final "i" was only optional. Perhaps it was just there to specify the onboard Intel 740 VGA. But there's only one model of any M750 out there.

The latest BIOS update is of 3/2000, available from my site: http://go.to/ajz

BTW, it's one of PCCHIPS' better motherboards

Oh, and an AMI BIOS of that date "should" support very large HDDs.

ajz,

thank you very much for your support, i'll try to do the upgrade tomorrow and i'll keep you informed!

thanx

wilfried

upgrade bios done,
bios id has changed from 62-1217-001437-00101111-071595-440bx to 62-0321-001437-00101111-071595-440BX.
when pc starts up the first screens indicate the new bios-date, but when i use ctbios i still get the old date. weird!

BIOS-Info, c't/Andreas Stiller, V. 1.5 10/00
Computer ID : FC, SubTyp: 01, BIOS-Level: 0
Rechnertyp : AT-3, Konfigurationsbyte $74
Maustreiber : Microsoft kompatibel, Version: 08.30
Maustyp : PS/2-Maus
Bus : ISA/PCI
Hauptspeicher : 640 KB, davon verf

[Denniss]

Seems Pcchips failed to implement a correct 32GB fix or your HDD does not work with this special AMI Bios .
Best solution is a PCI UDMA Controller .