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We need to try and find out what board is inside. This typenumber comes as big tower or mini tower. Most likely there's a JX30 board or an Intel Classic R board in there. Current bios info and/or a clear picture of the motherboard itself would help a lot.

Seems this was made/sold by the ASK company from Hong Kong. Let's see if we can find more info...

You do NOT have an Intel AL440LX. You have a board made by DTK and they used an Intel chipset.
Most likely the model is PRM-0076I E0 as that is the only one with an SMC multi I/O chip.

It has an AGP 2x slot that should be compatible with that Matrox card.

I'll see if I can find any other patched bioses. Somehow I have a feeling I have seen this board before...

What brand/model harddisk are you using, what firmware release is it and what kind of brand/model cable are you using?

I have a question. You did desolder the bios chip and put the same chip back? What if the external flash tool was right about the red sections being bad and in fact the bios chip hardware is broken? I would try to flash another chip of the same type and put that in.

What do you mean with the previous version? The P09RAP 1/11/2013 version? That should be safe to use as far as I am concerned because it was made for it. As for getting the boot menu, I am still trying to find out if that is some "hidden" option, some bioses have advanced options that are only visib...

What exactly do you mean with no boot menu? If you power on the laptop it is not showing anything? Because that means some part of the hardware is not cooperating, a bios upgrade is not going to help there. I would say, try and replace the bios backup battery first before starting to flash the bios.

It looks like this one fell between the grid. Are you still interested in a patched bios? If so, what is the actual revision of your board? It should be visible printed on the board itself. For instance Rev D or Rev. DA

looks like I have something available. Now to find time to patch it.

I have checked the Fastfame, Jamicon/Kaimei and Amptron folders. Nothing there but 1.30, 1.32 and 1.40 I am pretty sure that 1.50 rev does exist but I cannot find any reference to it online anywhere anymore. Do you remember where you saw this mentioned? It looks like that is the only lead we have at...

"Need manual motherboard 4SPIS VER:2.2 486, 3x PCI, 4x ISA, 4x SIMM PS/2, 2x IDE, 3/5V, Socket 3, made in Taiwan "

Since the picture has long gone...

Ooooow that is a nice bit of info there. I think this might help other people as well. Thank you for posting.

Windows limit, not bios limit

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/format-la ... fat-fat32/

alas not the 02le.rom but just the 01le/03le and 04le.rom http://web.archive.org/web/20030115184824/http://www.samsungpc.com:80/gb/support/gt9000/bios/bios-instructions.html For other models of that era go here... http://web.archive.org/web/20030123120012/http://www.samsungpc.com:80/gb/support/gt900...