04/03/2002-nForce-420D-6A61AM4DC-00

[gazarama]

Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
206A010E

I need to know if I can get an update for this motherboard. I bought it off of Ebay last year and the m/b says it is a Microstar MS-6578. There is nothing on the MS site about this board, and even calling their tech support. I think it OEM'd for NEC since the logo screen b4 the BIOS screen says NEC.

Need to know where I can find info about this board.

Thanks,

Gaz.

[Denniss]

http://www.wimsbios.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2232

Please tell us what your W6578xxx code is !
-> You'll find it as Award OEM Signon or Bios Eval or whatever it's called.
CTBIOS or Aida32/Everest should help.

Do not try to flash a MSI Retail Bios over an OEM Bios !

[gazarama]

According to BIOS Agent the OEM sign-on is 206A010E


Gaz.

[KURIAKI]

Can you post complete BIOS Agent report?

[gazarama]

BIOS MANUFACTURER: Award Modular BIOS v6.00PG
BIOS ID: 04/03/2002-nForce-420D-6A61AM4DC-00
BIOS DATE: 04/03/02
BIOS ROM SIZE: 256K
BIOS OEM SIGNON: 206A010E
CHIPSET: Chipset V10DED01A4 rev 178
SUPER I/O CHIP: Winbond 83627F/HF found at port 2Eh


Gaz.

[zonxar]

Only MSI board I've found so far with the nVidia 420D chipset is the K7N420 PRO (MS-6373). How does this picture compare?

http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_sp ... K7N420_Pro

[KURIAKI]

BIOS ID: 04/03/2002-nForce-420D-6A61AM4DC-00

BIOS OEM SIGNON: 206A010E

It's an OEM board from Microstar.
But the OEM Sign-On is unknown to me.

[gazarama]

Only MSI board I've found so far with the nVidia 420D chipset is the K7N420 PRO (MS-6373). How does this picture compare?

http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_sp ... K7N420_Pro

Actually, that's pretty close to the layout of my mobo. I looked up the BIOS updates for that board, but am reluctant to download and flash it since the current BIOS version is 6.00.

And there is another board that has the Nvidia 420D chipset, and I have it (albeit dead!). It is another OEM board and the model number is MS-6367. It was built for the HP 761n Pavilion Desktop.

I believe that my board came out of a Japanese NEC Valuestar machine. But any attempts to find info/downloads fail, since I can only find sites in Japanese relating to this (and I can't read Japanese!!)

Looks like I may have to stop searching and give up on any updates.

Gaz.

[gazarama]

Thanks for all the help, guys and gals


Gaz.