Please help me figure this out

Recommended by Wim's BIOS...

I need to download the drivers for a motherboard, but do not know what make or manufacturer it is. The string at start up is:

08/07/1999-i440BX-<P3Bf>

Thanks in advance.

[Rainbow]

Asus P3B-F

The latest BIOS is:
10/15/2001-i440BX-<P3B-F>
ASUS P3B-F ACPI BIOS Revision 1008 Beta 004
ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/Slot_I/INTEL_Chipset/i440BX/P3B-F/1008f304.zip

to be sure, when I do this, it will update the motherboards drivers? I am attempting to fix a friends pc.

[soupy]

Drivers? No. Bios, yes.
If you're not sure why you would need a BIOS update, don't flash.

I don't want to flash the bios. What I am attempting to do, is...
I just fdisked a pc and installed a new OS. Since doing this the colors and pixels are set @ 640 and 16 bit, with no other choices. Last time I came across this was on another machine and I had to use a driver disk from the motherboard manufacturer. On this machine I am working on does not have a cd for the board any longer. Any ideas?

[Denniss]

The Intel 440Bx chipset is fully supported from Win98 and higher - no need to install chipset drivers .
But you need to install VGA card drivers .
Even Win95B/C should support i440BX chipset but you might need an update to get AGP-cards to work .

[edwin]

win95b/c needs the inf update for anything beyond the i430tx, this includes all i440xX chipsets.

Ok, i understand the chipset reply and the VGA drivers. My next question is what is the easiest way to determine what make/model is the card, and where to get drivers. Thanks for all the replies so much!

[Denniss]

?!? Have a look at the card ?!?

What's you OS ?

it is win 98

[Denniss]

Win98 should have drivers for many cards so it's a new one it does not know or a very old one .
Is the card identified in devicemanger as a soecific card or as unknown or standard VGA ?
Do you have a driver-CD from this card ?
Seems you have to open the case and have a closer look at your VGA card

[soupy]

Try here to identify your video card.

http://www.windrivers.com/
http://www2.windrivers.com/alpha/video.htm
http://www2.windrivers.com/beginner/index.htm

>The latest BIOS is: 10/15/2001-i440BX-<P3B-F> ASUS P3B-F ACPI BIOS Revision 1008 Beta 004
...or patching variant (based on 1008/b4) - http://rom.by/bios/Asus/P3B-F/P3BF_Noa.rar - with following changes:
1. Support Tualatin P3/Celeron.
2. Correct sometime error display frequency for cpu >1200MHz.
3. Support koeffients 12.5x-15x.
4. Adding/update microcodes.