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Please help me figure this out
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 9:10 pm
by jlskm74
I need to download the drivers for a motherboard, but do not know what make or manufacturer it is. The string at start up is:
08/07/1999-i440BX-<P3Bf>
Thanks in advance.
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 9:18 pm
by Rainbow
Asus P3B-F
The latest BIOS is:
10/15/2001-i440BX-<P3B-F>
ASUS P3B-F ACPI BIOS Revision 1008 Beta 004
ftp://ftp.asuscom.de/pub/ASUSCOM/BIOS/S ... 08f304.zip
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 9:27 pm
by jlskm74
to be sure, when I do this, it will update the motherboards drivers? I am attempting to fix a friends pc.
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 9:30 pm
by soupy
Drivers? No. Bios, yes.
If you're not sure why you would need a BIOS update, don't flash.
Posted: Tue Nov 12, 2002 9:47 pm
by jlskm74
I don't want to flash the bios. What I am attempting to do, is...
I just fdisked a pc and installed a new OS. Since doing this the colors and pixels are set @ 640 and 16 bit, with no other choices. Last time I came across this was on another machine and I had to use a driver disk from the motherboard manufacturer. On this machine I am working on does not have a cd for the board any longer. Any ideas?
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 12:19 am
by Denniss
The Intel 440Bx chipset is fully supported from Win98 and higher - no need to install chipset drivers .
But you need to install VGA card drivers .
Even Win95B/C should support i440BX chipset but you might need an update to get AGP-cards to work .
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 1:33 am
by edwin
win95b/c needs the inf update for anything beyond the i430tx, this includes all i440xX chipsets.
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 2:23 am
by jlskm74
Ok, i understand the chipset reply and the VGA drivers. My next question is what is the easiest way to determine what make/model is the card, and where to get drivers. Thanks for all the replies so much!
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 2:50 am
by Denniss
?!? Have a look at the card ?!?
What's you OS ?
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 2:56 am
by jlskm74
it is win 98
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 3:37 am
by Denniss
Win98 should have drivers for many cards so it's a new one it does not know or a very old one .
Is the card identified in devicemanger as a soecific card or as unknown or standard VGA ?
Do you have a driver-CD from this card ?
Seems you have to open the case and have a closer look at your VGA card
Posted: Wed Nov 13, 2002 3:40 pm
by soupy
Posted: Tue Jan 07, 2003 2:54 pm
by apple_rom
>The latest BIOS is: 10/15/2001-i440BX-<P3B-F> ASUS P3B-F ACPI BIOS Revision 1008 Beta 004
...or patching variant (based on 1008/b4) -
http://rom.by/bios/Asus/P3B-F/P3BF_Noa.rar - with following changes:
1. Support Tualatin P3/Celeron.
2. Correct sometime error display frequency for cpu >1200MHz.
3. Support koeffients 12.5x-15x.
4. Adding/update microcodes.
