Need bios and/or internet site for MAAV363BC

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draga
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Hi. It should be an EXTREME mb, but I think there's an identical model from Jama and Gigatech, but I can't find the internet site of the EXTREME and a bios from any of them. My version is dated 2000, I know there are newer ones. XP is hanging randomly and I think it's an ACPI trouble...thanks!
ajzchips
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If that's an ATHLON board, then I'd compare it with the ECS K7VZM.

An archive.org search for www.jama.com.tw proved that most of the pictures (gone) for the AV363B board were in a /K7VZM/ directory.
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Patched and tested BIOSes are at http://wims.rainbow-software.org
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draga
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Thanks a lot for your infos! I will try as soon as possible! As far as you know, those unexpected and unpredictable windows xp hangs can be solved by a bios upgrade?
draga
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I tried...downloaded the last version (march 2001) and tried to program, but the awdflash says that my chip's part number is different from that one in the new bios...can I try the same? If something goes wrong, is there any procedure that can help me putting back the old bios?
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If it says that BIOS ID is different, don't flash. Send your curent BIOS ID (complete!)
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draga
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My current id is:
12/29/2000-8363-686-MAAV363BC-00

Thanks a lot again
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That warning message is quite normal, because the new bios string is:
03/13/2001-8363-686B-MA-AV363C-00
(note the change from 686 to 686B).
The jama.com.cn site mentions 686B for both the 1.1h and 3.2 versions.
draga
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Do you think I can try to flash it? Is there any recovery mode to put the original on if something goes wrong?
rugma
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has gone all good? all it's ok? i have the same motherboard!
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