07/24/96-i430VX-W877-2A59GPA9C-00

Chris1992 · Wed Sep 21, 2005 12:22 am

Need identification on this board; it is a Socket 7 Baby AT board currently with a Pentium 166 and 64MB EDO. Currently very flaky in Win98 and I was wondering if a BIOS update would fix. TIA all

Wed Sep 21, 2005 1:30 am

Incomplete data.
Run BIOS Agent and post back your results:
http://www.unicore.com/biosagent/ba.exe

zonxar · Wed Sep 21, 2005 4:12 am

This appears to be an Epox P55-TV motherboard, 4 ISA, 4 PCI, 4 SIMM, 1 DIMM, Intel 430VX chipset, AT. Support page here:

http://www-old.epox.nl/english/support/ ... t.php?id=6

Chris1992 · Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:09 pm

Board physical look is consistent with what zonxar posted; can BIOS Agent fit on a floppy as this machine has no internet connection and I don't want to waste a CD-R.

BiosMan · Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:12 pm

Download an older DOS version and run it from a boot diskette.

Chris1992 · Wed Sep 21, 2005 2:21 pm

I will d/l BIOS Agent self-booting floppy when I get home at about 15.40 local time; will post back then.

Chris1992 · Wed Sep 21, 2005 10:19 pm

The following is full text of the bios.txt file that I got when I ran BIOS Agent.

Program: eSupport.com BIOS Detect v1.2 July 21, 2003
BIOS Date: 07/24/96
BIOS Type: Award Modular BIOS v4.51PG
BIOS ID: 07/24/96-i430VX-W877-2A59GPA9C-00
OEM Sign-On: 07/24/1996 For i430VX PCIset
Chipset: Intel Triton 430VX rev 2
Superio: C&T 82C735 or SMC 661/663/664 rev 0 found at port 3F0h
Superio: Winbond 877F (use 87h) rev 0 found at port 3F0h
CPU Type: Pentium
CPU Speed: 166 Mhz
CPU Max: 100 Mhz
BIOS ROM In Socket: No
BIOS ROM Size: 128K
Memory Installed: Unknown
Memory Maximum: Unknown

eSupport.com, Inc.
1-800-800-BIOS (2467)
www.esupport.com

Thu Sep 22, 2005 12:30 am

SMT P55VX
Winco W-P55TV
EPoX EP-P55-TV
EPoX EP-P55-VX
And other manufacturers has this motherboard with different names

Chris1992 · Thu Sep 22, 2005 1:14 am

are all the boards same physically?

zonxar · Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:06 am

I neglected to mention that the P55-TV also has a cache slot next to the CPU. Yes, the boards are different - the P55-VX doesn't have the cache slot or DIMM, 3 ISA, 4 PCI, 4 SIMMs and is an AT board. Here are some images of each:

P55-VX

P55-TV

Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:11 am

Chris1992 wrote:are all the boards same physically?

No.

Chris1992 · Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:12 am

I have the P55TV then. Wondering what that slot next to CPU was. How does this board work under Linux? (as I was planning to install Mandriva LE2005)

zonxar · Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:20 am

Here is a page with some settings as well, it appears the max memory is only 128 MB of EDO:

http://th99.dyndns.org/m/E-H/33833.htm

Were you able to reach the Epox link I included earlier? It had manual, driver and BIOS info.

Chris1992 · Thu Sep 22, 2005 2:13 pm

Thanks for EPoX link; didn't notice it earlier.