Need help to identify!

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by **Elbocadillo** » Sat May 25, 2002 12:21 pm

Hi,

I just need some help to identify the manufacturer of my Bios.
I´ve got an IBM Aptiva and the Bios ID is: IBM7000-M15-980818-R03-X
Where do I get an updated Bios-File for this one?

Please help me.

by **ajzchips** » Sat May 25, 2002 1:10 pm

Check the sticker on your BIOS for something like V66xx (or similar). If that were the case, your board is an ACER board.

by **Elbocadillo** » Sat May 25, 2002 3:15 pm

on the HP of Acer there´s no longer any kind of support for IBM Aptiva PC´s and I really need to know where I can get this update.
But I also don´t know which Aptiva model I´ve got. In the bios there is the information that it could be a 2151-87N but this model doesn´t exist.
So what can i do to find this out?

by **ajzchips** » Sat May 25, 2002 4:33 pm

ACER will never mention support for IBM PCs.
Have you checked the BIOS chip for a sticker?

by **Elbocadillo** » Sun May 26, 2002 6:32 pm

Yes there is a sticker and it is made by Acer
There are also these information

V70MA
Bios
U44
V.3.2.R03-SO
Acer Inc.

Where can i get an update?

by **edwin** » Sun May 26, 2002 8:00 pm

oh lord. Aptiva xxxx-xx ID number should be read from the back of the case. No wonder...

by **Hardware Junkie** » Mon May 27, 2002 12:51 am

ftp://ftp.acer.de/pc/v70ma/

Acer v70MA

The link above keeps bouncing back (firewall denying access) but it should work externally...

by **ajzchips** » Mon May 27, 2002 2:11 am

Make sure you make a backup of your BIOS before flashing. I've heard of some IBM boards (made by ACER) which would hang when flashed with the ACER BIOS. Dunno why...

by **Elbocadillo** » Mon May 27, 2002 1:22 pm

Thanks to all, i will try to update with these information.

P.S. There is no sticker with a model type on my Aptiva because its second hand and the owner before took the sticker away.

by **edwin** » Mon May 27, 2002 6:51 pm

HWJ, update your links, they have relocated the stuff, no firewall problem this time:

ftp://ftp.support.acer-euro.com/desktop ... ard/V70MA/

by **Hardware Junkie** » Tue May 28, 2002 12:20 am

I got the link through Google and I could not verify if it works or not. FTP directory retrival throughs IE into and endless accessing loop. Kind of bizarre. The one you posted above does the same thing.

by **edwin** » Tue May 28, 2002 12:34 am

time for a decent FTP client then? Or find out where the FTP proxy is at?

by **Hardware Junkie** » Tue May 28, 2002 12:48 am

Depending on what station I am at I can use DOS FTP, but not all of them have it. I think Compaq has specifically setup the proxy to deny FTP requests through IE. But they did a crappy job of it or something.

Ah well its compaq, what are you going to do...

by **Elbocadillo** » Tue May 28, 2002 5:15 pm

Thank you very much, the update was successful but it didn´t solve my problem, because this update is also too old. Is there a possibility to get one from this century. I want to upgrade my PC with an PCI Graphic-Card but i can´t disable the onboard.

by **Rainbow** » Tue May 28, 2002 7:14 pm

Keep the onboard card there - either it will be disabled automatically or it will work together with the new card.