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[Chiefy]

this is the id code that amibios id prog gave me. I cannot get a code from the boot screen. The manual says M920 series, V1.3 VT8753/November 2001.

The smbios info is

1.manufacturer= ECS
2.name=M920
3.ver=1.0
4.serial=00000000

The board has a celeron 1.7 in it. I think its a 423 socket???

I need to upgrade the bios I think it is corrupt. The mb wont take an operating system and Ive checked everything else


Im new at this so any help would be greatlt appreciated : ]

[NickS]

That's a PC-Chips M920. If the BIOS is corrupt it will not boot; it will stop with an error message, as the first thing it does when it starts to boot is carry out an integrity check on the BIOS.
Check out The PC-Chips Lottery website for excellent advice, but the integrity of the BIOS is not likely to be a problem.

[Chiefy]

Thanks for the info i think im on he right track now . I thought it was an ecs mb. Ive spent several hours trying to figure out which model in the 920 line my mb is and cannot figure it out. Ive tried the search utilities and come up with nothing.

[NickS]

Can you get into the CMOS set-up ?
Can you boot DOS from a diskette ?

[Chiefy]

Yes i can get into the cmos setup and use a dos bootdisk

[NickS]

Is there a message just below the AMI symbol on the memory count screen ? That may help to identify the model.
At what point in the OS installation does it fail ?

[Denniss]

http://www.pcchips.com.tw/920l.html

ftp://ftp.pcchips.com.tw/bios-n/m920/